36 Notable alumni of Kalamazoo College
Updated: June 15, 2026 EliteDegrees
Kalamazoo College is 2624st in the world, 1st in North America, and 680st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. LeRoy Hornbeck
1875-1964 (aged 89)
real estate developer
lawyer
American football coach
LeRoy Hornbeck was an American college football coach, lawyer, and real estate developer. Hornbeck was the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan for one season, in 1902, compiling a record of 3–5–1.
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2. Edward Cahill
1843-1922 (aged 79)
lawyer
judge
Edward Cahill was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1890.
3. Gerald Ellis Rosen
1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer
judge
Gerald Ellis Rosen is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
4. Sarah Elizabeth Bierce
1838-1898 (aged 60)
journalist
writer
Sarah Elizabeth Bierce was an American journalist and educator who was a charter member of the Woman's Press Club of Cleveland.
5. David France
1959-. (aged 67)
film director
documentary filmmaker
documentarian
writer
journalist
David France is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author, and filmmaker. He is a former Newsweek senior editor, and has published in New York magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and others. France, who is gay, is best known for his investigative journalism on LGBTQ topics.
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6. Sean O. Cota
1963-. (aged 63)
Sean O'Brien Cota is an American businessman, energy market expert, financial commentator, and policy advisor on American energy and financial market transparency and reform measures. As the President of a third generation family-owned oil company, Cota & Cota Oil, Inc. in Bellows Falls, VT, whom he has worked for since 1977, he became extremely involved in energy commodity trading in...
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7. Paul Staake
1898-1971 (aged 73)
head coach
American football player
Paul Cory Staake was an American football coach and college administrator. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan for one season, in 1918, compiling a record of 1–2.
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8. Charles Hall
1875-1945 (aged 70)
reporter
manufacturer
American football coach
Charles Cloud Hall was an American college football player and coach, journalist, and manufacturer. He served the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan four seasons, from 1897 to 1900, and compiling a record of 21–4–3. Hall was also captain of the 1896 Kalamazoo football team on which he played as a fullback.
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9. Amy Courter
1961-. (aged 65)
official
Major General Amy S. Courter is the former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. She was elected by a unanimous decision of CAP's National Board on August 7, 2008.
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10. Grant M. Hudson
1868-1955 (aged 87)
politician
Grant Martin Hudson was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
11. Cliff Lampe
academic
Clifford Lampe is an American professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is best known for his research in the fields of human–computer interaction, social computing, and computer-supported cooperative work. Since 2018 he has been executive vice president for ACM SIGCHI. Lampe made foundational contributions in the areas of social networking sites, social capital, and online communities,...
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12. Margaret A. Uyehara
1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat
Margaret Ann Uyehara was an American diplomat whose last posting, prior to retirement, was as the United States Ambassador to Montenegro. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 9, 2014, and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.
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13. Rufus L. Perry
1834-1895 (aged 61)
journalist
Rufus L. Perry was an American educator, journalist, and Baptist minister from Brooklyn, New York. He was a prominent member of the African Civilization Society and was a co-founder of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, which developed from it. He was the editor of numerous newspapers and journals, most notably the National Monitor. He was a prominent Baptist, and in...
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14. Danica Purg
1946-. (aged 80)
adviser
political scientist
Danica Purg is the founding and current President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia, and the founding President of the Central and East European Management Development Association, which has 211 members from 53 countries and whose aim is to enhance management development in Central and Eastern Europe. She is also chairperson and director of the European Leadership Centre (ELC),...
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15. Tracy Camp
1964-. (aged 62)
computer scientist
university teacher
Tracy Kay Camp is an American computer scientist noted for her research on wireless networking. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She was the co-chair of CRA-W from 2011 to 2014 and she was the co-chair of ACM-W from 1998 to 2002. On July 1, 2022, she became the Executive Director of the Computing...
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16. Jeffrey Crowley
1965-. (aged 61)
Jeffrey S. Crowley is best known as a member of the Domestic Policy Council in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama as the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) from 2009 to 2011, tasked with coordinating the U.S. government's efforts regarding HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care and developing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
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17. Garry E. Brown
1923-1998 (aged 75)
lawyer
politician
Garry Eldridge Brown was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served six terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1979.
