12 Notable alumni of Lake Erie College
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Lake Erie College is ranked #5,544 in the world and #1,453 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Lake Erie 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 Lake Erie College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Ellen Spencer Mussey
1850-1936 (aged 86)
educator
lawyer
Ellen Spencer Mussey was a lawyer, educator, and pioneer in the field of women's rights to legal education. Mussey self-tutored in the law, helped establish educational opportunities for women in that field, and campaigned to improve women's legal rights. She was the daughter of Platt Rogers Spencer, a reformer and promoter of the Spencerian Method, the widely used form of...
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2. Frances Jennings Casement
1840-1928 (aged 88)
suffragist
Frances Jennings Casement was an American suffragist and voting advocate from Painesville, Ohio. Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s. Frances married General John S. Casement in 1857. He was elected as representative to congress and lobbied for voting rights for women.
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3. Emma Gillett
1852-1927 (aged 75)
lawyer
teacher
Emma Millinda Gillett was an American lawyer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the advancement of legal studies for women. After local law schools refused to admit her because of her sex, she was admitted by Howard University, a historically black university. Yet the Washington College of Law, which she founded in 1898, did not accept...
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4. Migdalia Cruz
1958-. (aged 68)
writer
playwright
Migdalia Cruz is a writer of plays, musical theatre and opera in the U.S. and has been translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish.
5. Caroline L. Ransom
1872-1952 (aged 80)
university teacher
egyptologist
classical archaeologist
Caroline Ransom Williams was an Egyptologist and classical archaeologist. She was the first American woman to be professionally trained as an Egyptologist. She worked extensively with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York and other major institutions with Egyptian collections, and published Studies in ancient furniture (1905), The Tomb of Perneb (1916), and The Decoration of the Tomb...
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6. Anthony Novak
1994-. (aged 32)
association football player
Anthony Joseph Novak is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a centre-forward.
7. Luke Raley
1994-. (aged 32)
baseball player
Lucas John Raley is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays.
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8. Deborah Goodrich
1958-. (aged 68)
television actor
film actor
Deborah Goodrich Royce is an American former actress, story editor, and author. She is best known for her screen roles in Just One of the Guys (1985) and the horror films April Fool's Day (1986) and Remote Control (1988).
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9. Ryan Rua
1990-. (aged 36)
baseball player
Ryan Anthony Rua is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers.
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10. Louise Tracy
1896-1983 (aged 87)
stage actor
actor
Louise Ten Broeck Tracy was the founder of the John Tracy Clinic, a private, non-profit education center for the deaf that began in 1942. She was married to actor Spencer Tracy.
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11. Catherine Curtin
1970-. (aged 56)
actor
Catherine Curtin is an American actress. She is best known for her role as correctional officer Wanda Bell in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. Other notable recurring roles include Insecure, Stranger Things, and Homeland.
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12. Dawn Powell
1896-1965 (aged 69)
writer
novelist
journalist
short story writer
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acerbic prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays. Her work was praised by Robert Benchley in The New Yorker and in 1939 she...
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