35 Notable alumni of Washington College
Updated: June 17, 2026 EliteDegrees
Washington College is 2294st in the world, 1st in North America, and 594st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from Washington 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 Washington College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. James Paull
1818-1875 (aged 57)
politician
James Paull was a prominent lawyer, politician and judge in Wheeling in what became West Virginia during his lifetime. Before the American Civil War, Paull represented Ohio County in the Virginia General Assembly as a Whig, then attended the First Wheeling Convention, which led to the area's secession from Virginia and creation of the state of West Virginia. During his...
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2. Samuel Davies Alexander
1819-1894 (aged 75)
minister
author
clergyman
Samuel Davies Alexander was a Presbyterian minister.
3. Gilbert T. Rude
1881-1962 (aged 81)
military officer
Gilbert T. Rude was an officer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey—one of the ancestor organizations of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- and the United States Navy. He served as Chief of the Division of Coastal Surveys in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A NOAA ship was named for him.
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4. Mary Adele France
1880-1954 (aged 74)
teacher
suffragette
Mary Adele France, also known as M. Adele France, was the first president of St. Mary's Female Seminary Junior College, which is now a coeducational, four-year public honors college, known as St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is credited with expanding St. Mary's Female Seminary into a junior college. She was both the last principal of the seminary and the...
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5. James Barroll Ricaud
1808-1866 (aged 58)
lawyer
judge
politician
James Barroll Ricaud was an American politician. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate in the mid-19th century. He represented Maryland's 2nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859. He was later appointed as an associate judge in Maryland.
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6. William Murray Stone
1779-1838 (aged 59)
Christian minister
Anglican priest
William Murray Stone, D.D. was an American Episcopal clergyman from Maryland. He was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland at Baltimore from 1830 until his death.
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7. Edward F. C. Davis
1847-1895 (aged 48)
engineer
Edward Forman Chambers Davis was an American mechanical engineer, and superintendent, known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1894–95. Davis died while still presiding officer from an accident while riding his horse in the Central Park of New York City.
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8. Charles Hopper Gibson
1842-1900 (aged 58)
lawyer
politician
Charles Hopper Gibson was a U. S. Senator from Maryland, serving from 1891–1897. He also served as a U.S. Congressman from 1885–1891.
9. Thomas Alan Goldsborough
1877-1951 (aged 74)
lawyer
judge
politician
Thomas Alan Goldsborough was a United States representative from Maryland and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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10. John W. Crisfield
1806-1897 (aged 91)
lawyer
politician
John Woodland Crisfield was a U.S. representative from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1847 to 1849 and the first district from 1861 to 1863. The city of Crisfield, Maryland, is named after him. Crisfield was a strong supporter of the Union during American Civil War, opposing moves towards Maryland's secession. However, Crisfield also supported the institution of slavery and...
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11. Thomas Veazey
1774-1842 (aged 68)
politician
Thomas Ward Veazey was a Maryland politician who served in a variety of roles. The zenith of his career was being the 24th Governor of the state from 1836 to 1839, when he was selected to serve three consecutive one-year terms by the Maryland General Assembly. Veazey was the last Maryland governor to be elected in this fashion and also...
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12. Lucy Gwynne Branham
1892-1966 (aged 74)
suffragist
Lucy Gwynne Branham was an American suffragist associated with the National Woman's Party.
13. William Holland Wilmer
1782-1827 (aged 45)
clergyman
Christian minister
William Holland Wilmer was an Episcopal priest, teacher and writer in Maryland and Virginia who served briefly as the eleventh president of the College of William and Mary.
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14. Edwards Davis
1873-1936 (aged 63)
actor
playwright
pastor
Cader Edwards Davis was an American actor, producer, and playwright of vaudeville and the silent film era, known as a character actor. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was an ordained Christian minister and first achieved prominence as a sensational orator and lecturer, becoming known as the "poet-preacher" and the "Talmage of the West", before leaving...
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15. William J. Wallace
1895-1977 (aged 82)
United States Naval Aviator
William Jennings Wallace was a highly decorated aviation officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. He is most noted for his service as commanding officer of MAG-22 at Midway and MAG-23 at Guadalcanal and the Air Defense Command during the Battle of Okinawa.
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16. Ezekiel F. Chambers
1788-1867 (aged 79)
lawyer
judge
politician
Ezekiel Forman Chambers was an American politician from Maryland.
