39 Notable alumni of Claremont McKenna College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Claremont McKenna College is ranked #1,822 in the world and #452 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from Claremont McKenna 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 Claremont McKenna College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Francisco Vázquez
1949-. (aged 77)
academic
Francisco H. Vázquez is a Mexican-American scholar and public intellectual. Before retirement, Vázquez was a tenured professor of the history of ideas and director of the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action at the nationally known Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University. He co-authored the prominent book Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society, (Rowman...
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2. Rob Hurtt
1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Robert S. Hurtt Jr. is an American Republican politician who was the California State Senate Republican Leader from August 1995 to March 1998.
3. C. Steven McGann
1951-2023 (aged 72)
diplomat
Clarence Steven McGann was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu from 2008 to 2011. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, and assumed his duties at post in October 2008.
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4. Simon Salinas
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Simon Salinas is a California politician. He was a member of the California State Assembly district 28 from 2000 to 2006. His district included all of Salinas and Watsonville. Before going to the Assembly, Salinas was a County Supervisor, a City Council Member, a community college instructor, and an elementary school teacher. Salinas is a Democrat. He left the assembly...
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5. Sloane Citron
1956-. (aged 70)
publisher
Sloane Citron is an American publisher based in Menlo Park, California. He is known for founding and managing magazines that focus on lifestyle, culture, and the affluent communities of Silicon Valley.
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6. Tyler Olson
1976-. (aged 50)
lawyer
politician
Tyler Olson, is a former Iowa State Representative from the 38th District. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. He also was chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party from January to June 2013. He received his BA from Claremont McKenna College and his JD from the University of Iowa...
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7. 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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8. Mark Frazier
1956-. (aged 70)
artist
Mark Frazier is an American born artist, painter, body painter and photographer. His work has been seen in film, television, private collections and print.
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9. Patrick T. Riley
1941-2015 (aged 74)
political scientist
Patrick Thomas Riley was Michael Oakeshott Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is notable for his translations of the political writings of Gottfried Leibniz and his research on social contract theory, the general will, and the history of universal jurisprudence.
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10. Jake Zimmerman
1974-. (aged 52)
politician
Jake Zimmerman is the Democratic St. Louis County Assessor. He was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary for St. Louis County Executive. He was a candidate for Missouri Attorney General in the 2016 election. He is also a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 83rd district.
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11. Andrew Patrick Gordon
1962-. (aged 64)
lawyer
judge
Andrew Patrick Gordon is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
12. Daniel Yohannes
1952-. (aged 74)
manager
Daniel W. Yohannes is an Ethiopian-American businessman and philanthropist who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the OECD from 2014 to 2017.
13. Larry André Jr
1961-. (aged 65)
diplomat
Larry Edward André Jr. is a retired American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who had served as the United States ambassador to Somalia from February 2022 to May 2023. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Djibouti from 2018 to 2021, and as the United States ambassador to Mauritania from 2014 to 2017.
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14. Tibor R. Machan
1939-2016 (aged 77)
university teacher
philosopher
Tibor Richard Machan was a Hungarian-American philosopher. A professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Machan held the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California until 31 December 2014.
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15. Michael D. Shear
journalist
Michael D. Shear is an American journalist who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007. He regularly appears on CNN and MSNBC.
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16. Orley Ashenfelter
1942-. (aged 84)
economist
Orley Clark Ashenfelter is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics emeritus at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He was influential in contributing to the applied turn in economics.
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17. Jonathan Rosenberg
1961-. (aged 65)
economist
Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. management team and board.
18. Ray Drummond
1946-2025 (aged 79)
composer
jazz musician
double-bassist
musician
Ray Drummond was an American jazz bassist and teacher. He also had an MBA from Stanford University, hence his linkage to the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He can be heard on hundreds of albums and co-leads The Drummonds with Renee Rosnes and (not related) Billy Drummond.
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19. Ashwin Navin
1977-. (aged 49)
business executive
Ashwin Navin is an American entrepreneur who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. The company has been compared to more traditional TV measurement firms like Nielsen which rely on the people meter to gather viewership data.
