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Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 Z

[edit] A

• Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer. Ccurrently hosts and produces Radio Lab on WNYC.
• Robert Alexander (1975), playwright, co-editor of the hip-hop theater anthology "Plays from the Boombox Galaxy" (among other works).
• Greg Allen (1985), founder of The Neo-Futurists experimental threatre troupe.
• H. Devere Allen, Journalist and Author. Noted socialist and pacifist.
• Hobart Baumann Amstutz, studied at the Conservatory 1914-15 before graduating from Oberlin High School in 1915. Later served as a Bishop for The Methodist Church.
• Susan Art (1973), Dean of Students at University of Chicago's undergraduate college.
• Mary Atkins, founder of Mills College.

[edit] B

• Benjamin Bagby (1974), vocalist, harpist, scholar, and founder of early music ensemble Sequentia
• Peter Baker (1988), Washington Post journalist and author
• Ishmael Beah (2004), author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
• Alison Bechdel (1981), cartoonist (Dykes To Watch Out For) and graphic novelist (Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic).
• Robin Behn (1979), poet (Horizon Note).
• Suzette Marie Bishop (1984), author (She Took off Her Wings and Shoes).
• Richard Blanchard (1943), English teacher in New Hampshire
• Joani Blank (1959), founder of Good Vibrations.
• Richard Bliwas (1981), pianist and singer/songwriter.
• Geoffrey Blodgett (1953), historian and author of Cass Gilbert: The Early Years.
• Alex Blumberg (1989) producer, "This American Life."
• Eric Bogosian (1976), novelist, playwright (Talk Radio, SubUrbia) and actor (Law and Order: Criminal Intent).
• Wendy Brenner (1987), author of Phone Calls From the Dead.
• Chris Brokaw (1986), rock drummer for Codeine, Come, Consonant.
• Avery Brooks (1970 and an additional honorary degree in 1996), actor in Uncle Tom's Cabin, American History X, Spenser: For Hire, best known for "Benjamin Sisko" in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
• Antoinette Brown (1847), the first ordained female minister in the U.S.
• Gabriel Brownstein (1988), novelist and author of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W and The Man from Beyond.
• Blanche K Bruce, second African-American Senator from Mississippi serving 1874-1881.
• Peter Buchman (1989), screenwriter for Jurassic Park III.
• Alice Rowe Burks (1942), author of Who Invented the Computer?: The Legal Battle that Changed Computing History.
• James Burrows (1962), producer and creator of Cheers and director of Will & Grace, Wings, News Radio, among other series.
• Michael Byers (1991), novelist and author of The Coast of Good Intentions and Long for This World.

[edit] C

• Marc Canter (1980), co-founder of MacroMind (later Macromedia).
• John Cazale (1954), actor in The Godfather and The Deer Hunter.
• Brian Chase (2000), drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
• Tracy Chevalier (1984), novelist and author of Girl with a Pearl Earring , Falling Angels, and The Lady and the Unicorn.
• Kevin Clarke (1991), renowned political methodologist, and currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.
• Yvette Clarke (transferred to Medgar Evers College, did not earn degree), Democratic representative for the 11th U.S. Congressional District in New York, 2007-present.
• Rachel Cline (1979), author of What to Keep.
• Henry Roe Cloud, Native American political leader.
• Stanley Cohen (1945), Nobel Physiology and Medicine laureate in 1986.
• Marc Cohn (1981), Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter.
• Johnnetta B. Cole (1957), first female African-American president of Spelman College, president of Bennett College 2002-07.
• Fanny Jackson Coppin (1865), influential African-American educator and missionary.
• Richard Cowan, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.
• Jacob Dolson Cox, politician and author.

[edit] D

• Charles D'Ambrosio (1982), essayist, short story writer
• Stephen Davenport (1953), author of Saving Miss Oliver's
• Carl Dennis, Pulitzer prize-winning poet of Practical Gods.
• Robert Devereaux (1969), novelist and author of Santa Steps Out: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups.
• Michael Dirda (1970), Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reviewer, author
• John Langalibalele Dube, first President of the African National Congress
• Kelly Dwyer (1986), novelist, author of Self-Portrait with Ghosts.
• Michael Duffy (1980), Assistant Managing Editor of Time.
• David Kellogg Lewis well known philosopher arguing for Possible Worlds

