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100 Notable alumni of Middlebury College

Updated: June 12, 2026 EliteDegrees

Middlebury College is ranked #1,147 in the world and #295 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Middlebury 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 Middlebury College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Robert Schlesinger

1. Robert Schlesinger

1965-. (aged 61)
journalist
Robert Schlesinger is an American author, editor and liberal commentator emphasizing politics and political communications.
Jonathan Blanchard

2. Jonathan Blanchard

1811-1892 (aged 81)
philosopher
Jonathan Blanchard was an American pastor, educator, social reformer, and abolitionist. Born in Vermont, Blanchard attended Middlebury College before accepting a teaching position in New York. In 1834, he left to study at Andover Theological Seminary, but departed in 1836 after the college rejected agents from the American Anti-Slavery Society. Blanchard joined the group as one of Theodore Dwight Weld's...
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Edward John Phelps

3. Edward John Phelps

1822-1900 (aged 78)
diplomat jurist lawyer
Edward John Phelps was a lawyer and diplomat from Vermont. He is notable for his service as Envoy to Court of St. James's from 1885 to 1889. In addition, Phelps was a founder of the American Bar Association, and served as its president from 1880 to 1881.
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Greta Neubauer

4. Greta Neubauer

1991-. (aged 35)
politician
Gretchen Stephens "Greta" Neubauer is an American Democratic politician from Racine, Wisconsin. She is the minority leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly, since January 2022, and has been a member of the Assembly since 2018, representing Wisconsin's 66th Assembly district.
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Edwin James

5. Edwin James

1797-1861 (aged 64)
geologist non-fiction writer botanist surgeon translator
Edwin P. James, a 19th-century American botanist, geologist, linguist, and medical practitioner, was an important figure in the early exploration of the American West. James was also known for his time spent creating relationships with Native Americans in the United States, and also aiding African Americans to escape slavery.
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Chris Waddell

6. Chris Waddell

1968-. (aged 58)
para alpine skier
Chris Waddell is an American Paralympic sit-skier and wheelchair track athlete. He is also an NBC Sports TV host. He was a promising non-disabled skier while attending Middlebury College in Vermont, before a skiing accident left him paralysed from the waist down.
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Randy Brock

7. Randy Brock

1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Randolph D. "Randy" Brock III is an American politician from the state of Vermont and a member of the Republican Party. He currently serves in the Vermont Senate and is the first African American caucus leader in Vermont. He served as the Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2005 to 2007 and as a member of the Vermont Senate from 2009...
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Dwight Garner

8. Dwight Garner

1965-. (aged 61)
literary critic writer journalist
Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany and Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. In 2023 he published his memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading...
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Carlene King Johnson

9. Carlene King Johnson

1933-1969 (aged 36)
model beauty pageant contestant
Carlene King Johnson Drake was an American model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1955.
Richard E. Kim

10. Richard E. Kim

1932-2009 (aged 77)
novelist writer translator
Richard Eun Kook Kim was a Korean–American writer and professor of literature. He was the author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970), and many other works. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was a recipient of a Fulbright grant. His most popular work is Lost Names, a fictional work based on his experience during...
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Penny Pitou

11. Penny Pitou

1938-. (aged 88)
alpine skier
Penelope Theresa "Penny" Pitou is a former United States Olympic alpine skier, who in 1960 became the first American skier to win a medal in the Olympic downhill event. In 2001, Pitou was inducted into the New England Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
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Solomon Foot

12. Solomon Foot

1802-1866 (aged 64)
lawyer politician
Solomon T. Foot was an American politician and attorney. He held numerous offices during his career, including Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, State's Attorney for Rutland County, member of the United States House of Representatives, and United States Senator.
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Myrtle Bachelder

13. Myrtle Bachelder

1908-1997 (aged 89)
chemist teacher engineer
Myrtle Claire Bachelder was an American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer, who is noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals.
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Dan M. Kahan

14. Dan M. Kahan

jurist scientist psychologist university teacher
Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His professional expertise is in the fields of criminal law and evidence, and he is known for his theory of cultural cognition.
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Edward Hitchcock

