51 Notable alumni of Claremont Graduate University
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Claremont Graduate University is ranked #1,275 in the world and #316 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Claremont Graduate University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Claremont Graduate University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Laura Myntti
1962-. (aged 64)
painter
Laura Myntti is an American artist known for her paintings, etchings, and in situ drawings; she also works with found objects, mosaics, and photo collage.
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2. Benjamin Saltman
1927-1999 (aged 72)
poet
Benjamin Saltman was an American poet and Professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge. The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is given annually by Red Hen Press in his honor.
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3. Luis Aguilar-Monsalve
1942-. (aged 84)
novelist
Luis Aguilar Monsalve is a distinguished Ecuadorian writer, critic, and professor emeritus at Hanover College in the United States. He is a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Language (Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua).
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4. Kate Gale
1965-. (aged 61)
librettist
poet
writer
Kate Gale is an American author, poet, librettist, and independent publisher. She is the publisher of Red Hen Press.
5. Jean Maria Arrigo
1944-2024 (aged 80)
psychologist
Jean Maria Arrigo was an American social psychologist and oral historian.
6. Armen Orujyan
1974-. (aged 52)
politician
scientist
Armen Orujyan is an Armenian-American entrepreneur, an architect of innovation ecosystems and the Founder and CEO of Curio Ventures. He founded the youth entrepreneurship platform Athgo and served as its chairman for almost two decades. In 2012 he was appointed co‑chair of the United Nations’ Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) and joined the UN Broadband...
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7. John G. West
1964-. (aged 62)
political scientist
John Gilbert West is a senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, and associate director and vice president for public policy and legal affairs of its Center for Science and Culture (CSC), which serves as the main hub of the intelligent design movement.
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8. Tasha Boerner Horvath
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Tasha Nicolle Boerner is an American politician serving since 2018 as a member of the California State Assembly. A Democrat, she represents the 77th Assembly district, which encompasses coastal parts of northern San Diego County and the city of San Diego, including Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar, and the coastal communities of La Jolla south to Downtown and Coronado....
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9. Harrison McIntosh
1914-2016 (aged 102)
ceramicist
artist
Harrison Edward McIntosh was an American ceramic artist. He was an exponent of the Mid-century Modern style of ceramics, featuring simple symmetrical forms. His work has been exhibited in venues in the United States including the Smithsonian and internationally including at the Louvre in France.
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10. Monica A. Coleman
1974-. (aged 52)
author
theologian
Monica A. Coleman is a contemporary theologian associated with process theology and womanist theology. She is currently Professor of Africana Studies and the John and Patricia Cochran Scholar for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Delaware, as well as the Faculty Co-Director Emerita for the Center for Process Studies. Her research interests include Whiteheadian metaphysics, constructive theology, philosophical theology, metaphorical...
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11. Damian Vaughn
1975-. (aged 51)
American football player
Damian Medeiros da Silva Vaughn is an American former professional football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals (1998–2000) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2001–2002). As the first Brazilian NFL player, Vaughn has made efforts to promote awareness and interest in American football among Brazilians, including a trip to Brazil with Tony Gonzalez in 2003. Following his career in football, Vaughn has...
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12. Ayanna Howard
1972-. (aged 54)
computer scientist
engineer
roboticist
artificial intelligence researcher
Ayanna MacCalla Howard is an American roboticist, entrepreneur, and educator currently serving as the dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. Assuming this role in March 2021, Howard became the first woman to lead the Ohio State College of Engineering.
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13. Stephen Cambone
1952-. (aged 74)
Stephen Anthony Cambone was the first United States Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003. Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control...
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14. Lewis Baltz
1945-2014 (aged 69)
photographer
Lewis "Duke" Baltz was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New topographics movement of the late 1970s and was one of the photographers featured in the seminal New Topographics exhibition at the Eastman House. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of...
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15. Angelo Codevilla
1943-2021 (aged 78)
diplomat
political scientist
politician
Angelo Maria Codevilla was an Italian American professor of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He served as a United States Navy officer, a foreign service officer, and professional staff member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate. Codevilla's books and articles range from French and Italian...
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16. David Keirsey
1921-2013 (aged 92)
university teacher
psychologist
non-fiction writer
David West Keirsey was an American psychologist, a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications, Please Understand Me (1978, co-authored by Marilyn Bates) and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand Me II (1998), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which...
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17. Diane Watson
1933-. (aged 93)
university teacher
politician
diplomat
health administrator
psychologist
Diane Edith Watson is a former American politician who served as US Representative for California's 33rd congressional district, serving from 2003 until 2011, after first being elected in the 32nd District in a 2001 special election. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located entirely in Los Angeles County and includes much of Central Los Angeles,...
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18. William B. Allen
1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher
philosopher
politician
William Barclay Allen is an American author, professor, and political scientist from Fernandina Beach, Florida. He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1984 to 1987 and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1988 to 1989. Allen ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in California in 1986 and 1992,...
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19. Jerry Voorhis
1901-1984 (aged 83)
politician
Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an American politician and educator who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing California from 1937 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon, who defeated Voorhis for re-election in 1946...
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20. Ian Fowles
1979-. (aged 47)
television actor
guitarist
musician
Ian Fowles is an American musician, author, and actor, best known as the current guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats, in which he performs under the stage name and persona of EagleBones Falconhawk. Prior to joining The Aquabats, Fowles was also one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Death by Stereo.
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21. Paul H. O'Neill
1935-2020 (aged 85)
businessperson
politician
Paul Henry O'Neill was an American businessman and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term, from January 2001 until his resignation in December 2002. Prior to his term as Secretary, O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
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22. Srettha Thavisin
1962-. (aged 64)
businessperson
politician
Srettha Thavisin is a Thai businessman and former politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Thailand from 2023 until his removal from office in 2024. In 1988, he co-founded Sansiri, a venture that propelled him to become a billionaire and a leading real estate tycoon within his country.