[edit] E

• Chris Eldridge (2004), Guitarist, the Tensions Mountain Boys; former guitarist, the Infamous Stringdusters.
• John Millott Ellis (1851), President of Oberlin College and abolitionist.
• Rhian Ellis (1990), novelist (After Life).
• Josh Emmons (1995), novelist (The Loss of Leon Meed)
• Nava EtShalom (2004), poet

[edit] F

• George Fairchild (1862), third President of Kansas State University.
• Adrian Fenty (1992), Mayor of Washington, D.C..
• Lee Fisher (1973), Lieutenant Governor and former Attorney General of Ohio.
• Jim Fixx (1957), author of The Complete Book of Running.
• Peter Tyrrell Flawn (1947), geologist and former President of the University of Texas at Austin.
• Kate Fodor (1993), playwright (Hannah and Martin).
• Kim France (1987), editor of Lucky magazine.
• Darcy Frey (1983), non-fiction writer.
• Su Friedrich (1975), experimental filmmaker.
• Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1958), novelist and author of Witness in Bishop Hill: A Joan Spencer Mystery.
• Alan Furst (1962), novelist, author of Blood of Victory.

[edit] G

• John Gofman (1939), a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project and an activist concerning issues with nuclear power and radiation danger.
• Myla Goldberg (1993), novelist (Bee Season, Wickett's Remedy).
• William Goldman (1952), novelist (The Princess Bride) and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men).
• Jason Myles Goss (2003), singer-songwriter.
• Elisha Gray, an inventor of the telephone.
• Denyce Graves, an accomplished American opera singer, sang the American Anthem during the 55th Presidential Inauguration for President George W. Bush.
• Melissa Fay Greene (1975), author (Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster).
• Jerry Greenfield (1973), co-creator of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
• Linda Gregerson (1971), award-winning poet (Waterborne, Magnetic North).
• Dr. Jamie Grifo (1978), director of New York University Medical Center's division of reproductive endocrinology.
• Erwin Griswold (1925), lawyer, late Solicitor General of the United States and dean of Harvard Law School.
• Gary Grubb (1975), co-creator of Norplant.

[edit] H

• Richard N. Haass (1973), president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State.
• Al Haig, jazz pianist.
• Charles Martin Hall (1885), co-discoverer of the electrolytic process of producing aluminium (and contributor to the American spelling of "aluminum").
• David Halperin (1973), author (One Hundred Years of Homosexuality).
• Jon Hamilton (1983), NPR science correspondent.
• Philip Hanawalt (1954), scientist, co-discoverer of DNA excision repair.
• Philip C. Hayes (1860), American Civil War general.
• Edward Haskell (1929), scientist and educator who dedicated his life to the unification of human knowledge into a single discipline.
• Janet Ruth Heller (1971), author (How the Moon Regained Her Shape)
• Ed Helms (1996), actor (The Office (US TV series)), comedian, correspondent on The Daily Show.
• Joe Hickerson (1957), American folklorist.
• Jonathan Holden (1963), poet (Knowing: New and Selected Poems).
• Michael Hollinger (1984), playwright (Red Herring)
• Keith Holzman (1957), author (The Complete Guide to Starting a Record Company).
• Cathy Park Hong (1998), poet (Translating Mo'um).
• David Hoose (1969), Music Director of the Cantata Singers & Ensemble in Boston since 1982.
• Paul Horn (1952), jazz flutist.
• Teresa Heinz Housel (1994), communication professor, cultural critic, and journalist.
• Edward Everett Horton, actor (The Front Page, Top Hat, Holiday), voice actor (Rocky & Bullwinkle). {Left his junior year}
• Ralf Hotchkiss (1969), co-founder and current (2006) Whirlwind Chief Engineer of Whirlwind Wheelchair International, 1989 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
• Noelle Howey (1994), author (Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods––My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine).
• Tim Hurson (1967), speaker, writer, creativity theorist, author of Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
• Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, president (1929-1945) and chancellor (1945-1951) of the University of Chicago

[edit] I

• Ernest Ingersoll, American naturalist.
• Bill Irwin (1973), clown (Pickle Family Circus), writer/director (The Regard of Flight, Fool Moon), actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf [2005 Tony Award], Mr Noodle of Elmo's World), 1984 MacArthur Fellow.

[edit] J

• Charlene Drew Jarvis (1962), president of Southeastern University.
• Lisa Jervis (1993), creator and editor of Bitch magazine.
• Robert Jervis (1962), International Relations scholar and Columbia University professor.
• Barbara Johnson (1969), literary critic, professor at Harvard University.
• Chris Johnson (1990), filmmaker, photographer, PBS - "Voyage of the Odyssey" / earthOCEAN.tv
• Vernon Johns (1919), African-American preacher, PhD University of Chicago, predecessor of Martin Luther King Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, widely hailed as the father of the civil rights movement.

