56 Notable alumni of Allegheny College
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Allegheny College is ranked #1,947 in the world and #481 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from Allegheny College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Allegheny College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Larry Boylan
1908-1997 (aged 89)
Laurence Charles Boylan was an American educator most notably for serving as an administrator at what is now known as Emporia State University. Before serving as president of the Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC), Boylan was the Dean of Graduate Studies at KSTC and served at a couple of different institutions before coming to Emporia.
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2. John Sherrod
1924-2004 (aged 80)
librarian
meteorologist
information scientist
John Sherrod was an American meteorologist and information scientist.
3. Bernadette Geyer
1968-. (aged 58)
poet
writer
Bernadette K. Geyer is a poet, writer, translator, and editor in Berlin, Germany.
4. Samuel Bernard Dick
1836-1907 (aged 71)
politician
Samuel Bernard Dick was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1881.
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5. Victor M. Rice
1818-1869 (aged 51)
politician
Victor Moreau Rice was an American educator and politician from New York.
6. Amos Myers
1824-1893 (aged 69)
lawyer
politician
Amos Myers was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
7. James M. Williams
1850-1909 (aged 59)
lawyer
politician
James M. Williams was a politician from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio State Senate, and was President of the Senate for two years.
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8. Arthur Laban Bates
1859-1934 (aged 75)
lawyer
politician
Arthur Laban Bates was a Republican politician, lawyer, and businessman from the state of Pennsylvania. Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was the nephew of John Milton Thayer, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska. Bates received his early education through tutors before graduating from Allegheny College in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882, later...
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9. Daniel Brodhead Heiner
1854-1944 (aged 90)
lawyer
politician
Daniel Brodhead Heiner was an American lawyer and politician who served as a two-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1897.
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10. Milton Barnes
1830-1895 (aged 65)
lawyer
politician
Milton Barnes was a Republican politician who was Ohio Secretary of State from 1877 to 1881.
11. Gerald E. McClearn
1927-2017 (aged 90)
geneticist
behavior geneticist
psychologist
university teacher
Gerald "Jerry" McClearn was an American behavior geneticist and professor emeritus of health and human development and biobehavioral health at the Pennsylvania State University.
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12. John F. Murtaugh
1874-1918 (aged 44)
politician
John Francis Murtaugh was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
13. W. S. Boreland
1878-1959 (aged 81)
head coach
Walter Siverly Borland was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1901 to 1903, compiling a record of 15–7. Borland was also the head coach of the LSU baseball team from 1902 to 1903, tallying a mark of 10–11–1. Borland was a graduate of Allegheny College in...
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14. Marvin O. Bridges
1878-1960 (aged 82)
American football player
Marvin Orestus Bridges was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and football coach. He served in the Spanish-American War, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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15. George A. Cobham, Jr
1825-1864 (aged 39)
military officer
George Ashworth Cobham Jr. commanded the 111th Pennsylvania Infantry in the American Civil War and rose to the rank of brigade commander before being killed in battle.
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16. Erastus Wentworth
1813-1886 (aged 73)
Christian minister
Erastus Wentworth was an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to Fuzhou, China.
17. Peter Moore Speer
1862-1933 (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Peter Moore Speer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
18. Henry Donnel Foster
1808-1880 (aged 72)
lawyer
politician
Henry Donnel Foster was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1847, and from 1871 to 1873.
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19. William Alfred Quayle
1860-1925 (aged 65)
poet
biographer
William Alfred Quayle was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1908.
20. Jane Earll
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Jane M. Earll is an American attorney, politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who represented the 49th District from 1997 to 2013.
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21. Frank A. Montgomery
1830-1903 (aged 73)
politician
autobiographer
Frank Alexander Montgomery was an American politician best known for his memoir of life as a Confederate cavalry officer in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861–1865) called Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War (1901).
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22. Charles N. Crosby
1876-1951 (aged 75)
American football coach
politician
Charles Noel Crosby was an American politician and college football coach. He was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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23. Allison White
1816-1886 (aged 70)
lawyer
politician
Allison White was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
24. Lloyd Lowndes Jr
1845-1905 (aged 60)
lawyer
politician
Lloyd Lowndes Jr., a member of the United States Republican Party, was an American attorney and politician, the 43rd Governor of Maryland from 1896 to 1900 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1873 to 1875.
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25. Aylett R. Cotton
1826-1912 (aged 86)
lawyer
teacher
judge
politician
Aylett Rains Cotton was an American politician, lawyer, judge, educator and miner active in Iowa and Northern California.
26. James Mills Thoburn
1836-1922 (aged 86)
priest
missionary
biographer
James Mills Thoburn was an American bishop and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church as well as an author. He did missionary work in India and greatly increased the number of Christian practitioners in that country.
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27. Thomas Tipton
1817-1899 (aged 82)
lawyer
politician
Thomas Weston Tipton was a Senator from Nebraska.
28. Jay Luvaas
1927-2009 (aged 82)
military historian
university teacher
Jay Luvaas was an American military historian who was an expert on the American Civil War and the history of military theory. He was the first civilian to hold a visiting professorship of military history at West Point, and was a professor of military history at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was the founder of...
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29. Henry David Cooke
1825-1881 (aged 56)
politician
businessperson
journalist
Henry David Cooke was an American financier, journalist, railroad executive, and politician. He was the younger brother of Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke. A member of the Republican political machine in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., Cooke was appointed first territorial governor of the District of Columbia by Ulysses S. Grant.
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30. Robert J. Corbett
1905-1971 (aged 66)
clerk
teacher
politician
Robert James Corbett was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
31. Afua Osei
businessperson
Afua Osei is an entrepreneur, investor and public speaker who co-founded She Leads Africa, a media company for millennial African women.
