List of Bucknell University alumni
This list of Bucknell University alumni includes graduates and former students of Bucknell University.
Academia
- Peter Balakian, author and poet, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Edward McNight Brawley, first African-American graduate, cofounder and president of Selma University and Morris College in Alabama
- Steven T. DeKosky, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Dennis A. Dougherty, Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology
- Frank A. Golder (1877–1929), historian of Russian and a key builder of the Hoover War Library [1]
- Mary W.M. Hargreaves, author, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, and associate editor/coeditor of The Papers of Henry Clay, volumes I through VI (Kentucky, 1959–1981)
- Marc Hauser, author, professor, and Director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard University
- Ronald D. Liebowitz, ninth president of Brandeis University, sixteenth president of Middlebury College
- Marty Makary, physician, author, health policy educator and television medical commentator
- David Nasaw, author, historian, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York
- Robert A. Scott, ninth president of Adelphi University
- Amos Smith, Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania
- Barbara F. Walter, political scientist, member of Council on Foreign Relations and professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.[2]
Business
- Ted Ammon, New York financier
- Kunitake Andō, President & Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Corporation
- Ronald S. Baron, New York financier, founder of Baron Funds
- Charles Brandes, Founder, Brandes Investment Partners
- Todd G. Buchholz, economist, investment manager, author, lecturer, and former White House director of economic policy; awarded the Allyn Young Teaching Prize by the Harvard University Department of Economics
- Jane T. Elfers, CEO of The Children's Place, former CEO of Lord & Taylor
- Jessica Jackley, cofounder of Kiva.org
- Richard Johnson, founder of hotjobs.com
- Kenneth Langone, helped secure capital for co-founders of Home Depot, and former director of the New York Stock Exchange
- Doug Lebda, founder & CEO of LendingTree
- Jessica Livingston, cofounder of YCombinator
- Marc Lore, president & CEO of Walmart Ecommerce; founder & CEO of Jet.com
- Takeo Shiina President of IBM Japan, and vice-president of IBM
- Greg Skibiski Founder, former CEO & Chairman of Sense Networks
- Trisha Torrey, entrepreneur, author, and founder and director of AdvoConnection and the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates
- David Wood, leader of the Dell computer take-back campaign
- George Young, General Manager of the New York Giants (1979-1997), named NFL Executive of the Year five times
Entertainment
Film and television
- Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor; plays Chris Partlow on HBO's "The Wire"
- Chris Bender, co-produced movies such as the American Pie series, The Hangover, and others
- John Bolger, actor
- William Bramley actor[3]
- Edward Herrmann, actor
- Evan Coyne Maloney, webmaster/documentary filmmaker
- Robert Mandel, film director and producer, dean of the AFI Conservatory
- Les Moonves, former CBS chairman and CEO
- Nyambi Nyambi, actor; plays Samuel on Mike & Molly
- J.C. Spink, Hollywood talent manager and executive producer of "The Hangover" franchise
- Ralph Waite, actor
- Bill Westenhofer, Winner of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2008 (The Golden Compass) and 2013 (Life of Pi)
Music
- Bill Challis, pioneering jazz arranger (Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke)
- Kristen Henderson, founder, guitarist and songwriter of Antigone Rising, co-author of Times Two: Two Women in Love and The Happy Family They Made (Simon & Schuster, 2011), named to Buzzfeed's Most Powerful LGBT Icons and Allies List
- Bruce Lundvall, President and CEO of The Blue Note Label Group, including Blue Note Records
- Martin Rubeo, musician and founder of alternative rock band Gramsci Melodic
Other
- Theodore Beale, a.k.a. Vox Day, musician, writer, publisher and philosopher
- Billy MacFarland, convicted fraudster and founder of Fyre Festival. Attended Bucknell for one semester.
