List of Trinity College (Connecticut) people
This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Trinity College
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Academia
- Charles McLean Andrews, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor
- Jere L. Bacharach, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Washington
- Steven Barkan, sociologist and chairperson of the Sociology department at the University of Maine
- David R. Brown, former president of the Art Center College of Design
- Evan Dobelle, New England Board of Higher Education president and former Trinity president
- Jane Fernandes, former president designate of Gallaudet University
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder of Gallaudet University
- Louis Feldman, professor of classics and literature at Yeshiva University
- Tom Gerety, former Trinity president and president Amherst College 1994–2003, Collegiate Professor, New York University
- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies[1]
- Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University professor and noted numismatist
- Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford and NCAA committee head
- Joshua Hoffman, author and philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- J. C. Hurewitz, professor emeritus in the political science department at Columbia University
- Philip S. Khoury, Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History, MIT
- Lloyd A. Lewis, Theology professor at the Virginia Theological Seminary
- Stephen Lloyd Cook, Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary
- John H. Makin economist and visiting scholar with the American Enterprise Institute
- Richard T. Nolan, philosophy and religion professor, writer, Episcopal Church Canon
- Robert B. Pippin, American philosopher, Director, Department of Social Thought, University of Chicago
- Hyam Plutzik, Pulitzer prize finalist, poet, and Professor of English at the University of Rochester
- William C. Richardson, board director of Exelon, former president of Johns Hopkins University, former director on the boards of: the Kellogg Company, the Bank of New York, CSX Corporation, and Mercantile Bankshares. Former head of the Kellogg Foundation
- Franz Schurmann, sociologist and historian
- Jim Shepard, author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College
- Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English and African-American Studies, Yale University
- George W. Strawbridge, Jr., Board member: Widener University, (former adjunct professor), The Jockey Club, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, National Steeplechase Association, Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Foundation, Campbell Soup Co.
- Ilhi Synn, class of 1962, President of Keimyung University
Architecture
- J. Cleaveland Cady, architect, designer of the south range of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- Arthur Gilman, noted Boston architect
- William Harold Lee, noted movie theatre architect
- Benjamin Wistar Morris, III, architect
- Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge, noted New York City architect
Arts and entertainment
- Peter Alsop, musician
- Arthur Everett Austin, Jr., former director of the director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and Trinity professor
- Richard Barthelmess, Silent film actor and a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- John Biddle, cinematographer
- Deborah Buck, American artist, designer and gallery owner
- Dudley Buck, musical composer
- Brian Byrne, mandolinist
- Max Coyer, artist
- Joseph Cross, actor (current student as of December 2006)
- Lesley Dill, artist
- Jared Fernandes, singer
- Jared Bradley Flagg, American painter
- Ari Graynor, actor
- Patrick Greene, composer
- Stephen Gyllenhaal, film producer and director
- Chris Hogan, comedian
- Christopher Houlihan, concert organist
- Mike Kellin, actor
- Mel Kendrick, artist
- Shahvaar Ali Khan, Pakistani writer, singer-songwriter and composer
- Dave MacKay, Jazz pianist, singer-composer
- Mary McCormack, actor
- Will McCormack, actor
- Katryna Nields, folk-rock musician
- Joseph Payne, British/Swiss German harpsichordist, clavichordist, organist and musicologist
- Xavier Serbia, member of the boy band Menudo,financial commentator and syndicated columnist
- Christopher Seufert, Documentary film producer and director, and photographer
- John Rose, organist
- Kwaku Sintim-Misa, Ghanaian actor and comedian
- Cotter Smith, stage, film, and television actor
- Ernie Stires, composer
- Richard Tuttle, postminimalist artist
- John Henry Willcox, Organist
- Samuel Adams Wisner, rapper (current student as of October 2009)
Athletics
- Jonah Bayliss, Major League Baseball player
- George Brickley, former Major League Baseball and National Football League player
- Paul Collins, former National Football League player
- Eric DeCosta, Director of Player Personnel, Baltimore Ravens
- Dan Doyel, former Trinity mens basketball coach
- Moe Drabowsky, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Mickey Kobrosky, College Football Hall of Fame Member, Former NFL and MLB athlete
- Roger LeClerc, former National Football League player
- Bill MacDermott, professional football coach
- Chuck Priore, Former Trinity football coach
- Joe Shield, National Football League quarterback
- Aaron Westbrooks, Irish basketball player
- Jay Williamson, professional golfer, current member of the PGA Tour
Business and industry
- Hans W. Becherer, former president and CEO of John Deere
- S. Prestley Blake, co-founder of the Friendly Ice Cream Corporation
- Thomas R. DiBenedetto, President of Boston International Group, owner of A.S. Roma and partner in New England Sports Ventures
- David Chang, New York City chef and restaurateur, on the 2010 Time 100 Most Influential People list.
