List of Pomona College people

{{short description|Notable alumni and staff of Pomona College}}

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Pomona College ({{IPAc-en|p|ə|ˈ|m|oʊ|n|ə|audio=En-us-Pomona.ogg}} {{respell|pə|MOH|nə}}{{cite web |title=Pomona |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pomona |publisher=Collins English Dictionary |access-date=8 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215052106/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pomona |url-status=live }}) is an elite{{#section:Pomona College|reputation reference}} private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium.{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Pomona College |url=https://www.pomona.edu/about/brief-history-pomona-college |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=29 July 2020 |language=en |date=19 March 2015 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715235606/https://www.pomona.edu/about/brief-history-pomona-college |url-status=live }} Many notable individuals have been affiliated with the college as graduates, non-graduating attendees, faculty, staff, or administrators.

Since its founding in 1887, Pomona has graduated {{age|1893|6|1}} classes of students.{{#ifeq:{{#expr:{{#time:n}}=5 or {{#time:n}}=6}}|1|{{efn|Calculated assuming a commencement date of June 1; may be off by one if commencement takes place earlier.}}}} The college enrolls approximately {{round|{{formatnum:{{wikidata|property|linked|P2196|page=Pomona College}}|R}}|-1}} students as of the {{semester|{{wikidata|qualifier|P2196|P585|page=Pomona College}}}} {{YEAR|{{wikidata|qualifier|P2196|P585|page=Pomona College}}}} semester{{wikidata|references|P2196|page=Pomona College}} and has roughly 25,000 living alumni.{{cite web |title=Alumni Association Board |date= |url=https://www.pomona.edu/alumni/alumni-association-board |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=24 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215052112/https://www.pomona.edu/alumni/alumni-association-board |url-status=live }} The top industries for graduates include technology; education; consulting and professional services; finance; government, law, and politics; arts, entertainment, and media; healthcare and social services; nonprofits; and research.{{cite web |date= |title=Where Do Grads Go? |url=https://www.pomona.edu/administration/career-development/where-grads-go |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608052452/https://www.pomona.edu/administration/career-development/where-grads-go |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |access-date=June 8, 2021 |publisher=Pomona College |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Current Professional Activities of Pomona Alumni |url=https://tableau.campus.pomona.edu/views/ProfessionalActivitiesPublic/TopIndustries?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:display_spinner=no&:showAppBanner=false&:embed_code_version=3&:loadOrderID=0&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608052452/https://tableau.campus.pomona.edu/views/ProfessionalActivitiesPublic/TopIndustries?iframeSizedToWindow=true&:embed=y&:display_spinner=no&:showAppBanner=false&:embed_code_version=3&:loadOrderID=0&:display_count=n&:showVizHome=n&:origin=viz_share_link |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |access-date=June 8, 2021 |website=Office of Institutional Research |publisher=Pomona College |language=en}}

Pomona employs {{wikidata|property|normal+|current|P1128|P518=Q5428874|page=Pomona College}} faculty members as of the {{semester|{{wikidata|qualifier|P1128|P518=Q5428874|P585|page=Pomona College}}}} {{YEAR|{{wikidata|qualifier|P1128|P518=Q5428874|P585|page=Pomona College}}}} semester.{{wikidata|reference|normal+|current|single|P1128|P518=Q5428874|page=Pomona College}} The college has had {{wikidata|qualifier|normal+|current|P488|P1545|page=Pomona College}} presidents, the first four of whom were Congregational ministers. The current president, {{wikidata|property|linked|P488|page=Pomona College}}, took office in {{#time:F Y|{{wikidata|qualifier|normal+|current|P488|P580|page=Pomona College}}}}.{{wikidata|reference|normal+|current|single|P488|page=Pomona College}}

Notable alumni

{{Main category|Pomona College alumni}}

=Arts and letters=

==Visual art==

File:Dividing the Light interior.jpg, a 2007 skyspace on Pomona's campus by James Turrell, class of 1965]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Milford|Zornes}}

| 1934

| style="text-align:left;" | California Scene Painting watercolor artist

| {{cite news |last1=Abraham |first1=Sneha |title=A Conversation with Nature |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2008/01/01-conversation-nature |access-date=21 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Winter 2008 |publisher=Pomona College |language=en |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028055053/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2008/01/01-conversation-nature |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Roger Edward|Kuntz}}

| 1948

| style="text-align:left;" | Landscape painter

| {{cite web |title=Roger Kuntz Biography |url=https://www.rogerkuntzfineart.com/biography |website=rogerkuntzfineart.com |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050416/https://www.rogerkuntzfineart.com/biography |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Marcia|Hafif}}

| 1951

| style="text-align:left;" | Artist, known for minimalist and process art works

| {{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |title=Marcia Hafif, Painter of Monochromatic Works, Is Dead at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/obituaries/marcia-hafif-painter-of-monochromatic-works-is-dead-at-88.html |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109034722/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/obituaries/marcia-hafif-painter-of-monochromatic-works-is-dead-at-88.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Barbara T.|Smith}}

| 1953

| style="text-align:left;" | Performance artist

| {{cite news |last1=Noble |first1=Kathy |title=How a Dissatisfied Housewife Was Saved by Radical Performance (and a Xerox Machine) |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dissatisfied-housewife-saved-radical-performance-xerox-machine |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=Artsy |date=5 March 2018 |language=en |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201161514/https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dissatisfied-housewife-saved-radical-performance-xerox-machine |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Helen|Pashgian}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Light and Space artist

| {{cite web |title=Helen Pashgian |url=https://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2010/helen-pashgian |website=Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College |access-date=8 August 2020 |language=en |date=19 December 2014 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023010920/https://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2010/helen-pashgian |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|James|Strombotne}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Painter

| {{cite web |title=James Strombotne |url=https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/james-strombotne/ |website=Laguna Art Museum |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050418/https://lagunaartmuseum.org/artist/james-strombotne/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mary|GrandPré}}

| 1960s{{efn|name=specific unknown|The specific year is not known.}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Illustrator, best known for her work on the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter books

| {{cite web |title=Mary GrandPré |url=https://artinsights.com/artists/mary-grandpre-original-and-limited-edition-art/ |website=Artinsights Film Art Gallery |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921054253/https://artinsights.com/artists/mary-grandpre-original-and-limited-edition-art/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|James|Turrell}}

| 1965

| style="text-align:left;" | Light and Space artist, known for skyspaces and Roden Crater land art project

| {{cite news |last1=Pagel |first1=David |title=Turn on the light |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-21-ca-turrell21-story.html |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 October 2007 |archive-date=25 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325162914/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-21-ca-turrell21-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Judy|Fiskin}}

| 1966

| style="text-align:left;" | Photographer and video artist

| {{cite web |title=Judy Fiskin |url=https://www.vandorenwaxter.com/artists/judy-fiskin |website=vandorenwaxter.com |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806173943/https://www.vandorenwaxter.com/artists/judy-fiskin |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Chris|Burden}}

| 1969

| style="text-align:left;" | Performance, sculpture, and installation artist

| {{cite magazine |last1=Schjeldahl |first1=Peter |title=Performance {{!}} Chris Burden and the limits of art |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/performance-2 |access-date=29 July 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=14 May 2007 |language=en-us |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813022716/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/performance-2 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Raw Truth and Optimism: Chris Burden '69 (1946–2015) |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2015-summer.pdf#page=30 |pages=62–63 |access-date=7 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Summer 2015 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050340/http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2015-summer.pdf#page=30 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Peter|Shelton|dab=sculptor}}

| 1973

| style="text-align:left;" | Sculptor

| {{cite web |title=Peter Shelton |url=https://lalouver.com/artist.cfm?tArtist_id=136 |website=L.A. Louver |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050418/https://lalouver.com/artist.cfm?tArtist_id=136 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Miko|Lim}}

| 2002

| style="text-align:left;" | Director and photographer

| {{cite web |title=Miko Lim |url=https://www.d-cord.com/miko-biography |website=D-CORD Limited |access-date=31 July 2020 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806184637/https://www.d-cord.com/miko-biography |archive-date=6 August 2020}}

==Film and television==

File:Joel McCrea - publicity.JPG, class of 1928, appeared in more than 100 films, including many Westerns.{{cite web |title=Joel McCrea Filmography |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/PersonDetails/84863 |website=AFI Catalog |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012005758/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/PersonDetails/84863 |url-status=live }}]]

File:Robert Taylor by Eric Carpenter, 1946.jpg, class of 1933, was one of the leading men of the Hollywood Golden Age.{{cite book |last1=Tranberg |first1=Charles |title=Robert Taylor: A Biography |date=November 2010 |publisher=BearManor Media |location=Albany, Georgia |isbn=978-1-59393-615-0}}]]

File:יוני המנחם וריצ'רד צ'מברלין במכרות המלך שלמה בזימבבווה (cropped).jpg, class of 1956, became a teen idol for his starring role in Dr. Kildare.{{cite news |last1=McElroy |first1=Steven |title=At 80, Richard Chamberlain Is Ready to Speak Volumes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/fashion/at-80-richard-chamberlain-is-ready-to-speak-volumes.html |access-date=23 September 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=28 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050412/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/fashion/at-80-richard-chamberlain-is-ready-to-speak-volumes.html |url-status=live }}]]

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Joel|McCrea}}

| 1928

| style="text-align:left;" | Film actor (Sullivan's Travels, Foreign Correspondent)

| {{cite web |title=1928 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1928 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050404/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1928 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Flint |first1=Peter B. |title=Joel McCrea, Actor, Dies at 84; A Casual, Amiable Leading Man |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/obituaries/joel-mccrea-actor-dies-at-84-a-casual-amiable-leading-man.html |access-date=24 September 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 October 1990 |archive-date=21 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121231232/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/obituaries/joel-mccrea-actor-dies-at-84-a-casual-amiable-leading-man.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John|Whitney|dab=animator}}

| 1930s{{efn|name=specific unknown}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Early computer animation filmmaker

| {{cite web |title=John Whitney |url=http://siggrapharts.hosting.acm.org/wp/john-whitney/other/early-years/ |publisher=ACM SIGGRAPH |access-date=26 October 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050404/http://siggrapharts.hosting.acm.org/wp/john-whitney/other/early-years/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Moritz |first1=William |title=Digital Harmony: The Life of John Whitney, Computer Animation Pioneer |journal=Animation Word Magazine |date=August 1997 |volume=2 |issue=5 |url=https://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.5/2.5pages/2.5moritzwhitney.html |access-date=23 September 2020 |publisher=Animation Word Network |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050403/https://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.5/2.5pages/2.5moritzwhitney.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Taylor|dab=American actor}}

| 1933

| style="text-align:left;" | Film actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe)

| {{cite web |title=1933 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1933 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050440/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1933 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Robert Taylor, 57, Is Dead of Cancer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/09/archives/robert-taylor-57-is-dead-of-cancer-robert-taylor-30-years-in-films.html |access-date=29 November 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=9 June 1969 |pages=1,47 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=November 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129182742/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/06/09/archives/robert-taylor-57-is-dead-of-cancer-robert-taylor-30-years-in-films.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Art|Clokey}}

| Attended 1939–1943

| style="text-align:left;" | Stop-motion clay animator and creator of Gumby

| {{cite book |last1=Clokey |first1=Joan Rock |last2=Clokey |first2=Joe |title=Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and his Creations |date=November 15, 2017 |publisher=Dynamite Entertainment |isbn=978-1-5241-0437-5 |page=31}}{{cite news |last1=Gilbertsen |first1=Christian |title=Arthur Clokey Dies: Pomona alumnus and creator of Gumby dies at 88 |url=https://tsl.news/news1204/ |access-date=29 July 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=12 February 2010 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050404/https://tsl.news/news1204/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1943 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1943 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050411/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1943 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Amanda|Blake}}

| Attended {{circa|1950}}{{efn|name=specific unknown}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Actress (Gunsmoke)

| {{cite news |title=7 things you never knew about the great Amanda Blake of Gunsmoke |url=https://www.metv.com/lists/7-things-you-never-knew-about-the-great-amanda-blake-of-gunsmoke |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Me-TV Network |date=19 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050412/https://www.metv.com/lists/7-things-you-never-knew-about-the-great-amanda-blake-of-gunsmoke |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard|Chamberlain}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Film and theatre actor (Dr. Kildare, Shōgun, The Thorn Birds), three-time Golden Globe winner

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Towne}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Academy Award–winning screenwriter (Chinatown; nominated for The Last Detail and Shampoo)

|

! scope="row" | {{sortname|Anthony|Zerbe}}

| 1958

| style="text-align:left;" | Emmy-winning character actor (Will Penny, The Omega Man, Licence to Kill)

| {{cite web |title=1958 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1958 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050408/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1958 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David S.|Ward}}

| 1967

| style="text-align:left;" | Film director (Major League) and Academy Award–winning screenwriter (The Sting)

| {{cite web |title=1967 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1967 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050430/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1967 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Blalack}}

| 1970

| style="text-align:left;" | Visual effects artist (won Academy Award for Star Wars and an Emmy for The Day After)

| {{cite web |title=Robert Blalack |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-blalack-28bb7424/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=27 August 2020}}{{cite news |title=We Meet Again At Last: ILM Veterans Reunite to Celebrate 40 Years of Star Wars |url=https://www.starwars.com/news/ilm-reunion-40-years-of-star-wars |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=StarWars.com |date=14 June 2017 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921103142/https://www.starwars.com/news/ilm-reunion-40-years-of-star-wars |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Scott|Paulin}}

| 1971

| style="text-align:left;" | Actor (The Right Stuff), husband of actress Wendy Phillips

| {{cite news |title=Scott Paulin Directs New Version of Shepard's Starving Class |url=https://thisstage.la/2011/04/scott-paulin-directs-new-version-of-shepards-starving-class/ |access-date=3 August 2020 |work=At This Stage |date=15 April 2011 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050411/https://thisstage.la/2011/04/scott-paulin-directs-new-version-of-shepards-starving-class/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lynda|Obst}}

| 1972

| style="text-align:left;" | Film and television producer

| {{cite web |title=1972 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1972 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050426/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1972 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|George C.|Wolfe}}

| 1976

| style="text-align:left;" | Two-time Tony Award–winning play director, playwright and film director (Nights in Rodanthe)