17. Joseph M. Getty
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Joseph M. Getty is the former chief judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland. He was appointed as a judge of that court on June 27, 2016, by Governor Larry Hogan. Effective September 11, 2021, Hogan appointed him as chief judge to replace Mary Ellen Barbera as she reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, an age Getty himself reached...
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18. James A. Adkins
1954-. (aged 72)
sociologist
James A. Adkins is an American retired senior military officer and former cabinet-level official who served the adjutant general of Maryland and secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs.
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19. Bill Nicholson
1914-1996 (aged 82)
baseball player
William Beck "Swish" Nicholson was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1936), Chicago Cubs (1939–1948) and Philadelphia Phillies (1949–1953). A native of Chestertown, Maryland, where he attended Washington College, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
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20. Louis L. Goldstein
1913-1998 (aged 85)
politician
Louis Lazerus Goldstein was an American politician who served as comptroller, or chief financial officer, of Maryland for ten terms from 1959 to 1998. A popular politician and lifelong Democrat, he was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1938 and served three terms in the Maryland Senate before winning election as Comptroller. He ran unsuccessfully for U.S....
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21. Robert K. Crane
1919-2010 (aged 91)
biochemist
chemist
Robert Kellogg Crane was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium–glucose cotransport.
22. William O. Baker
1915-2005 (aged 90)
chemist
William Oliver Baker was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and advisor on scientific matters to five United States presidents.
23. William E. Cameron
1842-1927 (aged 85)
lawyer
journalist
editor
politician
William Evelyn Cameron was a Confederate soldier who became a Virginia lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Virginia from 1882–1886, elected as the candidate of the Readjuster Party headed by William Mahone.
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24. Harris Whitbeck
1965-. (aged 61)
journalist
presenter
Harris Lee Whitbeck Cain is a Guatemalan journalist, author, and television personality currently serving as the director of the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism (INGUAT) for the Bernardo Arévalo administration. Prior to becoming the director of INGUAT, Whitbeck worked as a correspondent and Latin America bureau chief for CNN.
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25. Barry Glassman
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Barry Glassman is an American politician who served as the 7th county executive of Harford County, Maryland, from 2014 to 2022. He was previously a member of the Maryland State Senate, representing District 35 in Harford County, Maryland; he was appointed in 2008 to fill a vacancy, and subsequently was re-elected to the position in 2010. Glassman was originally elected...
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26. Bill Gertz
1952-. (aged 74)
columnist
reporter
journalist
William D. Gertz is an American editor, columnist and reporter for The Washington Times. He is the author of eight books.
27. Cassie Mackin
1939-1982 (aged 43)
journalist
Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network broadcasting. In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions. In 1976, she became the first woman to regularly anchor an evening network newscast alone.
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28. John Emory
1789-1835 (aged 46)
journalist
priest
John Emory was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832. He is the namesake for Emory University and Emory & Henry College, both Methodist-affiliated American universities.
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29. Linda Hamilton
1956-. (aged 70)
voice actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before achieving fame with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and two of its sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Saturn Awards,...
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30. James M. Cain
1892-1977 (aged 85)
screenwriter
writer
film screenwriter
novelist
reporter
James Mallahan Cain was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
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31. Stephan Lewandowsky
1958-. (aged 68)
psychologist
Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of Psychological Science. His research, which originally pertained to computer simulations of people's decision-making processes, recently has focused on the public's understanding of...
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32. Ralph Snyderman
1940-. (aged 86)
author
educator
scientist
physician
Ralph Snyderman is a Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Duke Center for Personalized Health Care. He served as chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine from 1989 to July 2004. Under his leadership, Duke University created the Duke University Health System to develop and operate...
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33. Laura San Giacomo
1962-. (aged 64)
voice actor
television actor
actor
film actor
Laura San Giacomo is an American actress. She played Cynthia in the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Kit De Luca in the film Pretty Woman (1990), Crazy Cora in the film Quigley Down Under (1990), Nadine Cross in The Stand (1994), and Maya Gallo on the sitcom...
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34. George W. Morgan
1820-1893 (aged 73)
lawyer
diplomat
military officer
politician
George Washington Morgan was an American soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He fought in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican–American War, and was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Morgan later served as a three-term reconstruction era United States Congressman from Ohio. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1858 to...
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35. Robert Wright
1752-1826 (aged 74)
lawyer
judge
politician
Robert Wright is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion. He has published five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God...
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