- Thomas M. Chappell, co-founder and CEO of Tom's of Maine
- Martin W. Clement 11th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
- David Gottesman, billionaire, member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway
- Robert Habersham Coleman, iron processing and railroad industrialist
- Francis R. Delano, prominent banker
- John D. Howard, CEO of Irving Place Capital
- Thomas S. Johnson, former chairman and CEO GreenPoint Financial Corp[2]
- Raymond E. Joslin, CEO of CAD Sciences former president of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication and former Senior Vice President of The Hearst Corporation
- Peter Kraus, CEO of AllianceBernstein and former co-head of the Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs[3]
- Mitchell M. Merin, Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management
- Danny Meyer, Founder Union Square Hospitality Group (Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park, Tabla, Blue Smoke, etc.)
- James Murren, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of MGM Mirage
- Roy Nutt, founder of Computer Sciences Corporation and co-creator of FORTRAN
- Gunnar S. Overstrom, Jr., former vice chair of FleetBoston Financial
- Charles R. Perrin, Chairman of Warnaco, former Chairman and CEO of Avon Products and former Chairman and CEO of Duracell
- William C. Richardson, board director of Exelon, former president of Johns Hopkins University, former director on the boards of: the Kellogg Company, the Bank of New York, CSX Corporation, and Mercantile Bankshares. Former head of the Kellogg Foundation
- Thomas R. Savage, former CEO of American International Group
- Camalia Valdés, President and CEO of Cerveceria India
- Ronald V. Waters III, President and Chief Executive Officer of the LoJack Corporation[4]
- Roger L. Werner, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer the Outdoors Channel Holdings, Inc. Former Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of ESPN[5]
Faculty
- Paul Assaiante, the Men's Squash and Tennis coach
- Ciaran Berry, poet and professor of English
- Sarah Bilston, British author and professor of English literature
- Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier, Professor (Emeritus) of Religion
- Xiangming Chen, Dean of the Center for Urban and Global Studies
- Michelle Cliff, former professor of English
- George B. Cooper, former professor of History
- Leslie Desmangles, Charles A. Dana Research Professor of Religion and International Studies
- George Washington Doane former professor of belles-lettres
- Richard Ebeling, former Shelby C. Davis Visiting Professor in American Economic History and Entrepreneurship
- Samuel Eliot, former Trinity president and professor
- William W. Ellsworth, former professor of law and 30th Governor of Connecticut
- Michael C. FitzGerald, professor of fine arts
- Rebecca Goldstein, former philosophy professor
- Robert Hillyer, poet and former professor of English
- James J. Hughes, sociologist and bioethicist teaching health policy
- Drew Hyland, professor of philosophy at Trinity
- Gary Jacobson, former professor of Political Science
- Mark Jackson, former Director of Football for the Oakland Raiders and former assistant football coach Trinity
- James F. Jones, president of Trinity College
- Samuel Kassow, Jewish history professor and historian
- Charles Lemert, social theorist and sociologist, visiting professor of Sociology
- Michael Lerner, former professor of Philosophy
- Reinhard H. Luthin, visiting professor of History
- Elmer Truesdell Merrill, Latin scholar and former Trinity professor
- Frank Gardner Moore, Latin scholar and former Trinity professor
- Stephen Minot, novelist and short story author.
- Okey Ndibe, professor of English teaching fiction and African literature
- Jon O. Newman, United States Federal Judge and former instructor at Trinity College
- Stewart O'Nan, former writer-in-residence and professor of English
- Hugh Ogden, poet and former professor of creative writing
- Robert Bromley Oxnam, former professor of Asian history and former president of the Asia Society.