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Allison|Jones|dab=casting director}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Emmy Award–winning casting director

| {{cite news |title=In Search of the Perfect Nerd |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/10/12-search-perfect-nerd |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=29 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703172910/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/10/12-search-perfect-nerd |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1977 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1977 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050436/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1977 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Rosalind|Chao}}

| 1978

| style="text-align:left;" | Actress (The Joy Luck Club, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

| {{cite news |title=Esther Brimmer '83, Bernard Chan '88, Rosalind Chao '78 and Cruz Reynoso '53 Win Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2018/04/26-esther-brimmer-%E2%80%9983-bernard-chan-%E2%80%9988-rosalind-chao-%E2%80%9978-and-cruz-reynoso-%E2%80%9953-win-blaisdell |access-date=31 July 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=26 April 2018 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050432/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2018/04/26-esther-brimmer-83-bernard-chan-88-and-cruz-reynoso-53-win-blaisdell-distinguished-alumni-award |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ted|Field}}

| 1979

| style="text-align:left;" | Media mogul and film producer

| {{cite news |last1=Eller |first1=Claudia |title=Literary Producer Opens a New Chapter |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-11-fi-12023-story.html |access-date=3 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=11 August 1998 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050446/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-11-fi-12023-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Paul|Guay|dab=screenwriter}}

| 1979

| style="text-align:left;" | Screenwriter (Liar Liar, Heartbreakers, The Little Rascals)

| {{cite news |last1=Barbera |first1=Kirk |title=A Conversation with Screenwriter and Poet Paul Guay |url=https://www.troubadourmag.com/post/conversation-with-screenwriter-and-poet-paul-guay |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=The Troubadour Magazine |date=28 October 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028133741/https://www.troubadourmag.com/post/conversation-with-screenwriter-and-poet-paul-guay |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Paul Guay |url=http://www.artcenter.edu/about/get-to-know-artcenter/people/detail.html?breadcrumb=568edbf44d9b6ff125f3e25b&accdID=0255301 |publisher=ArtCenter College of Design |access-date=26 October 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050419/http://www.artcenter.edu/about/get-to-know-artcenter/people/detail.html?breadcrumb=568edbf44d9b6ff125f3e25b&accdID=0255301 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Joe|Menosky}}

| 1979

| style="text-align:left;" | Television writer (Star Trek franchise)

| {{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Mark |title=Fact or Myth: Answers |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2017/spring/fact-or-myth-answers/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050431/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2017/spring/fact-or-myth-answers/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Melissa Jo|Peltier}}

| 1983

| style="text-align:left;" | Television writer and producer (Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan)

| {{cite news |title=Bookmarks |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2013-summer.pdf#page=25 |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |page=44 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050419/http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2013-summer.pdf#page=25 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jim|Taylor|dab=writer}}

| 1984

| style="text-align:left;" | Academy Award–winning screenwriter (Sideways); frequent writing partner of Alexander Payne

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Viveca|Paulin}}

| 1991

| style="text-align:left;" | Actor, wife of comedian Will Ferrell

| {{cite news |last1=Preston |first1=Stefan |title=Who Is Will Ferrell's Wife, Actress Viveca Paulin, and How Long Have They Been Married? |url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/who-is-will-ferrells-wife-actress-viveca-paulin-and-how-long-have-they-been-married.html/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Showbiz Cheat Sheet |date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050428/https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/who-is-will-ferrells-wife-actress-viveca-paulin-and-how-long-have-they-been-married.html/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kelly|Perine}}

| 1991

| style="text-align:left;" | Television actor

| {{cite news |title=Hollywood Networking Group Connects Alumni |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/02/07-hollywood-networking-group-connects-alumni |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=7 February 2019 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050418/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/02/07-hollywood-networking-group-connects-alumni |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Alison|Rosen}}

| 1997

| style="text-align:left;" | Podcaster, writer, and television personality

| {{cite news |last1=Gurza |first1=Agustin |title=The World According to Bob's Burgers |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2019/fall/the-world-according-to-bobs-burgers/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=14 October 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050423/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2019/fall/the-world-according-to-bobs-burgers/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Aditya|Sood}}

| 1997

| style="text-align:left;" | Film producer (The Martian, Deadpool, Deadpool 2)

| {{cite news |last1=Fleming |first1=Mike |title=Phil Lord & Christopher Miller Tap Aditya Sood To Spearhead Growing Film Ambitions As Studios Court Them For Overall Movie Deal |url=https://deadline.com/2019/07/phil-lord-christopher-miller-aditya-sood-lord-miller-lego-movie-spider-man-into-the-spiderverse-1202644186/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Deadline |date=10 July 2019 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050428/https://deadline.com/2019/07/phil-lord-christopher-miller-aditya-sood-lord-miller-lego-movie-spider-man-into-the-spiderverse-1202644186/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Interview with Aditya Sood, producer of 'The Martian' |url=https://www.king5.com/video/features/interview-with-aditya-sood-producer-of-the-martian/281-2156236 |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=KING-TV |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050425/https://www.king5.com/video/features/interview-with-aditya-sood-producer-of-the-martian/281-2156236 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Guerrero |first1=Carla |title=The Making of The Martian |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/fall/the-making-of-the-martian/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=2 December 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050426/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/fall/the-making-of-the-martian/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Sylvain|White}}

| 1998

| style="text-align:left;" | Film director (Stomp the Yard)

| {{cite web |title=1998 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1990s/1998 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807043526/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1990s/1998 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | Nava Mau

| 2014

| style="text-align:left;" | Emmy-nominated actress (Baby Reindeer)

| {{Cite tweet |author= Pomona College |user= pomonacollege |number=1813665036113432807 |date=July 17, 2024 |language=en |access-date=July 31, 2024 |title=Nava Mau '14 makes Emmy history with nomination for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie}}{{cite news |last1=Cardenas |first1=Cat |title=Nava Mau Shines (and Subverts Transgender Stereotypes) on HBO's 'Genera+ion' |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/nava-mau-subverts-trans-stereotypes-on-hbo-generation/ |access-date=31 July 2024 |work=Texas Monthly |date=13 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=April 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420154441/https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/nava-mau-subverts-trans-stereotypes-on-hbo-generation/ |url-status=live }}

== Music ==

File:Kristofferson - 78.jpg, class of 1958]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John|Cage}}

| Attended 1928–1930

| style="text-align:left;" | Avant-garde composer, musician, and poet

| {{cite web | url=http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html | title=An Autobiographical Statement | work=Southwest Review | year=1991 | author=Cage, John | access-date=March 14, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070226123315/http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html | archive-date=February 26, 2007 | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web |title=1930 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1930 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=July 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212028/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1930 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Swed |first1=Mark |title=John Cage's genius an L.A. story |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-john-cage-htmlstory.html |access-date=15 January 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 31, 2012 |archive-date=4 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404001657/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-john-cage,0,3501401.htmlstory |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Vladimir|Ussachevsky}}

| 1935

| style="text-align:left;" | Composer of electronic music

| {{cite web |title=1935 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1935 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050444/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1935 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Shaw|dab=conductor}}

| 1938

| style="text-align:left;" | Fourteen-time Grammy-winning conductor

| {{cite web |title=1938 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1938 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050437/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1938 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Chris|Strachwitz}}

| Transferred 1952

| style="text-align:left;" | Grammy-winning record label executive and producer

| {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Herrera-Sobek |first1=María |encyclopedia=Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions |date=2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-34339-1 |pages=1049–1053 |title=Chris Strachwitz}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kris|Kristofferson}}

| 1958

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician

| {{cite journal|url=http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMWin04/FSkristofferson.shtml |title=Acts of Will |journal=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Winter 2004 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907031352/http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmwin04/FSkristofferson.shtml |archive-date=September 7, 2013}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Douglas|Leedy}}

| 1959

| style="text-align:left;" | Composer and music scholar

| {{cite news |title=In Memorium |url=https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/gazette-fall-15.pdf#page=4 |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Music Gazette |publisher=Pomona College Department of Music |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729083433/https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/gazette-fall-15.pdf#page=4 |archive-date=29 July 2016}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Zappa}}

| Auditor, {{circa|1959}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Prolific musician, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

| {{cite book|title=Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa|edition=2nd|first1=Neil|last1=Slaven|publisher=Music Sales Group|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7119-9436-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4EyfFjQ3DgC|page=32}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lucy|Shelton}}

| 1965

| style="text-align:left;" | Soprano

| {{cite news |title=Special Performances |url=https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/gazette-spring-08.pdf |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Music Gazette |publisher=Pomona College Department of Music |date=Spring 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428214345/https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/gazette-spring-08.pdf |archive-date=28 April 2016}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Noon}}

| 1968

| style="text-align:left;" | Composer

| {{cite news |last1=Kendall |first1=Mark |title=Letterbox |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2012/spring/letterbox-3/ |access-date=29 July 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=5 March 2012 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050436/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2012/spring/letterbox-3/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Murray|dab=saxophonist}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Jazz musician

| {{cite web |title=David Murray '77 Pomona College Commencement 2012 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/2012-commencement-murray.pdf |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=29 August 2020 |date=13 May 2012 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050422/https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/2012-commencement-murray.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Albinder}}

| 1980

| style="text-align:left;" | Conductor, former director of Chanticleer

| {{cite news |title=2020 Alumni Distinguished Service Award Winners |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/22-2020-alumni-distinguished-service-award-winners |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=22 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050437/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/22-2020-alumni-distinguished-service-award-winners |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Eric|Friedl}}

| 1988

| style="text-align:left;" | Musician, The Oblivians; owner of Goner Records

| {{cite news |last1=Mehr |first1=Bob |title=Memphis garage rock label Goner Records marks 25 years with multiday music fest |url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/05/27/goner-records-memphis-anniversary-concert-event-goner-25-gonerfest-guitar-wolf/1227188001/ |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=The Commercial Appeal |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050455/https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/05/27/goner-records-memphis-anniversary-concert-event-goner-25-gonerfest-guitar-wolf/1227188001/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Christine|Fan|FanFan}}

| Attended 1990s{{efn|name=specific unknown}}

| style="text-align:left;" | American-born Taiwanese singer and actress

| {{cite news |title=Harvard student or not? Christine Fan speaks out after being accused of lying about educational background |url=https://www.asiaone.com/entertainment/harvard-student-or-not-christine-fan-speaks-out-after-being-accused-lying-about |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=AsiaOne |date=9 May 2019 |language=en |archive-date=July 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715062504/https://www.asiaone.com/entertainment/harvard-student-or-not-christine-fan-speaks-out-after-being-accused-lying-about |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Chris|Cain|dab=We Are Scientists}}

| 1999

| style="text-align:left;" | Musician, We Are Scientists

| {{cite news |title=We Are Scientists' Megaplex |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/culture/2019/02/04/we-are-scientists-megaplex/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=4 February 2009 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050454/https://magazine.pomona.edu/culture/2019/02/04/we-are-scientists-megaplex/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Keith|Murray|dab=rock}}

| 2000

| style="text-align:left;" | Musician, We Are Scientists

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Tunji|Balogun}}

| 2004

| style="text-align:left;" | Record label executive, CEO of Def Jam Recordings and co-founder of Keep Cool Records

| {{cite news |last1=Halperin |first1=Shirley |title=RCA's Tunji Balogun Headed to Def Jam Recordings as Chairman-CEO|url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/tunji-balogun-named-ceo-def-jam-records-1235037775/ |access-date=9 November 2021 |work=Variety |date=9 August 2021 |archive-date=10 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810000858/https://variety.com/2021/music/news/tunji-balogun-named-ceo-def-jam-records-1235037775/ |url-status=live }}

