25 Notable alumni of Hiram College
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Hiram College is ranked #3,239 in the world and #841 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Hiram 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 Hiram College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Clara Worst Miller
1876-1970 (aged 94)
writer
Clara Worst Miller was an American college professor and writer.
2. Clayton E. Crafts
1848-1920 (aged 72)
politician
Clayton Edward Crafts was an American lawyer and politician.
3. Georgia T. Robertson
1852-1916 (aged 64)
writer
Georgianna "Georgia" Marcia Trowbridge Robertson was an educator and author.
4. Franklin L. Gilson
1846-1892 (aged 46)
judge
politician
Franklin Leander Gilson was an American politician and jurist. He was the 32nd Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and for the last two years of his life, he was judge of the Milwaukee Superior Court. Earlier in his career, he served as district attorney for Pierce County for six years. he died of a heart attack on June 7,...
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5. Ottley Russell Coulter
1890-1976 (aged 86)
circus performer
police officer
Ottley Russell Coulter was an American strongman, circus performer, weightlifter and police officer. He was a co-founder of the American Continental Weightlifting Association, and the author of a book about strength athletics.
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6. Allen R. Bushnell
1833-1909 (aged 76)
lawyer
politician
Allen Ralph Bushnell was an American attorney, politician, and Democratic member of Congress from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He was the first mayor of Lancaster, Wisconsin, and represented that area in the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1872 session. He also served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War with the famous Iron Brigade of the...
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7. Horace Ladd Moore
1837-1914 (aged 77)
lawyer
politician
Horace Ladd Moore was a U.S. representative from Kansas.
8. Osee M. Hall
1847-1914 (aged 67)
lawyer
politician
Osee Matson Hall was a U.S. representative from Minnesota.
9. Laurin D. Woodworth
1837-1897 (aged 60)
lawyer
politician
Laurin Dewey Woodworth was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1873 to 1877. He was member of the Woodworth political family.
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10. John J. Whitacre
1860-1938 (aged 78)
lawyer
politician
John Jefferson Whitacre was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1911 to 1915.
11. Pam Helming
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Pamela A. Helming is an American politician from the state of New York. A Republican, Helming has represented Senate District 54 in the New York State Senate since 2017. Prior to her election to the State Senate, Helming served as the town supervisor for Canandaigua, New York. She was elected to that post in 2014.
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12. Mark W. Spong
1952-. (aged 74)
roboticist
Mark W. Spong is an American roboticist. He is a professor of systems engineering and electrical and computer engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He served as dean of the Jonsson School and the Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair in Electrical Engineering from 2008 to 2017. Before he...
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13. Miner Searle Bates
1897-1978 (aged 81)
historian
missionary
Miner Searle Bates was an American scholar. He was an advisor to the ROC government.
14. Benjamin D. Pritchard
1835-1907 (aged 72)
Benjamin Dudley Pritchard was a United States Army officer, most known for leading the Union cavalry regiment which captured the fugitive Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, in the weeks surrounding the close of the American Civil War.
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15. Andrew J. Stofan
1935-2025 (aged 90)
engineer
Andrew John Stofan was an American engineer. He worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center). In the 1960s he played an important role in the development of the Centaur upper stage rocket, which pioneered the use of liquid hydrogen as a propellant. In the 1970s he managed the Atlas-Centaur...
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16. Ammon Hennacy
1893-1970 (aged 77)
autobiographer
peace activist
trade unionist
farmer
anarchist
Ammon Ashford Hennacy was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, Wobbly, social activist, and member of the Catholic Worker Movement. He established the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah, and practiced tax resistance.
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17. Harold Bell Wright
1872-1944 (aged 72)
writer
novelist
Harold Bell Wright was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between...
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18. Carol Z. Perez
diplomat
Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer, who previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.
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19. Allyn Abbott Young
1876-1929 (aged 53)
university teacher
economist
statistician
Allyn Abbott Young was an American economist. Over his career, he served as president of the American Statistical Association in 1917 and the American Economic Association in 1925, making him one of the few individuals to lead both organizations. In 1929, Young was president of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He died in...
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20. Michael Stanley
1948-2021 (aged 73)
singer-songwriter
Michael Stanley was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and radio and television personality. As a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band (MSB), and Michael Stanley and the Resonators (MS&R), his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland, Ohio, and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.
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21. Vachel Lindsay
1879-1931 (aged 52)
painter
poet
writer
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
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22. Claude Steele
1946-. (aged 80)
psychologist
Claude Mason Steele is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus.
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23. Lucretia Garfield
1832-1918 (aged 86)
teacher
Lucretia Garfield was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
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24. James A. Garfield
1831-1881 (aged 50)
military personnel
politician
lawyer
writer
statesperson
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he...
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25. Sharon Creech
1945-. (aged 81)
children's writer
novelist
writer
Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.
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