45 Notable alumni of Randolph-Macon College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Randolph-Macon College is ranked #3,627 in the world and #955 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Randolph-Macon 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 Randolph-Macon College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Frank Warfield Crowder
1869-1932 (aged 63)
Reverend Frank Warfield Crowder was the rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City. He was a supporter of the death penalty.
2. Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
1842-1924 (aged 82)
lawyer
politician
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
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3. Mary Stuart MacDougall
1885-1972 (aged 87)
biologist
microbiologist
zoologist
Mary Stuart MacDougall was an American biologist who studied protozoology. She wrote Biology: The Science of Life.
4. James DeRuyter Blackwell
1828-1901 (aged 73)
poet
writer
James DeRuyter Blackwell of Warrenton, Virginia is a celebrated author and poet of the American Civil War era. He attended Randolph-Macon College and graduated from Dickinson College. He studied and practiced law before serving in the Army of the Confederacy and was honorably discharged in 1864. He gave up law for health reasons and devoted his life to literature. His...
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5. James Ferguson Dowdell
1818-1871 (aged 53)
lawyer
politician
James Ferguson Dowdell was the second President of the East Alabama College, now known as Auburn University, from 1868 to 1870, and a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
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6. William D. Cardwell
1868-1954 (aged 86)
politician
William Duval Cardwell was a Virginia politician. He represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as that body's Speaker from 1906 until 1908.
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7. William M. Robbins
1828-1905 (aged 77)
lawyer
politician
William McKendree Robbins was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
8. Joshua Soule Zimmerman
1874-1962 (aged 88)
lawyer
politician
Joshua Soule Zimmerman was an American lawyer, politician, and orchardist in the U.S. state of West Virginia. In the early years of the 20th century, Zimmerman served as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County and as a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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9. Collins Denny
1854-1943 (aged 89)
lawyer
priest
Collins Denny was an American clergyman and educator. He was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University from 1891 to 1910. He served as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1910 to 1943.
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10. Benjamin Lee Arnold
1839-1892 (aged 53)
military personnel
Benjamin Lee Arnold was an American academic and the second president of Oregon State University.
11. John Joseph Kindred
1864-1937 (aged 73)
lawyer
politician
John Joseph Kindred was an American physician and politician. Kindred served five terms as U.S. Representative from New York from 1911 to 1913, and from 1921 to 1929, before returning to the practice of medicine. As a physician, his focus was on mental diseases, and he established mental hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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12. Walter Leak Steele
1823-1891 (aged 68)
lawyer
politician
Walter Leak Steele was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1877 and 1881.
13. Seth Clabough
novelist
Seth Clabough is an American poet and fiction writer with Pushcart Prize nominations in both genres and author of the novel All Things Await, which was nominated for the 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction.
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14. Robert J. Wood
1905-1986 (aged 81)
military officer
Robert Jefferson Wood was a United States Army four-star general who helped organize the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military organization in the early 1950s and later served as director of the military assistance program from 1962 to 1965.
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15. William Conrad Gibbons
1926-2015 (aged 89)
political scientist
William Conrad Gibbons was an American historian and foreign policy expert.
16. David Clopton
1820-1892 (aged 72)
lawyer
judge
politician
David Clopton was an American politician who was member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the C.S. House of Representatives, a member of the Alabama Legislature, and associate judge of the Alabama Supreme Court. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also a veteran of the Confederate Army.
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17. Porter Hardy Jr
1903-1995 (aged 92)
politician
Porter Hardy Jr. was a farmer, businessman and Democrat politician who represented Virginia's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for more than two decades, including supporting the Byrd Organization during Massive Resistance.
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18. Thomas Granville Pullen, Jr
1898-1979 (aged 81)
university teacher
Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. was the fifth president of the University of Baltimore from 1964 to 1969. Prior to that, he acted as state superintendent of schools for Maryland from 1942 to 1964.
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19. James Cannon Jr
1864-1944 (aged 80)
presbyter
missionary
James Cannon Jr. was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1918. He was a prominent leader in the temperance movement in the United States in the 1920s, until derailed by scandal. H. L. Mencken said in 1934: "Six years ago he was the undisputed boss of the United States. Congress was his troop of Boy...
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20. John Stanley Grauel
1917-1986 (aged 69)
Aliyah Bet activist
John Stanley Grauel was a Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the Aliyah Bet ship Exodus 1947 and a secret Haganah operative. Grauel is sometimes credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of...
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21. James Rives Childs
1893-1987 (aged 94)
diplomat
James Rives Childs was an American diplomat, a writer and an authority on Giacomo Casanova.
22. Patrick Henry Drewry
1875-1947 (aged 72)
lawyer
politician
Patrick Henry Drewry was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served in the Virginia Senate (1912–1920). He also represented Virginia's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 until his death in 1947. Drewry was a long-serving member of the House Naval Affairs Committee and was involved in naval expansion efforts during World...
