List of Kalamazoo College people
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This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.
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Alumni
Arts and letters
- Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
- Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author[1]
- Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
- David France, journalist and author
- Holly Hughes, performance artist
- Nagai Kafu, author
- Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show[2]
- Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony-Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
- Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
- Fern Persons (1933), actress
- Mike Vasas, singer/songwriter
- Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
- Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead[3]
Government
- Garry E. Brown, politician
- Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
- Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
- Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
- Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Business
- Harry Garland, entrepreneur[4]
- Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
- Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)
Academia
- Kenneth G. Elzinga, an economics professor at the University of Virginia
- Thomas F. Gieryn, a sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
- David Heath, a probabilist famous for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve.[5]
- Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
- Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
- Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics[6]
- Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College[7]
Other
- John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
- David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology
References
- ↑ Bard College | Faculty
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