15. Edward Hitchcock

1793-1864 (aged 71)
writer mycologist geologist paleontologist botanist
Edward Hitchcock was an American geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854).
William K. Sessions III

16. William K. Sessions III

1947-. (aged 79)
jurist lawyer judge
William Kenneth Sessions III is serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and has served as the Vice Chair and eventually as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. He was confirmed on October 21, 2009 as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and served until December...
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Vivian Schiller

17. Vivian Schiller

1961-. (aged 65)
journalist
Vivian Luisa Schiller is the former president and CEO of National Public Radio, and former head of news and journalism partnerships at Twitter. She is also the former senior vice president and chief digital officer for NBC News, including oversight of NBCNews.com.
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Frank Sesno

18. Frank Sesno

journalist university teacher
Frank Sesno is an American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor, and Washington bureau chief. He is also author, and former director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Sesno is the creator and host of Planet Forward, a web-to-television show on PBS. Sesno is a professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George...
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Rana Abdelhamid

19. Rana Abdelhamid

1993-. (aged 33)
politician
Rana Abdelhamid is an American political candidate and activist based in Queens, New York. Abdelhamid is also the founder of Hijabis of New York and Malikah.
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Megan Guarnier

20. Megan Guarnier

1985-. (aged 41)
sport cyclist
Megan Guarnier is an American former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019 for the Rabobank–Liv Giant, Boels–Dolmans and Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank teams. She won the United States National Road Race Championships three times (2012, 2015–16), major races such as Strade Bianche Donne (2015) and Giro d'Italia Femminile (2016), and the overall UCI Women's World Tour title in...
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Jane Bryant Quinn

21. Jane Bryant Quinn

1939-. (aged 87)
journalist
Jane Bryant Quinn is an American financial journalist. Her columns talk about financial topics such as investor protection, health insurance, Social Security, and the sufficiency of retirement plans.
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Silas Wright

22. Silas Wright

1795-1847 (aged 52)
lawyer politician
Silas Wright Jr. was an American attorney and Democratic politician. A member of the Albany Regency, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, New York State Comptroller, United States Senator, and the fourteenth Governor of New York.
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Román Macaya

23. Román Macaya

1966-. (aged 60)
diplomat scientist entrepreneur
Román Macaya Hayes is a Costa Rican scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat, and public servant. From 2018-2022 he served as the Executive President and Chairman of the Board of the Costa Rican Social Security [Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social ], the institution that finances and provides universal coverage of public health care services in Costa Rica and manages the largest pension fund...
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Rebecca Rhynhart

24. Rebecca Rhynhart

politician business executive
Rebecca Rhynhart is an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the City Controller of Philadelphia from 2018 to 2022. Prior to running for City Controller, Rhynhart worked in Philadelphia city government as City Treasurer and Budget Director in the administration of Mayor Michael Nutter. Prior to joining city government, Rhynhart worked in public...
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Jehudi Ashmun

25. Jehudi Ashmun

1794-1828 (aged 34)
politician
Jehudi Ashmun was an American religious leader and social reformer from New England who helped lead efforts by the American Colonization Society to "repatriate" African Americans to a colony in West Africa. It founded the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States.
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Watermelon Slim

26. Watermelon Slim

1949-. (aged 77)
singer guitarist musician
William P. Homans III, professionally known as "Watermelon Slim", is an American blues musician. He plays both guitar and harmonica. He is currently signed to NorthernBlues Music, based in Toronto, Ontario. Homans has also earned bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Oregon and Oklahoma State University.
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Chris Cheng

27. Chris Cheng

1979-. (aged 47)
motivational speaker
Chris Cheng is an American sport shooter and The History Channel's Top Shot Season 4 Champion. In 2012, along with the title of "Top Shot", Cheng won a $100,000 cash prize and a professional marksman contract with the show's sponsor, Bass Pro Shops.
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Bob Beattie

