50 Notable alumni of Albion College

Colin Percy Campbell was the Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1909 to 1910.

Ella Brockway Avann was a 19th-century American educator and writer. After graduating from Albion College of Michigan, she subsequently became preceptress of that institution. She filled the chair of English literature and also lectured on the history of music. For 10 years, she was president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. Avann made frequent contributions to the religious press. She...

Foss O. Eldred was Attorney General of Michigan in 1946 when he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term. He also held many other political offices.

John Wesley McGrath was an American educator, businessman and jurist during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cornelia Moore Chillson Moots was an American missionary and temperance evangelist. She was one of four pioneer missionaries of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Florence Riddick Boys was an American writer, clubwoman, suffragist, and state probation officer in Indiana.

Ada Iddings Gale was an author and educator.

Charles Tisdale Howard was an attorney and Republican party politician, the first United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, served as the fourth Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives, and was elected a Minnesota District Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial District in 1928.

Arthur Langdon McCormick was an American playwright. He started in theater as an actor before turning to writing. He specialized in melodramas, often with special effects that he designed using his engineering background.

Harriet Gertrude Eddy was an American educator and librarian who influenced the management of libraries in the Soviet Union. She was inducted into the California Library Hall of Fame in 2014, for her work on organizing forty Californian library systems.

Owen Reed Lovejoy, Jr. was a minister who opposed child labor. He was known as the "children's statesman". He served as the general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee from 1907 to 1926.

Earl C. "Billy" Hayes was an American college football, college basketball, and track and field coach. Hayes served as the head football coach at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College—now known as Mississippi State University—from the 1914 to 1916 seasons. During his three-season tenure, he compiled an overall record of 15–8–2 At Mississippi A&M, he was also as the head basketball...

David Emanuel Wahlberg was a Swedish sports writer and editor who covered the 1912 Summer Olympics. He became president of the sports organization LAIF from 1937 to 1939. Later in life he was the Lutheran minister in Långsele, Sweden.

John Madison Wever was a U.S. representative from New York.

William C. Ferguson was a telecommunications executive who served as chairman and CEO of NYNEX.

Hannah Borden Palmer was a temperance reformer.

Henry Franklin Thomas was an American physician and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1893 to 1897

Lawrence B. Schook was the vice president for research at the University of Illinois. He oversaw the $1 billion research portfolio across all three campuses. A scholar in comparative genomics and the exploitation of genomic diversity to understand traits and disease, Dr. Schook focuses his research on genetic resistance to disease, regenerative medicine, and using genomics to create animal models...

Julie Brigham-Grette is an American glacial geologist and professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on Arctic paleoclimate and Quaternary glacial history, including work on lake and marine sediment records in Beringia and the Bering Strait region.

Spencer Oliver Fisher, was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

George Lewis Yaple was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Cassius McDonald Barnes was a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War and a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the fourth governor of Oklahoma Territory.

Will Levington Comfort was a U.S. writer, known primarily for adventure novels such as Apache. Three of Comfort's works served as the story for feature films. Somewhere in Sonora, based on his novel Somewhere south of Sonora, was remade in 1933 starring John Wayne.

Homer C. Folks was a United States sociologist who worked as a social welfare advocate. He was the New York City Commissioner of Public Charities.

Lyle Holcombe Miller was an officer of the United States Marine Corps, who reached the rank of brigadier general. He is most noted for his service as chief of staff of Samoa Defense Force during World War II. He disgraced his good service record by incident with Dai Li, Chiang Kai-shek's Military Intelligence Service Chief, in late 1944.

William Francis James was a soldier and congressman from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Orange Jacobs was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician. His career in government centered on the Territory of Washington, for which he served as a delegate to the U.S. Congress, chief justice of the territory's supreme court, mayor of Seattle, and other roles.

Leonard Peter Schultz was an American ichthyologist.

Rev. Judson Dwight Collins was the first Methodist missionary to China.