- Fred Pfeil, former English professor and American literary critic
- Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies
- Steven Pressman, former professor of Economics
- Barry R. Schaller, visiting lecturer in public policy
- Odell Shepard, former professor of English and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
- Mark Silk professor of religious studies, author
- Edward Stringham, associate professor of American business and economic enterprise
Government, law, and public policy
Elected officials
- John Baptista Ash, former U.S. Representative for Tennessee
- William Shepperd Ashe, former U.S. Representative
- Charles R. Chapman, former mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
- Percival W. Clement, 57th Governor Vermont
- Isaac E. Crary, first elected U.S. Representative for Michigan
- Joseph J. Crisco, Connecticut State Senator[6]
- William R. Cotter, U.S. Representative for Connecticut
- Bob Ebinger, member of the Montana House of Representatives
- Arie Eliav, Israeli member of the Knesset
- John H. Ewing (born 1918), member of the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate[7]
- Frank Fasi, former mayor of Honolulu
- John Fonfara, Connecticut State Senator
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, U.S. Representative for New Jersey
- Thomas L. Harris, former U.S. Representative for Illinois
- Joan Hartley, Connecticut State Senator
- Colin M. Ingersoll, former U.S. Representative for Connecticut
- Charles D. Hodges, former U.S. Representative for Illinois
- Barbara B. Kennelly, former U.S. Representative
- Henry W. King, former politician from Ohio
- Robert L. King, former New York State Assemblyman, Monroe County Executive, and Chancellor of the State University of New York
- Henry McBride, fourth Governor of Washington State
- Thomas Joseph Meskill, former U.S. Representative
- Robert F. Murphy, former Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and 59th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
- William Anthony Paddon, former Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Robert Treat Paine, U.S. Representative for North carolina
- Eddie Perez, former Mayor of Hartford, CT.
- James Phelps, former U.S. Representative for Connecticut
- John S. Phelps, former Governor of Missouri
- Christine C. Quinn, first female and first openly gay Speaker of the New York City Council
- Joseph F. Ryter former U.S. Representative
- Henry Joel Scudder, former U.S. Representative
- Kevin Sullivan, former lieutenant governor of Connecticut and former Vice President for Community and Institutional Relations for Trinity
- Charles A. Sumner, former U.S. Representative from California
- Jane Swift, former Acting Governor of Massachusetts
- John T. Wait, former U.S. Representative for Connecticut
- James Wakefield, former U.S. Representative
- Joseph M. Warren, former U.S. Representative for New York
- Charles C. Van Zandt, 34th Governor of Rhode Island.
Law
- George Bachrach, politician, attorney, and current professor at Boston University
- Joseph Buffington, former federal judge
- Bridget McCormack, Professor of law; founder and co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School
- Justice Richard N. Palmer, Associate Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Thomas Richard Purnell, United States federal judge
- Adam Streisand, trial lawyer
- Barry R. Schaller, Associate Justice, Connecticut State Supreme Court and Trinity professor
- Stanley A. Twardy, former United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut[8]
- Christine S. Vertefeuille, Connecticut Supreme Court justice
- John L. Wodatch, Chief, Disability Rights Section, United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division[9]
Other political figures
- Merrick Alpert, Connecticut businessman, former aide to Vice President Al Gore, Democratic candidate in the 2010 Connecticut Senate race
- Michael A. Battle, Sr, Ambassador the U.S. mission to the African Union[10]
- Michael Billington, LaRouche Movement activist
- Alfonso L. Carney, Jr, chairman of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and former CEO and Corporate Secretary for the Goldman Sachs Foundation[11]
- Roderick Allen DeArment, former chief of staff for senate majority leader Bob Dole and former United States Deputy Secretary of Labor
- Steve Elmendorf, political chief of staff and deputy campaign manager
- Peter Heller, former Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- J. Michael Farren, Deputy White House Counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President under the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush
- Julia Freedson, former director of The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict[12]
- Debra Liang-Fenton, former executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea[13]
- Jesse Lee, White House Director of Progressive Media & Online Response
- Stanley J. Marcuss, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce[14]
- Neil Patel, former chief policy advisor to Dick Cheney and co-founder of The Daily Caller
- Michael Petrucelli, former senior vice president for operations and chief of staff at the Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Dan Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the United States Department of State[15]
- Henry Shelton Sanford, diplomat and city founder
- Richard H. Walker, general counsel at Deutsche Bank and former director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement
- Dov Zakheim, former government official and Trinity professor
- Nguyen Xuan Oanh, former governor of The State Bank of Vietnam, and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam
Journalism and the media
- Jay Allison, independent public radio producer and broadcast journalist[16]
- Bill Bird, journalist and publisher
- Tucker Carlson, commentator, host of Tucker on MSNBC
- George Crile III, former CBS News journalist
- Jon Entine, author and Emmy winning special segment journalist with NBC News
- Malcolm MacPherson, national and foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine
- William K. Marimow, pulitzer prize winner, Executive Vice President and editor at the The Philadelphia Inquirer[17]
- Colin McEnroe, American columnist and radio personality
- Jim Murray, Pulitzer Prize winning sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times
- steven Pearlstein, columnist for The Washington Post
- Robert William St. John, American author, broadcaster and journalist
- Caroline Taylor, actor and journalist
- Walter S. Trumbull, sportswriter
- Linda Wells, founder and editor-in-chief at Allure magazine
- George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, author, and ABC News political journalist
Literature and publishing
- Edward Albee, playwright, Three-time Pulitzer Prize Winner (expelled, honorary degree, 1974)
- Stephen Belber, associate writer of the Laramie Project
- Park Benjamin, poet and publisher
- Henry Howard Brownell, poet and historian.
