List of Clark University people
This list of Clark University people features alumni, including currently matriculating students and alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students of Clark University and faculty.
Alumni
Academia
- Edwin Aldrin - father of Buzz Aldrin, worked with Robert Goddard on his theories of rocketry (1915)
- Adelbert Ames, Jr. - research professor at Dartmouth College, pioneered the study of physiological optics
- Alexander Francis Chamberlain - anthropologist
- John H. Flavell - Stanford University Professor (MA Psychology 1952, Phd 1955)
- E. Franklin Frazier - sociologist, MA
- Yair Galily - Israeli sociologist (M.Sc Communications, 1996)
- Robert H. Goddard - rocket engineer, invented the modern day rocket (MA Physics 1910, PhD Physics 1911)
- Frederick Grinnell - cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (BA Chemistry 1966)
- Clarence N. Hickman - rocket scientist
- Solomon Lefschetz - mathematician (PhD 1911)
- J. Ross Mackay - Canadian geographer (BA Geography 1939)
- Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune - geographer
- Margaret Morse Nice - ornithologist (MA Biology 1915)
- Howard W. Odum - sociologist and founder of the journal Social Forces (PhD Psychology 1909)
- W.S. Small - experimental psychologist
- Francis Sumner - first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology at an American university
- Amy Tanner - psychologist
- Lewis Madison Terman - pioneer in cognitive psychology (PhD 1905)
- L.T.E. Thompson - physicist and ballistician (Physics MA 1915, PhD 1917)
- Albert Potter Wills - PhD advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (PhD 1897)
Business
- Matt Goldman - co-founder of Blue Man Group (BA Economics 1983, MBA 1984)
- Alan Kotok - computer pioneer, Digital architect, associate chairman of W3C (MBA 1978)
- Marc Lasry - CEO and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group (BA History 1981)
- Michael Marcus - commodities trader
- Hugh Panero - CEO of XM Radio (BA Government 1978)
- Thomas Peterffy - entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Interactive Brokers Group and played a key role in founding the Boston Options Exchange
- Fred Rosen - former CEO of Ticketmaster, co-founder of the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance
- Ronald M. Shaich - CEO and founder of Panera Bread, co-founder of Au Bon Pain (BA 1976)[1]
Law and politics
- D'Army Bailey - former Circuit Court Judge in Shelby County, TN and Civil Rights Activist
- David Brenerman - member of the Maine House of Representatives and ceremonial mayor of Portland, Maine (BA 1973)
- Beth Edmonds - Maine State Senator (BA Geography 1972)
- John M. Granville - USAID diplomat assassinated in Sudan
- Joseph L. Kennedy - independent candidate in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010 (BA Computer Science 1993)
- Raymond Mariano - Mayor of Worcester, MA, 1993-2001 (MPA 1982)
- Richard T. Moore - Massachusetts State Senator (BA History 1966)
- Michael P. Ross - member of the Boston City Council since 1999, representing District 8, which includes Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Fenway (BA 1993)
Military
- Andrew J. Olmsted - U.S. Army Major; blogger; killed in action while serving in the Iraq War (BA Government & International Relations 1992)
Journalism and media
- Ben Bagdikian - educator and journalist
- Mark Bittman - food journalist for The New York Times and author of How to Cook Everything
- Otis Ferguson - film critic for The New Republic in the 1930s
Literature
- Christopher Collier - children's author (My Brother Sam is Dead)
- Daniel Strachman - author of business books (BA Government 1993)[citation needed]
Art, entertainment, and architecture
- Moti Bodek - Israeli architect; senior lecturer in architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MPA 1995)
- Corey Carrier - child actor (BA)
- Steven DePaul - Emmy Award-winning television producer and director of NYPD Blue (BA 1973)
- Ali Fedotowsky - host of NBC television show 1st Look, star of the sixth season of The Bachelorette (BA Psychology 2006)
- Mitch Glazer - film producer and screenwriter (Scrooged, The Recruit, Lost in Translation)
- Alexander Gould - actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo
- John Heard - actor (BA History 1968)
- Padma Lakshmi - host of television show Top Chef (BA Theater 1992)
- Paul Pena - singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Ben Schechter - Internet artist (BA Government 2003)
- Brian Shactman - former ESPN broadcaster; co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange on CNBC (MBA English)
Religion
- Noyuri Otsuka - Christian writer and researcher, honorary professor of Keisen University, Japan (MA 1952) Japanese Wikipedia
- Frederick Madison Smith - religious leader; author; a Prophet-President of the Community of Christ Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now renamed Community of Christ (PhD 1916)
Athletics and exploration
- Jeffrey Lurie - owner of Philadelphia Eagles (BA Psychology 1973)
- Paul Siple - Antarctic explorer and inventor of wind chill factor (PhD Geography 1939)
Activism and reform
- Robert Dexter - human rights (PhD Sociology 1927)
- Miriam Van Waters - prison reformer
- Mesfin Woldemariam - Ethiopian human rights activist
Faculty
- Taner Akcam
- Wallace Atwood
- Georg Baur
- George Athan Billias
- George Hubbard Blakeslee
- Franz Boas
- Oskar Bolza
- Edwin G. Boring
- Rafael Bruschweiler
- Leonard Carmichael
- William Damon
- Stephen DiRado
- Debórah Dwork
- J. Ronald Eastman, Professor of Geography, chief developer of IDRISI
- Cynthia Enloe
- Richard M. Freeland
- Benjamin Ives Gilman
- Robert Goddard
- Beverly Grier
- G. Stanley Hall, first president of the university
- Tamara Hareven
- David S. Hibbett
- Alan A. Jones
- Robert Kates
- Wolfgang Köhler
- Charles A. Kraus
- Douglas Little
- Drew McCoy
- J. Playfair McMurrich
- Albert Abraham Michelson
- John Ulric Nef
- Arthur Amos Noyes
- Gregory Pincus
- Relly Raffman
- Martin André Rosanoff
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- William Edward Story
- Arthur Gordon Webster
- Heinz Werner
- Charles Otis Whitman
- Carroll D. Wright
Presidents
- G. Stanley Hall, 1888-1920 (University)
- Carroll D. Wright, 1902-1909 (College)
- Edmund Sanford, 1909-1920 (College)
- Wallace Walter Atwood, 1920–1946
- Howard B. Jefferson, 1946–1967
- Frederick H. Jackson, 1967–1970
- Glenn W. Ferguson, 1970–1973
- Mortimer H. Appley, 1974–1984
- Richard P. Traina, 1984–2000
- John E. Bassett, 2000–2010
- David Angel, 2010- [2]
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