[edit] K

• Fred Kaplan (1976), journalist and Slate columnist.
• John Kander (1951), of the musical theater team Kander and Ebb (Cabaret and Chicago, among others).
• Daniel Kinsey (1935), Olympic champion (110 m hurdles).
• Alex Klein (1987), Grammy-winning oboist.
• Robert Knopf (1983), author of "The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton", and theater director.
• Jennifer Koh (1997), violinist (1994 International Tchaikovsky Competition winner).
• Anne O. Krueger (1953), award-winning economist, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Oberlin trustee (1987-95).
• Robert Krulwich (1969), television and radio journalist.
• H. H. Kung (1906), Chinese banker and Premier of the Republic of China (1938-39).
• Robert Kuttner (1965), co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and one of five co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute.

[edit] L

• John Mercer Langston (1849), early civil rights activist.
• Rex Lee (1990), actor, best known for his role on Entourage.
• Richard Lenski (1977), biologist and 1996 MacArthur Fellow.
• Edmonia Lewis, sculptor.
• Romulus Linney (1953, honorary degree 1994), playwright.
• Dan London (1995), actor, Minority Report, Old Joy, Patch Adams].
• Tom Lopez (1989), computer/new media composer.

[edit] M

• John Edward Mack (1951), psychologist, author (A Prince of Our Disorder).
• David Maine (1985), novelist (The Preservationist).
• Michelle Malkin (1992), columnist (Los Angeles Daily News, The Seattle Times), author (In Defense of Internment), political commentator.
• Rollo May (1930), psychologist, author.
• James McBride (1979), journalist (Boston Globe, The Washington Post), author (The Color of Water), musician.
• John McEntire (1991), drummer (Tortoise).
• Josh MacPhee (1996), political artist.
• George Herbert Mead (1883), philosopher, leading figure of American Pragmatism; his theories became the foundation of the symbolic interactionist school of sociology and social psychology.
• J. Hillis Miller (1948), literary critic (The Ethics of Reading, On Literature).
• Robert Millikan (1891), Nobel laureate (Physics, 1923) for measuring the charge of the electron.
• Jason Molina (1996), singer/songwriter with Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co.
• Eduardo Mondlane (1953), Mozambican political leader.
• Roger Montgomery (1949), Dean of Architecture, City Planning, and Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley.
• Donn F. Morgan (1965), author (The Making of Sages: Biblical Wisdom and Contemporary Culture).
• Gregory Mosher (1971), Tony Award-winning director.
• Adam Moss (1979), editor of New York magazine.
• Thylias Moss (1981), poet, playwright, and 1996 MacArthur Fellow.

[edit] N

• Amy X. Neuburg (1984), classical and pop singer.
• Josh Neufeld (1989), cartoonist (Keyhole) and graphic novelist (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge).
• Thomas Newkirk (1970), author (Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture).
• Thisbe Nissen (1994), novelist (Out of the Girls Room and Into the Night, Osprey Island)
• L. L. Nunn, Founder of Telluride Association and Deep Springs College.

[edit] O

• Karen O singer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
• Peggy Orenstein (1983), author (Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World).
• Rich Orloff (1973), playwright (Big Boys).
• Dzvinia Orlowsky (1975), poet (Except for One Obscene Brush Stroke).
• Jena Osman (1985), poet (The Character).

[edit] P

• Suzanne Paola (1980), poet (Lives of The Saints) and memoirist.
• Kelley Polar (????), electronic musician (Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens) and violist.
• Liz Phair (1989), singer/songwriter.
• Doug Pike (1980), Noted Educator
• Sarah Pirtle (1971), children's musician and educator.
• John Wesley Powell, geologist and Civil War soldier.
• Jane Pratt (1984), creator of Sassy and Jane magazines.
• Lia Purpura (1986), poet (Stone Sky Lifting), essayist (Increase, On Looking).

[edit] Q

• Willard V. O. Quine (1930), philosopher and logician.

