This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Alumni
Arts and letters
- Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
- Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author
- Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
- David France, journalist and author
- Holly Hughes, performance artist
- Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
- Nagai Kafu, author
- Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show
- Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
- Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host
- William Malatinsky, author
- Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
- Fern Persons (1933), actress
- Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist
- Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
- Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead
Government
- Garry E. Brown, politician
- Darrin Q. Camilleri, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
- Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
- Brandt Iden, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
- Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
- Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
- Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
- Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
- Christopher P. Yates, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Claims and Michigan Circuit Court
Business
- Larry Bell, founder of Bell's Brewery
- Harry Garland, entrepreneur
- Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
- Jon Stryker
- Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)
Academia
- Paula Arai, Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor
- George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at General Electric Company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory
- William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
- Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia
- Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
- David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve
- Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
- Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist
- Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
- Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College
Other
- Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department
- Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president 1895
- John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
- Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan
- David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology
References
- "Bard College | Faculty". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- Liberty, John (March 4, 2014). "'The Daily Show' debut: Watch Jon Stewart tell Kalamazoo native Jordan Klepper to 'go back to Crimea'". MLive.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- Liberty, John (2010-10-30). "College grad vs. zombies: Michigan native stars in new AMC series 'The Walking Dead'". Kalamazoo Gazette. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- Levering, Robert; Katz, Michael; Moskowitz, Milton (1984). The Computer Entrepreneurs. New American Library. p. 36. ISBN 0-453-00477-6.
- "Paula K. Arai". Institute of Buddhist Studies. Berkeley, California. November 7, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
- "William Degrado | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- "Accolades: Three UVA Scientists Elected AAAS Fellows". UVA Today. 21 December 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
- "David C. Heath Obituary", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2011-08-28, retrieved October 25, 2015
- Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013). "Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- "Students: 1913". The Institution Bulletin. Vol. 4. p. 274.