List of Earlham College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana.

Notable alumni

A–M

• Carl W. Ackerman – first head of the Columbia University School of Journalism
• Marjorie Hill Allee – author
• Warder Clyde Allee – known for research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect; elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• John S. Allen – founding president of the University of South Florida; interim president of the University of Florida
• Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sä) – writer, Native American activist, founded National Council of Indian Americans
• J. Peter Burkholder – musicologist and author
• Jana E. Compton – research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency
• Ione Virginia Hill Cowles – president, General Federation of Women's Clubs
• Garfield V. Cox – attended but did not graduate; dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, 1942–1952
• David W. Dennis – congressman from Indiana
• Juan Dies – co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble; nominated for a Latin Grammy
• Joseph M. Dixon – Congressman, Senator, 7th Governor of Montana
• Liza Donnelly – cartoonist for the New Yorker
• John Porter East – former U.S. senator for North Carolina
• Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers – 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 – star of Wild Kingdom
• Lew Frederick (Lewis Reed Frederick) – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2010–2016; member of Oregon State Senate 2017–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2013
• Reverend Wilda C. Gafney – priest and bible scholar
• Sara Gelser – member of the Oregon House of Representatives 2005–2014 and member of the Oregon State Senate 2015–present; Outstanding Alumni Award 2016; recognized as one of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers in 2017
• Andrew Ginther – mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 2016–present
• David Grosso – city council member for the District of Columbia
• Mary Haas – linguist, pioneer in the field of Siamese language studies; former president of the Linguistic Society of America
• William Hadley – established Hadley School for the Blind
• Michael C. Hall – 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 – headed the team that wrote the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program
• Helen Hansma – researcher emeritus and associate adjunct professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Robert M. Hirsch – former chief hydrologist and head of water science for the United States Geological Survey
• Emily Caroline Chandler Hodgin – temperance reformer
• Mary Inda Hussey – Semitic text authority; first woman to teach at the American Society for Oriental Research in Jerusalem
• C. Francis Jenkins – demonstrated the first practical motion picture projector
• Henry Underwood Johnson – US congressman from Indiana
• Mary Coffin Johnson (1834–1928) – temperance activist, newspaper publisher
• Robert Underwood Johnson – former US ambassador to Italy
• Andrew Johnston – 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 – territorial governor of Arizona
• Peter D. Klein – chaired Rutgers University's Department of Philosophy
• Frances Moore Lappé – activist and author of three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet
• Simone Leigh – noted multimedia and ceramic artist
• Manning Marable – professor at Columbia University; author of ', which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012
• Dan McCoy – writer for The Daily Show and host of The Flop House podcast
• Robert Meeropol – 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) – lo-fi recording artist
• Molly R. Morris – ecologist, professor at Ohio University