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20. Douglas Day Stewart
1940-. (aged 86)
screenwriter
film director
director
film producer
Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
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21. Tom Leppert
1954-. (aged 72)
businessperson
politician
Thomas Chris Leppert is an American businessman and former politician who is the former CEO of Kaplan, Inc., one of the world's largest education providers. He had oversight of the company's operating divisions (Kaplan Test Prep and Kaplan Higher Education in the United States, and Kaplan International) until his resignation was announced in July 2015. Leppert, a member of the...
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22. Robert Addison Day
1943-2023 (aged 80)
chief executive officer
Robert Addison Day was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Trust Company of the West until 2009. He was the chairman and president of the W. M. Keck Foundation.
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23. Douglas L. Peterson
1959-. (aged 67)
entrepreneur
businessperson
Douglas L. Peterson is the former president and chief executive officer of S&P Global, formerly McGraw Hill Financial. He became president and chief executive officer in November 2013. Peterson has served on S&P Global's Board of Directors since July 2013. In November 2024 Peterson retired from the position of CEO, with S&P Global Ratings President Martina Cheung replacing him. Doug...
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24. Peter Weinberg
1957-. (aged 69)
businessperson
Peter Amory Weinberg is an American businessman. He spent almost twenty years of his career at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Perella Weinberg Partners with merger specialist, Joseph Perella in 2006. The firm provides M&A advisory and alternative asset management services. Weinberg is its founding partner and chairman. He previously was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the company, from February...
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25. 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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26. Wes Parker
1939-. (aged 87)
baseball player
Maurice Wesley Parker III is an American former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1964 to 1972. He also played one season in Japan for the Nankai Hawks in 1974.
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27. Michael Arrington
1970-. (aged 56)
blogger
J. Michael Arrington is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the...
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28. Adam Kokesh
1982-. (aged 44)
radio personality
YouTuber
peace activist
television producer
activist
Adam Charles Kokesh is an American libertarian political activist, radio host, and author. He was a candidate in the U.S. 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries, running on the single-issue platform of an "orderly dissolution of the federal government."
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29. Gregg Jarrett
1955-. (aged 71)
pundit
lawyer
journalist
Gregory Walter Jarrett is an American conservative news commentator, author and attorney. He joined Fox News in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks Court TV and MSNBC.
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30. Caroline Sunshine
1995-. (aged 31)
film actor
singer
television actor
Caroline Mohr Sunshine is an American political aide and former actress, who previously worked as a White House staffer during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2018. As an actress, she is best known for her co-starring role as flashy, rude European exchange student Tinka Hessenheffer on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up. Sunshine has also appeared in the...
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31. Henry Kravis
1944-. (aged 82)
entrepreneur
Henry Roberts Kravis is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the private equity and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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32. Julie Sweet
1967-. (aged 59)
business executive
Julie Terese Sweet is an American business executive and attorney. She is chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of Accenture, a multinational professional services company.
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33. Heidi Cruz
1972-. (aged 54)
investment banker
Heidi Suzanne Cruz is an American businesswoman. She has been a managing director at Goldman Sachs since 2012.
34. Steve Bullock
1966-. (aged 60)
actor
lawyer
politician
Stephen Clark Bullock is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 24th governor of Montana from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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35. Akshata Murty
1980-. (aged 46)
manager
fashion designer
Akshata Narayana Murty is an Indian heiress, businesswoman, fashion designer, and venture capitalist. She is married to former prime minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak and is the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, a founder of the Indian multinational IT company Infosys, and Sudha Murty. She holds a 0.93 percent stake in Infosys, along with shares in several...
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36. Robert P. White
1963-. (aged 63)
military officer
Robert P. White is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who last served as commander of Fort Hood, Texas, and as the 61st Commanding General of III Armored Corps. Over 90,000 soldiers were under his command. From September 2019 to September 2020, he also served as commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR).
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37. Robin Williams
1951-2014 (aged 63)
television actor
mime artist
voice actor
stand-up comedian
audiobook narrator
Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. Williams received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards, as...
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38. William W. Crouch
1941-2024 (aged 83)
manager
General William Wright Crouch was a United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1997 to 1998.
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39. David M. Mason
1957-. (aged 69)
politician
David M. Mason was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President Bill Clinton on March 4, 1998 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, 1998. He was nominated for a second term by President George W. Bush on December 19, 2005. Mason served as a member of the Commission’s Finance Committee. In 2008, President Bush removed Mason...
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