15 Notable alumni of Franklin College
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Franklin College is ranked #4,821 in the world and #1,268 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Franklin 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 Franklin College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Hugh Lowery
1892-1972 (aged 80)
athletics competitor
basketball player
American football player
Hugh Lowery was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the 1920 Detroit Heralds during the first regular season of the National Football League (NFL), then known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). He was also a member of the football, basketball, baseball and track and field teams at Franklin College.
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2. Jesse Overstreet
1859-1910 (aged 51)
lawyer
politician
Jesse E. Overstreet was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1895 to 1909. In 1900, Overstreet introduced the legislation that was ultimately passed as the Gold Standard Act.
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3. Francis M. Griffith
1849-1927 (aged 78)
lawyer
judge
politician
Francis Marion Griffith was an American educator and politician who served four terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.
4. Otis William Caldwell
1869-1947 (aged 78)
coach
university teacher
writer
botanical collector
botanist
Otis William Caldwell was an American botanist, college football coach and science writer.
5. William Steele Holman
1822-1897 (aged 75)
lawyer
judge
politician
William Steele Holman was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served four different stints as a U.S. representative from 1859 to 1865, 1867 to 1877, 1881 to 1895, and 1897, spanning sixteen Congresses. He is known for originating the Holman Rule, allowing amendments to appropriations bills to cut...
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6. William G. Everson
1879-1954 (aged 75)
William Graham Everson was a major general in the United States Army who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
7. Christopher T. Gonzalez
1963-1994 (aged 31)
Christopher T. Gonzalez,, was an LGBTQ+ rights activist from Indianapolis, Indiana. He founded the non-profit organization Indiana Youth Group (IYG), one of the first organizations in the country to support gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth.
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8. Fuzzy Vandivier
1903-1983 (aged 80)
basketball player
basketball coach
Robert P. "Fuzzy" Vandivier was an American high school and collegiate basketball player during the 1920s.
9. Roger D. Branigin
1902-1975 (aged 73)
lawyer
politician
Roger Douglas Branigin was an American politician who was the 42nd governor of Indiana, serving from January 11, 1965, to January 13, 1969. A World War II veteran and well-known public speaker, Branigin took office with a Democratic general assembly, the first time since the Great Depression that Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches of the Indiana state...
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10. Paul Monroe
1869-1947 (aged 78)
linguist
writer
lexicographer
Paul Monroe, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American educator. He specialized in the history of education, and in comparative studies.
11. Edna Parker
1893-2008 (aged 115)
teacher
Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian who, for 15 months, was recognized as the oldest person in the world. She was featured in two documentaries and included in a Boston University DNA database of supercentenarians.
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12. Elmer Davis
1890-1958 (aged 68)
writer
Elmer Holmes Davis was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.
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13. Marjorie Main
1890-1975 (aged 85)
stage actor
television actor
character actor
actor
film actor
Mary Tomlinson, professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such as...
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14. Robert Wise
1914-2005 (aged 91)
director
film director
trade unionist
film editor
film producer
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
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15. Steven A. Cohen
1953-. (aged 73)
environmentalist
Steven A. Cohen is an American hedge fund manager and owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the founder of Point72 Asset Management and S.A.C. Capital Advisors. In 2013, S.A.C. Capital Advisors plead guilty to wire and securities fraud to insider trading and paid $1.8 billion in fines. In 2020, Cohen acquired the Mets...
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