19 Notable alumni of McDaniel College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
McDaniel College is ranked #3,189 in the world and #824 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from McDaniel 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 McDaniel College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Joshua Weldon Miles
1858-1929 (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Joshua Weldon Miles was an American politician.
2. Joan Bailey-Wilson
1953-. (aged 73)
geneticist
statistician
medical researcher
Joan Ellen Bailey-Wilson is an American statistical geneticist. She is a Scientist Emerita at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), where she previously served as a senior investigator and co-chief of the Computational and Statistical Genomic Branch of the Institute. She retired from her active research position in September 2022.
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3. Stan Benjamin
1914-2009 (aged 95)
baseball player
Alfred Stanley Benjamin was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball for five seasons; four with the Philadelphia Phillies (1939–42), of the National League (NL), and one with the Cleveland Indians (1945), of the American League (AL). The 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 194 lb (88 kg) Benjamin batted and threw right-handed, and was born in Framingham, Massachusetts....
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4. William F. Goodling
1927-2017 (aged 90)
teacher
politician
William Franklin Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
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5. Ronald N. Young
1940-. (aged 86)
politician
Ronald Nelson Young is an American consultant, teacher, and politician. He was a member of the Maryland State Senate from 2011 to 2023 and previously served as a mayor of Frederick, Maryland, serving from 1974 to 1990.
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6. Mabel Garrison
1886-1963 (aged 77)
opera singer
Mabel Garrison Siemonn, was an American coloratura soprano who sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1914 to 1921.
7. Ellen Sauerbrey
1937-. (aged 89)
diplomat
politician
Ellen Richmond Sauerbrey is an American politician from Maryland and the former head of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. She was nominated to the Bureau in September 2005 by President George W. Bush. On January 4, 2006, Bush placed her in office by way of a recess appointment, bypassing the need for Senate...
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8. David Carrasco
1944-. (aged 82)
historian
mesoamericanist
Davíd Lee Carrasco is an American academic historian of religion, anthropologist, and Mesoamericanist scholar. As of 2001, he holds the inaugural appointment as Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, in a joint appointment with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Carrasco previously taught at the University of...
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9. F. Mason Sones
1918-1985 (aged 67)
physician
F. Mason Sones, Jr. was an American physician whose pioneering work in cardiac catheterization was instrumental in the development of both coronary artery bypass surgery and interventional cardiology.
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10. Frank Kratovil
1968-. (aged 58)
lawyer
judge
politician
Frank Michael Kratovil Jr. is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2011. Elected in 2008, he was defeated in his bid for reelection on November 2, 2010. Kratovil is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as State's Attorney of Queen Anne's County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and...
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11. Curley Byrd
1889-1970 (aged 81)
civil engineer
baseball player
athletics competitor
engineer
American football player
Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician. Byrd began a long association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905, and eventually rose to the position of university president from 1936 to 1954.
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12. Knut Hjeltnes
1951-2024 (aged 73)
shot putter
discus thrower
Knut Hjeltnes was a Norwegian college coach and track and field athlete.
13. Alan Rabinowitz
1953-2018 (aged 65)
biologist
zoologist
Alan Robert Rabinowitz was an American zoologist who served as the president, CEO, and chief scientist at Panthera Corporation, a nonprofit conservation organization devoted to protecting the world's 40 wild cat species. Called the "Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection" by Time, he studied jaguars, clouded leopards, Asiatic leopards, tigers, Sumatran rhinos, bears, leopard cats, raccoons, cervidae, and civets.
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14. Odd Haugen
1950-. (aged 76)
strongman
powerlifter
strength athlete
Odd Erling Haugen is a Norwegian-born American strongman and a grip strength specialist. He has also competed in bodybuilding, weightlifting and powerlifting.
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15. Greg Street
video game developer
Greg Street is an American video game designer and former Head of Creative Development for Riot Games.
16. Whittaker Chambers
1901-1961 (aged 60)
editor
writer
journalist
translator
spy
Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for the New Masses and the Daily Worker, before being ordered to go underground as a secret agent for the Soviet intelligence services. From 1932 to 1938 he was part of the clandestine...
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17. Thomas Roberts
1972-. (aged 54)
journalist
actor
Thomas Albert Roberts is an American television journalist who served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel. He ended his seven-year stint anchoring MSNBC Live, the daytime news platform of NBC News, on weekends from 5-7pm ET. Before that he was anchor of Way Too Early and a contributor to Morning Joe. He was also an NBC News...
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18. Jesse Glass
1954-. (aged 72)
poet
university teacher
Jesse Glass is an American expatriate poet, artist and folklorist.
19. Sara Lundberg
1971-. (aged 55)
illustrator
author
Sara Lundberg is a Swedish author and illustrator.