List of Middlebury College alumni

Politics

*Claire D. Ayer - a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Addison senate district, majority leader of the Vermont Senate as of Fall 2006.
*Adrian Benepe - Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
*Ron Brown - Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
*Alexander W. Buel - Former United States Congressman from Michigan.
*Randy Brock - a Vermont Republican politician.
*Davis Carpenter - Former United States Representative from New York.
*Barbara Comstock - Republican political consultant, lobbyist, attorney, and campaign and media advisor; co-founder and co-principal of Corallo Comstock, a public policy and public relations firm.
*Carlos Coolidge - American Whig politician.
*Jim Douglas - Governor of Vermont
*Bill Delahunt- United States Congressman from Massachusetts.
*Paul Eaton - Retired United States Army General known for his outspoken criticisms of George W. Bush's administration.
*George Z. Erwin - Former member of the New York State Senate.
*Ari Fleischer - Former White House Press Secretary and field director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
*Solomon Foot - Former U.S. Senator and President pro tempore during the Civil War.
*Beriah Green - American reformer and noted abolitionist.
*Lado Gurgenidze - Prime Minister of Georgia.
*Rand Knight - American ecologist, businessman, and a Democratic Party politician in Georgia.
*William Alanson Howard - U.S. Congressman from Michigan and Governor of Dakota Territory.
*Calvin T. Hulburd - Former United States Representative from New York.
*Rollin Carolas Mallary - Former U.S. Representative from Vermont.
*Frank Pallone - U.S. Congressman from New Jersey [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000034 Frank Pallone, Jr.] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". Accessed August 30, 2007.]
*Jeremiah Rankin - Abolitionist, champion of the temperance movement, minister of Washington's First Congregational Church, and correspondent with Frederick Douglass.
*Felix Rohatyn - President of Rohatyn Associates LLC; former partner and Managing Director of Lazard, U.S. Ambassador to France under President Bill Clinton; Commander in the Légion d'honneur; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
*Albio Sires - Member of the United States House of Representatives from ushr|New Jersey|13. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s001165 Albio Sires] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". Accessed September 25, 2007.]
*Robert Stafford - Former Governor of Vermont and United States Senator from Vermont.
*William M. Straus - Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
*John Wolcott Stewart - Former U.S. Senator and Representative from Vermont, and from the family for which Stewart Dorm on the Middlebury campus is named
*Alexander Twilight - First African American to graduate from an American college; first African American elected to public office, serving as a Representative in the Vermont House of Representatives.
*Silas Wright - Former Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Democratic Senator, and Governor of New York [http://www.answers.com/topic/silas-wright]

Law

*Roswell M. Field - Prominent antebellum lawyer who represented Dred Scott
*Marilyn Jean Kelly - Jurist in the U.S. state of Michigan, Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court.
*Samuel Nelson - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
*Edward John Phelps - Lawyer and diplomat; second controller of the United States Treasury; a founding member and president of the American Bar Association; Envoy to Great Britain (1885 to 1889); senior counsel for the United States before the international tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea controversy.
*William K. Sessions III - Judge on the United States District Court in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and as Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
*Martha B. Sosman - Lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts, served as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Education

*Nathan S.S. Beman - President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1845 until 1865.
*Ezra Brainerd - President of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.
*Paul O. Carrese - Professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of the book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press).
*Thomas Jefferson Conant - American Biblical scholar.
*Martin Henry Freeman - First black president of an American college, as well as later serving as president of Liberia College.
*Peter Gries - Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues and Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.Andy Kepes - Comedian, Earth Science Teacher, Professional Wrestler, Pretty Much an Amazing guy.
*Dan M. Kahan - Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
*Charles S. Murkland - first elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts following the college's move from Hanover to Durham in the United States.
*Stephen Olin - American educator and minister, the first President of Randolph Macon College (1834–1837) and later was president of Wesleyan University (1839–1851).
*Nicholas Sambanis - Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
*Suzanna Sherry - Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.
*James Reist Stoner, Jr. - Chair of the Department of Government and a professor of political science at Louisiana State University.
*Barry Sullivan - Law professor and dean of the Washington & Lee University School of Law.
*John Martin Thomas - Ninth president of Middlebury College, the ninth president of Penn State, and the twelfth president of Rutgers University.
*Anne Walker - Architectural historian and author in New York City.

