The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana.
Notable alumni
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- Carl W. Ackerman â first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism
- Marjorie Hill Allee â author
- Warder Clyde Allee â known for research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- John S. Allen â founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida
- Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) â writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans
- J. Peter Burkholder â musicologist and author
- Jana E. Compton â research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency
- Ione Virginia Hill Cowles â president, General Federation of Women's Clubs
- Garfield V. Cox â attended but did not graduate; dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, 1942âÂÂ1952
- David W. Dennis â congressman from Indiana
- Juan Dies â co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble; nominated for a Latin Grammy
- Joseph M. Dixon â Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana
- Liza Donnelly â cartoonist for the New Yorker
- John Porter East â former U.S. senator for North Carolina
- Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers â General MacArthur's psychological warfare director during World War II; during the subsequent occupation of Japan, worked with fellow Earlhamite Isshiki Yuri (see below) to persuade MacArthur to preserve the institution of the Emperor and clear Hirohito of war crimes
- Jim Fowler â star of Wild Kingdom
- Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) â member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010âÂÂ2016; member of Oregon State Senate 2017âÂÂpresent; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013
- Reverend Wilda C. Gafney â priest and bible scholar
- Sara Gelser â member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2005âÂÂ2014 and member of the Oregon State Senate 2015âÂÂpresent; Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; recognized as one of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017
- Andrew Ginther â mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 2016âÂÂpresent
- David Grosso â city council member for the District of Columbia
- Mary Haas â linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former president of the Linguistic Society of America
- William Hadley â established Hadley School for the Blind
- Michael C. Hall â actor on HBO's Six Feet Under and star of Showtime's Dexter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards
- Margaret Hamilton â headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program
- Helen Hansma â researcher emeritus and associate adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Robert M. Hirsch â former chief hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey
- Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin â temperance reformer
- Mary Inda Hussey â Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem
- C. Francis Jenkins â demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector
- Henry Underwood Johnson â US congressman from Indiana
- Mary Coffin Johnson (1834âÂÂ1928) â temperance activist, newspaper publisher
- Robert Underwood Johnson â former US ambassador to Italy
- Andrew Johnston â film critic for Time Out New York, Us Weekly, Radar magazine; editor of the "Time In" section; TV critic for Time Out New York
- Joseph Henry Kibbey â territorial governor of Arizona
- Peter D. Klein â chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy
- Frances Moore Lappé â activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet
- Simone Leigh â noted multimedia and ceramic artist
- Manning Marable â professor at Columbia University; author of ', which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
- Dan McCoy â writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
- Robert Meeropol â founder of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, attorney, college professor and activist; son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Elephant Micah (real name Joseph O'Connell) â lo-fi recording artist
- Molly R. Morris â ecologist, professor at Ohio University
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