List of Middlebury College alumni

The following is a list of Middlebury alumni, including both graduates and attendees as well as fictional alumni. For a list of Middlebury faculty, refer to the list of Middlebury College faculty.

Notable alumni

Selected Middlebury Alumni Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush John Martin Thomas, 9th President of Middlebury, 9th president of Penn State, and 12th president of Rutgers University Lado Gurgenidze, 17th Prime Minister of Georgia Ronald Harmon Brown, Secretary of Commerce for President Clinton James Cromwell, actor Lyman Enos Knapp, 3rd Governor of District of Alaska Vanessa Branch, actress, star of Orbit commercials Jim Douglas, 80th Governor of Vermont Ted King, professional cyclist Vendela Vida, writer, editor of The Believer magazine, co-founder of 826 Valencia Robert Theodore Stafford, 71st Governor of Vermont, United States Representative, and U.S. Senator Brian Deese, member of the National Economic Council and special assistant to President Obama for economic policy Henry Martyn Porter, American Civil War Union Army officer Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter series Samuel Nelson, US Supreme Court Justice John Deere, American manufacturer, founder of John Deere & Company Alexander Twilight, first African American college graduate and state legislator Edward John Phelps, founding member and former president of the American Bar Association Henry Schoolcraft, noted for his 1832 "discovery" of the source of the Mississippi River Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues Charles V. Dyer, prominent abolitionist and stationmaster on the Underground Railroad

Academia

College and University Presidents

• Nathan S.S. Beman – President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1845 until 1865.
• Ezra Brainerd – President of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.
• Martin Henry Freeman – First black president of an American college, later serving as president of Liberia College.
• Edward Hitchcock – American geologist and the 3rd President of Amherst College (1845–1854)
• Carolyn "Biddy" Martin – 19th President of Amherst College, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Provost of Cornell University
• Charles S. Murkland – first elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts following the college's move from Hanover to Durham
• Stephen Olin – American educator and minister, the first President of Randolph Macon College (1834–1837) and later was president of Wesleyan University (1839–1851).
• John Martin Thomas – Ninth president of Middlebury College, the ninth president of Penn State, and the twelfth president of Rutgers University.
• David S. Wolk – President of Castleton State College from 2001 to present.

Professors

• Mary Annette Anderson – First black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa; later a professor at Howard University
• Ana Cara – creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.
• Paul O. Carrese – Professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of the book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press).
• Thomas Jefferson Conant – American Biblical scholar
• Sarah Delaney – Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Brown University
• Edward Diller - Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon
• Taylor Fravel – Associate Professor of Political Science at M.I.T.
• Peter Gries – Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues and Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.
• Cynthia Huntington – poet, professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College
• Edward A. Jones – African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat
• Dan M. Kahan – Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
• Nancy Kollmann – William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University
• Lawrence Kritzman – American scholar, the Willard Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Oratory at Dartmouth College
• Tamsin Lorraine – Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College
• Christopher Merrill – American poet, essayist, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
• Joseph Nevins – Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar College
• Avital Ronell – Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University.
• Nicholas Sambanis – Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
• David Skelly – Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
• Suzanna Sherry – Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.
• Virginia E. Swain – Professor of French at Dartmouth College
• James Reist Stoner, Jr. – Chair of the Department of Government and a professor of political science at Louisiana State University.
• Hollis Summers – American poet, novelist, short story writer and editor, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky

Arts

Fine arts

• Peter Gallo – reclusive artist and writer known for his mixed media works which often combine a variety of unconventional materials.
• Robert Gober – Sculptor whose works are exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
• Woody Jackson – American artist best known for his Holy Cow brand and advertising work for Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
• Nancy Rosen – Founded Nancy Rosen Incorporated, an organization which plans and implements public art programs and collections, including the Art-for-Public-Spaces program for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Timothy Rub – Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Literature