Art, music, and literature

*Julia Alvarez - Award-winning author, poet, and writer-in-residence at Middlebury.
*Anna Belknap - Actress ("")
*Marianne Boesky - Owner of the Marianne Boesky Galley in Manhattan, credited with launching the careers of Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami and painter Lisa Yuskavage.
*Vanessa Branch - British actress, model, former Miss Vermont, noted for her role as the woman in the Orbit Gum commercials.
*William Burden - American opera singer
*Thomas Calcagni - Author, Tough Questions Good Answers, PRSA Award winner and Media Coach.
*T Cooper - American novelist.
*James Cromwell - Actor noted for his roles in Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and 24.
*Dispatch - Prominent American indie jam band, comprising Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold, which was formed at Middlebury
*Eve Ensler - Author, playwright, feminist theorist, and peace activist best known for her play, "The Vagina Monologues"
*Peter Gallo - reclusive artist and writer known for his mixed media works which often combine a variety of unconventional materials.
*Rebecca Gilman - American playwright.
*Robert Gober - Sculptor whose works are exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
*Patricia Goedicke - American poet.
*Mel Gussow - Influential American theater critic who wrote for "The New York Times" for 35 years.
*Justin Haythe - American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
*Bill Homans - American blues musician who performs under the stage name Watermelon Slim.
*Peter Knobler - Author, editor of "Crawdaddy" magazine
*Alexandra Kotur - Senior features editor at Vogue and author of "Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon".
*Judy Malloy - Poet.
*Emily McLaughlin - American soap opera actress.
*Louise McNeill - American poet, essayist, and historian of Appalachia.
*Anais Mitchell - Folk singer-songwriter
*Emily Mitchell - Anglo-American novelist.
*Wendy Mogel - Speaker and author who looks at every day parenting problems through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings.
*Jacqueline S. Moore - American poet and author of "Moments of My Life".
*John Perkins - Activist and author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".
*Amanda Plummer - American award-winning actress.
*Nancy Rosen - Founded Nancy Rosen Incorporated, an organization which plans and implements public art programs and collections, including the Art-for-Public-Spaces program for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
*Lewis Robinson - Writer, author of "Officer Friendly and Other Stories"
*Rodney Rothman - Writer, Funny Man, author of "Early Bird"; Film Writer/Producer ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall and "The Year One) Television writer ("Late Show with David Letterman" and "Undeclared")
*Shawn Ryan - Television, executive producer ("The Shield" and "The Unit").
*John Tinker - Executive Producer of "Chicago Hope" and writer for "L.A. Law"
*Michael Tolkin - Novelist, screenwriter, director
*John Valby - Musician and comedian
*Jake Weber - British actor, noted for his role on NBC's "Medium".
*Julia Whelan - Actress, noted for her role on Once and Again.

Journalism

*Elizabeth Farnsworth - Journalist and co-anchor of "PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer."
*Trip Gabriel - New York Times Style editor
*Andrea Koppel - Former U.S. State Department correspondent for CNN.
*Walter R. Mears - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
*Andrew Meldrum - American journalist and former correspondent of "The Economist" and "The Guardian" in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2003.
*Jeanne Meserve - CNN correspondent.
*Mark Patinkin - Columnist at the Providence Journal.
*Matt Power - India-based reporter for National Public Radio, Harper's, and The Christian Science Monitor.
*Andrew Purvis -American journalist, currently the bureau chief for Time magazine's Berlin bureau.
*Jane Bryant Quinn - Contributing Editor for Newsweek and former author of the twice-weekly column, “Staying Ahead,” syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.
*Robert Schlesinger - Author, opinion editor for US News & World Report, Huffington Post blogger, and co-founder of the blog [http://www.remmet.com RobertEmmet] .
*Frank Sesno - Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for CNN; Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and George Washington University. [http://policy.gmu.edu/faculty/sesno/]
*Vendela Vida - Novelist, journalist, and editor; co-founded and co-edits the monthly periodical "The Believer".
*David Wolman - American author and journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as "Wired", "Newsweek", "Discover", "National Geographic Traveler", "New Scientist" and "Outside".
*Janine Zacharia - Journalist, diplomatic reporter for Bloomberg News, writer for The New Republic.
*Ralph Gardner, Jr. - freelance American Journalist for the New York Times and New York Magazine.