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18. Peter Tippett
1953-. (aged 73)
Peter S. Tippett is an American physician, researcher, and inventor known for contributions to information security, clinical medicine, and technology. These contributions include the development of the anti-virus program "Corporate Vaccine." Tippett was Vice President of Verizon's Innovations Incubator and Chief Medical Officer for Verizon Enterprise Services from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the Founder and CEO of careMESH...
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19. Corinne A. Beckwith
1963-. (aged 63)
judge
Corinne Ann Beckwith is an associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. She spent her legal career as a public defender before being nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2011.
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20. Harry Garland
1947-. (aged 79)
computer scientist
businessperson
inventor
Harry T. Garland is a scientist, engineer, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded Cromemco Inc., one of the earliest and most successful microcomputer companies. He received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Kalamazoo College, and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Stanford University. Dr. Garland has been recognized as one of the most important innovators in the development of personal computers...
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21. Eli Savit
prosecutor
Eli Savit is an American lawyer, law professor, and politician. He currently serves as the Prosecuting Attorney in Washtenaw County, Michigan. His areas of experience include civil rights, education law, environmental protection, state and local government, and criminal-justice reform.
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22. Fern Persons
1910-2012 (aged 102)
film actor
actor
television actor
Fern Gwendolyn Persons was an American film and television actress and a member of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists from 1937 until her death. Her film credits included Field of Dreams and Hoosiers.
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23. Darrin Camilleri
1992-. (aged 34)
politician
Darrin Quiroz Camilleri is an American politician from Michigan who represents the 4th district in the Michigan Senate since 2023. He previously represented the 23rd District in the Michigan House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, his constituency includes several Downriver communities, including Brownstown, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile, Huron, Trenton and Woodhaven.
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24. Bradley A. Smith
1958-. (aged 68)
political scientist
Bradley Alan Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. He served as commissioner, vice chairman, and chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) between 2000 and 2005. He has held prior visiting appointments at Princeton University and West Virginia University. Smith is best known for his writing and activities...
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25. Chokwe Lumumba
1947-2014 (aged 67)
lawyer
politician
Chokwe Lumumba Sr. was an American attorney, activist, and politician, who was affiliated with the Black separatist organization Republic of New Afrika and served as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi. In 2013, after serving on the City Council, he was elected as Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. His son Chokwe Antar...
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26. Mark Spitznagel
1971-. (aged 55)
hedge fund manager
financial analyst
mathematician
manager
economist
Mark Spitznagel is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He is the founder, owner, and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, a hedge fund management firm based in Miami, Florida.
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27. Lisa Kron
1961-. (aged 65)
writer
playwright
stage actor
actor
Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book for the musical Fun Home, for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Fun Home was also awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015...
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28. Jordan Klepper
1979-. (aged 47)
comedian
television actor
screenwriter
television producer
journalist
Jordan Klepper is an American comedian. He began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. From 2014 to 2017, he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. He started his own satirical program, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was canceled in 2018. He then starred in the 2019 docuseries Klepper, before returning to...
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29. Robert J. Shiller
1946-. (aged 80)
writer
economist
pedagogue
university teacher
Robert James Shiller is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American...
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30. Teju Cole
1975-. (aged 51)
writer
novelist
art historian
photographer
Teju Colelisten is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2011); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016); a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016); and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path...
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31. Steven Yeun
1983-. (aged 43)
restaurateur
film actor
stage actor
television actor
singer
Sang-yeop Yeun, known professionally as Steven Yeun, is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). For the latter, he became the first East Asian-American nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Time magazine named him...
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32. Selma Blair
1972-. (aged 54)
voice actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Selma Blair is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, and the Hellboy franchise.
33. Floyd Wilcox
1886-1958 (aged 72)
Floyd Cleveland Wilcox was the third president of Shimer College, serving from 1930 to 1935. His leadership, though marked by controversy, saw the school through the most difficult years of the Great Depression. He oversaw the transition of the school's curriculum from a two-year to a four-year junior college program.
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34. Julie Mehretu
1970-. (aged 56)
architectural draftsperson
painter
artist
printmaker
visual artist
Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
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35. David Easton
1917-2014 (aged 97)
university teacher
political scientist
David Easton FRSC was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
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36. Kafū Nagai
1879-1959 (aged 80)
writer
novelist
university teacher
diarist
Kafū Nagai was a Japanese writer, editor and translator. His novels Geisha in Rivalry and A Strange Tale from East of the River are noted for their depictions of life of the demimonde in early 20th-century Tokyo.
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