List of Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni

The following is a categorized list of alumni, as well as honorary degree recipients, of Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Alumni

Academia

• Elizabeth Altmaier (1973), Professor of Counseling Psychology and Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa
• Mary Ellen Avery (1948), Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Joan Copjec (1968), Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
• Faye Crosby (1969), Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Lydia Folger Fowler (1842), first female medical professor in the United States at the Rochester Eclectic Medical College
• Caroline Haven Ober (1884), founder of the Department of Romance Languages, University of Washington
• Patricia A. King (1964), Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University
• E. Frances White (1971), Professor of Individualized Study and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Arts

• Carolyn Brown (1950), choreographer
• Nick Fradiani (2008), winner of the fourteenth season of American Idol
• Nancy Hemenway Barton (1941), artist
• Mary Fickett, actress
• Lauren Henderson (2009), singer
• Catherine Keener (1983), Academy Award-nominated actress
• Molly Luce (1916), painter
• Bruce Marks (1986), director of the Boston Ballet
• Eleanor Norcross (1872), painter and founder of the Fitchburg Art Museum
• Anne-Imelda Radice (1969), art historian
• Ann Ronell (1923), composer
• Jessica Sonneborn, actress
• Callie Thorne (1991), actress
• Clenet Verdi-Rose (2004), film director
• Rose Weaver (1973), actress

Athletics

• Dan Antoniuk (2003), Major Arena Soccer League player
• Connie Carberg (1971–1972), National Football League scout
• Chris Denorfia (2002), Major League Baseball player
• Jim Manganello (1999), Major League Soccer player

Business

• Ken Babby (2002), businessman
• Ligia Bonetti (1989), businesswoman
• Evelyn Danzig Haas (1939), philanthropist
• Diane Farrell (1977), board member of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
• Janet Hanson, founder of Ellevate Network
• Denise Jefferson (1965), dancer
• Trish Karter (1977), founder of Dancing Deer Baking Co.
• Sandra Ohrn Moose (1963), advisor to the Boston Consulting Group
• Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (1969), philanthropist
• Catherine Filene Shouse (1918), philanthropist

Literature

• Lori Baker (1984), novelist
• Lesley Bannatyne (1975), author
• Linda Barlow, author
• Gwenda Blair (1960–1961), author
• Harriet Connor Brown, author
• Kay Chorao (1958), children's writer
• Jean Fritz (1937), children's writer
• Robie Harris (1962), children's writer
• Allen J. Hubin, literary critic
• Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. (2005), author
• Nancy Mairs (1964), essayist
• Susan Meddaugh (1966), children's writer
• Estelle M. H. Merrill (1877), journalist
• Marion Naifeh (1950), author
• Esther Newberg (1963), literary agent
• Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons (1914), author
• Jean Pedrick (1943), author
• Sally Bedell Smith (1970), journalist
• Lesley Stahl (1963), journalist
• Mari Tomasi, novelist
• Amanda Urban (1968), literary agent

Politics

• Mimi Alford (1965), White House intern, who had an affair with United States President John F. Kennedy
• Gabe Amo (2010), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island
• Anne Canby, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
• Giovinella Gonthier (1972), Seychelles Ambassador to the United States
• Shad Al-Sherif Pasha (2001), Sharif of Hijaz
• Ellen Moran (1988), former White House Communications Director under United States President Barack Obama
• Barbara Richardson (1971), First Lady of New Mexico and wife of Bill Richardson
• Gale Rossides, acting director of the Transportation Security Administration
• Margaret Joy Tibbetts (1941), United States Ambassador to Norway
• Candy Waites (1965), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
• Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1999–2001), King of Bhutan
• Christine Todd Whitman (1968), Governor of New Jersey

Religion

• Sarah B. Capron (1824-1918), evangelical missionary
• Emily Susan Hartwell (1883), missionary
• Nedi Rivera (1968), Episcopal bishop

Other

• Louise Bates Ames (1926–1928), psychologist
• Mark Baumer (2006), adventurer
• Ron Corning (1993), television news reporter
• Barbara Damrosch (1963), horticulturalist
• Dennis Leary, chef
• Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (1864), chef
• Fanny E. Minot (1867), president of the Woman's Relief Corps
• Ann Peoples (1979), anthropologist
• Sybil Ward, attorney

Honorary

• Hattie Alexander (1967), pediatrician
• Lawrence S. Bacow (2024), former president of Harvard University and Tufts University
• Margaret Clapp (1960), president of Wellesley College
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1997), associate justice, US Supreme Court
• Emerson Greenaway (1973), president of the American Library Association
• Vartan Gregorian (1989), president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Matina Horner (1979), president of Radcliffe College
• Alice S. Huang (1982), president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Wolf Kahn (2000), painter
• Phyllis McGinley (1956), children's writer
• Agnes Mongan (1953), director of the Harvard Art Museums
• Seiji Ozawa (1984), director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Helenka Pantaleoni (1966), actress
• Richard Stengel (2011), chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center
• Rosemond Tuve (1957), Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
• Emily Vermeule (1973), Professor of Classical Philology and Archaeology, Harvard University
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis (2009), philanthropist

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