List of Allegheny College alumni

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Alumni

Academia

• John Aldrich – Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Charles Craik -- Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco
• Morris P. Fiorina – Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
• Beth Gylys (1986) – professor at Georgia State University and award-winning poet
• Specs Howard – founder of Specs Howard School of Media Arts
• William C. Jason – longest-serving president of Delaware State University
• Jennifer S. Lawton – Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery
• William H. Parker – Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine
• Victor Pickard – C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania
• Carol Reardon – George Winfree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University; winner of the Helen Dortch Longstreet Prize, Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award, William Woods Hassler Award for Excellence in Civil War Education

Government

• William B. Allison – U.S. Senator from Iowa
• David W. Baine – Alabama lawyer and Confederate veteran
• Robert J. Corbett – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1939–1941, 1945–1971)
• Aylett R. Cotton – U.S. Representative for Iowa (1871–1875)
• Clarence Darrow – lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Lieutenant General Jon M. Davis – USMC Deputy Commandant for Aviation
• R. Budd Dwyer – Pennsylvania State Treasurer
• John Wilson Farrelly – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district from 1847 to 1849
• Cathi Forbes – Maryland legislator
• Henry Donnel Foster – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1843-1847, 1871-1873) and 1860 Pennsylvania Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
• W. Scott Hardy – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• Samuel Hays – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1843-1845)
• Daniel Brodhead Heiner – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1893–1897)
• Robert F. Kent – Pennsylvania State Representative (1947–1956) and Pennsylvania State Treasurer (1957–1961)
• Victoria Lipnic – former acting Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2017 to 2019
• Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. – 43rd Governor of Maryland (1896–1900); U.S. Representative (1873–1875)
• Benjamin F. Martin (1854) – U.S. Representative (1877–1881)
• William McKinley – 25th President of the United States of America
• Francis Harrison Pierpont (1839) – the "Father of West Virginia," served as Governor of Virginia (1865-1868)
• Raymond P. Shafer (1938) – 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–1971)
• Thomas Tipton – U.S. Senator from Nebraska
• Mike Veon – Pennsylvania State Representative (1985–2006)
• Sabra Wilbur Vought (1899) – librarian at the US Department of the Interior
• Rob Wonderling – Pennsylvania State Senator (2003–2009)

Journalism

• Alex Steffen (1990) – environmental journalist
• Ida M. Tarbell (1880) – pioneering investigative journalist, author of The History of the Standard Oil Company, which led to the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company
• Bradley Roland Will (1992) – anarchist and journalist (1970–2006)

Literature

• Elmer Albert Apple – author of Mr. Chang and Rafferty stories for Detective Story Magazine, nationally syndicated columnist, business journalist
• Valentino Achak Deng (attended) – "Lost Boy" of Darfur; subject of the book '
• Janette Hill Knox (PhD.) – temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author
• Brooke McEldowney – cartoonist, 9 Chickweed Lane
• Barbara Robinson – author, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972) and The Best School Year Ever (1994)
• Chuck Rosenthal – author, Loop's Progress, My Mistress Humanity, Never Let Me Go