28. Bob Beattie

1933-2018 (aged 85)
sports commentator coach
Robert Prime Beattie was an American skiing coach, skiing promoter and commentator for ABC Sports and ESPN. He was head coach of the U.S. Ski Team from 1961 to 1969 and co-founded the Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1966. His work as a ski-racing commentator for ABC included four Winter Olympic Games, from 1976 through 1988.
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Samuel Nelson

29. Samuel Nelson

1792-1873 (aged 81)
lawyer judge
Samuel Nelson was an American attorney and appointed as judge of New York State courts. He was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1872. He concurred on the 1857 Dred Scott decision, although for reasons different from Chief Justice Taney's.
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Maciej Cegłowski

30. Maciej Cegłowski

1975-. (aged 51)
entrepreneur
Maciej Cegłowski is a Polish-American web developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and social critic, based in San Francisco, California. He is the owner of the bookmarking service Pinboard, which he calls a social bookmarking site for introverts.
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Alison Knowles

31. Alison Knowles

1933-2025 (aged 92)
draftsperson installation artist performance artist visual artist painter
Alison Knowles was an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge different artistic media and disciplines. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores...
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Cherine Anderson

32. Cherine Anderson

1984-. (aged 42)
songwriter actor singer film actor
Cherine Tanya Anderson is a Jamaican dancehall/reggae vocalist and actress.
John Godfrey Saxe

33. John Godfrey Saxe

1816-1887 (aged 71)
poet writer politician
John Godfrey Saxe I was an American poet known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant", which introduced the story to a western audience.
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Bryan Goldberg

34. Bryan Goldberg

1983-. (aged 43)
chief executive officer
Bryan David Goldberg is an American entrepreneur and the owner of Bustle Digital Group, which operates a number of media properties, including Bustle, Nylon, W Magazine and Gawker. Previously, Goldberg founded Bleacher Report, a sports news website that sold to Turner Broadcasting System in 2012 for $200 million.
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Lisa Kenna

35. Lisa Kenna

1965-. (aged 61)
diplomat lawyer
Lisa S. Dougherty Kenna is an American diplomat who has served as Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State since January 2025. She served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from September 11, 2023, to January 20, 2025. She had served as the United States ambassador to Peru from March 2021 to...
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Ted King

36. Ted King

1983-. (aged 43)
sport cyclist
Edward Carrington King is a retired American professional road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam Cannondale–Garmin. King turned professional in 2006 and raced for ten years, retiring from contemporary road racing in 2015. He quickly segued to the burgeoning world of gravel cycling, where he has been a pioneer in the world of competitive gravel racing.
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Alex Prud'homme

37. Alex Prud'homme

1962-. (aged 64)
journalist
Alex Prud’homme is an American journalist and the author of several non-fiction books.
Andrew Gross

38. Andrew Gross

1952-2025 (aged 73)
writer novelist
Howard Andrew Gross was an American author of thriller novels, including four New York Times bestsellers. He is best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Gross's books feature close family bonds, relationships characterized by loss or betrayal, and a large degree of emotional resonance which generally leads to wider crimes and cover-ups. The books have all been...
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Hedda Berntsen

39. Hedda Berntsen

1976-. (aged 50)
wakeboarder freestyle skier telemarker alpine skier
Hedda Berntsen is a Norwegian sportsperson who has competed internationally in telemark skiing, alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and skicross. She is world champion in Telemark classic from 1997. She later concentrated on the alpine slalom, her career peaking in the 2000–01 season with consistent performances in the World Cup as well as a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships....
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Robert Stafford

40. Robert Stafford

1913-2006 (aged 93)
military officer lawyer politician
Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy political career, he served as the 71st governor of Vermont, a United States representative, and a U.S. senator. A Republican, Stafford was generally considered a liberal, or "Rockefeller Republican".
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Allison Dale Burroughs

41. Allison Dale Burroughs

1961-. (aged 65)
lawyer judge
Allison Dale Burroughs is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She was appointed in 2014 by President Barack Obama. She is most notably known for rejecting the lawsuit Asian students brought against Harvard's race-based admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2019).
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Chad Urmston

