20 Notable alumni of Principia College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Principia College is ranked #5,428 in the world and #1,428 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Principia 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 Principia College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Janet Evra
singer
Janet Irvine Buchanan, popularly known as Janet Evra, is an English-born vocalist, bassist, guitarist, songwriter and bandleader. Evra sings in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French and performs in jazz, indie jazz, French jazz, bossa nova, samba, and Latin jazz styles.
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2. Joe Fitzgibbon
1986-. (aged 40)
politician
Joseph Clark Fitzgibbon is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 34th district since 2010.
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3. John Andrews
1944-. (aged 82)
politician
John Andrews is an American former Republican politician and conservative activist who served as a Colorado state senator from 1998 to 2005, and Senate President from 2003 to 2005.
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4. Edward R. Murphy
1937-. (aged 89)
military personnel
Edward R. Murphy is a former United States Navy officer, best known as the executive officer aboard the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), a spy ship captured by North Korea in 1968.
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5. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
1948-. (aged 78)
novelist
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist whose fiction and literary non-fiction includes The Far Side of the Desert, Burning Distance, regional bestseller The Dark Path to the River, the short story collection No Marble Angels, and PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line. She’s also the senior editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo:...
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6. Haru M. Reischauer
1915-1998 (aged 83)
writer
Haru Matsukata Reischauer was a Japanese-American writer and wife of the U.S. scholar and Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer.
7. Bruce Jacob
1935-. (aged 91)
teacher
Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright, the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections, in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, decided in March 1963, regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The...
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8. Chandler Burr
1963-. (aged 63)
writer
journalist
opinion journalist
curator
Chandler Burr is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.
9. Ron Charles
1962-. (aged 64)
journalist
literary critic
Ron Charles is an American book critic, formerly of The Washington Post. His awards include the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Nona Balakian Citation for book reviews, and 1st Place for A&E Coverage from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011. He was one of three jurors for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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10. John H. Rousselot
1927-2003 (aged 76)
politician
John Harbin Rousselot was a U.S. representative from southern California. Although the territory he represented was generally the same, in eastern Los Angeles County, the district was renumbered several times during his congressional career.
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11. Chris Shays
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Christopher Hunter Shays is an American politician. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 4th District of Connecticut from 1987 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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12. Jocelyn Burdick
1922-2019 (aged 97)
politician
Jocelyn Louise Burdick was an American politician from North Dakota who briefly served as a member of the United States Senate in 1992. She was the first woman from the state to hold this office. At the age of 97, she was the oldest living former U.S. Senator for the last eight months of her life. She was a member...
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13. Larry Groce
1948-. (aged 78)
composer
singer-songwriter
singer
musician
Larry Groce is an American singer-songwriter and radio host. From 1983 until 2021, Groce served as the host and artistic director of Mountain Stage, a two-hour live music radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR. He first entered the national spotlight in 1976 when his novelty song "Junk Food Junkie" became a Top Ten hit....
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14. Egil Krogh
1939-2020 (aged 81)
lawyer
Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr. was an American lawyer who became infamous as an official of the Nixon administration and who was imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal. He was a Senior Fellow on Ethics and Leadership at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Counselor to the Director at the School for Ethics and...
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15. Sara Nelson
1973-. (aged 53)
trade unionist
flight attendant
Sara Nelson is an American union leader who serves as the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL–CIO. A United Airlines flight attendant since 1996, she previously served as AFA's international vice president for a term beginning January 1, 2011. AFA-CWA represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines.
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16. Terry Melcher
1942-2004 (aged 62)
songwriter
singer
record producer
musician
Terrence Paul Melcher was an American record producer, singer, and songwriter who was instrumental in shaping the mid-to-late 1960s California sound and folk rock movements. His best-known contributions were producing the Byrds' first two albums Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) and Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965) as well as most of the hit recordings of Paul Revere & the Raiders and Gentle...
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17. Robert Duvall
1931-2026 (aged 95)
film director
director
film screenwriter
television actor
film actor
Robert Selden Duvall was an American actor, filmmaker, and producer. Duvall started acting professionally on the stage in 1952, performing in summer plays at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport on Long Island. He continued there until 1959, with a one-year break serving in the U. S. Army. He made contacts there that then led to a career on television in...
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18. David Rowland
1924-2010 (aged 86)
industrial designer
furniture maker
designer
military personnel
furniture designer
David Lincoln Rowland was an American industrial designer noted for inventing the 40/4 Chair. The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is able to stack 40 chairs 4 feet (120 cm) high.
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19. Candy Crowley
1948-. (aged 78)
journalist
news presenter
Candy Alt Crowley is an American news anchor who was employed as CNN's chief political correspondent, specializing in American national and state elections. She was based in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau and was the anchor of its Sunday morning talk show State of the Union with Candy Crowley. She has covered elections for over two decades.
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20. Peter Horton
1953-. (aged 73)
television director
film director
director
actor
Peter Müller, better known by the stage name Peter Horton, was an Austrian guitarist, singer, composer, and writer, noted for representing Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 with the song "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt". The song scored 2 points to finish joint 14th place out of 17 entries.
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