• John W. Aldridge – American writer and literary critic, professor of English at the University of Michigan, director of the Hopwood Program, and USIA Special Ambassador to Germany
• Julia Alvarez – Award-winning author, poet, and writer-in-residence at Middlebury.
• Stacie Cassarino – Award-winning American poet and author of the collection Zero at the Bone
• T Cooper – American novelist.
• Frances Frost – American poet, novelist and mother of poet Paul Blackburn
• Dwight Garner – literary critic for The New York Times, former senior editor at the New York Times Book Review
• Patricia Goedicke – American poet.
• Hall J. Kelley – Explorer, settler, and writer; strong advocate for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s.
• Richard E. Kim – Korean-American writer and professor of literature; author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970); Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was recipient of a Fulbright grant
• Peter Knobler – Author, former editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine
• Jeff Lindsay – American playwright and crime novelist, best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan.
• Judy Malloy – Poet whose works inhabit the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art.
• Louise McNeill – American poet, essayist, and historian of Appalachia.
• Wesley McNair – American poet, writer, editor, and professor
• Emily Mitchell – Anglo-American novelist.
• Wendy Mogel – Speaker and author who looks at every day parenting problems through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings.
• Jacqueline S. Moore – American poet and author of Moments of My Life.
• Dan O'Brien – American playwright whose plays include The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, and The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
• John Perkins – Activist and author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
• John Godfrey Saxe – American poet perhaps best known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blindmen and the Elephant"
• Lewis Robinson – Writer, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories
• Michael Tolkin – American film maker and novelist whose screenplays include The Player (1992), which he adapted from his 1988 novel by the same name
• Vendela Vida – novelist, editor of The Believer magazine
• Anne Walker – Architectural historian and author in New York City.
• Lawrence Raab - American Poet.

Music

• Cherine Anderson – Jamaican actress and dancehall/reggae vocalist
• Dispatch – Prominent American indie jam band, comprising Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold, which was formed at Middlebury
• Bill Homans – American blues musician who performs under the stage name Watermelon Slim.
• Anais Mitchell – Folk singer-songwriter
• John Valby – Musician and comedian
• Oneida_(band) – Brooklyn based Noise Rock Band co-founded by John Colpitts '95 and Patrick Sullivan '95

Television and film

• Anna Belknap – Actress, known for her role as Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY
• Vanessa Branch – British actress, model, former Miss Vermont, noted for her role as the woman in the Orbit Gum commercials.
• Jeffrey Bushell – American writer, has written for The Bernie Mac Show, Drawn Together, MADtv, What I Like About You, and Zoey 101
• Sophie Clarke - Reality television personality and winner of Survivor: South Pacific
• James Cromwell – Actor noted for his roles in Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and 24
• Sam Daly – American actor featured on U.S. production of The Office
• Malaya Drew – American actress known for her roles on The L Word (2008), ER (2006–2007)., Las Vegas (2006–2007) and Entourage (2005).
• Cassidy Freeman – American actress and singer, known for her role as Tess Mercer in Smallville.
• Justin Haythe – American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter, screenwriter for The Clearing and the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road
• Antonio Macia – Screenwriter, writer of Holy Rollers
• Emily McLaughlin – American soap opera actress
• Amanda Peterson – American actress, star of Can't Buy Me Love
• Rodney Rothman – Writer, screenwriter, author of Early Bird; Film Writer/Producer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Year One) Television writer (Late Show with David Letterman and Undeclared)
• Shawn Ryan – Creator of the FX television series The Shield and CBS series The Unit
• Jessica St. Clair - American actress and comedian
• Frank Sweeney - Reality television personality, MTV's The Real World: San Diego
• John Tinker – Executive Producer of Chicago Hope and writer for L.A. Law
• Jake Weber – English actor, known for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and starring opposite Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black
• Julia Whelan – Actress, noted for her role on Once and Again.
• Becky Worley – American journalist and broadcaster, tech contributor for Good Morning America, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.

Theater

• William Burden – American opera singer
• Eve Ensler – Author, playwright, feminist theorist, and peace activist best known for her play, The Vagina Monologues
• Rebecca Gilman – American playwright.
• Dan O'Brien – American playwright.
• Amanda Plummer – American Tony Award-winning actress.