- Michelle Cliff, poet and former Trinity professor
- Richard Eberhart, poet and former Trinity professor
- Patrice Evans, author
- Patricia Fargnoli, poet
- Charles L. Grant, novelist and short story writer
- Ward Just, author
- James Longenbach, critic and poet
- George Malcolm-Smith, novelist and jazz musicologist
- Helen Curtin Moskey, poet
- Greg Potter, American former comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics series Jemm, Son of Saturn
- Patricia Roth Schwartz, poet, playwright, and editor
- Joanna Scott, author and professor
- Parveen Shakir, poet and former Trinity professor
- Chase Twichell, American poet, professor, and publisher
Medicine
- Louis Aronne, physician, obesity specialist and author.
- Robert Epstein, psychologist, researcher and writer.
- James Hughes, bioethicist.
- Mark Josephson, cardiologist and and medical text writer.
- James Ewing Mears, surgeon and former president of the American Surgical Association.
- D. Holmes Morton, physician and Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism recipient.
- William Anthony Paddon, physician and Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland from 1981–1986
- Edward Hazen Parker, physician and poet
- Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz, psychologist.
- Adam C. Walmus, director and CEO of the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
Military
- Thompson A. Gerke, colonel, United States Marine Corp, Chief of Staff, Marine Corps Base Quantico[18]
- Donn F. Porter, Medal of Honor recipient
- J. H. Hobart Ward, American Civil War general
- James H. Ward, first officer of the United States Navy killed during the American Civil War
- Strong Vincent, noted Civil War soldier
- George A. Woodward, Brigadier General in the United States Army
Religion and theology
- James Roosevelt Bayley, archbishop
- Eben Edwards Beardsley, theologian and clergyman
- John W. Beckwith, Second Bishop of Georgia
- Clement Moore Butler, Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Chaplain of the United States Senate
- Arthur Cleveland Coxe, was the second Episcopal bishop of New York
- Robert Duncan, bishop
- Thomas Gallaudet, noted priest and renowned pioneer of deaf education in the United States
- Alfred Harding, second Episcopal Bishop of Washington
- Samuel Hart, American Episcopal clergyman
- Francis L. Hawks, former priest and professor of divinity at Trinity
- Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.,11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio
- David Buel Knickerbacker, third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Indiana
- Alexander Jolly, bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
- Rev. James A. Kowalski, current dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
- Christie Macaluso, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- John James McCook, chaplain and theologian
- John Mason Neale, Anglican divine and scholar
- William Woodruff Niles, A.B. 1857, professor of Latin, 1864–70, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, 1870–1914
- Horatio Potter, bishop and former Trinity professor
- John E. Sanders, evangelical Christian theologian and free-will theist
- Henry Winter Syle, minister in the Episcopal Church
- Thomas Hubbard Vail, first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas
- Lemuel H. Wells, bishop
- [John Williams, eleventh Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States
- Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier, professor and scholar, founder of Religion department
Science, mathematics, and engineering
- Burt A. Adelman, M.D., Executive Vice President, Research & Development at Biogen Idec[19]
- William Bowie, government engineer
- Russell Doolittle, biochemist
- Dean Hamer, Chief of Gene Structure and Regulation, National Institutes of Health and discoverer of the controversial Gay gene and God gene
- Ernest de Koven Leffingwell, geologist and Arctic explorer
- Ernest Henry Wilson, botanist
- Eric Fossum, American physicist and engineer
- Christian Sidor, biologist and paleontologist, curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and Biology Professor at the University of Washington
- Bill Zeller, computer programer, creator of the MyTunes application.
Other
- Harold Brooks-Baker, financier, journalist and publisher
- Verner Clapp, noted librarian
- Isaac Toucey (former Trustee at Trinity), former Secretary of the Navy, Attorney General of the United States and the 18th Governor of Connecticut.[20]
- Loel Guinness, philanthropist, film producer and adventurer
- Caroline Hewins, first female graduate of Trinity College, noted librarian
- Kelly Killoren Bensimon, author, jewelry designer and former editor of Elle Accessories
- Kara Kennedy, daughter of U.S. Sen Edward M. Kennedy (transferred)
- Michael O'Connor, author, business advisor and motivational speaker
- Sally E. Pingree, philanthropist
- Alexander Trachtenberg, activist for the Socialist Party of America
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- ^ http://www.bryancave.com/sjmarcuss/
- ^ "Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science Reifsnyder". US Dept. of State. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
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