List of Haverford College people

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This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of Haverford College. As of 2010, Haverford alumni include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholarship recipients, 10 Marshall Scholarship recipients, 9 Henry Luce Fellows,{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/abouthaverford/ataglance.php|title=Why Haverford - Office of Admission|publisher=Haverford.edu|access-date=21 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110103523/http://www.haverford.edu/abouthaverford/ataglance.php|archive-date=10 November 2011}} 56 Watson Fellows, 2 George Mitchell Scholarship, 2 Churchill Scholars, 1 Gates Cambridge Scholar, 13 All Americans, and 23 NCAA post-graduate winners.

Alumni

=Business and industry=

=Higher education and academia=

=Entertainment, fine and performing arts=

=Government, diplomacy, and law=

=Journalism=

=Literature and writing=

  • Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate), Newbery Medal-winning author
  • Nicholson Baker 1979, novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Dave Barry 1969 English, Pulitzer Prize–winning humor columnist
  • John Dickson Carr 1929, author of detective stories; also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn
  • Frank Conroy 1958, author, late director of the Iowa Writers Workshop
  • Robert Flynn, 1990, editor in chief of Getty Publications{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-flynn/1a/642/817|title=Rob Flynn : Editor in Chief|publisher=Linkedin.com|access-date=21 November 2014}}
  • Roy Gutman 1966, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
  • Colin Harrison, 1982 author, editor to numerous prominent authors, and editor-in-chief for Scribners.
  • Evan Jones 1949, poet, playwright, and screenwriter
  • Richard Lederer 1959, author known for books on wordplay and the English language
  • Andrew Lipstein, author of literary novels
  • Stephen W. Meader 1913, author of over forty novels for young readers
  • Christopher Morley 1910, novelist, poet, essayist, Rhodes scholar
  • Norman Pearlstine 1964, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine; chief content officer at Bloomberg L.P.
  • Logan Pearsall Smith attended 1881–1884, man of letters, author of Trivia{{cite book|author=Allen C Thomas; Haverford College Alumni Association|title=Biographical catalogue of the matriculates of Haverford College, together with lists of the members of the college faculty and the managers, officers and recipients of honorary degrees, 1833-1900|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalcata0have|publisher=Philadelphia: Printed for the Alumni Association|year=1900|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalcata0have/page/173 173]}}

=Medicine=

=Science=

=Social action, philanthropy, and community service=

=Sports and athletics=

=Fictional alumni=

  • Dale Cooper, FBI detective in David Lynch's Twin Peaks
  • Astrid Farnsworth, FBI agent in Fringe[http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/showpatrol/2009/05/fringe-star-jasika-nicole-is-ready-for-action.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508103713/http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/showpatrol/2009/05/fringe-star-jasika-nicole-is-ready-for-action.html|date=May 8, 2009}}

Presidents of Haverford College

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|+ Principals and Presidents of Haverford College{{cite web |url=https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/President/Presidents-List.pdf |title=Haverford College Presidents |work=Haverford College}}

! Name

! Start of term

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colspan=5 style="text-align: center; font-style: bold;" |Principals
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| Joseph G. Harlan

| 1857

| 1857

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| Samuel James Gummere

| 1862

| 1864

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colspan=5 style="text-align: center; font-style: bold;" |Presidents
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| Samuel James Gummere

| 1864

| 1874

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| Thomas Chase

| 1875

| 1886

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| Isaac Sharpless

| 1887

| 1917

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| William Wistar Comfort

| 1917

| 1940

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| Felix Morley

| 1940

| 1945

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| Archibald MacIntosh

| 1945

| 1946

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| Gilbert White

| 1946

| 1956

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| Archibald MacIntosh

| 1956

| 1957

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| Hugh Borton

| 1957

| 1967

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| John R. Coleman

| 1967

| 1977

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| Stephen R. Cary

| 1977

| 1978

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| Robert B. Stevens

| 1978

| 1987

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| Harry C. Payne

| 1987

| 1988

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| Tom G. Kessinger

| 1988

| 1996

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| Robert M. Gavin, Jr.

