13 Notable alumni of Elmira College
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Elmira College is ranked #4,553 in the world and #1,185 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Elmira 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 Elmira College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Frances Linfield
1852-1940 (aged 88)
Frances Ross Linfield was an American educator, social activist and philanthropist. In 1922, she made a gift to McMinnville College worth $250,000, prompting the school to change its name to Linfield College, in honor of her late husband, the Rev. George Fisher Linfield. In 2020, the school became Linfield University.
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2. Frances Boardman Squire Potter
1867-1914 (aged 47)
lecturer
suffragist
writer
Frances Boardman Squire Potter was an American academic and activist.
3. Mary West Niles
1854-1933 (aged 79)
missionary
Mary West Niles was an American physician and missionary. Niles was the first woman missionary physician at the Canton Hospital and opened a school for the blind in China. Niles learned the Cantonese language so she could translate the English Braille system into Cantonese.
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4. Anne Kendrick Benedict
1851-. (aged 175)
writer
Anne Elizabeth Kendrick Benedict was an American author of children's literature focusing on scientific topics, such as physiology, and an author of religious periodicals.
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5. Alice Mary Robertson
1854-1931 (aged 77)
social worker
politician
Alice Mary Robertson was an American educator, social worker, Native Americans' rights activist, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. Robertson was the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman. She was known for her strong personality, commitment to Native American issues, and...
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6. Mary Gray Peck
1867-1957 (aged 90)
suffragist
writer
journalist
Mary Gray Peck was an American journalist, educator, suffragist, and clubwoman. She was interested in economic and industrial problems of women, and investigated labor conditions in Europe and the United States. Born in New York, she studied at Elmira College, University of Minnesota, and University of Cambridge before becoming an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Later,...
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7. Kevin B. Winebold
1979-. (aged 47)
actor
music director
Kevin B. Winebold is a New York music director and actor.
8. Fay Kanin
1917-2013 (aged 96)
film producer
television writer
screenwriter
writer
film screenwriter
Fay Kanin was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.
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9. Sheila Williams
1956-. (aged 70)
editor
Sheila Williams is an American science fiction editor who is the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
10. Olivia Langdon Clemens
1845-1904 (aged 59)
Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
11. John M. Carmody
1881-1963 (aged 82)
businessperson
John Michael Carmody was an American administrator, noted as editor of Factory and Industrial Management, and as administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal Works Agency in the 1930s.
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12. Diane Lockward
poet
writer
Diane Lockward is an American poet. The author of four full-length books of poetry, Lockward serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey.
13. Charlotte Blake Brown
1846-1904 (aged 58)
physician
Charlotte Blake Brown was an American physician. She was one of the first female doctors to practice on the West Coast of the United States and was a co-founder of the Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, and San Francisco Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses.
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