==Journalism and non-fiction writing==

File:Bill keller at nyc.jpg, class of 1970, won a Pulitzer for his reporting from the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War and served as executive editor of The New York Times from 2003 to 2011.]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Relman|Morin}}

| 1929

| style="text-align:left;" | Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Associated Press

| {{cite web |title=Relman Morin of Associated Press |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/relman-morin |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=23 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050429/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/relman-morin |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mark|Gayn}}

| 1933

| style="text-align:left;" | Foreign affairs correspondent for the Toronto Star

| style="text-align:center;" | {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/obituaries/mark-j-gayn-72-journalist-specialist-on-foreign-affairs.html|title=Mark J. Gayn, 72, Journalist; Specialist on Foreign Affairs|work=The New York Times|date=December 24, 1981|access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=October 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014013901/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/obituaries/mark-j-gayn-72-journalist-specialist-on-foreign-affairs.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Graham S. |title=Guide to the Mark Gayn Papers |url=https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/downloads/mark-gayn-papers.pdf#page=7 |publisher=Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto |access-date=14 October 2023 |pages=vii |date=1988 |archive-date=October 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221029010448/https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/downloads/mark-gayn-papers.pdf#page=7 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Paul|Fussell}}

| 1947

| style="text-align:left;" | Cultural and literary historian, known for criticism of the romanticization of war

| {{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/books/paul-fussell-literary-scholar-and-critic-is-dead-at-88.html |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=23 May 2012 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050430/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/books/paul-fussell-literary-scholar-and-critic-is-dead-at-88.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|H. Arnold|Barton}}

| 1953

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian of Scandinavian history

| {{cite journal |last1=Blanck |first1=Dag |last2=Runblom |first2=Harald |last3=Thorsell |first3=Elisabeth |last4=Olsson |first4=Chris |title=In Memoriam: H. Arnold Barton |journal=Swedish American Genealogist |date=1 December 2016 |volume=36 |issue=4 |url=https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol36/iss4/6 |access-date=16 December 2021 |issn=0275-9314 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929022744/https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol36/iss4/6/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Arnold Barton |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnold-barton-200b5a45/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=19 September 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Terry|Drinkwater}}

| 1958

| style="text-align:left;" | CBS News correspondent

| {{cite web |title=1980 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1980 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050432/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1980 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Doug|McConnell}}

| 1967

| style="text-align:left;" | Television journalist

| {{cite news |title=Conversation with Doug McConnell |url=https://marinmagazine.com/people/coversation-with-doug-mcconnell/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Marin Magazine |date=23 August 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050455/https://marinmagazine.com/people/coversation-with-doug-mcconnell/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |title=Doug McConnell {{!}} Host and Senior Editor "Bay Area Backroads" |journal=Grindings |date=18 November 2003 |volume=95 |issue=21 |page=1 |url=http://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000002427/en-ca/files/sitepage/2003-2004/november-18-2003/031118.pdf |access-date=19 September 2020 |publisher=Rotary Club of San Francisco |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050432/http://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000002427/en-ca/files/sitepage/2003-2004/november-18-2003/031118.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Bill|Keller}}

| 1970

| style="text-align:left;" | Executive editor of The New York Times and winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

| {{cite news |last1=Canter |first1=Leslie |title=Trustee Profile: Bill Keller, N.Y. Times Executive Editor |url=https://tsl.news/news1728/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=12 November 2010 |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922205914/https://tsl.news/news1728/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1970 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1970 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027174430/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1970 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Bill Keller of The New York Times |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/bill-keller |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=23 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031005437/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/bill-keller |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Verlyn|Klinkenborg}}

| 1974

| style="text-align:left;" | Author, editor, and academic, known for his writings on rural America

| {{cite news |last1=Klinkenborg |first1=Verlyn |authorlink1=Verlyn Klinkenborg |title=The California We Came To |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2014/spring/the-california-we-came-to/ |access-date=24 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=11 March 2014 |archive-date=2 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602105424/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2014/spring/the-california-we-came-to/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Mann |first1=Brian |title=The Rural Life: A conversation with The New York Times{{'}} Verlyn Klinkenborg |url=https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16137/the-rural-life-a-conversation-with-the-new-york-times-verlyn-klinkenborg |access-date=24 September 2020 |work=North Country Public Radio |date=16 August 2010 |archive-date=12 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012105828/http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16137/the-rural-life-a-conversation-with-the-new-york-times-verlyn-klinkenborg |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Joe|Palca}}

| 1974

| style="text-align:left;" | NPR science correspondent

| {{cite news |title=Starr Named to Academy |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2020/06/24/starr-named-to-academy/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=24 June 2020 |archive-date=4 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804060731/http://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2020/06/24/starr-named-to-academy/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mary|Schmich}}

| 1975

| style="text-align:left;" | Columnist for the Chicago Tribune and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

| {{cite news |title=Tribune's Mary Schmich wins Pulitzer Prize |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2012-04-16-chi-mary-schmich-pulitzer-prize-story.html |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Chicago Tribune |archive-date=2021-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050441/https://www.chicagotribune.com/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1975 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1975 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809055207/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1975 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Mary Schmich of Chicago Trubune |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/mary-schmich |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=23 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=4 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504204153/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/mary-schmich |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lynn|Walford}}

| 1979

| style="text-align:left;" | Automotive technology writer

| {{cite news |title=LetterBox |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2009-fall.pdf#page=4 |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2009 |publisher=Pomona College |pages=3 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050452/https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2009-fall.pdf#page=4 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard|Pérez‑Peña}}

| 1984

| style="text-align:left;" | Reporter for The New York Times

| {{cite news |title=Alumni News |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/worldwide-happy-hour-on-march-11/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=23 February 2015 |archive-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820172011/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/worldwide-happy-hour-on-march-11/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Zafar|Sobhan}}

| 1992

| style="text-align:left;" | Bangladeshi journalist and editor of the Dhaka Tribune

| {{cite book |last1=Islam |first1=A. T. M. Hasibul |chapter=Zafar Sobhan |url=https://fromstonestocastles.pressbooks.com/chapter/zafar-sobhan/ |title=From Stones to Castles |access-date=31 July 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127023927/https://fromstonestocastles.pressbooks.com/chapter/zafar-sobhan/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Judd|Legum}}

| 2000

| style="text-align:left;" | Journalist, lawyer, and political staffer; founder of ThinkProgress

| {{cite web |title=Politics Theses |url=https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/public-policy-analysis/theses/politics |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=22 September 2020 |language=en |date=2 April 2015 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809063207/https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/public-policy-analysis/theses/politics |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |last1=Dreyfuss |first1=Emily |title=Judd Legum's 'Popular Information' Is a Politics Newsletter for Everyone |url=https://www.wired.com/story/judd-legum-popular-information-politics-newsletter-for-everyone/ |access-date=22 September 2020 |magazine=Wired |date=July 12, 2018 |language=en-us |archive-date=18 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918200139/https://www.wired.com/story/judd-legum-popular-information-politics-newsletter-for-everyone/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ashlee|Vance}}

| 2000

| style="text-align:left;" | Technology and business journalist, author

| {{cite news |last1=Abraham |first1=Sneha |title=The Full Elon |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/summer/the-full-elon/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=3 August 2016 |archive-date=7 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207104243/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/summer/the-full-elon/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Conor|Friedersdorf}}

| 2002

| style="text-align:left;" | Staff writer for The Atlantic, known for civil libertarian perspectives

| {{cite news |last1=Breslow |first1=Samuel |title=Q&A: Journalist Conor Friedersdorf Talks Campus Politics |url=https://tsl.news/life-style6727/ |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=14 April 2017 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924185130/https://tsl.news/life-style6727/ |url-status=live }}

==Writing==

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #{{CollegeSecondaryHex|Pomona College}}; margin-top:0.5em;"
scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard|Armour}}

| 1927

| style="text-align:left;" | Author, humorist, professor

| {{cite news |title=Bookmarks |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/bookmarks/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=23 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050440/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/bookmarks/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Betty|Fussell}}

| 1949

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer, Critic, Educator

| {{cite news |title=Bettu Fussell |url=https://www.counterpointpress.com/authors/betty-fussell/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Counterpoint Press |publisher=Counterpoint Press |date=23 February 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://www.independent.com/2019/07/17/betty-fussell-is-fierce-funny-and-frank/|url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ved|Mehta}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Indian writer

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|William Irwin|Thompson}}

| 1962

| style="text-align:left;" | Poet, cultural historian, cultural critic

| {{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://williamirwinthompsonblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/on-entering-my-eightieth-year/ |website=William Irwin Thompson |access-date=29 August 2020 |language=en |date=30 June 2017 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050437/https://williamirwinthompsonblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/on-entering-my-eightieth-year/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Pinchbeck |first1=Daniel |authorlink1=Daniel Pinchbeck |title=2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl |date=4 May 2006 |publisher=TarcherPerigee |location=New York |isbn=978-1-58542-592-1 |pages=8}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ray|Young Bear}}

| Attended 1969–1972

| style="text-align:left;" | Poet and novelist, known for work on contemporary Native American identity

| {{cite news |last1=Ellefson |first1=Elias |title=What it Means to be a Meskwaki |url=http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/youngbear/DesMoines.html |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Des Moines Register |date=4 September 1999 |archive-date=9 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209192443/http://hanksville.org/storytellers/youngbear/DesMoines.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Garrett|Hongo}}

| 1973

| style="text-align:left;" | Japanese-American poet

| {{cite news |title=In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Robert Mezey |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/29-memoriam-emeritus-professor-english-and-poet-residence-robert-mezey |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=29 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044610/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/29-memoriam-emeritus-professor-english-and-poet-residence-robert-mezey |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Louis|Menand}}

| 1973

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer, The Metaphysical Club (which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History)

| {{cite news |title=Who is Louis Menand? |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/20/scrut-menand-fm/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=20 October 2011 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803141130/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/20/scrut-menand-fm/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar) |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/louis-menand |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=25 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101035206/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/louis-menand |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard|Preston}}

| 1976

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author of The Hot Zone

| {{cite web |title=1976 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1976 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028055943/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1976 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Douglas|Preston}}

| 1978

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer for The New Yorker and Smithsonian, bestselling thriller author

| {{cite web |title=1978 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1978 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028060559/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1978 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Vikram|Chandra|dab=novelist}}

| 1984

| style="text-align:left;" | Indian-American writer

| {{cite web |title=1984 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1984 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715061332/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1984 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Abraham |first1=Sneha |title=The Intimacy of Story |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2007/10/23-intimacy-story |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=23 October 2007 |language=en |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028062655/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2007/10/23-intimacy-story |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Aaron|Becker}}

| 1996

| style="text-align:left;" | Children's book writer and illustrator, Caldecott Honor recipient

| {{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Rachel Stewart |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/bookshelf/2013/10/30/aaron-becker-96-enchants-kids-and-critics-with-his-richly-illustrated-journey/ |title=Aaron Becker '96 Enchants Kids and Critics With His Richly Illustrated Journey |date=October 30, 2013 |accessdate=1 February 2015 |department=Brief Biographies |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |archive-date=April 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419032032/http://magazine.pomona.edu/bookshelf/2013/10/30/aaron-becker-96-enchants-kids-and-critics-with-his-richly-illustrated-journey/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.indyweek.com/arts/archives/2014/01/01/former-animator-aaron-becker-takes-children-on-an-illustrated-journey |title=Aaron Becker Takes Children on an Illustrated Journey |accessdate=1 February 2015 |department=Book Reviews |work=Indy Week |date=1 January 2014 |last=Smith |first=Zack |archive-date=June 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624112519/https://www.indyweek.com/arts/archives/2014/01/01/former-animator-aaron-becker-takes-children-on-an-illustrated-journey |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mac|Barnett}}

| 2004

| style="text-align:left;" | National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Caldecott Honor recipient

| {{cite web| title= Mac Barnett Named New National Ambassador for Young People's Literature| url= https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/mac-barnett-named-new-national-ambassador-for-young-people-s-literature/s/926b955e-1916-4e70-8395-659124579265| publisher= Library of Congress| access-date= 12 March 2025| language= en| date= 2 January 2025| archive-date= March 9, 2025| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250309220807/https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/mac-barnett-named-new-national-ambassador-for-young-people-s-literature/s/926b955e-1916-4e70-8395-659124579265| url-status= live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Liz|Fosslien}}

| 2009

| style="text-align:left;" | Author, illustrator, and expert in workplace culture and emotions

| {{cite web |last=Boshernitsan |first=Rimma |title=These Two Millennial Authors Want You To Acknowledge Your Feelings At Work |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rimmaboshernitsan/2019/04/26/these-two-millennial-authors-want-you-to-acknowledge-your-feelings-at-work/ |work=Forbes |access-date=12 March 2025 |language=en |date=2 January 2025 |archive-date=March 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312175719/https://www.forbes.com/sites/rimmaboshernitsan/2019/04/26/these-two-millennial-authors-want-you-to-acknowledge-your-feelings-at-work/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Julius|Taranto}}

| 2012

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer and lawyer

| {{cite web |last=Harry |first=Lorraine Wu |title=Three Pomona Alumni Publish Their First Novels |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/03/29-three-pomona-alumni-publish-their-first-novels |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 March 2025 |language=en |date=2 January 2025 |archive-date=March 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312213712/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2024/03/29-three-pomona-alumni-publish-their-first-novels |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Tom|Lin|dab=writer}}

| 2018

| style="text-align:left;" | Carnegie Medal–winning author

| {{cite web |title=Q&A: Novelist Tom Lin '18 and His New Take on the Old West |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2021/11/16-qa-novelist-tom-lin-18-and-his-new-take-old-west |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2022 |language=en |date=16 November 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130070721/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2021/11/16-qa-novelist-tom-lin-18-and-his-new-take-old-west |archive-date=2022-11-30}}

==Other==

File:Marianne Williamson November 2019.jpg, attended 1970 to 1972]]