| 1996

| 1997

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| Thomas R. Tritton

| 1997

| 2007

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| Stephen G. Emerson

| 2007

| 2011

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| Joanne V. Creighton

| 2011

| 2013

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| Daniel H. Weiss

| 2013

| 2015

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| Kimberly W. Benston

| 2015

| 2019

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| Wendy Raymond

| 2019

| present

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Notable current and former faculty

  • Richard J. Bernstein, professor of philosophy (1966–1989); author of John Dewey (1966); Dean of Graduate Studies, New School of Social Research
  • Lynne Butler, professor of mathematics and statistics
  • Curt Cacioppo, professor of music; contemporary composer
  • Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, associate professor of Spanish; Chilean author
  • John Royston Coleman, President 1967-77; labor economist; author of Blue-Collar Journal; host of CBS program "Money Talks", later president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
  • Edward Drinker Cope, A.M. (Hon.) 1864, professor of zoology, 1864-67; renowned paleontologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist; long associated with Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences
  • William C. Davidon, professor of physics and mathematics (1961–1991); peace and justice activist
  • Elihu Grant, writer, professor of Biblical literature (1917–1938)
  • Elaine Tuttle Hansen, provost of Haverford College 1995–2002; president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
  • Louise Holland (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist
  • Anita Isaacs, Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences; professor of political science
  • Rufus Jones, professor of philosophy (1893–1934); Quaker mystic; co-founder of American Friends Service Committee
  • Roger Lane, Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor in history; winner of the Bancroft Award from Columbia University and the Best Book Award from the Urban History Association
  • Ira De Augustine Reid, professor and chair of sociology and anthropology and first tenured black faculty member (1948–1966), scholar of black urban and immigrant life in the United States
  • Michael Sells, guest professor of comparative religions at Haverford (1984–2005); author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations; Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
  • Ed Sikov 1978, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. For a decade during the 1990s and 2000s he taught "Sex and Gender on Film: Screwballs, Devil Dames, and Closet Cases", then one of the most popular[http://www.biconews.com/2005/04/19/sikovs-contract-not-renewed/ Sikov's Contract Not Renewed. The Bi-College News, April 19th, 2005]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416142551/http://www.biconews.com/2005/04/19/sikovs-contract-not-renewed/ |date=April 16, 2016 }} courses on campus
  • Douglas V. Steere, professor of philosophy (1928 to 1964); organized Quaker post-war relief work in Finland, Norway and Poland; invited to participate as an ecumenical observer in the Second Vatican Council
  • Ronald F. Thiemann, chairman of Religion (1975–1985), dean of Harvard Divinity School (1986–1998)
  • Josiah ("Tink") Thompson, professor of philosophy (1965–1976); biographer and scholar of Søren Kierkegaard; expert on assassination of John F. Kennedy (author of Six Seconds in Dallas (1967){{cite book |last= Thompson|first= Josiah |title= Six Seconds in Dallas)|year= 1967 |isbn= 978-0-394-44571-7}} and Last Second in Dallas (2021);{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Josiah |title=Last Second in Dallas |date=2021 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |location=Lawrence, KS |isbn=978-0-7006-3008-0 |url=https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3008-0.html |access-date=31 January 2021}} left academia to become a private investigator in San Francisco; author of memoir Gumshoe
  • Cornel West, assistant professor of Philosophy (1987–88), currently professor of religion at Princeton University
  • Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author and psychoanalyst, former student and biographer of Hannah Arendt
  • Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy[https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/10/04/blueprint-for-an-ai-bill-of-rightsa-vision-for-protecting-our-civil-rights-in-the-algorithmic-age/ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: A Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age. OSTP Blog, October 4th, 2022]

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