List of Denison University alumni
This is a list of notable alumni of Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Academia
- William G. Bowen - former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Richard Brandt - professor of philosophy, Swarthmore College and University of Michigan
- Ernest DeWitt Burton - biblical scholar
- Steven R. Carter - literary critic and academic
- George Cressey - geographer, author, and academic
- Frederick German Detweiler - sociologist
- George Amos Dorsey - ethnographer
- Lottie Estelle Granger - president, Iowa State Teachers' Association
- Stephen Holmes - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University
- John S. Lowe - professor and expert in energy law
- Roger H. Martin - 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
- Kirtley F. Mather - geologist; professor and department chairman at Harvard University; civil libertarian and author
- Thomas Skidmore - historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history
- Maria Tatar - John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
- Stephen Tuttle - musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia
Business
- Samuel Armacost - former president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
- Joe Banner - President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
- Brad Blum - former CEO of Burger King
- George Bodenheimer - Executive Chairman of ESPN former President of ESPN and ABC Sports
- John Canning, Jr. - Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners
- Mark Dalton - CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation
- Edward Andrew Deeds - engineer, inventor and industrialist
- Michael Eisner - former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- William Esrey - former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation
- John V. Faraci - chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper
- Bill Giles - chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
- Mark Haines - co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
- Terry Jones - founder of Travelocity.com and Kayak.com
- Andrea Mutters - Chief Information Officer of McHenry Advisers
Entertainment
- Steve Carell - screen and television actor
- Roe Conn - radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago
- John Davidson - stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares
- Jennifer Garner - screen and television actress
- Jeffrey Hatcher - playwright and screenwriter
- Hal Holbrook - stage, screen and television actor, known for portrayal of Mark Twain
- John Jeffcoat - screenwriter and film director, known for Outsourced
- Ademir Kenović - film director and producer
- Nancy Lynn - acrobatic pilot, killed in 2006 Culpeper Airfest crash
- Ann Magnuson - actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer
- John Malm Jr. - former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails
- Daniel Meyer - conductor and musical director
- Alex Moffat - actor and comedian
- P-Star (Priscilla Diaz) - rapper, actress, singer, model, director, DJ
- Hollis Resnik - singer and actress
- José Rivera - first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award
- John Schuck - screen, stage, and television actor
- Kurt Vincent, director of The Lost Arcade
- Andrew Levitt, drag queen known as Nina West
Government
- Richard Bevan Austin - judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Ruth Sarles Benedict - anti-war activist, researcher and journalist[1]
- John T. Chain, Jr. - retired U.S. Air Force General
- Robert Dold - U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district
- Edmund Burke Fairfield - minister, educator and politician
- Carty Finkbeiner - former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
- Tony P. Hall - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Representative from Ohio
- Andrew S. Hanen - judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Judson Harmon - 45th Governor of Ohio
- Leonard D. Heaton - former Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Edgar Winters Hillyer - judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin - former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign
- Randy Hopper - former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
- Sue W. Kelly - former member of the United States Congress from New York
- Robert W. Levering - former United States Congressman
- Richard Lugar - United States Senator from Indiana; on the Board of Trustees
- Kenneth E. Melson - former ATF director
- Jim Petro - former Ohio Attorney General
- A. W. Sheldon - Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court
- Jack Thompson - anti-video game activist
- Erastus B. Tyler - Union Army general in the American Civil War
- H. Clay Van Voorhis - former US Congressman
- Ed Weber - former US Congressman
Literature
- James Frey - screenwriter and author; A Million Little Pieces, featured by Oprah's Book Club
- Michael Glaser - Poet Laureate of Maryland
- Lauren Shakely - poet, editor, and publisher
- Pam Houston - author, speaker, teacher
Religion
- Edgar J. Goodspeed - liberal theologian
- Randolph Hollerith - Dean of Washington National Cathedral
- James Madison Pendleton - 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian
Science
- Homer Burton Adkins - organic chemist
- John Berton - computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor
- Richard B. Brandt - philosopher
- William Ernest Castle - early American geneticist
- William E. Forsythe - physicist
- George Stibitz - scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs
Sports
- Dan Daub - Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897
- Woody Hayes - football coach of Ohio State, 1951–1978
- Ken Meyer - former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers
- Johnny O'Connell - professional sports car racer
- Bobby Rahal - Indianapolis 500 champion
- John Robic - assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky
References
- ^ "Ruth S. Benedict". The Star-Democrat. Easton, Maryland. September 8, 1996. p. 12. Retrieved December 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.