42. Chad Urmston

1976-. (aged 50)
bandleader guitarist musician
Charles Stokes Urmston, better known as Chadwick Stokes is an American musician and a human rights activist. He is the frontman for the Boston-area bands Dispatch and State Radio, and released solo music under the name Chadwick Stokes.
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Paul Eaton

43. Paul Eaton

1950-. (aged 76)
military personnel
Paul D. Eaton is a former United States Army officer who commanded the operations to train Iraqi troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eaton served in that capacity between 2003 and 2004, and then returned to the US to become Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He previously served...
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Roger L. Easton

44. Roger L. Easton

1921-2014 (aged 93)
inventor scientist
Roger Lee Easton Sr. was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson.
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George Arison

45. George Arison

1977-. (aged 49)
businessperson
George Arison is a Georgian-born American businessman and investor. He is the founder and co-CEO of Shift. Prior to Shift, in 2007, he co-founded Taxi Magic, known today as Curb (RideCharge, Inc.). As a political scholar and activist, he is considered for strong pro-democracy views for Georgia in its post-Soviet transition.Arison is currently the CEO of Grindr.
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Alexander Twilight

46. Alexander Twilight

1795-1857 (aged 62)
politician
Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, minister and politician. He was recognized as the first African American to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university, graduating from Middlebury College in 1823. He was ordained as a Congregational minister and worked in education and ministry all his career. In 1829, Twilight became principal of the Orleans...
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Bob Lefsetz

47. Bob Lefsetz

1953-. (aged 73)
writer
Robert Scott "Bob" Lefsetz is an American analyst and critic. He is author of the email newsletter and blog The Lefsetz Letter.
Bill Delahunt

48. Bill Delahunt

1941-2024 (aged 83)
lawyer lobbyist politician
William David Delahunt was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2011. Delahunt did not seek re-election in 2010, and left Congress in January 2011. He was succeeded by Norfolk County District Attorney Bill Keating.
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Becky Worley

49. Becky Worley

1971-. (aged 55)
television presenter journalist blogger rugby union player television producer
Becky Worley is an American journalist and broadcaster. She is the tech and consumer correspondent for Good Morning America on ABC, was a tech podcaster for the TWiT network, and a host and blogger for shows on TechTV and Yahoo! Tech.
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Jim Douglas

50. Jim Douglas

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
James Holley Douglas is an American politician from the state of Vermont. A Republican, he served as the 80th governor of Vermont from 2003 to 2011. On August 27, 2009, Douglas announced that he would not seek re-election for a fifth term in 2010. He left the office in January 2011.
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Henry Schoolcraft

51. Henry Schoolcraft

1793-1864 (aged 71)
geologist geographer writer anthropologist politician
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s.
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Katherine Arden

52. Katherine Arden

1987-. (aged 39)
writer
Katherine Arden Burdine, best known by her pen name Katherine Arden, is an American novelist. Known primarily for her Winternight trilogy of fantasy novels, which are set in medieval Russia and have garnered nominations for Hugo and Locus Awards, she is also the author of the Small Spaces series of horror novels for middle grade children. The first in the...
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Sarah Groff

53. Sarah Groff

1981-. (aged 45)
triathlete
Sarah True is an American athlete who competes in triathlon. She represented the United States in triathlon in 2012, finishing in fourth place, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics. True is the winner of the 2007 ITU Aquathlon World Championships and finished in second place in the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series.
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John Beyrle

54. John Beyrle

1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat
John Ross Beyrle is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Russian and Eastern European affairs, he served as Ambassador of the United States to the Russian Federation from July 3, 2008, until January 10, 2012, and as Ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2008.
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Hiram Bingham I

55. Hiram Bingham I

1789-1869 (aged 80)
missionary Bible translator translator
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I, was the leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. Like most of the missionaries, he was from New England.
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Carlos Calleja