[edit] R

• Marni Raab (1996), singer/actress (Most notably Christine in the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and the National Tour)
• Daniel Radosh (1991), journalist and blogger.
• David Rees (1994), cartoonist (My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, Get Your War On).
• Tim Riley (1983), author (Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After), NPR critic.
• Josh Ritter (1999), singer/songwriter.
• Anita Roberts (1964), molecular biologist (made pioneering observations of TGF beta).
• Elisabeth Robinson (1983), novelist (The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters).
• Dick Rodstein (1971), award-winning narrator and voice actor.
• Martha Root (1890s), Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith.
• Carl T. Rowan (1947), journalist.
• S. J. Rozan (1972), novelist (Reflecting the Sky).
• John C. Russell (1985), playwright (Stupid Kids).
• Paul Russell (1978), novelist (The Coming Storm).
• Oren Rudavsky (1979), filmmaker (Hiding and Seeking, And Baby Makes Two, The Treatment).
• Seth Rudetsky (1988), Broadway actor, pianist, writer, radio host

[edit] S

• Greg Saunier, drummer of San Francisco-based band, Deerhoof.
• Alex Scally (2004), guitarist in Beach House.
• William Sanders Scarborough (1875), classical scholar.
• Kathy Lou Schultz (1990), poet (Some Vague Wife).
• William F. Schultz (1971), former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA.
• Julie Schumacher (1981), novelist (Grass Angel).
• Elizabeth Searle (1983), novelist (Celebrities in Disguise).
• Stephen W. Sears (1954), author (Gettysburg).
• Vijay Seshadri (1974), poet (The Long Meadow).
• Tanya Shaffer (1988), author (Somebody's Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa).
• Sonia Shah (1993), investigative journalist.
• Matthew Sharpe (1984), novelist (Nothing is Terrible, The Sleeping Father, Jamestown).
• Gary Shteyngart (1995), novelist (The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan : A Novel).
• Lorenzo Snow, Mormon prophet, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Donald J. Sobol (1948), author of Encyclopedia Brown series.
• Robert Spano (1983), music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
• Roger Wolcott Sperry (1935 and 1937), neurobiologist and Nobel laureate (Medicine, 1981).
• Larry R. Squire (1963), Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at University of California, San Diego, a world expert in the field of memory, Past President of the Society for Neuroscience.
• Matthew Stadler (1981), novelist (Allan Stein).
• Sue Standing (1974), poet (False Horizon).
• Durham Stevens (1871), assassinated diplomat to Japan.
• Brooke Stevens (1980), author (Tattoo Girl).
• Anthony Stevenson (1988), mortician.
• William Grant Still, composer.
• Lucy Stone (1847), feminist and abolitionist.
• Anna Louise Strong (1905), activist and author.
• Larry Sweeney (2003), professional wrestler.

[edit] T

• Julie Taymor (1974), theatrical and cinematic director, filmmaker, screenwriter (Frida, Titus, Broadway's The Lion King, Across the Universe).
• Jon Theodore (1996), Ex-drummer for the Mars Volta.
• Michael Teig (1990), poet (Big Back Yard).
• Jen Trynin (1986), rock singer/songwriter.

[edit] U

• Peter Ullian (1988), playwright (The Flight of the Lawnchair Man).

[edit] V

• John Vinocur (1961), senior correspondent for The International Herald Tribune.

[edit] W

• George Walker (1941, honorary degree 1983), composer, Pulitzer Prize for Music 1996.
• Moses Fleetwood Walker (1881), first African-American player in baseball's major leagues.
• Geoffrey Ward (1962), author (The West: An Illustrated History and The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945).
• Bruce Weigl (1973), poet (Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems).
• Paul Wennberg (1985), chemist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow.
• William Drake Westervelt (1871 and 1874; honorary degree 1926), Hawaiian historical writer.
• C. Martin Wilbur (1931), historian, Sinologist.
• Thornton Wilder, novelist (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), playwright (Our Town).
• Harrison A. Williams (1941), U.S. senator and congressman from New Jersey.
• Warren Wilson, namesake of Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.
• Jonah Winter (1984), poet (Amnesia).
• Christopher Robin "Kit" Woolsey (1964), bridge internationalist and writer (Matchpoints) and backgammon expert.
• John Wray (1993), novelist (The Right Hand of Sleep).
• Franz Wright (1977), Pulitzer prize winning poet (Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems, Walking to Martha's Vineyard).
• Katharine Wright, sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
• Michelle Wright (1990), author (Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora).
• Willard Warch (1931), Oberlin professor of music and theory.

[edit] Z

• James Zemaits (1990), head of Sotheby's 20th-century-design department.
• David Zinman (1958), music director of the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
• Stephen Zunes (1979), University of San Francisco professor of politics, and political activist.

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