32. W. Scott Hardy
1971-. (aged 55)
lawyer
judge
William Scott Hardy is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
33. Alex Steffen
1968-. (aged 58)
writer
environmentalist
Alex Steffen is an American futurist and advocate of 'bright green environmentalism' who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet.
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34. Benjamin F. Martin
1828-1895 (aged 67)
teacher
lawyer
politician
Benjamin Franklin Martin was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and West Virginia.
35. Jon M. Davis
military personnel
Jon M. Davis is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. His last assignment in the Marine Corps was as the Deputy Commandant for Aviation.
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36. Salome Samadashvili
1976-. (aged 50)
lawyer
diplomat
university teacher
politician
Salome Samadashvili is a Georgian politician and former diplomat who has served as a United National Movement (UNM) Member of Parliament (MP) from 2020 to 2025. She previously was an MP from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2016 until 2020.
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37. Brad Will
1970-2006 (aged 36)
environmentalist
journalist
director
photographer
Bradley Roland Will was an American activist, videographer, and journalist. He was affiliated with Indymedia. On October 27, 2006, during a labor dispute in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, Will was shot twice, by government-aligned paramilitaries, resulting in his death.
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38. Brooke McEldowney
1952-. (aged 74)
comics artist
Brooke McEldowney is an American writer and musician who is best known as the creator of the comics 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn.
39. Al Schmidt
1971-. (aged 55)
election official
politician
Albert Schmidt is an American politician who is serving as the secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was a Philadelphia city commissioner from 2012 to 2022.
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40. Paul Siple
1908-1968 (aged 60)
explorer
geographer
polar explorer
Paul Allman Siple was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928–1930 and 1933–1935, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout. Siple was also a Sea Scout. His first and third books covered these adventures. With Charles F. Passel he developed the wind chill factor,...
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41. William B. Allison
1829-1908 (aged 79)
lawyer
politician
William Boyd Allison was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in the United States Senate. By the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut,...
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42. Stan Drayton
1971-. (aged 55)
American football coach
Stanley Drayton is an American football coach who is currently the running backs coach at the University of South Carolina. He previously served as the running backs coach at Penn State. He formerly served as the head football coach at Temple. Associate head coach, running backs coach, and run game coordinator at Texas, coached running backs at Ohio State and...
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43. Glenn Beckert
1940-2020 (aged 80)
baseball player
Glenn Alfred Beckert was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs for nine seasons from 1965 to 1973, before ending his career with the San Diego Padres in 1975. He was a four-time All-Star and a Gold Glove Award winner.
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44. Raymond P. Shafer
1917-2006 (aged 89)
military officer
lawyer
politician
Raymond Philip Shafer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 39th governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. Prior to that, he served as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967 and as a Pennsylvania state senator from 1959 to 1962. He was a national leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party...
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45. Ida Tarbell
1857-1944 (aged 87)
biographer
investigative journalist
writer
historian
journalist
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.
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46. Ben Burtt
1948-. (aged 78)
film director
actor
sound designer
voice actor
film producer
Benjamin Burtt Jr. is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor. As a sound designer, his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), WALL-E (2008), and Star Trek (2009).
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47. Marco Arment
1982-. (aged 44)
blogger
podcaster
software developer
writer
Marco Arment is an American iOS developer, web developer, podcaster, restaurateur, technology writer and former magazine editor. As a developer, he is best known for being chief technology officer for Tumblr and creating Instapaper and Overcast.
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48. William McKinley
1843-1901 (aged 58)
statesperson
lawyer
politician
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations...
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49. Trent Reznor
1965-. (aged 61)
composer
singer-songwriter
vocalist
pianist
guitarist
Michael Trent Reznor is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He came to prominence as the founder, lead singer, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The band's line-up has constantly changed, with Reznor being its only official member from its creation in 1988 until 2016, when he added English musician and frequent collaborator...
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50. R. Budd Dwyer
1939-1987 (aged 48)
teacher
politician
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 until his suicide in 1987. He had previously served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. Dwyer committed...
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51. Clarence Darrow
1857-1938 (aged 81)
writer
jurist
lawyer
politician
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and politician who became famous in the 19th century for high-profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense. He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union and...
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52. Matt Berkey
1982-. (aged 44)
poker player
Matthew Berkey is an American professional poker player from Leechburg, Pennsylvania who focuses on live no limit hold 'em cash games.
53. Janette Hill Knox
1845-1920 (aged 75)
temperance worker
educator
suffragist
lecturer
newspaper editor
Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor. She served as President of the New Hampshire State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
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54. Victoria Lipnic
1960-. (aged 66)
Victoria Ann Lipnic is an American lawyer and public figure. She served in multiple senior United States government positions. She was Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), nominated to two terms by President Barack Obama, 2010 – 2020.) She served as Chair (Acting) of the EEOC under President Donald J. Trump from 2017 – 2019. Prior to...
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55. Edward Gay Rohrbough
1874-1956 (aged 82)
banker
teacher
politician
Edward Gay Rohrbough was a Republican United States representative from West Virginia. He was born in 1874, near Buckhannon, West Virginia, in Upshur County, West Virginia. He served in the Seventy-eighth and Eightieth Congress. He died December 12, 1956.
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56. Paul Ssemogerere
1932-2022 (aged 90)
politician
Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a Ugandan politician who was the Leader of the Opposition of Uganda from 1980 to 1985 and the Leader of the Democratic Party for 25 years. He was a key figure in Ugandan politics until his retirement in 2005.
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