Athletics

• Hedda Berntsen – Norwegian world champion skier and 2010 Olympic silver medalist
• John Bower – an American nordic combined skier who competed in the 1960s and later went on to become a coach of the American nordic skiing team for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympic team
• H. Adams Carter – American mountaineer and language teacher.
• Archibald Crowell – Director 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
• Ray Fisher – Major League baseball player who pitched for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds
• Stone Hallquist – American football running back, who played for Milwaukee Badgers in National Football League
• Simi Hamilton – American cross country skier who has competed since 2000, member of the U.S. 2010 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team
• Steve Hauschka – NFL placekicker for the Seattle Seahawks.
• John W. Hollister – American football player and coach, football coach at Beloit College
• Thomas M. Jacobs – American Olympic nordic skier who competed in the 1950s.
• Andrew Johnson – Member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team.
• Britton Keeshan – One of the youngest persons to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents (the Seven Summits) as of May 24, 2004.
• Ted King – American cyclist.
• Bill Kuharich – Vice President of Player Personnel for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Garrott Kuzzy – American cross country skier who has competed since 2001, member of the U.S. 2010 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team
• Kevin Mahaney – American competitive and Olympic sailor who won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992
• Donald Rowe – Former coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team
• Chris Waddell – Most-decorated male skier in Paralympic history and first paraplegic man to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Business

• Louis Bacon – Hedge fund manager, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans
• Randy Brock – Executive VP, Fidelity Investments; former Vermont Auditor of Accounts (2005–2007); Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Bronze Star
• Sean Casten – businessman and writer known for his work on industrial energy recycling; president and CEO of Recycled Energy Development
• Roger Chapin – Businessman-turned-fundraiser, self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur," and founder of numerous charities variously under scrutiny for questionable ethics.
• John Deere – Blacksmith, inventor of the steel plow and founder of John Deere & Company
• Jim Davis – Chairman of New Balance, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans, from the family for whom the Davis Library on Middlebury's campus is named
• Patrick Durkin – Former Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston.
• Peter T. Francis – President and CEO of JM Huber Corporation.
• Rick Fritz – Former President of BancBoston Capital, subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial
• Stephen J. Harasimowicz – Managing Director, Head of Trading for Columbia Management, the asset management branch of Bank of America.
• A. Barton Hepburn – United States Comptroller of the Currency and President of Chase National Bank
• Ann Williams Jackson – Group President of Real Simple, Parenting and InStyle magazines
• Reuben Mark – Former CEO, Colgate-Palmolive
• John E. Martin – Former CEO, Taco Bell
• Garret Moran – Chief Operating Officer of Private Equity Group and Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
• William H. Porter – prominent New York City banker
• Carolyn Reidy – President and CEO of Simon & Schuster
• Felix Rohatyn – President of Rohatyn Associates LLC; former partner and Managing Director of Lazard; Commander in the Légion d'honneur; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Vivian Schiller – Former President and CEO of National Public Radio; New York Times senior vice president / general manager for NYTimes.com
• Dan Schulman – President of Sprint's Prepaid Group, former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
• Peter Smith – former President of StarKist Seafood. Currently President and CEO of New World Pasta, the largest pasta and Rice manufacturer in North America.
• Christopher Tsai – Hedge fund manager with Tsai Capital, major collector of works by Ai Weiwei, son of noted financier Gerald Tsai

Journalism

• Elizabeth Farnsworth – Journalist and co-anchor of PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
• Trip Gabriel – New York Times Style editor
• Dwight Garner (critic) New York Times book critic
• Ralph Gardner, Jr. – freelance American Journalist for the New York Times and New York Magazine.
• Mel Gussow – Influential American theater critic who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.
• W. C. Heinz – American sportswriter and winner of the Red Smith Award for sports journalism
• Andrea Koppel – Director of International Communications for the Red Cross, former U.S. State Department correspondent for CNN.
• Alexandra Kotur – Fashion journalist, Style Director and contributing editor for American Vogue, author of Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon and co-author of The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places
• Dori J. Maynard – President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California
• Walter R. Mears – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Andrew Meldrum – American journalist and former correspondent of The Economist and The Guardian in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2003.
• Jeanne Meserve – CNN correspondent.
• Mark Patinkin – Columnist at the Providence Journal.
• Andrew Purvis – American journalist, John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University, former bureau chief for Time magazine's Berlin bureau.
• Alex Prud'homme – American journalist and author of non-fiction books; Prud'homme's books including My Life in France, written in collaboration with his great-aunt Julia Child
• Jane Bryant Quinn – Contributing Editor for Newsweek and former author of the twice-weekly column, “Staying Ahead,” syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.
• Robert Schlesinger – Author, opinion editor for US News & World Report, Huffington Post blogger, and co-founder of the blog RobertEmmet.
• Frank Sesno – Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for CNN; Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and George Washington University.[8]
• Vendela Vida – Novelist, journalist, and editor; co-founded and co-edits the monthly periodical The Believer.
• David Wolman – American author and journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as Wired, Newsweek, Discover, National Geographic Traveler, New Scientist and Outside.
• Janine Zacharia – Journalist, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post, former diplomatic reporter for Bloomberg News.