- John McPherson, "Close to Home" cartoonist
- Garrett Neff, fashion model
Government
Legislators
- Diane B. Allen, New Jersey State Senator, Legislative District 7
- Lemuel Amerman, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1891–1893)
- Rob Andrews, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1990–2014)
- J. Thompson Baker, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1913–1915), founder of Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, designed and built the J. Thompson Baker House
- Ward R. Bliss, member of Pennsylvania House of Representative (1889-1905), Majority Leader (1903-1904)
- Benjamin K. Focht, US Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Matt Gabler, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- John A. Giannetti, member of Maryland Senate, District 21
- Norman J. Levy, member of New York State Senate, (1971–1998)
- Simon Peter Wolverton, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1891–1895)
Attorneys and judges
- Thomas J. Baldrige, Pennsylvania lawyer, Attorney General, Superior Court judge and president judge
- Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, member of the United States Marine Corps, New York City Assistant District Attorney, and author
- John Warren Davis, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Oliver Booth Dickinson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Frederick Voris Follmer, Judge of the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, Chief Judge of the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Gitanjali Gutierrez, first lawyer to meet with a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Information Commissioner for Bermuda
- Robert Dixon Herman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- William Hoeveler, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, presided over Manuel Noriega trial
- Albert Williams Johnson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Mayors
- Neal Blaisdell, former mayor of Honolulu
- Thomas Richards, mayor of Rochester, New York
Diplomats
- David Jayne Hill, diplomat, ambassador, and writer
- William Braucher Wood, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Military
- Charles I. Carpenter, first Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
- Susan J. Crawford, lawyer and judge who served as the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commissions, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Inspector General of the Department of Defense; also Chair of Bucknell Board of Trustees
- Lewis Merrill, Union Army general. Attended prior to entering West Point.
- George H. Ramer, United States Marine Lieutenant, posthumously received the Medal of Honor on January 7, 1953
- Theodore Van Kirk, Enola Gay Navigator on August 6, 1945
- Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army colonel, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, vocal critic of the Iraq war. Attended for three years before volunteering for service in Vietnam
Activists
- Ye Htoon, Burmese political dissident
Other
- Ben T. Elliott, director of speech writing during President Ronald Reagan's administration
- Jay Fisette, member of Arlington County, Virginia's Board of Supervisors
- Dan Oates, Aurora, Colorado, Police Chief
- Norman Thomas, six-time US presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America from 1928 to 1948
Journalism
- Jim Vicevich, Radio talk show host of WTIC-AM's Sound Off Connecticut
Literature
- David Kahn, historian, journalist, and writer
- Michael Malice, author, columnist, and media personality
- Philip Roth, author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Man Booker International Prize, among many other honors.
- Nancy Wood, poet and photographer
Religion
- Tim Keller, theologian & pastor of the Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City
Sports
- Jim Albus, professional golfer
- Earl Beecham, American football player
- George Buckheit, long-distance runner
- Bryan Cohen (born 1989), American-Israeli basketball player
- Andrew Copelan, head coach of the Fairfield Stags men's lacrosse team
- Bill Courtney, head coach of the Cornell Big Red men's basketball team
- Matt Daley, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees
- Sunil Gulati, President, United States Soccer Federation
- Clarke Hinkle, National Football League fullback & Hall of Fame inductee
- Jon Robert Holden, naturalized Russian basketball player, played for CSKA Moscow and Russian Olympic team
- Doggie Julian, former college and NBA basketball coach, led Holy Cross to NCAA national championship
- Bob Keegan, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Christopher McNaughton, German basketball international
- Christy Mathewson, former Major League Baseball player & member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (graduated at Keystone College)
- Mike Muscala, Oklahoma City Thunder Center/Power Forward
- Bill Reifsnyder, long-distance runner who won two U.S. marathon national titles
- Greg Schiano, former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football teams
- Walt Szot, American football player[4]
- Brett Wilkinson, Olympic rower in Athens 2004[5]
- Ted Woodward, former head coach of the University of Maine basketball team
- Jay Wright, head coach of the Villanova University basketball team since 2001.
- Weldon Wyckoff, former Major League Baseball player
References
- ^ Bucknell Class of 1898, per Terence Emmons and Bertrand M. Patenaude (eds.), War Revolution and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914–1927. Stanford University: Hoover Institution Press, 1992; pg. xii.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "William Bramley, 57, actor". The Daily Item. Pennsylvania, Sunbury. November 14, 1985. p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "WALT SZOT". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
- ^ "Bucknell grad to compete in Beijing Olympics". Bucknell University. August 6, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2011.