List of Ursinus College people

Notable alumni

Ismar Schorsch (Class of 1957): Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.^[1]
Jeff Trinkle (Class of 1979): professor and Chair of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; known for work in robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing
Robert Yerkes (Class of 1897): psychologist, ethologist and primatologist, worked in intelligence testing and field of comparative psychology; co-developer of Yerkes-Dodson law relating arousal to performance
H. Craig Heller (Class of 1964): professor and chair of Biology at Stanford University; known for work in sleep, circadian rhythms, and thermoregulation

Larry Crabb (Class of 1965): author and psychologist; founder and director of New Way Ministries
Jacob G. Francis (Class of 1891): author, historian, Church of the Brethren pastor, founder of Elizabethtown College
Sam Keen (Class of 1953): author, professor of philosophy and religion, and former contributing editor of Psychology Today
J.D. Salinger (attended 1937-38): author, most known for The Catcher in the Rye, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories, a collection of short stories
Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, (Class of 1923), author, mother of John Updike
Wesley Updike, (Class of 1923) teacher, father of John Updike
Lewis R. Linet, Jr. (Class of 1966): Founder of The Agency Of Ursinus College - Concert Production, Producer of The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Original Manager of Rock Group, KISS.

Reds Bassman: football player
Steve Donahue (Class of 1984): men's head basketball coach at The University of Pennsylvania
Tom Gormley (Class of 1917): player in American Professional Football League (which became the NFL in 1922) with Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, Washington Senators and New York Brickley Giants
Paul Guenther (Class of 1993): defensive coordinator for NFL's Oakland Raiders
Jing Johnson (Class of 1916): pitched in Major League Baseball for Philadelphia Athletics
Erma Keyes (1926–1999), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Dan Mullen (Class of 1994): Currently an analyst for ESPN; former head coach for University of Florida and Mississippi State University football teams.
Debbie Ryan (Class of 1975): former head coach for women's basketball team at University of Virginia; member of Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Bob Shoudt (Class of 1988): professional competitive eater, aka Notorious B.O.B.[1]
Dean Steward (Class of 1938): professional football player, member of "Steagles", team that resulted from temporary merger between Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers due to league-wide manning shortages in 1943 brought on by World War II

Joseph DeSimone (Class of 1986): chemical engineer, CEO of Carbon; 2008 recipient of Lemelson–MIT Prize, 2016 recipient of National Medal of Technology and Innovation^[2]
Cynthia Fisher (Class of 1983): biotechnology entrepreneur

Samuel Conway (Class of 1986): researcher in pharmaceutical, biomedical and agrochemical fields of organic chemistry, and major figure within furry fandom under the name Uncle Kage.
Gerald Edelman (Class of 1950): winner of 1972 Nobel Prize in medicine
Norman E. Gibbs (Class of 1964): software engineer, scholar and educational leader

Raymond Dodge, experimental psychologist: Appointed Professor of Philosophy in 1896
Rene Joyeuse, M.D., MS, FACS (17 January 1920 – 12 June 2012) was a Swiss, French and American soldier, physician, researcher, and was a co-founder of the American Trauma Society who distinguished himself as an OSS agent/operator of Allied intelligence in German-occupied France during World War II. Taught French at the college (1941-1942)
John Mauchly, American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. While Professor of Physics at Ursinus from 1933 to 1941, developed and tested digital electronic calculating devices at Ursinus's science labs in Pfahler Hall, a building which still stands on campus (see Gallery, below)
Royal Meeker, statistician: Taught at Ursinus from 1906 until his appointment by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics in 1913. He later served (1923–24) as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry
Joseph Melrose, former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1998-2001): Ambassador-in-Residence of the school's International Relations Program
Deborah Poritz, jurist: Attorney General of New Jersey (1994–96), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996-2006): Taught English literature at Ursinus in the late 1960s

^ "Ismar Schorsch" [faculty page]. Jewish Theological Seminary. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
^ Ray Gronberg (2016-05-19). "Chemist DeSimone feted at White House". The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina). Retrieved 2016-05-25.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Stile, Charles. "Christie announces lieutenant governor pick", The Record (Bergen County), July 20, 2009; accessed July 21, 2009.