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #{{CollegeSecondaryHex|Pomona College}}; margin-top:0.5em;"
scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Fong|Foo Sec||Fong Foo Sec}}

| Preparatory school,{{efn|name=prep}} transferred 1901

| style="text-align:left;" | Chinese educator and publicist, Pomona's first Asian student, English department editor of The Commercial Press

| {{cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Michael Gibbs |title=Fong Foo Sec 鄺富灼 and the Business of Teaching English |journal=China Heritage Quarterly |date=2012 |issue=30 |url=http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=030_hill.inc&issue=030 |access-date=22 January 2022 |publisher=The Australian National University |archive-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122040959/http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=030_hill.inc&issue=030 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |last=Hua |first=Vanessa |date=July 2, 2012 |title=To Shine in the West |magazine=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2012/summer/to-shine-in-the-west/ |access-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714071924/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2012/summer/to-shine-in-the-west/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Essae Martha|Culver}}

| 1905

| style="text-align:left;" | First state librarian of Louisiana and president of the American Library Association

| {{cite web |last1=Junonville |first1=Florence M. |title=Essae Martha Culver |url=https://64parishes.org/entry/essae-martha-culver |website=64 Parishes |publisher=Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=9 August 2021 |language=en |archive-date=August 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809201842/https://64parishes.org/entry/essae-martha-culver |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Clara|Breed}}

| 1927

| style="text-align:left;" | Librarian who opposed Japanese internment during World War II and supported children sent to camps

| {{cite web |last1=Canada |first1=Linda |title=Clara Estelle Breed (1906–1994) |url=https://sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/breed.html |publisher=San Diego History Center |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321080219/https://sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/breed.html |archive-date=21 March 2016}}{{cite web |title=Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp |url=http://www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/breed_t.htm |publisher=Japanese American National Museum |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050437/http://www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/breed_t.htm |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Edwin B.|Crittenden}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1938

| style="text-align:left;" | Alaskan architect

| style="text-align:center;" | {{cite news |title=Edwin Butler Crittenden |url=https://sitkasentinel.com/7/2012-05-10-22-08-43/obituaries/8177-edwin-butler-crittenden |access-date=2 February 2023 |work=Daily Sitka Sentinel |date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202055537/https://sitkasentinel.com/7/2012-05-10-22-08-43/obituaries/8177-edwin-butler-crittenden |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Ossman}}

| Transferred in 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Writer and comedian best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre

| {{cite web |title=David Ossman {{!}} Biography & History |last1=Mills |first1=Ted |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-ossman-mn0000060314/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=3 August 2020 |language=en-us |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050508/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-ossman-mn0000060314/biography |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1956 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1956 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803173809/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1956 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Twyla|Tharp}}

|Transferred in 1960

| style="text-align:left;" | Emmy and Tony award-winning dancer and choreographer

| {{cite web |title=Twyla Tharp |url=http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/twyla_tharp.html |website=c250.columbia.edu |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=4 August 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729073309/http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/twyla_tharp.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1960 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1960 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807011329/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1960 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Marianne|Williamson}}

|Attended 1970–1972

| style="text-align:left;" | Author, spiritual leader, activist, and 2020 presidential candidate

| {{cite news|last=Schindehette|first=Susan|title=The Divine Miss W|magazine=People|url=https://people.com/archive/the-divine-miss-w-vol-37-no-9/|date=March 9, 1992|access-date=August 27, 2020|archive-date=June 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624191610/https://people.com/archive/the-divine-miss-w-vol-37-no-9/|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Don|Daglow}}

| 1974

| style="text-align:left;" | Video game designer and producer

| {{cite news |last1=Kendall |first1=Mark |title=Putting Bytes into the Old Ball Game |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/summer/putting-bytes-into-the-old-ball-game/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Summer 2013 |publisher=Pomona College |date=26 June 2013 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801094351/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/summer/putting-bytes-into-the-old-ball-game/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Eddie|Dombrower}}

| 1980

| style="text-align:left;" | Video game designer and producer

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Alex|Linder}}

| 1988

| style="text-align:left;" | Owner and operator of the Vanguard News Network, an antisemitic, white supremacist website

| {{cite web|title=Alex Linder|url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/alex-linder|work=Extremist Files|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=2020-08-27|archive-date=2015-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508012227/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/alex-linder|url-status=live}}

=Government and law=

==U.S. Senators and Congresspeople==

File:Brian Schatz, official portrait, 113th Congress 2.jpg ({{USpolabbr|D|HI}}), class of 1994]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Alan|Cranston}}

| Transferred 1933

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic U.S. Senator for California (1969–1993)

| {{cite news |last1=Barabak |first1=Mark Z. |last2=Leovy |first2=Jill |last3=Watanabe |first3=Teresa |last4=Woo |first4=Elaine |last5=Tyrrell |first5=John |title=Former Sen. Cranston of California dies at 86 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-cranston-obit-story.html |access-date=28 November 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=January 1, 2001 |archive-date=November 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128060218/https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-cranston-obit-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1936 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1936 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807045825/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1930s/1936 |url-status=live }}{{CongBio|C000877|name=Alan Cranston|inline=y|noid=y|access-date= November 5, 2020 }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Evans|dab=politician}}

| Attended 1941–1943

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic U.S. Representative for Colorado's 3rd district (1965–1979)

| {{CongBio|E000240|name=Frank Evans|inline=y|noid=y|access-date= November 5, 2020 }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Chip|Pashayan}}

| 1963

| style="text-align:left;" | Republican U.S. Representative for California's 17th district (1979–1991)

| {{CongBio|P000097|name=Charles Pashayan|inline=y|noid=y|access-date= November 5, 2020 }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Brian|Schatz}}

| 1994

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic U.S. Senator for Hawaii (2012–present)

| {{cite news |last1=Ison |first1=Lauren |title=Sen. Brian Schatz Talks Climate Change, Election Politics at Pomona |url=https://tsl.news/news5776/ |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=15 April 2016 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083609/https://tsl.news/news5776/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=2012 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2010s/2012 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=12 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412072458/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2010s/2012 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Gettinger |first1=Steve |title=The Sudden Senator |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/spring/the-sudden-senator/ |access-date=25 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=28 March 2013 |archive-date=18 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018010422/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/spring/the-sudden-senator/ |url-status=live }}{{CongBio|S001194|name=Brian Schatz|inline=y|noid=y|access-date= November 5, 2020 }}

==Federal officials==

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Leslie A.|Wheeler}}

| 1921

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. government official and diplomat who helped liberalize international agricultural trade

| {{cite book |title=Extending Authority to Negotiate Trade Agreements: Hearings... on H.R. 6566 |publisher=United States Senate Committee on Finance |date=1948 |pages=64–65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfRj09VWPFwC&pg=PA64 |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en}}{{cite book |title=The Harvard University Catalogue |date=1921 |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_cYAQAAIAAJ&q=Leslie+Wheeler+pomona+1921&pg=PP286 |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050458/https://books.google.com/books?id=8_cYAQAAIAAJ&q=Leslie+Wheeler+pomona+1921&pg=PP286 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|William B.|Bader}}

| 1953

| style="text-align:left;" | United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs

| {{cite web |title=Biography: William B. Bader |url=https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/bader.html |website=1997-2001.state.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=2 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802183531/https://1997-2001.state.gov/about_state/biography/bader.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Esther|Brimmer}}

| 1983

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. foreign policy expert and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

| {{cite news |title=Esther Brimmer '83 to Deliver the Commencement Address to the Pomona College Class of 2019 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/03/05-esther-brimmer-83-deliver-commencement-address-pomona-college-class-2019 |access-date=29 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=5 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802113840/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/03/05-esther-brimmer-83-deliver-commencement-address-pomona-college-class-2019 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Holmes|dab=diplomat}}

| 1997

| style="text-align:left;" | Diplomat and counselor for political affairs at the U.S Embassy in Ukraine

| {{cite news |last=Allen |first=David |title=David Holmes: From Claremont Colleges to impeachment hearings |url=https://www.dailybulletin.com/2019/11/26/david-holmes-from-claremont-colleges-to-impeachment-hearings |access-date=14 November 2020 |work=Inland Valley Daily Bulletin |date=26 November 2019 |language=en |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117151829/https://www.dailybulletin.com/2019/11/26/david-holmes-from-claremont-colleges-to-impeachment-hearings/ |url-status=live }}

==State and city officials==

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Silsby|Spalding}}

| Preparatory school,{{efn|name=prep|Pomona operated a preparatory department, which taught pre-college level courses, from its founding until 1911.{{cite web |title=1911 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1911 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720235507/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1911 |url-status=live }}}} {{circa|1904}}

| style="text-align:left;" | First mayor of Beverly Hills, California

| {{cite web |title=Students on steps of the Fulkerson's house in Claremont, California |url=https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/bce/id/95 |website=Claremont Colleges Digital Library |publisher=Claremont Colleges |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050509/https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/bce/id/95 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Student residence interior with students smoking pipes, Pomona College |url=https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/bce/id/97 |website=Claremont Colleges Digital Library |publisher=Claremont Colleges |access-date=5 November 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mark|Wyland}}

| 1968

| style="text-align:left;" | Republican California Senator

| {{cite web |title=Mark Wyland (R) – District 38 |url=https://archive.senate.ca.gov/member-archives/2013-14/mark-wyland-r-district-38 |website=California Senate |publisher=State of California |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=28 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828233439/https://archive.senate.ca.gov/member-archives/2013-14/mark-wyland-r-district-38 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ellen|Bard}}

| 1971

| style="text-align:left;" | Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

| {{cite web|title=Ellen M. Bard (Republican) |work=Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile |publisher=Pennsylvania House of Representatives |url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=153 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040204182035/http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=153 |archive-date=2004-02-04 |url-status=dead }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Tick|Segerblom}}

| 1971

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Nevada Senator

| {{cite web |title=Legislative Biography: Tick Segerblom |url=https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/Legislator/Segerblom65.pdf |publisher=Nevada Legislature |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028205208/https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/Legislator/Segerblom65.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Cullen |first1=Natalie |title=State Senate District 3 - 'Tick' Segerblom - Democratic |url=https://knpr.org/knpr/2016-07-25/state-senate-district-3-tick-segerblom-democratic |access-date=13 March 2025 |publisher=Nevada Public Radio |date=26 July 2016 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cristina|Garcia|dab=politician}}

| 1999

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic California Assemblyperson

| {{cite news |last1=Tran |first1=Angela |title=Talk By #MeToo Advocate, PO Alumna Accused of Sexual Misconduct Postponed |url=https://tsl.news/news7262/ |access-date=29 July 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=9 February 2018 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808024202/https://tsl.news/news7262/ |url-status=live }}

==Judges==

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|James Marshall|Carter}}

| 1924

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

| {{Cite web|url = http://www.sdcba.org/index.cfm?pg=CriminalJusticeMemorial#carter|title = Criminal Justice Memorial|work = About SDCBA|publisher = San Diego County Bar Association|access-date = January 24, 2012|archive-date = November 4, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111104163358/http://www.sdcba.org/index.cfm?pg=CriminalJusticeMemorial#carter|url-status = live}}{{cite web |title=James Marshall Carter |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378906 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=March 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210331195900/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1378906 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Harry L.|Hupp}}

| Attended 1947–1950

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California, known for reforming treatment of alcoholism

| {{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-29-me-hupp29-story.html|title=Harry L. Hupp, 74; Judge Changed Treatment of Homeless Drunks in L.A.|first=David|last=Rosenzweig|date=29 January 2004|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=12 July 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712204903/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-29-me-hupp29-story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite book |author1=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary |title=Confirmation hearings on federal appointments |date=December 1959 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=011FAQAAMAAJ&dq=Harry+L.+Hupp+pomona&pg=PA84 |access-date=12 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018221424/https://books.google.com/books?id=011FAQAAMAAJ&dq=Harry+L.+Hupp+pomona&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q=Harry%20L.%20Hupp%20pomona&f=false |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Harry Lindley Hupp |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382591 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=March 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330184604/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1382591 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Stephen|Reinhardt}}

| 1951

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

| {{cite web |title=Stephen Roy Reinhardt |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386841 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917073724/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1386841 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cruz|Reynoso}}

| 1953

| style="text-align:left;" | First Latino on the California Supreme Court, advocate for civil rights of farm workers; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|George H.|Wu}}

| 1969

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California

| {{cite web |title=George H. Wu |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392551 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614182859/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1392551 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Christina A.|Snyder}}

| 1972

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California

| {{cite web |title=Christina A. Snyder |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390571 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326213110/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390571 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard G.|Taranto}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

| {{cite web |title=Richard Gary Taranto |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394141 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=September 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928020950/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394141 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kimberly J.|Mueller}}

| 1981

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California

| {{cite web |title=Kimberly Jo Mueller |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393521 |website=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=7 April 2021 |archive-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327083402/https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393521 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Halim|Dhanidina}}

| 1994

| style="text-align:left;" | Judge, California Court of Appeal for the Second District; first Muslim judge in the state of California

| {{cite news |last1=Gurza |first1=Agustin |title=Faith in the Law |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/summer/faith-in-the-law/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=3 August 2016 |archive-date=10 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810150826/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/summer/faith-in-the-law/ |url-status=live }}

==Diplomats==

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Hugh S.|Gibson}}

| Attended {{circa|1900}}

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. interwar diplomat, ambassador, proponent of the professionalization of the Foreign Service

| {{cite web |title=Gibson, Hugh, 1883–1954 – Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63v0kf7 |website=snaccooperative.org |access-date=1 August 2020 |archive-date=19 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819174711/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63v0kf7 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Register of the Hugh Gibson papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0d5n978g/admin/#ref11 |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001165724/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0d5n978g/admin/#ref11 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Julian|Nava}}

| 1951

| style="text-align:left;" | First Mexican-American to become the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

| {{cite news |last1=Balchunas |first1=Michael |title=The Man in the Middle |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2008/04/12-man-middle-0 |access-date=1 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=12 April 2008 |language=en |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028064406/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2008/04/12-man-middle-0 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kenneth L.|Brown}}

| 1959

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. ambassador to Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Congo-Brazzaville

| {{cite web |title=Nomination of Kenneth L. Brown To Be United States Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/263549 |website=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara |access-date=16 December 2021 |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018221428/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/nomination-kenneth-l-brown-be-united-states-ambassador-cote-divoire |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Esther|Brimmer}}

| 1983

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, foreign policy expert

| {{cite web |title=Esther Brimmer |url=https://www.cfr.org/expert/esther-brimmer|website=Council on Foreign Relations |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |access-date=18 March 2025 |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018000000/https://www.cfr.org/expert/esther-brimmer|url-status=live }} [https://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/esther-d-brimmer/ Alt URL]