Business and entrepreneurship

*Louis Bacon - Hedge fund manager, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans
*Christopher D. Brady - Founding partner and Chairman of The Chart Group.
*John Deere - blacksmith, inventor, founder of John Deere & Company
*Jim Davis - Chairman of New Balance, one of Forbes Magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans
*Patrick Durkin - Former Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston.
*Peter T. Francis - President and CEO of JM Huber Corporation.
* Stephen J. Harasimowicz - Managing Director, Head of Trading for Columbia Management, the assest management branch of Bank of America.
* Reuben Mark - Former CEO of Colgate-Palmolive (retired July 1, 2007).
*Raymond J. Saulnier - American economist, who was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) from 1956 to 1961 under President Dwight David Eisenhower.
* Daniel Schulman - CEO of Virgin Mobile USA since August 2001, member of the Symantec board of directors since March 2000.

cience and engineering

*Louis Winslow Austin, physicist
*Henry Schoolcraft - American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River.

Philanthrophy

*Dana Reeve - Philanthropist and actress; founder and former Chair of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
*Eileen Rockefeller Growald - Philanthropist; founder of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Economic Learning (CASEL), Champaign Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA), and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
*John Wallach - Founder of Seeds of Peace.
*Miron Winslow - American Congregationalist missionary in Ceylon.

Miscellaneous

*John Bower - an American nordic combined skier who competed in the 1960s and later went on to become a coach of the American nordic skiing team for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympic team.
*H. Adams Carter - American mountaineer and language teacher.
*Roger Chapin - Businessman turned fundraiser, self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur," [cite news
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*Thomas M. Jacobs - American Olympic nordic skier who competed in the 1950s.
*Andrew Johnson - Member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team.
*Britton Keeshan - One of the youngest persons to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents (the Seven Summits) as of May 24, 2004.
*Hall J. Kelley - Explorer, settler, and writer; strong advocate for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s.
*Archibald Crowell (Kenneth Lee) - Director 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
*Tessa Horst - Final rose recipient on the Spring 2007 series of the American television show, .
*Lynne Kathryn Schulze - Middlebury College freshman, of Simsbury, CT, USA, who inexplicably vanished from the college grounds on December 10, 1971, and has never been seen since.

Fictional alumni

*Snake Jailbird - Fictional character and criminal on animated television series "The Simpsons" who repaid his Middlebury College student loans after robbing Springfield landmark Moe's Tavern. Voiced by Hank Azaria.
*Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot, and Annie Paradis - The three main characters in Olivia Goldsmith's first novel "The First Wives Club" (1992). The women, who in the novel met while students at Middlebury College (class of 1969), were portrayed by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the 1996 film adaptation.
*Mr. Wolfe - A teacher in George Lucas' 1973 film "American Graffiti". The character, played by Terry McGovern, is a confidant of Curt Henderson's, played by Richard Dreyfuss. In their one conversation together, Mr. Wolfe tells Curt that he "got drunk as hell the night before" going to college, and that he "barfed on the train all next day." When Curt asks him where he went to school, Mr. Wolfe replies, "Middlebury, Vermont... On a scholarship... [I stayed only] one semester. After all that, I came back here... I guess I just wasn't the competitive type."

References

External links

* [http://www.middlebury.edu Middlebury College official website]
* [http://www.middlebury.edu/alumni/mcaa/awards/ Alumni Achievement Award Winners]