George Heartwell is an American politician. He was the mayor of Grand Rapids in the U.S. state of Michigan. He was sworn in on January 1, 2004, and exited his mayoral duties after ending his third term on January 16, 2016.

Edwin Baruch Winans was a U.S. representative from and the 22nd governor of Michigan.

George Ross "Kirk" Kirkpatrick was an American educator, anti-militarist writer and political activist. He is best remembered as the 1916 vice presidential nominee of the Socialist Party of America. He was briefly the Executive Secretary of that organization from November 1925 until May 1926.

Forest Ray Moulton was an American astronomer. He was the brother of Harold G. Moulton, a noted economist.

Prentiss Marsh Brown was an American lawyer and politician who served three full and one partial term as a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from the state of Michigan from 1936 to 1943.

Mekayla Fawn Diehl Eppers is an American beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Indiana USA 2014 and later competed in Miss USA 2014, where she placed in the top twenty. In 2018, Diehl was crowned Mrs. America 2018 and went on to place in the top twelve in South Africa at the Mrs. World competition. Diehl is the first...

J Harlen Bretz was an American geologist, best known for his research that led to the acceptance of the Missoula Floods and for his work on caves.

Arthur Chester Millspaugh, PhD, was a former adviser at the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Foreign Trade, who was hired to re-organize the Finance Ministry of Iran from 1922–1927 in Government of Reza Shah and 1942-1945 in Government of Mohammad Reza Shah.

Joel Manby is the former CEO of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Herschend Family Entertainment, the largest family-owned theme park corporation in the United States. HFE creates, develops and operates entertainment, tourism and hospitality properties spanning 26 locations in ten states, including Dollywood and Silver Dollar City. He and his company were featured...

Wellington R. Burt was an American lumber baron from Saginaw, Michigan. At the time of his death, his wealth was estimated to be between $40 and $90 million (equivalent to between $743 million and $1.67 billion in 2025). For a time in the early 1900s, Burt ranked as one of the eight wealthiest men in the United States. He was...

Knute Nelson was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures and to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and served as the 12th governor of Minnesota from 1893 to 1895. Having served...

Jon Scieszka is an American author known for picture books including The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! and Math Curse, often illustrated by Lane Smith. Scieszka wrote Time Warp Trio, a series of youth novels to teach history. He founded Guys Read, a web-based reading advocacy program to encourage boys to become readers."

Martin Hughes Nesbitt is an American businessman and public figure. Nesbit is co-CEO of the Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Nesbitt is on the boards of directors of publicly traded companies CenterPoint Energy, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and American Airlines Group. Nesbitt was the founder and former CEO of The Parking Spot, an airport parking company. He was on...

Mark Hamilton Schauer is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for Michigan's 7th congressional district from 2009 to 2011.

Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister in the United States.

Daniel Philip Henney is an American actor. He first came into international prominence with his television debut as Dr. Henry Kim on the Korean drama My Lovely Sam Soon (2005).

Randall "Randy" Richardville is a Michigan Republican, who served as Majority Leader of the Michigan State Senate until his tenure ended January 1, 2015 due to term limits. He was state senator for the 17th district, which consists of all of Monroe, southern Washtenaw, and eastern Jackson counties, having taken office on January 1, 2007. He previously served in the...

Josh Aaron Cassada is an American physicist, test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Prior to his selection to join NASA in 2013, Cassada served as a test pilot in the US Navy, and has over 3,500 hours in more than 40 aircraft, and 23 combat missions. In August 2018, Cassada was selected for CTS-1, the first operational mission of the...

William Douglas Parker is an American businessman. He spent more than 20 years as an airline executive, including as the CEO and chairman of American Airlines Group, as well as executive positions with America West Airlines and US Airways. He is a current board member of Qantas, and also the founder of the nonprofit organization Breaking Down Barriers.

Carlos Wood Riddick was an American politician and businessman. He served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana's 2nd congressional district.