==Activists==

File:Myrlie_Evers-Williams.jpg, class of 1968]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Virginia|Prince}}

| 1935

| style="text-align:left;" | Transgender rights activist and founder of Transvestia magazine

| {{cite journal |last1=Ekins |first1=Richard |last2=King |first2=Dave |title=Virginia Prince: Transgender Pioneer |journal=International Journal of Transgenderism |date=19 December 2005 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=5–15 |doi=10.1300/J485v08n04_02 |s2cid=145527999 |issn=1553-2739}}{{cite news |title=Virginia Charles Prince and Transvestia Magazine |url=https://one.usc.edu/archive-location/virginia-charles-prince-and-transvestia-magazine |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=ONE Archives |publisher=University of Southern California |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930165621/https://one.usc.edu/archive-location/virginia-charles-prince-and-transvestia-magazine |url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=University of California Register, 1936–1937 |date=1937 |publisher=University of California Press |page=55 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wM5AQAAMAAJ&q=arnold%20lowman |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018221426/https://books.google.com/books?id=6wM5AQAAMAAJ&q=arnold%20lowman#v=snippet&q=arnold%20lowman&f=false |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Myrlie|Evers‑Williams}}

| 1968

| style="text-align:left;" | Activist, first full-time chairperson of the NAACP

| {{Cite web|url = http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/evers_myrlie/|title = Myrlie Evers-Williams|work = The Mississippi Writers Page|publisher = University of Mississippi|access-date = January 24, 2012|archive-date = February 6, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120206060459/http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/evers_myrlie/|url-status = live}}{{cite web |title=1968 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1968 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807013804/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1968 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John|Payton}}

| 1973

| style="text-align:left;" | Civil rights attorney and president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund (co-founded Black Student Union at Pomona)

| {{cite web |title=1973 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1973 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028055226/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1973 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Balchunas |first1=Michael |title=Making It So |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2003/01/13-making-it-so |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=13 January 2003 |language=en |archive-date=February 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225185939/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2003/01/13-making-it-so |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Martina|Vandenberg}}

| 1990

| style="text-align:left;" | Activist, Rhodes Scholar, Truman Scholar, founder and president of the Human Trafficking Legal Center

| {{Cite web|url = https://htlegalcenter.org/about-us/martina-e-vandenberg/ |title = Martina Vandenberg|work = Human Trafficking Legal Center|publisher = Human Trafficking Legal Center|access-date = March 18, 2025}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kafi D.|Blumenfield}}

| 1993

| style="text-align:left;" | Nonprofit executive, activist, and civic leader

| {{cite news |last1=Noorwood |first1=Robyn |title=Discovery Cubed |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/fall/discovery-cubed/ |access-date=16 February 2021 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=2 December 2015 |language=en |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050751/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/fall/discovery-cubed/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Boehm |first1=Mike |title=Kafi Blumenfield to lead Discovery Cube Los Angeles science museum |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-discovery-museum-kafi-blumenfield-20140903-story.html |access-date=16 February 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2014-09-04 |language=en |archive-date=May 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510180835/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-discovery-museum-kafi-blumenfield-20140903-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Debra|Cleaver}}

| 1999

| style="text-align:left;" | Activist, Non Profit Executive and founder of Vote.org

| {{Cite web|url = https://about.voteamerica.org/team|title = The Vote America Team |work = Vote America |publisher =Vote America|access-date = March 29, 2025}}

==Military==

File:James Howard April 1944.jpg, class of 1937, was the only fighter pilot in the European Theater to receive the Medal of Honor in World War II.]]

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

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scope="row" | {{sortname|James H.|Howard}}

| 1937

| style="text-align:left;" | Brigadier general, member of the Flying Tigers during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient

| {{Cite book|author=James H. Howard|title=Roar of the Tiger|year=1991|publisher=Orion Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-517-57323-5}}{{cite news |last1=Blackstock |first1=Joe |title=Veterans Day is a good time to remember Inland Valley heroes |url=https://www.dailybulletin.com/2014/11/10/veterans-day-is-a-good-time-to-remember-inland-valley-heroes/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Inland Valley Daily Bulletin |date=10 November 2014 |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122211003/https://www.dailybulletin.com/2014/11/10/veterans-day-is-a-good-time-to-remember-inland-valley-heroes/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Saxon |first1=Wolfgang |title=Gen. James Howard, 81, Dies; Medal Winner in Aerial Combat |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/22/obituaries/gen-james-howard-81-dies-medal-winner-in-aerial-combat.html |access-date=3 October 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 March 1995 |archive-date=7 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607023348/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3DD1630F931A15750C0A963958260&scp |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Verne|Orr}}

| 1937

| style="text-align:left;" | U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, 1981–1985

| {{cite web |title=Verne Orr |url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106000/verne-orr/ |publisher=U.S. Air Force |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=November 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129044312/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106000/verne-orr/ |url-status=live }}

=Business=

File:Roy E. Disney.jpg executive Roy E. Disney, class of 1951]]

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Russell K.|Pitzer}}

| 1900

| style="text-align:left;" | Citrus farmer, founder of Pitzer College

| {{cite web |last1=Trombley |first1=Laura Skandera |author1link=Laura Skandera Trombley |title=Welcome to the Class of 2007 |url=https://www.pitzer.edu/archives/welcome-to-the-class-of-2007/ |website=Pitzer College Archives |publisher=Pitzer College |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=29 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929045324/https://www.pitzer.edu/archives/welcome-to-the-class-of-2007/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Pitzer, Russell K. (1878–1978) |url=https://research.cgu.edu/oral-history-program-archive/subjects/claremont-colleges/ |website=Claremont Colleges Oral History Program Archive |publisher=Claremont Graduate University |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814143137/https://research.cgu.edu/oral-history-program-archive/subjects/claremont-colleges/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank R.|Seaver|Frank Seaver}}

| 1905

| style="text-align:left;" | Lawyer, naval officer, oil drilling executive, and philanthropist; first president of the Associated Students of Pomona College

| {{cite web |title=Seaver (Blanche Ebert and Frank R.) Papers |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8g44pm3/entire_text/ |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=27 August 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803184727/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8g44pm3/entire_text/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1904 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1900s/1904 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=27 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809061328/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1900s/1904 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Donald|McKenna|dab=philanthropist}}

| 1929

| style="text-align:left;" | Businessperson and philanthropist, known for donations to Claremont McKenna College

| {{cite news |last1=Saxon |first1=Wolfgang |title=Donald Carnegie McKenna, 90, Philanthropist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/us/donald-carnegie-mckenna-90-philanthropist.html |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 December 1997 |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228070004/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/us/donald-carnegie-mckenna-90-philanthropist.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|R. Stanton|Avery}}

| 1932

| style="text-align:left;" | Inventor of modern stickers, founder of Avery Adhesives

| {{cite news |title=R. Stanton Avery, 90, Inventor and Producer of Self-Sticking Labels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/business/r-stanton-avery-90-inventor-and-producer-of-self-sticking-labels.html |access-date=19 May 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=1997-12-22 |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226180832/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/business/r-stanton-avery-90-inventor-and-producer-of-self-sticking-labels.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Elmer P.|Wheaton}}

| 1933

| style="text-align:left;" | Aerospace and marine engineer and executive at the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company

| {{Cite book|last=Wenzel|first=James G.|author-link=James G. Wenzel|url=https://www.nae.edu/188117/ELMER-PWHEATON-19091997|title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 10|date=2002-06-11|publisher=National Academy of Engineering, National Academies Press|isbn=978-0-309-08457-4|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=240–247|chapter=Elmer P. Wheaton|doi=10.17226/10403|chapter-url=https://www.nae.edu/188117/ELMER-PWHEATON-19091997|access-date=December 6, 2021|archive-date=December 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205081739/https://www.nae.edu/188117/ELMER-PWHEATON-19091997|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Charles|Scripps}}

| 1943

| style="text-align:left;" | Chair of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company

| {{cite news |title=Charles E. Scripps dies at 87 |url=http://pressreleases.scripps.com/downloads/pressreleases/904/904.pdf |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=E. W. Scripps Company |date=3 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814075846/http://pressreleases.scripps.com/downloads/pressreleases/904/904.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2007}}{{cite news |title=Charles E. Scripps, 87; longtime leader of media company |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-04-me-passings4.3-story.html |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=4 February 2007 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050459/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-04-me-passings4.3-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Richard C.|Seaver}}

| 1946

| style="text-align:left;" | Oil drilling executive and philanthropist

| {{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Valerie J. |title=Richard C. Seaver, 85; oil-drilling exec, donor to L.A. Opera |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-14-me-seaver14-story.html |access-date=1 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 June 2007 |archive-date=27 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227061925/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-14-me-seaver14-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Blackstock |first1=Joe |title=Missed flight helped college take off |url=https://www.dailybulletin.com/2011/07/18/missed-flight-helped-college-take-off/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Inland Valley Daily Bulletin |date=18 July 2011}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Roy E.|Disney}}

| 1951

| style="text-align:left;" | Executive at The Walt Disney Company; nephew of Walt Disney

| {{cite web |title=1951 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1951 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=31 July 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807015752/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1951 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Gallogly |first1=Ian |title=Remembering Roy E. Disney PO '51 |url=https://tsl.news/news1205/ |access-date=18 January 2021 |work=The Student Life |date=12 February 2010 |archive-date=5 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205054822/https://tsl.news/news1205/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Wells}}

| 1952

| style="text-align:left;" | President of The Walt Disney Company and mountaineer

| {{cite web |title=Frank Wells |url=https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/frank-wells/ |website=D23 |publisher=The Walt Disney Company |access-date=2 August 2020 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204042524/https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/frank-wells/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1953 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1953 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=21 September 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925233614/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1953 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Burton|Smith}}

| Transferred 1959

| style="text-align:left;" | Computer architect, co-founder of Cray, and Microsoft Fellow

| {{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Lawrence M. |title=In Memoriam: Burton J. Smith 1941–2018 |url=https://cacm.acm.org/news/226964-in-memoriam-burton-j-smith-19412018/fulltext |access-date=6 December 2021 |work=ACM News |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |date=April 16, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206070627/https://cacm.acm.org/news/226964-in-memoriam-burton-j-smith-19412018/fulltext |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Distinguished Alumnus Award – 2008 {{!}} Burton Smith '58 |url=https://www.cate.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/smith__58_daa_2008.pdf |publisher=Cate School |access-date=6 December 2021 |date=2008 |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206031734/https://www.cate.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/smith__58_daa_2008.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kent|Brownridge}}

| 1962

| style="text-align:left;" | General manager of Rolling Stone and CEO of Dennis Publishing and Alpha Media

| {{cite web |title=1962 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1962 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027180104/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1962 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Ives |first1=Nat |title=Kent Brownridge Gives Up CEO Role at Alpha Media |url=https://adage.com/article/media-people/kent-brownridge-ceo-role-alpha-media/130431 |access-date=13 August 2020 |work=Ad Age |date=20 August 2008 |language=en |archive-date=12 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312141024/http://adage.com/article/media-people/kent-brownridge-ceo-role-alpha-media/130431/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Stephanie D. |title=Q&A With Kent Brownridge of Alpha Media |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/media/qa-with-kent-brownridge-of-alpha-media-1717067/ |access-date=13 August 2020 |work=Women's Wear Daily |date=15 August 2008 |language=en |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806162657/https://wwd.com/business-news/media/qa-with-kent-brownridge-of-alpha-media-1717067/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Linda G.|Alvarado}}

| 1973

| style="text-align:left;" | CEO of Alvarado Construction; co-owner of the Colorado Rockies

| {{cite news |title=2023 Pomona College Alumni Awards Announced |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2023/04/10-2023-pomona-college-alumni-awards-announced |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 May 2023 |language=en |date=10 April 2023 |archive-date=May 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504224154/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2023/04/10-2023-pomona-college-alumni-awards-announced |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cathy|Corison}}

| 1975

| style="text-align:left;" | Winemaker

| {{cite news |last1=Bonné |first1=Jon |title=Cathy Corison – Chronicle's Winemaker of the Year 2011 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Cathy-Corison-Chronicle-s-Winemaker-of-the-Year-2433541.php |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=SFGate |date=1 January 2012 |archive-date=5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805201903/https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Cathy-Corison-Chronicle-s-Winemaker-of-the-Year-2433541.php |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Hashim|Djojohadikusumo}}

| 1976

| style="text-align:left;" | Indonesian entrepreneur and brother of former Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto

| {{cite web |title=Privacy-enhanced message |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038516/0000950150-98-001119.txt |website=Securities and Exchange Commission |publisher=United States government |access-date=27 August 2020 |archive-date=26 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226164045/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038516/0000950150-98-001119.txt |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lynn|Forester de Rothschild}}

| 1976

| style="text-align:left;" | CEO of E.L. Rothschild

| {{cite web |title=Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild |url=https://www.salt.org/bio-rothschild-lady-lynn |website=SALT |access-date=4 August 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050530/https://www.salt.org/bio-rothschild-lady-lynn |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Spence |first1=Alex |last2=Karnitschnig |first2=Matthew |title=A Jersey Lady and The Economist |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/economist-magazine-shareholders-british-commerce-rothschild/ |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=Politico |date=5 August 2015 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803113124/https://www.politico.eu/article/economist-magazine-shareholders-british-commerce-rothschild/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Bryan|White|dab=businessman}}

| 1984

| style="text-align:left;" | Co-founder of BlackRock's multi-billion dollar hedge fund investments business and Sahsen Ventures