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23. James Turrell
1943-. (aged 83)
architectural draftsperson
environmental artist
installation artist
mathematician
psychologist
James Turrell is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.
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24. Hashim Djojohadikusumo
1953-. (aged 73)
entrepreneur
Hashim Sujono Djojohadikusumo is an Indonesian entrepreneur and politician who is the younger brother of Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. In 2014, he was considered a billionaire. As of December 2020, Forbes estimates his net worth at $800 million.
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25. Tom Cotton
1977-. (aged 49)
business consultant
lawyer
farmer
politician
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Arkansas. From 2013 to 2015 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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26. Jonathan D. Farrar
1956-. (aged 70)
diplomat
Jonathan Don Farrar was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama from 2012 to 2015. He was previously the Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, from July 2008 to September 2011.
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27. Jack Cuzick
1948-. (aged 78)
mathematician
epidemiologist
Sir Jack Martin Cuzick is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.
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28. Ronald F. Lehman
1946-. (aged 80)
scholar
Ronald Frank Lehman II is currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
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29. David Dreier
1952-. (aged 74)
businessperson
politician
David Timothy Dreier OAE is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1981 to 2013. He was one of the youngest members ever elected to the United States Congress. Dreier was the youngest chairman of the House Rules Committee. He was closely involved in passing...
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30. Greg Colson
1956-. (aged 70)
printmaker
painter
Greg Colson is an American artist known for his works and sculptures using scavenged materials.
31. Seth Leibsohn
1967-. (aged 59)
radio personality
Seth Leibsohn is a conservative talk show host and author. He is also a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and was the producer for Bill Bennett's Morning in America, a syndicated talk show in the 2000s. Most recently he was the co-host, along with Chris Buskirk, of the Phoenix-based talk show, The Seth and Chris Show. He resigned from...
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32. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
1971-. (aged 55)
academic administrator
politician
Deborah Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and academic administrator who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented a district in the southern Miami-Dade County, including Homestead and the Florida Keys.
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33. Suzanne Muchnic
1940-. (aged 86)
opinion journalist
art critic
writer
journalist
art historian
Suzanne Muchnic is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums.
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34. Lisa Adams
1955-. (aged 71)
painter
Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad (corporate collection), the Denver Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the...
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35. Ferne Jacobs
1942-. (aged 84)
artist
textile artist
Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is an American fiber artist and basket maker.
36. Gary Chartier
1966-. (aged 60)
blogger
philosopher
Gary William Chartier is an American legal scholar, philosopher, political theorist, and theologian. His work addresses anarchism and ethics. Chartier is a professor and serves as associate dean of La Sierra University's business school.
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37. Eugene S. Mills
1924-2020 (aged 96)
writer
Eugene Sumner Mills was an American academic. He was the thirteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1974 to 1979. Mills attended Earlham College and Claremont Graduate University, earning a Ph.D. in psychology at the latter. He taught at Whittier College before coming to the University of New Hampshire. Mills was a member of the UNH faculty for...
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38. James Brenneman
James E. Brenneman is the president of Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, one of the founding seminaries of the Graduate Theological Union. Prior to coming to Berkeley School of Theology in 2017, Jim was the twelfth president of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana from 2006 to 2017.
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39. Michael Anton
1969-. (aged 57)
speechwriter
political scientist
Michael Anton is a conservative writer and bureaucrat.
40. John Long
1953-. (aged 73)
mountaineer
John Eddie Long is an American former professional basketball player.
41. Thomas Jay Oord
1965-. (aged 61)
philosopher
theologian
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and multidisciplinary scholar who directs doctoral programs in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and as a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College Quincy, Mass....
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42. Bhikkhu Bodhi
1944-. (aged 82)
Buddhist monk
Jeffrey Block, better known as Bhikkhu Bodhi, is an American Theravada monk ordained in Sri Lanka who teaches in the area of New York and New Jersey. He is an author and Buddhist commentator and was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society. He is also the president of the Buddhist Association of America and the founder of...
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43. Sacvan Bercovitch
1933-2014 (aged 81)
literary historian
literary critic
Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. During an academic career spanning five decades, he was considered to be one of the most influential and controversial figures of his generation in the emerging field of American studies.
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44. David Ray Griffin
1939-2022 (aged 83)
theologian
philosopher
writer
David Ray Griffin was an American professor of philosophy of religion and theology and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology that promotes process thought. Griffin published numerous books about the September 11 attacks, claiming that elements of the Bush...
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45. Jack Scott
1933-. (aged 93)
teacher
politician
Jack Alan Scott is an American educator and former Democratic politician. Currently, a scholar in residence at Claremont Graduate University, Scott earlier served as president at two California community colleges, member of the California State Assembly and California State Senate and Chancellor of the California Community Colleges System.
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46. Susan Orr
1960-. (aged 66)
Susan Orr headed the United States Children's Bureau, a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Children and Families, as Associate Commissioner.
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47. John C. Eastman
1960-. (aged 66)
jurist
academic administrator
university teacher
politician
John Charles Eastman is an American lawyer and academic. He is known for his efforts to block certification and overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election.
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48. Mark Li
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
Mark Li is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2012.
49. Abdulla Yameen
1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is a Maldivian politician who served as president of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018.
50. Yaou Aïssatou
1951-. (aged 75)
minister
politician
human rights defender
businessperson
economist
Yaou Aïssatou is the Director General of Cameroon's National Investment Corporation (NIS). She was also Cameroon's first Minister of Women's Affairs.
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51. Philippe Maystadt
1948-2017 (aged 69)
jurist
lawyer
university teacher
financier
politician
Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to 2011.
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