12 Notable alumni of Ursinus College
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
Ursinus College is ranked #3,006 in the world and #784 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Ursinus 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 Ursinus College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Phyllis Stadler Lyon
1934-. (aged 92)
field hockey player
Phyllis Stadler Lyon, formerly Phyllis Marie Stadler, is an American former field hockey player who played on the U.S. women's national field hockey team from 1958 to 1965. She was in the first class of inductees into the U.S. Field Hockey Association Hall of Fame.
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2. Joseph Melrose
1944-2014 (aged 70)
diplomat
Joseph H. Melrose Jr. was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone during the final years of the Sierra Leone Civil War. He helped broker the Lomé Peace Accord which brought an end to hostilities, and he worked to expose the role of blood diamonds in financing armed conflict in Africa.
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3. Jing Johnson
1894-1950 (aged 56)
baseball player
Russell Conwell "Jing" Johnson was a pitcher during five seasons of American Major League Baseball. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics.
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4. John B. Price
1883-1954 (aged 71)
head coach
American football coach
John Beadle Price was an American football and baseball coach and physician. He served as the head football coach at Slippery Rock State Normal School—now known as Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania—from 1906 to 1907, Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1913, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1914 to 1915, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania from 1916...
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5. Steve Donahue
1962-. (aged 64)
basketball coach
Steve Donahue is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team. He also served as head coach at Cornell, Boston College, and Penn.
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6. Linda M. Springer
Linda M. Springer is a financial services executive who served as the eighth Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management. She was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in June 2005. Prior to her appointment, Springer served as controller and head of the Office of Federal Financial Management at the White House Office of Management and Budget....
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7. Steve Malagari
1983-. (aged 43)
politician
Steven R. "Steve" Malagari is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 53rd district. He has held the position since January 1, 2019.
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8. Gerald Edelman
1929-2014 (aged 85)
biologist
chemist
physicist
university teacher
immunologist
Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual...
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9. Ryan Costello
1976-. (aged 50)
lawyer
politician
Ryan Anthony Costello is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected to the Congress in the 2014 midterms. Costello previously served on the Chester County Board of Commissioners (2011–2015), which he chaired from 2013 to 2015.
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10. Robert Yerkes
1876-1956 (aged 80)
university teacher
psychologist
Robert Mearns Yerkes was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology.
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11. Kim Guadagno
1959-. (aged 67)
lawyer
politician
Kimberly Ann Guadagno is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor and 33rd secretary of state of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
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12. Joseph DeSimone
1964-. (aged 62)
chemist
researcher
engineer
Joseph M. DeSimone is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon, of which he was CEO from 2014 until November 2019.
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