| {{cite news |last1=Willmer |first1=Sabrina |title=BlackRock Fund of Hedge Funds Co-Founder Bryan White Leaving |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/blackrock-s-fund-of-hedge-funds-co-founder-bryan-white-leaving |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=Bloomberg News |date=11 February 2016 |archive-date=21 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221150301/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/blackrock-s-fund-of-hedge-funds-co-founder-bryan-white-leaving |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Bryan White |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-white-2037526b/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=4 August 2020}}{{cite web |title=Bryan and Christine White |url=https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/wall-street-donors/bryan-white |website=Inside Philanthropy |date=February 22, 2020 |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806162653/https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/wall-street-donors/bryan-white |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Libby|Armintrout}}

| 1986

| style="text-align:left;" | Philanthropist and sister of Bill Gates

| {{cite news |last1=Giacomazzo |first1=Bernadette |title=Meet Libby And Kristianne Gates, Sisters Of Bill Gates Featured In New Netflix Documentary 'Inside Bill's Brain' |url=https://www.yourtango.com/2019328263/who-are-bill-gates-sisters-libby-gates-kristianne-gates-inside-bills-brain-netflix-documentary |access-date=1 August 2020 |work=YourTango |date=24 September 2019 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050536/https://www.yourtango.com/2019328263/who-are-bill-gates-sisters-libby-gates-kristianne-gates-inside-bills-brain-netflix-documentary |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Bernard C.|Chan|Bernard Charnwut Chan}}

| 1988

| style="text-align:left;" | Convenor of the Hong Kong Executive Council and President of Asia Financial Holdings

| {{Cite news|url = http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMFL08/DEtoday3.shtml|title = Welcome a-Board|work = Pomona College Magazine|publisher = Pomona College|access-date = January 24, 2012|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120907222404/http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/PCMFL08/DEtoday3.shtml|archive-date = September 7, 2012}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Osman|Kibar}}

| 1992

| style="text-align:left;" | Billionaire founder of biotech firm Samumed

| {{cite news |last1=Herper |first1=Matthew |title=Cure Baldness? Heal Arthritis? Erase Wrinkles? An Unknown Billionaire's Quest To Reverse Aging |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/04/13/the-god-pill |access-date=29 July 2020 |work=Forbes |date=10 May 2016 |language=en |archive-date=8 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708025445/https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/04/13/the-god-pill/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Norwood |first1=Robyn |title=How to Build a Fountain of Youth (Piece by Piece) |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/fall/how-to-build-a-fountain-of-youth-piece-by-piece/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=25 October 2016 |archive-date=18 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918222008/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2016/fall/how-to-build-a-fountain-of-youth-piece-by-piece/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Laszlo|Bock}}

| 1993

| style="text-align:left;" | Former Senior Vice President, People Operations, Google, and co-founder and CEO of Humu

| {{cite news |last1=Winkler |first1=Elizabeth |title=Laszlo Bock Thinks Machine Learning Can Make Work Better |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/laszlo-bock-thinks-machine-learning-can-make-work-better-11580492585 |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=31 January 2020 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128150923/https://www.wsj.com/articles/laszlo-bock-thinks-machine-learning-can-make-work-better-11580492585 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Rogers |first1=Adam |title=A Few Good Googlers |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/10/01-few-good-googlers |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=1 October 2010 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Adam|Bowen}}

| 1998

| style="text-align:left;" | Billionaire co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Juul

| {{cite web |title=Adam Bowen |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/abowen/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=12 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012090419/http://www.linkedin.com/in/abowen |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Adam Bowen |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/adam-bowen |website=Forbes |access-date=29 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=2 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602025626/https://www.forbes.com/profile/adam-bowen/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Sueng |first1=Lee |title=Juul Labs co-founders say they're working toward a world without smokers |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/12/juul-labs-co-founders-say-theyre-working-toward-a-world-without-smokers/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=The Mercury News |date=12 September 2018 |archive-date=25 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525060735/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/12/juul-labs-co-founders-say-theyre-working-toward-a-world-without-smokers/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Nick|Friedman}}

| 2005

| style="text-align:left;" | President and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk

| {{cite news|last=Laya|first=Patricia|date=8 August 2011|title=This Guy Quit His Consulting Job To Haul People's Junk, And Is Now Making Millions|work=Business Insider|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/business-tips-nick-friedman-college-hunks-hauling-junk-08-2011?op=1|url-status=live|access-date=30 June 2012|archive-date=14 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514182030/http://www.businessinsider.com/business-tips-nick-friedman-college-hunks-hauling-junk-08-2011?op=1}}{{cite news |last1=Roth |first1=David |title=Hunks of Junk |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2010-winter.pdf#page=17 |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Winter 2010 |publisher=Pomona College |pages=31–33 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050434/https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2010-winter.pdf#page=17 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Maya Horgan|Famodu}}

| 2012

| style="text-align:left;" | Founder of Ingressive and named in Forbes Africa{{'}}s "30 Under 30" list in 2018

| {{cite news |title=Under 30 Technology |url=https://www.forbesafrica.com/30-under-30/2018/06/04/under-30-technology/ |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=Forbes Africa |date=4 June 2018 |archive-date=25 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425003954/https://www.forbesafrica.com/30-under-30/2018/06/04/under-30-technology/ |url-status=live }}

=Science=

File:Professor Jennifer Doudna ForMemRS.jpg, class of 1985, won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR-based gene engineering, one of the most significant discoveries in the history of biology.{{cite news |last=Pollack |first=Andrew |title=Jennifer Doudna, a Pioneer Who Helped Simplify Genome Editing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/jennifer-doudna-crispr-cas9-genetic-engineering.html |date=May 11, 2015 |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 12, 2015 |archive-date=July 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714120723/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/science/jennifer-doudna-crispr-cas9-genetic-engineering.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Wu |first1=Katherine J. |last2=Zimmer |first2=Carl |last3=Peltier |first3=Elian |title=Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/science/nobel-prize-chemistry-crispr.html |author2-link=Carl Zimmer |access-date=7 October 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=8 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008094313/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/science/nobel-prize-chemistry-crispr.html |url-status=live }}]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Edmund|Jaeger}}

| Attended 1900s

| style="text-align:left;" | Desert ecologist

| {{cite book |last1=Ryckman| first1 = Raymond E. |first2=James L. | last2 = Zackrison |title=Son of the Living Desert{{snd}} Edmund Jaeger, 1887–1983: Ecologist, Educator, Environmentalist, Biologist, and Philanthropist |location=Loma Linda, California |publisher=R. E. Ryckman |year=1998 |pages=312 |isbn=978-0-9663563-0-4 |oclc=39497413}} {{LCC|QH31.J33 R97 1998}} [http://scotty.ucr.edu/record=b2783555~S5 University of California, Riverside, Science Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107135821/http://scotty.ucr.edu/record=b2783555~S5 |date=2016-01-07 }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Wilson|Popenoe}}

| Attended 1910–1911

| style="text-align:left;" | Agricultural explorer, influential in bringing the avocado to North America

| {{cite book |last1=Rosengarten |first1=Frederic |title=Wilson Popenoe: Agricultural Explorer, Educator, and Friend of Latin America |date=1991 |publisher=National Tropical Botanical Garden |location=Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii |isbn=978-0935868531 |url=https://archive.org/details/wilsonpopenoea00fredguat/page/8/mode/2up |page=8}}{{cite web |title=Popenoe, F. Wilson (1892–1975) |url=https://www.huntbotanical.org/archives/detail.php?103 |publisher=Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation |access-date=14 December 2021 |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214191321/https://www.huntbotanical.org/archives/detail.php?103 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Hugo|Benioff}}

| 1921

| style="text-align:left;" | Seismologist, known for work charting deep ocean earthquakes

| {{cite book |last1=Press |first1=Frank |author1-link=Frank Press |title=Victor Hugo Benioff |date=1973 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, National Academies Press |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/vbenioff.pdf |access-date=5 December 2021 |archive-date=October 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030121109/https://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/vbenioff.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|M. Stanley|Livingston}}

| 1926

| style="text-align:left;" | Physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron

| {{cite journal | last = Courant | first = E. D. | authorlink = Ernest Courant | journal = Biographical Memoirs | volume = 72 | title = Milton Stanley Livingston | publisher = National Academies Press | year = 1997 | url = http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5859&page=265 | access-date = September 28, 2014 | archive-date = December 10, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191210080726/http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5859&page=265 | url-status = live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Norris|Bradbury}}

| 1929

| style="text-align:left;" | Physicist, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1945 to 1970

| {{cite web |title=Norris Bradbury |url=https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/norris-bradbury |website=Atomic Heritage Foundation |access-date=6 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909022428/https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/norris-bradbury |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Roger|Revelle}}

| 1929

| style="text-align:left;" | Oceanographer, one of the first scientists to study global warming, and primary founder of the University of California, San Diego

| {{cite web |title=1929 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1929 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130074313/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1929 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Roger Revelle |url=https://revelle.ucsd.edu/about/roger-revelle.html |website=Revelle College |publisher=University of California, San Diego |access-date=24 September 2020 |archive-date=20 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820192104/https://revelle.ucsd.edu/about/roger-revelle.html |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |author=Nierenberg, William A. |authorlink=William Nierenberg |title=Obituary: Roger Revelle |journal=Physics Today |date=February 1992 |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=119–120 |url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v45/i2/p119_s1?bypassSSO=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002838/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v45/i2/p119_s1?bypassSSO=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 5, 2013 |doi=10.1063/1.2809551}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Xiao|Guangyan||Xiao Guangyan}}

| 1942

| style="text-align:left;" | Chinese petrochemist who researched catalysts used in petroleum processing

| {{cite news |author1=蔡紅 |date=17 April 2017 |title=化学家的陨落 萧光琰一家之死 |language=zh |trans-title=The fall of the chemist and the death of Xiao Guangyan's family |work=Sound of Hope |url=https://www.soundofhope.org/post/229976 |access-date=9 February 2021 |archive-date=June 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620063331/https://www.soundofhope.org/post/229976 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Gomer}}

| 1944

| style="text-align:left;" | Physical chemist, known for work in surface science and nuclear non-proliferation advocacy

| {{cite journal |last1=Menzel |first1=Dietrich |last2=Tringides |first2=Michael C. |last3=Schmidt |first3=Lanny D. |title=Robert Gomer |journal=Physics Today |date=May 2017 |volume=70 |issue=5 |pages=67 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3563 |bibcode=2017PhT....70e..67M |doi-access=free}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jean|Mill}}

| 1948

| style="text-align:left;" | Conservationist and creator of the Bengal cat breed

| {{cite news |last1=Hamilton |first1=Denise |title=A Little Cat Feat : A Covina woman's efforts at cross-breeding wild and domestic felines are paying off handsomely. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-10-ga-32170-story.html |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=10 March 1994 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814172725/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-10-ga-32170-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Class notes |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2014-fall.pdf#page=27 |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2014 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050434/http://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2014-fall.pdf#page=27 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|M. Frederick|Hawthorne}}

| 1949

| style="text-align:left;" | Inorganic chemist, known for work on clusters of boron hydrides; National Medal of Science recipient

| {{cite web |title=Honorary Degree Recipients |url=https://www.pomona.edu/commencement/honorary-degree-recipients |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=22 September 2020 |language=en |date=29 October 2019 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001231220/https://www.pomona.edu/commencement/honorary-degree-recipients |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Bob |title=M. Frederick Hawthorne |url=https://nationalmedals.org/laureate/m-frederick-hawthorne/ |website=National Science and Technology Medals Foundation |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923010358/https://nationalmedals.org/laureate/m-frederick-hawthorne/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Edward A.|Knapp|Edward Alan Knapp}}

| 1954

| style="text-align:left;" | Physicist, director of the National Science Foundation

| {{cite web |title=1983 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1983 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715072715/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1983 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ann|Hardy}}

| 1955

| style="text-align:left;" | Computer scientist, known for pioneering work on time-sharing

| {{cite web |title=2020 Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award Winners |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/22-2020-blaisdell-distinguished-alumni-award-winners |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |date=22 April 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805170703/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/22-2020-blaisdell-distinguished-alumni-award-winners |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ed|Krupp||Krupp, Edwin C.}}

| 1961

| style="text-align:left;" | Archeoastronomer, science educator, and director of the Griffith Observatory

| {{cite web|title=Gretchen Berland '86, Ed Krupp '66, Julian Nava '51 and George C. Wolfe '76 Win Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award|url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2016/04/29-gretchen-berland-%E2%80%9986-ed-krupp-%E2%80%9966-julian-nava-%E2%80%9951-and-george-c-wolfe-%E2%80%9976-win-blaisdell-distinguished|publisher=Pomona College|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722040706/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2016/04/29-gretchen-berland-%E2%80%9986-ed-krupp-%E2%80%9966-julian-nava-%E2%80%9951-and-george-c-wolfe-%E2%80%9976-win-blaisdell-distinguished|archive-date=22 July 2016|date=29 April 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Edwin Krupp '66, Pomona College Commencement 2011|url=https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/2011-commencement-krupp.pdf|publisher=Pomona College|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819081928/https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/2011-commencement-krupp.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2016|date=15 May 2011|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Thomas D.|Pollard}}

| 1964

| style="text-align:left;" | Cell biologist and biophysicist

| {{cite news |last1=American Society for Cell Biology |title=Top Scientific Medal to Tom Pollard Who Discovered How Cells Move |url=https://www.newswise.com/articles/top-scientific-medal-to-tom-pollard-who-discovered-how-cells-move |access-date=19 September 2020 |work=Newswise |date=9 August 2004 |language=en|author1-link=American Society for Cell Biology }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Sarah|Elgin}}