Law

• Frederick Howard Bryant – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
• John C. Churchill – Lawyer and politician from New York
• Albert Wheeler Coffrin – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
• Brian Concannon – Director of the Institute fro Justice & Democracy in Haiti.
• Roswell M. Field – Prominent antebellum lawyer who represented Dred Scott
• Marilyn Jean Kelly – Jurist in the US state of Michigan, Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court.
• Samuel Nelson – US Supreme Court Justice
• Edward John Phelps – Second controller of the United States Treasury; a founding member and president of the American Bar Association
• William K. Sessions III – Chief Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
• Henry Franklin Severens – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Martha B. Sosman – Lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts, served as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
• Alexandra Watson – Lawyer and Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, graduate of Boston College Law School.

Military

• Paul Eaton – Retired United States Army General known for his outspoken criticisms of President George W. Bush's administration.
• Henry Martyn Porter – American Civil War Union Army Officer who served as a Colonel and commander of the 7th Vermont Infantry

Philanthrophy

• Nínive Clements Calegari – CEO of 826 National and the founding executive director of 826 Valencia
• Eileen Rockefeller Growald – Philanthropist and fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family; founder of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Economic Learning (CASEL), Champaign Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA), and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
• John B. Kassel – President of the Conservation Law Foundation
• Dana Reeve – Philanthropist and actress; founder and former Chair of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation; wife of actor Christopher Reeve
• Alan Reich – Founder of the National Organization on Disability
• John Wallach – Founder of Seeds of Peace

Politics

Presidents and Prime Ministers

• Lado Gurgenidze – 17th Prime Minister of Georgia.

Diplomats

• John Beyrle – U.S. Ambassador to Russia under President Obama
• Edward John Phelps – Envoy to Great Britain (1885 to 1889); senior counsel for the United States before the international tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea controversy.
• Felix Rohatyn – U.S. Ambassador to France under President Clinton
• Joel Turrill – United States consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii (1845–1850)

US Senators and Representatives

• Eli Porter Ashmun – Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1816 to 1818.
• Elbert S. Brigham – U.S. Representative from Vermont
• Titus Brown – United States Representative from New Hampshire
• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck – U.S. Representative from Vermont
• Alexander W. Buel – Former United States Congressman from Michigan.
• Davis Carpenter – Former United States Representative from New York.
• Calvin C. Chaffee – doctor and former United States Representative from Massachusetts, outspoken opponent of slavery
• Bill Delahunt- United States Congressman from Massachusetts
• John Dickson – U.S. Representative from New York
• Solomon Foot – Former U.S. Senator and President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the Civil War.
• Calvin T. Hulburd – Former United States Representative from New York.
• Rollin Carolas Mallary – Former U.S. Representative from Vermont.
• James Meacham – United States Representative from Vermont
• Frank Pallone – U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
• John Mason Parker – U.S. Representative from New York
• Samuel B. Pettengill – U.S. Representative from Indiana, nephew of William Horace Clagett
• Charles Nelson Pray – U.S. Representative from Montana
• Albio Sires – Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey's 13th congressional district.
• Stanley R. Tupper – U.S. Representative from Maine
• Robert Stafford – 71st Governor of Vermont, United States Representative, and U.S. Senator
• John Wolcott Stewart – U.S. Senator and Representative from Vermont, and from the family for which Stewart Dorm on the Middlebury campus is named
• James Wilson II – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Silas Wright – Former Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Democratic Senator, and Governor of New York [9]