56. Carlos Calleja

1976-. (aged 50)
businessperson politician
Juan Carlos Calleja Hakker is a Salvadoran businessman and former politician. Calleja is currently the CEO of Grupo Éxito and the vice president of the Calleja Group, which owns Supermercados Super Selectos, the largest supermarket chain in El Salvador. He was the presidential candidate for the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) during the 2019 presidential election. He received 31.72 percent of...
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Sarah C. Paine

57. Sarah C. Paine

1957-. (aged 69)
naval historian
Sarah Crosby Mallory Paine is an American historian who was the William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She has written and co-edited several books on naval policy and related affairs, and subjects of interest to the United States Navy or Department of Defense. Other works she...
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Albio Sires

58. Albio Sires

1951-. (aged 75)
basketball player businessperson teacher politician
Albio B. Sires is a Cuban-born American businessman and politician serving as the mayor of West New York, New Jersey, since 2023. He previously held the same office from 1995 to 2006. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Vendela Vida

59. Vendela Vida

1971-. (aged 55)
novelist writer journalist
Vendela Vida is an American novelist, journalist, editor, screenplay writer, and educator. She is the author of multiple books, has worked as a writing teacher, and is a founder and editor of The Believer magazine.
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Brendan Bechtel

60. Brendan Bechtel

1981-. (aged 45)
business executive
Brendan Peters Bechtel is an American businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Bechtel, the second largest construction company in the United States, which has operations in 160 countries. The great-great-grandson of founder Warren A. Bechtel, he became CEO at the age of 35, and is the fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the privately...
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Koby Altman

61. Koby Altman

1982-. (aged 44)
basketball coach
Koby Altman is an American basketball executive who currently serves as the President of Basketball Operations of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Felix G. Rohatyn

62. Felix G. Rohatyn

1928-2019 (aged 91)
diplomat financier
Felix George Rohatyn was an American investment banker and diplomat. He spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1975, he played a central role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City as chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation and chief negotiator between the...
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Bill Maris

63. Bill Maris

1975-. (aged 51)
venture capitalist portfolio manager
Bill Maris is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist focused on technology and the life sciences. Bill Maris's investments have to date resulted in over 150 exits and more than 50 companies that have grown to over $1B in value, including: Nest, Uber, Crowdstrike, Coinbase, 23andMe, Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche), Foundation Medicine (acquired by Roche), The Climate Corporation, Vir,...
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Shenna Bellows

64. Shenna Bellows

1975-. (aged 51)
politician
Shenna Lee Bellows is an American politician and civil rights advocate who has served as the 50th Secretary of State of Maine since January 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position. Before entering politics, Bellows worked as a civil rights advocate, serving as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine from 2005 to...
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Carina Driscoll

65. Carina Driscoll

1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Carina Nicole Driscoll is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from Chittenden County from 2001 to 2003, as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. She also served on the city council in Burlington, Vermont, and unsuccessfully sought the city's mayoralty in the 2018 election.
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Emma Cline

66. Emma Cline

1989-. (aged 37)
novelist short story writer writer
Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020, and her second novel, The Guest, was...
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Rodney Rothman

67. Rodney Rothman

screenwriter film director writer film producer television producer
Rodney Rothman is an American filmmaker and author. He is known for his work on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), 22 Jump Street (2014), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), and Get Him to the Greek (2010), as well as being part of the writing staff of the shows Undeclared and Late Show with David Letterman. He...
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Frank Pallone

68. Frank Pallone

1951-. (aged 75)
lawyer politician
Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1988 to 1993, is in the north-central part of the state and includes New Brunswick, Woodbridge Township, Perth Amboy, Sayreville, Edison,...
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Michael Tolkin

69. Michael Tolkin

1950-. (aged 76)
screenwriter novelist film director writer film producer
Michael L. Tolkin is an American screenwriter, novelist, and director. He has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his own 1988 novel of the same name, and for which he received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (1993) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He later wrote a...
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Charles Frank