| 1967

| style="text-align:left;" | Biochemist, geneticist, and science educator

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|J. Andrew|McCammon}}

| 1969

| style="text-align:left;" | Physical chemist

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Steven|Clarke}}

| 1970

| style="text-align:left;" | Biochemist

| {{cite web |title=Clarke, Steven G. |url=https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/directory/clarke-steven-g |website=UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813181030/https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/directory/clarke-steven-g |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Moses|Chao}}

| 1972

| style="text-align:left;" | Biochemist, known for work on nerve growth factor

| {{cite web |title=Chao Moses |url=https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/moses-v-chao|website=NYU Langone Health|publisher=New York University |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/moses-v-chao-ujmilu/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Sharon K.|Inouye}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Geriatrician, known for work on delirium

| {{cite web |title=Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. |url=https://www.marcusinstituteforaging.org/scientists/team-profiles-and-bios/sharon-k-inouye-md-mph |publisher=Marcus Institute for Aging Research |access-date=6 December 2021 |archive-date=December 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208000247/http://www.marcusinstituteforaging.org/scientists/team-profiles-and-bios/sharon-k-inouye-md-mph |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Anna María|Nápoles}}

| 1980

| style="text-align:left;" | Behavioral epidemiologist and science administrator

| {{cite news |title=Tributes of the Class of 2014 |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2011-winter.pdf#page=27 |access-date=4 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=Winter 2011 |pages=51 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050440/https://magazine.pomona.edu/wp-content/uploads/images/pdf/2011-winter.pdf#page=27 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Emil|Kakkis}}

| 1982

| style="text-align:left;" | Medical geneticist; founder and CEO of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

| {{cite web |title=Emil Kakkis, MD, PhD |url=https://everylifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Emil-Kakkis-Bio-9.13.12.pdf |publisher=EveryLife Foundation |access-date=5 December 2021 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=November 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241124174123/https://everylifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Emil-Kakkis-Bio-9.13.12.pdf }}{{cite news |last1=Reed |first1=Kathryn |title=What drives this Marin County biotech CEO to battle rare diseases |url=https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/industrynews/what-drives-the-ceo-of-marin-countys-ultragenyx-to-pursue-treatments-for-r/ |access-date=12 March 2025 |work=The North Bay Business Journal |publisher=Sonoma Media |date=2 February 2022 |archive-date=March 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312195636/https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/industrynews/what-drives-the-ceo-of-marin-countys-ultragenyx-to-pursue-treatments-for-r/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jennifer|Doudna}}

| 1985

| style="text-align:left;" | Biochemist, known for pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing; won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

| {{cite news |last1=Rogers |first1=Adam |title=A CRISPR Cut |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/a-crispr-cut/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Spring 2015 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820171951/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2015/spring/a-crispr-cut/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1985 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1985 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=17 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717030929/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1980s/1985 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Thomas|McDade}}

| 1991

| style="text-align:left;" | Biological anthropologist

| {{cite web |title=Thomas McDade |url=https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/who-we-are/faculty-experts/mcdade.html |website=Institute for Policy Research |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=5 December 2021 |language=en |archive-date=December 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205235810/https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/who-we-are/faculty-experts/mcdade.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Amalie|Frischknecht}}

| 1992

| style="text-align:left;" | Polymer physicist

| {{cite web |title=Amalie L. Frischknecht |url=https://www.lanl.gov/search-capabilities/profiles/amalie-frischknecht.shtml |website=lanl.gov |publisher=Los Alamos National Laboratory |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927043426/https://www.lanl.gov/search-capabilities/profiles/amalie-frischknecht.shtml |url-status=live }}

=Religion=

File:Seraphim Rose. Mironov.jpg Seraphim Rose, class of 1956 (oil portrait by Andrey Mironov)]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Charles E.|Fuller|Charles E. Fuller (Baptist minister)}}

| 1910

| style="text-align:left;" | Clergyman and radio evangelist who founded the Fuller Theological Seminary

| {{cite journal |last1=Streett |first1=R. Alan |title=Fuller, Charles Edward (1887–1968) |journal=The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization |date=2011 |doi=10.1002/9780470670606.wbecc0573 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-4051-5762-9 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Gladwyn M.|Childs}}

| 1919

| style="text-align:left;" | Minister, missionary, and anthropologist

| {{cite web |title=Gladwyn Murray Childs papers |url=https://www.lib.washington.edu/static/public/specialcollections/findingaids/2208-001.pdf |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050441/https://www.lib.washington.edu/static/public/specialcollections/findingaids/2208-001.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Seraphim (Eugene)|Rose|Seraphim Rose|Rose, Seraphim}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Russian Orthodox hieromonk

| {{cite news |last1=Blachanus |first1=Michael |title=Lives of a Saint |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2001/04/13-lives-saint |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=13 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028061355/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2001/04/13-lives-saint |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Nancy|Raabe}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Lutheran pastor and composer

| {{cite web |title=Nancy M Raabe, Pastor, Musician |url=http://www.nancyraabe.com/aboutnancyraabe.html |website=nancyraabe.com |access-date=12 October 2022 |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012221513/http://www.nancyraabe.com/aboutnancyraabe.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Megan|Traquair}}

| 1985

| style="text-align:left;" | Eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California

| {{cite web |title=Meet Bishop Megan |url=https://www.norcalepiscopal.org/about/#megan |publisher=Episcopal Diocese of Northern California |access-date=13 January 2021 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114105341/https://www.norcalepiscopal.org/about/#megan |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Megan Traquair |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-traquair-43500418/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=13 January 2021}}

=Academia=

==College presidents==

File:David P. Barrows LCCN2014714775 (cropped).jpg, class of 1894, conducted extensive ethnographic research on Native Americans.]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

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scope="row" | {{sortname|David Prescott|Barrows}}

| 1894

| style="text-align:left;" | Ninth president of the University of California, anthropologist, major general in the California National Guard, and first editor of The Student Life

| {{cite web |title=1889 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1880s/1889 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=10 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803014702/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1880s/1889 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1894 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1894 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=11 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807050341/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1894 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Barrows (David P.) Papers |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2f59n67s/ |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=25 September 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180605122409/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2f59n67s/ |url-status=live }}

! scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Outcalt}}

| 1956

| style="text-align:left;" | Chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay and University of Alaska Anchorage

| {{cite news |last1=Sampson |first1=Christopher |title=David Outcalt, 1935–2013 |url=https://news.uwgb.edu/log-news/headlines/11/12/david-outcalt-1935-2013/ |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=Inside UW-Green Bay News |publisher=University of Wisconsin, Green Bay |archive-date=9 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909111212/http://news.uwgb.edu/log-news/headlines/11/12/david-outcalt-1935-2013/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Dr. David Lewis Outcalt, 78 |url=https://www.palipost.com/dr-david-lewis-outcalt-78/ |access-date=27 August 2020 |work=Palisadian-Post |date=21 November 2013}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John V.|Lombardi}}

| 1963

| style="text-align:left;" | Fifth president of the Louisiana State University System

| {{cite web |title=John V. Lombardi curriculum vitae |url=http://jvlone.com/jvlcv.html |website=jvlone.com |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204246/http://jvlone.com/cll/cllcv.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|R. Stanton|Hales}}

| 1964

| style="text-align:left;" | 10th president of the College of Wooster and two-time U.S. badminton men's singles champion

| {{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Linda |title=President Hales presides over his final College of Wooster graduation |url=https://www.the-daily-record.com/article/20070515/NEWS/305159822 |access-date=14 August 2020 |work=The Daily Record |date=May 15, 2007 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=1969 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1969 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809060515/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1969 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Eileen|Wilson‑Oyelaran}}

| 1969

| style="text-align:left;" | 17th president of Kalamazoo College

| {{cite web |title=2006 Commencement Recap |url=https://www.pomona.edu/commencement/archive/2006-commencement-recap |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=11 August 2020 |language=en |date=19 May 2015 |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517063508/https://www.pomona.edu/commencement/archive/2006-commencement-recap |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Anne M.|Houtman}}

| 1983

| style="text-align:left;" | 20th president of Earlham College

| {{cite news |last1=Truitt |first1=Jason |title=Earlham College's new president will be first woman to lead the school |url=https://www.pal-item.com/story/news/education/2019/02/13/earlham-college-names-anne-houtman-schools-next-president/2859931002/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Palladium-Item |date=13 February 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050606/https://www.pal-item.com/story/news/education/2019/02/13/earlham-college-names-anne-houtman-schools-next-president/2859931002/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Weingartner |first1=Tana |title=Earlham College Names First Female President |url=https://www.wvxu.org/post/earlham-college-names-first-female-president |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=WVXU |date=13 February 2019 |language=en |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928181955/https://www.wvxu.org/post/earlham-college-names-first-female-president |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=On the Move: Anne Houtman named vice president for academic affairs at Rose |url=https://www.tribstar.com/news/business_news/on-the-move-anne-houtman-named-vice-president-for-academic-affairs-at-rose/article_109e1462-336c-5af9-bdbe-c1b587e14c63.html |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |date=16 April 2016 |language=en |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418034020/https://www.tribstar.com/news/business_news/on-the-move-anne-houtman-named-vice-president-for-academic-affairs-at-rose/article_109e1462-336c-5af9-bdbe-c1b587e14c63.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Thomas J.|Minar}}

| 1985

| style="text-align:left;" | 16th president of Franklin College in Indiana

| {{cite news |last1=Snowdon |first1=Hank |title=Minar no longer a Pomona trustee following arrest for child sex crimes |url=https://tsl.news/thomas-minar-no-longer-pomona-trustee-child-sex-crimes-arrest/ |access-date=5 May 2021 |work=The Student Life |date=14 January 2020 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505045927/https://tsl.news/thomas-minar-no-longer-pomona-trustee-child-sex-crimes-arrest/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Erika H.|James}}

| 1991

| style="text-align:left;" | Dean of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

| {{cite web |title=Admitted Students: Welcome New Sagehens! |url=https://www.pomona.edu/admissions/connect/admitted-students |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=16 August 2020 |language=en |date=3 June 2016 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813074328/https://www.pomona.edu/admissions/connect/admitted-students |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Guzman |first1=Francisco |last2=Ries |first2=Brian |title=The prestigious Wharton business school's new dean will be first woman and person of color in its nearly 140-year history |url=https://us.cnn.com/2020/02/27/business/erika-james-dean-wharton-school-trnd/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=CNN |date=27 February 2020}}

==Professors and academics==

File:陈翰笙塑像,展现他到保定农户家中调查农业生产和家庭经济情况的场面,无锡博物馆.jpg, class of 1920, conducting a field interview with a peasant farmer in Baoding]]

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Carl Irving|Wheat}}

| 1915

| style="text-align:left;" | Lawyer, historian, and cartographer of the American West

| {{cite journal |last1=Harding |first1=George L. |title=Carl Irving Wheat, 1892–1966 |journal=California Historical Society Quarterly |publisher=California Historical Society |date=1 September 1966 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=279–281 |jstor=25154151 |language=en |issn=0008-1175}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Chen|Hansheng||Chen Hansheng}}

| 1920

| style="text-align:left;" | Chinese sociologist considered a father of Chinese modern social science

| {{cite news |last=Gittings |first=John |title=Chen Han-seng: Chinese social scientist who witnessed a century of change |newspaper=The Guardian |date=1 April 2004 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=28 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828005333/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries |url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David|Keirsey}}

| 1947

| style="text-align:left;" | Psychologist who developed the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality questionnaire

| {{cite news |last1=Kendall |first1=Mark |title=Sorting Temperaments |url=http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmfl05/FSkeirsey.shtml |access-date=11 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2005 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901175026/http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmfl05/FSkeirsey.shtml|archive-date=1 September 2006}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ellis Batten|Page}}

| 1947

| style="text-align:left;" | Professor and scientist, widely acknowledged as the father of automated essay scoring

| {{cite news |last1=Potts |first1=Monica |title=Ellis Batten Page (1924–2005) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55453910/ellis-batten-page-1924-2005/ |access-date=31 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=23 May 2005 |pages=B6 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716074928/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55453910/ellis-batten-page-1924-2005/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John K.|Roth}}

| 1962

| style="text-align:left;" | Holocaust studies scholar, Claremont McKenna College

| {{cite web |title=Roth, John K(ing) 1940- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/roth-john-king-1940 |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=5 July 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185024/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/roth-john-king-1940 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Adela|Collins}}

| 1967

| style="text-align:left;" | New Testament scholar, Buckingham Professor Emeritus of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School

| {{cite web |title=Adela, Yarboro Collins |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/adela-yarbro-collins |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=5 July 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/adela-collins|url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Michael|Starbird}}

| 1970

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematics professor, University of Texas at Austin

| {{cite web |title=Biography |url=https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/starbird/index_files/bio.htm |website=Department of Mathematics |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ingrid D.|Rowland}}

| 1974

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian of European architecture at the University of Notre Dame

| {{cite web |title=Ingrid Rowland, PhD |url=https://architecture.nd.edu/faculty/ingrid-rowland/ |website=School of Architecture |publisher=University of Notre Dame |access-date=19 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421121419/https://architecture.nd.edu/faculty/ingrid-rowland/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robyn R.|Warhol}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Chair of the Department of English at Ohio State University and literary critic who helped develop feminist narrative theory

| {{cite web |title=Robyn Warhol |url=https://english.osu.edu/people/warhol.1 |website=Department of English |publisher=Ohio State University |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930010756/https://english.osu.edu/people/warhol.1 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Alison|Brysk}}

| 1981

| style="text-align:left;" | International Human Rights Scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara, fellow for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