Governors

• Carlos Coolidge – 19th Governor of Vermont, relative of President Calvin Coolidge
• Jim Douglas – 80th Governor of Vermont
• Horace Eaton – 18th Governor of Vermont
• William Alanson Howard – Member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan and Governor of the Dakota Territory
• Lyman Enos Knapp – Governor of the District of Alaska from 1889 to 1893
• John Mattocks – 16th Governor of Vermont
• William Slade – 17th Governor of Vermont
• John Wolcott Stewart – 33rd Governor of Vermont
• James Tufts – United States politician and acting governor of Montana Territory in 1869

State Senators and Representatives

• Claire D. Ayer – Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Addison senate district, majority leader of the Vermont Senate as of Fall 2006.
• Michael P. Cahill – American politician who represented the 6th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993–2003.
• Merritt Clark – Democratic politician from Vermont; he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1832–33, 1839, and 1865–66, and to the Vermont Senate in 1863–64 and 1868–69, as well as the 1870 Vermont Constitutional Convention
• Barbara Comstock – Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates; formerly a spokesperson, lobbyist, political consultant, and a founding partner and co-principal of public policy and public relations firm Corallo Comstock
• Luther Day – Republican politician in the US state of Ohio who was in the Ohio Senate and a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court
• George Z. Erwin – Former member of the New York State Senate.
• Brett Hulsey – Wisconsin consultant and Democratic politician, elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly's 77th district in 2010
• Rand Knight – American ecologist, businessman, and a Democratic Party politician in Georgia.
• William M. Straus – Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Alexander Twilight – First African American to graduate from an American college; first African American elected to public office, serving as a Representative in the Vermont House of Representatives.

Other Political Figures

• Adrian Benepe – Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
• Ron Brown – Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton
• Brian Deese – Member of the National Economic Council and special assistant to President Obama for economic policy
• Charles V. Dyer – Prominent Chicago Abolitionist and Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad
• Ari Fleischer – White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush; field director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
• Beriah Green – American reformer and noted abolitionist.
• David G. Hooker – Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Richard P. Mills – Commissioner of Education for Vermont and New York.
• Raymond J. Saulnier – American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under President Eisenhower

Religion

• Reuben Post – Presbyterian clergyman who served two separate terms as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1824 and 1831) and also served as Chaplain of the Senate of the United States (1819)
• Jeremiah Rankin – Abolitionist, champion of the temperance movement, minister of Washington's First Congregational Church, and correspondent with Frederick Douglass
• Enoch Cobb Wines – 19th century American Congregational minister and prison reform advocate
• Miron Winslow – American Congregationalist missionary in Ceylon.

Science

• Louis Winslow Austin – physicist known for his research on long-range radio transmissions.
• Myrtle Bachelder - chemist and Women's Army Corps officer, who is noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals.
• Arthur H. Bulbulian – pioneer in the field of facial prosthetics
• Roger L. Easton – principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
• Edwin James, botanist on the Long Expedition, U.S. Army surgeon, and first white person to climb Pikes Peak.
• Henry Schoolcraft – American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River.
• Jill Seaman – physician specializing in infectious diseases for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) and winner of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
• Stanley Fields – biologist and HHMI investigator known for pioneering Two-hybrid screening for discovering protein-protein interactions.

Fictional alumni

The First Wives Club, whose three main characters met while students at Middlebury

• Snake Jailbird – Fictional character and criminal on the animated television series The Simpsons who repaid his Middlebury College student loans after robbing Springfield landmark Moe's Tavern. Voiced by Hank Azaria.
• Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot, and Annie Paradis – The three main characters in Olivia Goldsmith's first novel The First Wives Club (1992). The women, who in the novel met while students at Middlebury College (class of 1969), were portrayed by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the 1996 film adaptation.
• Mr. Wolfe – A teacher in George Lucas' 1973 film American Graffiti. The character, played by Terry McGovern, is a confidant of Curt Henderson's, played by Richard Dreyfuss. In their one conversations together, Mr. Wolfe tells Curt that he "got drunk as hell the night before" going to college, and that he "barfed on the train all next day." When Curt asks him where he went to school, Mr. Wolfe replies, "Middlebury, Vermont... On a scholarship... [I stayed only] one semester. After all that, I came back here... I guess I just wasn't the competitive type."
• Ruth Cole, protagonist of John Irving's A Widow for One Year.

External links

• Middlebury College official website
• Alumni Achievement Award Winners