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23. John H. Gibbons
1929-2015 (aged 86)
nuclear physicist
physicist
John Howard "Jack" Gibbons was an American scientist, nuclear physicist, and internationally recognized expert in technologies for energy efficiency and energy resource conservation. He served as the assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998.
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24. David Watson Taylor
1864-1940 (aged 76)
engineer
military officer
David Watson Taylor was an American naval architect and an engineer in the United States Navy. He served during World War I as Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Taylor is best known as the man who constructed the first experimental towing tank ever built in the United States.
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25. Chris Gerlufsen
1976-. (aged 50)
basketball coach
Chris Gerlufsen is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the San Francisco Dons men's basketball team. He served as the acting head coach for Hawaii during their 2019–20 season while head coach Eran Ganot took a leave of medical absence, compiling an 8–5 record during that period.
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26. Holland Nimmons McTyeire
1824-1889 (aged 65)
priest
journalist
editor
theologian
Holland Nimmons McTyeire was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a supporter of slavery in the United States.
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27. Drew Maloney
lawyer
Andrew Kerwin Maloney is a former senior U.S. government official and government affairs executive and the president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, an industry association that represents all of America's investor-owned electric companies. He previously served as president and CEO of the American Investment Council, an industry association for private-equity investors and firms. Prior to that, he served...
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28. John Letcher
1813-1884 (aged 71)
lawyer
journalist
editor
politician
John Letcher was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.
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29. Andrew Sledd
1870-1939 (aged 69)
university teacher
theologian
Christian minister
Andrew Warren Sledd was an American theologian, university professor and university president. A native of Virginia, he was the son of a prominent Methodist minister, and was himself ordained as a minister after earning his bachelor's and master's degrees. He later earned a second master's degree and his doctorate.
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30. Lemuel Diggs
1900-1995 (aged 95)
pathologist
Lemuel Whitley Diggs was an American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.
31. James I. Robertson, Jr
1930-2019 (aged 89)
historian
James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech.
32. Ted Bell
1947-2023 (aged 76)
writer
Theodore Augustus Bell III was an American author of 12 suspense novels, including Hawke, Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Warlord, Phantom, and Overkill. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels (mentioned above) featuring the character Lord Alexander Hawke.
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33. Walter Hines Page
1855-1918 (aged 63)
writer
ambassador
opinion journalist
publisher
journalist
Walter Hines Page was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. After World War I broke out in 1914 Page was so enthusiastically in favor of Britain during the period of American neutrality (before April 1917) that Wilson and other top officials increasingly discounted his views. Page was...
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34. Claude A. Swanson
1862-1939 (aged 77)
lawyer
politician
Claude Augustus Swanson was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893–1906), Governor of Virginia (1906–1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910–1933), before becoming U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death. Swanson and fellow U.S. Senator Thomas Staples Martin led a Democratic political machine in Virginia...
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35. E. Barrett Prettyman
1891-1971 (aged 80)
lawyer
judge
Elijah Barrett Prettyman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. His son was American attorney E. Barrett Prettyman Jr.
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36. Marty Brennaman
1942-. (aged 84)
journalist
sports commentator
Franchester Martin Brennaman is an American former sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds on the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network. Known for his opinionated, zealous, and occasionally contentious style, Brennaman called Reds games from 1974 to 2019.
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37. George Preston Marshall
1896-1969 (aged 73)
businessperson
George Preston Marshall was an American professional football executive who founded the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins. The team began play as the Boston Braves in 1932; he renamed them the Redskins the following year and relocated the team to Washington, D.C. in 1937. Marshall was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with its inaugural class of...
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38. Hugh Scott
1900-1994 (aged 94)
lawyer
writer
district attorney
military officer
member
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate, from 1959 to 1977. He served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
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39. Randy Forbes
1952-. (aged 74)
lawyer
politician
James Randy Forbes is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district, serving from 2001 to 2017.
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40. Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973 (aged 81)
novelist
writer
autobiographer
translator
missionary
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of...
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41. Nader Talebzadeh
1953-2022 (aged 69)
screenwriter
film critic
film director
film producer
Nader Talebzadeh, also known as Nader Ordoubadi, was an Iranian conservative journalist and filmmaker.
42. Gregg Marshall
1963-. (aged 63)
basketball coach
Michael Gregg Marshall is an American college basketball coach whose most recent position was head coach at Wichita State University. Marshall has coached his teams to appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 14 of 22 years as a head coach. He is the winningest head coach in Wichita State and Winthrop history with 331 and 194...
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43. Dorian Leigh
1917-2008 (aged 91)
model
Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe.
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44. Blanche Lincoln
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
congressional staff
Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at...
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45. Paul Reeves
1918-2010 (aged 92)
Anglican priest
Sir Paul Alfred Reeves ONZ GCMG GCVO QSO KStJ was a New Zealand clergyman who served as Archbishop and Primate of New Zealand from 1980 to 1985 and as the 15th governor-general of New Zealand from 1985 to 1990. He was the first governor-general of Māori descent. He also served as the third Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology, from...
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