70. Charles Frank

1947-. (aged 79)
television actor television director actor film actor
Charles Reser Frank is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV movie The New Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series Young Maverick. Both featured Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard as Ben Maverick's girlfriend.
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Sean Casten

71. Sean Casten

1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Sean Thomas Casten is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district. The district covers southwestern Chicago, as well as many of Chicago's inner southwestern suburbs, such as Downers Grove, Wheaton, Lisle, Orland Park, and Western Springs. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Ron Brown

72. Ron Brown

1941-1996 (aged 55)
lawyer lobbyist
Ronald Harmon Brown was an American politician and lobbyist who served as the 30th United States secretary of commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Before this, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions. He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash...
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Brian Deese

73. Brian Deese

1978-. (aged 48)
economist
Brian Christopher Deese is an American economic and political advisor who was the 13th director of the National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden.
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Julia Whelan

74. Julia Whelan

1984-. (aged 42)
actor audiobook narrator writer
Julia May Whelan is an American actress, narrator and author. As an actress, she is best known for her role as Grace Manning on the television family drama series Once and Again (1999–2002), and her co-starring role in the 2002 Lifetime movie The Secret Life of Zoey. A noted child actor, Whelan first appeared on screen at the age of...
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Louis Bacon

75. Louis Bacon

1956-. (aged 70)
trader financier economist
Louis Moore Bacon is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of Moore Capital Management.
Barbara Comstock

76. Barbara Comstock

1959-. (aged 67)
politician lawyer lobbyist consultant activist
Barbara Jean Comstock is an American politician and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2010 to 2014.
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Vanessa Branch

77. Vanessa Branch

1973-. (aged 53)
model television actor beauty pageant contestant film producer film actor
Vanessa Branch is an American actress and model. She is best known in the United States as the Orbit Gum girl for its 2002 to 2010 television marketing campaign, as well as Giselle in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, specifically Gore Verbinski's trilogy and James Ward Byrkit's short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked.
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Jeff Lindsay

78. Jeff Lindsay

1952-. (aged 74)
novelist playwright writer
Jeffry P. Freundlich, primarily known by his pen name Jeff Lindsay, is an American playwright and crime novelist. He is best known for his novels about the fictional psychopathic Miami police forensic analyst and serial killer-killing vigilante Dexter Morgan. The first book of the series was later developed into the Showtime television series from 2006 to 2013, with actor Michael...
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Michaela Dietz

79. Michaela Dietz

1982-. (aged 44)
voice actor film actor
Michaela Dietz is an American voice actress whose professional career started in 2005. She voiced the character of Riff on the PBS children's television series Barney & Friends, Amethyst on the Cartoon Network television series Steven Universe and Steven Universe Future, Dolly Dalmatian on Disney Channel's 101 Dalmatian Street, Pita in Fallout 76, Vee on Disney Channel's The Owl House,...
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Julia Alvarez

80. Julia Alvarez

1950-. (aged 76)
writer children's writer poet novelist
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something...
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Emily McLaughlin

81. Emily McLaughlin

1928-1991 (aged 63)
film actor actor television actor
Emily McLaughlin was an American actress, known for her long-standing role as original character Nurse Jessie Brewer on the daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1963 until 1991.
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V

82. V

1953-. (aged 73)
actor playwright writer women's rights activist film director
V, formerly Eve Ensler, is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."
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Mark Gordon

83. Mark Gordon

1957-. (aged 69)
husbandry worker politician
Mark Gordon is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Wyoming since January 7, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as state treasurer; then-governor Matt Mead appointed him to that position on October 26, 2012, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Joseph Meyer.
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Dan Schulman

84. Dan Schulman

1958-. (aged 68)
business executive
Daniel H. Schulman is an American business executive. He is the chief executive of Verizon and former president and CEO of PayPal, and before that group president of enterprise growth at American Express. Schulman was responsible for American Express' global strategy to expand alternative mobile and online payment services, form new partnerships, and build revenue streams beyond the traditional card...
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Ari Fleischer

85. Ari Fleischer

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Lawrence Ari Fleischer is an American media consultant and political aide who served as the 23rd White House press secretary, for President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003.
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Anaïs Mitchell

86. Anaïs Mitchell

1981-. (aged 45)
composer singer-songwriter playwright guitarist
Anaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including Hadestown (2010), Young Man in America (2012), Child Ballads (2013), and Anaïs Mitchell (2022).
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John Perkins

87. John Perkins

1945-. (aged 81)
writer economist
John Perkins is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins describes playing a role in a process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, international financial institutions, and the United States government. The book's claims were contested...
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John Deere

88. John Deere

1804-1886 (aged 82)
manufacturer politician businessperson inventor factory owner
John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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Shawn Ryan

89. Shawn Ryan

1966-. (aged 60)
screenwriter showrunner film director television producer
Shawn Ryan is an American screenwriter and television producer. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including The Shield (2002–08), The Unit (2006–09), Lie to Me (2009–11), Timeless (2016–18), S.W.A.T. (2017–25) and The Night Agent (2023–present).
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Jimmy Wong

90. Jimmy Wong

1986-. (aged 40)
actor television actor YouTuber film actor television producer
James Franklin Wong is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his 2011 music video, "Ching Chong: Asians in the Library Song" and for his role as Ted in the web series Video Game High School. In 2017, he and YouTuber Meghan Camarena co-hosted the video game themed variety show Polaris Primetime, which was created as part...
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Amanda Plummer

91. Amanda Plummer

1957-. (aged 69)
film actor television actor stage actor
Amanda Michael Plummer is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. She most recently appeared in the...
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Kristen Connolly

92. Kristen Connolly

1980-. (aged 46)
television actor film producer actor film actor
Kristen Connolly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Dana Polk in the 2011 film The Cabin in the Woods, Christina Gallagher on the Netflix series House of Cards and Jamie Campbell on the CBS series Zoo.
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Jake Weber

93. Jake Weber

1963-. (aged 63)
television actor stage actor actor film actor
Jake T. Weber is an English actor. He is known in film for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and for his role as Drew in Meet Joe Black. On television, he is best known for playing Joe DuBois, the sleep-deprived husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the popular drama series Medium.
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Cassidy Freeman

94. Cassidy Freeman

1982-. (aged 44)
television actor singer actor film actor
Cassidy Freeman is an American actress and musician. She is known for her roles as Tess Mercer in The CW's superhero drama Smallville, Amber Gemstone in the HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, Sage in the series The Vampire Diaries, and Cady Longmire in the A&E/Netflix modern western Longmire.
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James Cromwell

95. James Cromwell

1940-. (aged 86)
actor television actor character actor film actor voice actor
James Oliver Cromwell is an American actor. Known for his extensive work as a character actor, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995). Other notable film roles include: Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), Deep Impact (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Space...
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager

96. Sheila Miyoshi Jager

1963-. (aged 63)
historian anthropologist university teacher
Sheila Miyoshi Jager is an American historian. She is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, author of two books on Korea, co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era, and a forthcoming book on great power competition in northeast Asia at the turn of the 19th-20th century. She is a well-known historian...
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Rebecca Makkai

97. Rebecca Makkai

1978-. (aged 48)
novelist educator writer
Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for writing The Great Believers (2018) and I Have Some Questions for You (2023), which have been positively received by critics and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Libby Book...
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Lado Gurgenidze

98. Lado Gurgenidze

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze is a Georgian career banker, business executive, and former politician, who was the sixth Prime Minister of Georgia, from 22 November 2007 to 1 November 2008.
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Bradford Bishop

99. Bradford Bishop

1936-. (aged 90)
diplomat fugitive
William Bradford Bishop Jr. is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 27, 2018, Bishop, who at the time would...
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Roscoe Lee Browne

100. Roscoe Lee Browne

1925-2007 (aged 82)
athletics competitor stage actor television actor voice actor film actor
Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as movies like The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne, and The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) with John Amos and Jan-Michael Vincent, but his biggest roles were as narrator in Babe and...
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