| {{cite web |title=Alison Brysk|url=https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/alison-brysk|website=University of California, Santa Barbara |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Marla|Stone}}

| 1982

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian of Fascism at Occidental College, Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor at the American Academy in Rome

| {{cite web |title=Marla Stone |url=https://www.marlasstone.com|website=Occidental College |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Matthew K.|Franklin}}

| 1983

| style="text-align:left;" | Cryptographer and professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis

| {{cite web |title=Biography |url=https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/franklin/biography/ |website=Franklin, Matthew |publisher=University of California, Davis |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605000539/https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/franklin/biography/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Joanne B.|Freeman}}

| 1984

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian of early American history at Yale University

| {{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Joanne |title=The Field of Blood |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2020/spring-summer/field-of-blood/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=June 24, 2020 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919000506/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2020/spring-summer/field-of-blood/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Joanne Freeman |url=https://history.yale.edu/people/joanne-freeman |website=Department of History |publisher=Yale University |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809120408/https://history.yale.edu/people/joanne-freeman |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Caroline|Winterer}}

| 1988

| style="text-align:left;" |Historian of pre-20th-century American history at Stanford University

| {{cite web |title=Caroline Winterer |website=Department of History |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://history.stanford.edu/people/caroline-winterer |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=March 12, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250312200620/https://history.stanford.edu/people/caroline-winterer |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Vijay|Prashad}}

| 1989

| style="text-align:left;" | History professor at Trinity College in Connecticut

| {{cite web |title=Biographical Note: Vijay Prashad |url=https://unctad.org/en/conferences/publicsymposium/2013/Documents/PS2013_BN_VijayPrashad.pdf |website=United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729020316/http://unctad.org/en/conferences/publicsymposium/2013/Documents/PS2013_BN_VijayPrashad.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Tamily|Weissman‑Unni|Tamily Weissman}}

| 1992

| style="text-align:left;" | Neurobiology professor at Lewis & Clark College

| {{cite web |title=Tamily Weissman-Unni |url=https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/28-tamily-weissmanunni |website=Lewis & Clark College |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127192804/https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/28-tamily-weissmanunni |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Amy|Lyford}}

| 1993

| style="text-align:left;" | Art Historian at Occidental College

| {{cite web |title=Amy Lyford|url=https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/amy-lyford|website=Occidental College |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Daniel|Ziblatt}}

| 1995

| style="text-align:left;" | Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University

| {{cite web |title=Daniel Ziblatt|url=https://dziblatt.scholars.harvard.edu/?destination=home&cb=873175023|website=Harvard University |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cynthia|Wyels}}

| 1996

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematician, co-director of the Alliance for Minority Participation

| {{cite web |title=Cynthia Wyels |url=https://ciapps.csuci.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBiography/cynthia.wyels|website=California State University, Channel Islands |access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Omayra|Ortega}}

| 2001

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematician, President of the National Association of Mathematicians

| {{cite web |title=Omayra Ortega |url=https://math.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/omayra-ortega|website=Sonoma State University |access-date=30 August 2020}}

=Athletics=

File:Popovich cross armed - Cropped-2.jpg head coach of the San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich coached the Pomona men's basketball team from 1979 to 1987.]]

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|+Pomona athletes

scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona CollegePomona-Pitzer Sagehens|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona CollegePomona-Pitzer Sagehens|border=0}}; color: white;" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Class year

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona CollegePomona-Pitzer Sagehens|border=0}}; color: white;" class="unsortable" | Notability

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Harry|Kingman}}

| 1913

| style="text-align:left;" | Pitcher for the New York Yankees

| {{cite web |title=1913 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1913 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721015800/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1913 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Charles|Daggs}}

| 1923

| style="text-align:left;" | Olympic track and field athlete

| {{cite web |title=1920 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1920 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=31 July 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930070156/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1920 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Maxwell|dab=hurdler}}

| 1925

| style="text-align:left;" | Olympic hurdler and two-time national champion

| {{cite web |title=1924 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1924 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215050450/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1920s/1924 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Earl J.|Merritt}}

| 1925

| style="text-align:left;" | Head football coach of the Sagehens from 1935 to 1958

| {{cite web |title=Athletic History |url=https://www.sagehens.com/information/history |website=Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102210835/https://www.sagehens.com/information/history |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David G.|Freeman|David Guthrie Freeman}}

| 1942

| style="text-align:left;" | Seven-time U.S. national badminton champion

| {{cite book|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992–1995 Supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Other Sports|date=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=978-0-313-28431-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_z6m6/page/640 640–341]|editor=David L. Porter|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_z6m6/page/640}}{{cite web |title=1942 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1942 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=21 September 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=18 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018103638/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1942 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Betty|Hicks}}

| 1947

| style="text-align:left;" | Golfer, 1941 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year

| {{cite web |title=1945 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1945 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=18 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018083455/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1945 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Darlene|Hard}}

| 1961

| style="text-align:left;" | Grand Slam–winning tennis player

|

scope="row" | {{sortname|Marilyn|Ramenofsky}}

| 1969

| style="text-align:left;" | Olympic silver medalist swimmer, and former women's 400-meter freestyle world record holder

| {{cite web |title=1965 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1965 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=1 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803173952/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1960s/1965 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Penny Lee|Dean}}

| 1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Long-distance swimmer and world record-holder for the fastest swim across the English Channel in 1978; later coached the Pomona women's swimming and diving team for more than 25 years

| {{cite news |title=Penny Lee Dean '77, Myrlie Evers-Williams '68, Richard G. Taranto '77 and Brian E. Tucker '67 Win Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2017/04/03-penny-lee-dean-77-myrlie-evers-williams-68-richard-g-taranto-77-and-brian-e-tucker-67-win-blaisdell |access-date=4 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=3 April 2017 |language=en |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122000528/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2017/04/03-penny-lee-dean-77-myrlie-evers-williams-68-richard-g-taranto-77-and-brian-e-tucker-67-win-blaisdell |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Mike|Budenholzer}}

| 1992

| style="text-align:left;" | Head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns

| {{cite news |last1=Ballard |first1=Chris |title=Net Work (or How Pomona Came to Rule the NBA) |url=https://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/fall/net-work-or-how-pomona-came-to-rule-the-nba/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=6 November 2013 |archive-date=29 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929140719/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2013/fall/net-work-or-how-pomona-came-to-rule-the-nba/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Spears |first1=Justin |title=Holbrook, Arizona made Suns head coach Mike Budenholzer 'who I am today' |url=https://tucson.com/sports/professional/nba/suns/holbrook-arizona-made-suns-head-coach-mike-budenholzer-who-i-am-today/article_b59792bc-1558-11ef-a3df-c37cdbe81525.html |access-date=11 November 2024 |work=Arizona Daily Star |date=18 May 2024 |language=en |archive-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111231350/https://tucson.com/sports/professional/nba/suns/holbrook-arizona-made-suns-head-coach-mike-budenholzer-who-i-am-today/article_b59792bc-1558-11ef-a3df-c37cdbe81525.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Will|Leer}}

| 2007

| style="text-align:left;" | Professional track and field athlete specializing in the 1500 meters

| {{cite news |title=Will Leer '07 Wins Two National Titles |url=https://www.sagehens.com/sports/mtrack/2012-13/releases/201303048vl3vj |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens |date=4 March 2013 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Daniel|Rosenbaum}}

| 2019

| style="text-align:left;" | Professional basketball player in the Israeli National League

| {{cite news |last1=Bhalla |first1=Aditya |title=Sagehen basketball phenom Micah Elan PZ '20 reflects on record-breaking career and plans for future |url=https://tsl.news/micah-elan-reflects-on-p-p-career/ |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=14 June 2020 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117035134/https://tsl.news/micah-elan-reflects-on-p-p-career/ |url-status=live }}

Notable faculty

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|image2=Jonathan Lethem on the banks of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY.jpg

|alt2=Jonathan Lethem sitting on steps in Brooklyn in a turtleneck

|caption2=Novelist Jonathan Lethem, Pomona professor 2011–present

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! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Active tenure

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Edwin C.|Norton}}

| 1888–1926

| style="text-align:left;" | First dean of Pomona

| {{cite news |title=Dean Norton of First Pomona Faculty Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72573897/obituary-for-dean-edwin-c-norton/ |access-date=3 March 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=7 October 1943 |pages=17 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018221428/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-obituary-for-dean/72573897/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Brackett}}

| 1888–1933

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematics and astronomy professor

| {{cite journal |last1=Whitney |first1=Walter T. |title=Frank Parkhurst Brackett, 1865–1951 |journal=Astronomical Society of the Pacific |date=December 1951 |volume=63 |issue=375 |pages=287–291 |doi=10.1086/126397|bibcode=1951PASP...63..287W |s2cid=119932502 |doi-access=free }}{{cite web |title=1888 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1880s/1888 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028213837/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1880s/1888 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Guide to the Frank P. Brackett Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt738nf2jj/ |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-date=15 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815144201/https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt738nf2jj/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Phebe Estelle|Spalding}}

| 1889–1927

| style="text-align:left;" | English professor, author, first female Pomona faculty member

| {{cite web | title=Phebe outshone them all | work=Claremont Courier | date=January 25, 2019 | first=Judy | last=Wright | url=https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/news/t30792pjebe | access-date=2020-10-25 | archive-date=2020-10-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029151436/https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/news/t30792pjebe | url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Albert John|Cook}}

| 1894–1911

| style="text-align:left;" | Entomologist

| {{cite journal|title=Albert John Cook, DSC|journal=Journal of Entomology and Zoology|volume=8|number=4|author=Crawford, David L.|year=1916|publisher=Pomona College Dept. of Zoology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7wUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169|pages=169–170|access-date=2021-02-15|archive-date=2020-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424001208/https://books.google.com/books?id=-7wUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Alice Mary|Dowd}}

| 1904–1905

| style="text-align:left;" | Educator, author

| {{cite book |title=The Pomona College triennial register |date=1908 |publisher=Pomona College |url=https://archive.org/details/pomonacollegetri00pomo/page/n13/mode/2up?q=dowd |access-date=27 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Hannah Tempest|Jenkins}}

| 1905–1926

| style="text-align:left;" | Painter, helped establish Pomona's art department and founded the Rembrandt Club

| {{cite web |title=Art History |url=https://arthistory.pomona.edu/department/department-history/ |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 September 2018 |archive-date=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905022923/https://arthistory.pomona.edu/department/department-history/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Fannie Charles|Dillon}}

| 1910–1913

| style="text-align:left;" | Composer

| {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Fannie+Charles+Dillon+(1881%E2%80%931974)&pg=PA143|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-03487-5|access-date=December 7, 2010|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044609/https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Fannie+Charles+Dillon+%281881%E2%80%931974%29&pg=PA143|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Alfred|Woodford}}

| 1915–1955

| style="text-align:left;" | Founder of Pomona's geology department

| {{cite news |title=Alfred Woodford; Geology Teacher at Pomona College |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-03-mn-667-story.html |access-date=12 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=3 July 1990 |archive-date=June 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609221434/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-03-mn-667-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1915 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1915 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721010533/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1915 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Memorial to Alfred O. Woodford 1890–1990 |url=https://www.geosociety.org//documents/gsa/memorials/v24/Woodford-AO.pdf |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Geological Society of America |archive-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010132724/http://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/memorials/v24/Woodford-AO.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Philip A.|Munz}}

| 1917–1944

| style="text-align:left;" | Botanist who began the Pomona College Herbarium and was director of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

| {{cite journal |last1=Mitich |first1=Larry W. |title=Phil Munz—Botanist, Plantsman, Author, and CSSA Fellow |journal=Newsletter of CSSA |date=November–December 1999 |volume=71 |issue=6 |pages=107–108 |url=http://cactusandsucculentsociety.org/cssaarchives/Phil%20Munz.pdf |access-date=21 September 2020 |publisher=Cactus and Succulent Society of America |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044608/http://cactusandsucculentsociety.org/cssaarchives/Phil%20Munz.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ralph|Lyman}}

| 1917–1948

| style="text-align:left;" | Longtime head of Pomona's music department

| {{cite web |title=1917 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1917 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=12 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720212059/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1917 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Merwin L. |title=Prof Lyman of Pomona College: The Story of a Remarkable Man of Music |date=1979 |publisher=Murphy |location=Alhambra, Calif. |isbn=978-0-9603890-0-1}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jerry|Voorhis}}

| 1930–1935

| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 12th district (1937–1947)

| {{CongBio|V000118|name=Jeremiah Voorhis|inline=y|noid=y|access-date= November 5, 2020 }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John H.|Kemble}}

| 1936–1977

| style="text-align:left;" | Maritime historian

| {{cite web |title=Guide to the John Haskell Kemble Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt809nf790/entire_text/ |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=September 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909043933/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt809nf790/entire_text/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Henry Cord|Meyer}}

| {{circa|1945|sortable=yes}}–1964

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian of central Europe

| {{cite web|last1=Pomeranz|first1=Kenneth|title=University of California: In Memoriam, 2001|url=http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb987008v1&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00048&toc.depth=1&toc.id=|website=Calisphere|publisher=University of California|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=October 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019084601/http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb987008v1&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00048&toc.depth=1&toc.id=|url-status=live}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|W. Conway|Pierce}}

| 1945–1953

| style="text-align:left;" | Chemist

| {{cite journal |title=1963 W. Conway Pierce, UC Riverside |journal=SCALACS |date=26 June 2014 |url=https://scalacs.org/?page_id=1934 |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929102051/https://scalacs.org/?page_id=1934 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Corwin|Hansch}}

| 1946–1988

| style="text-align:left;" | Chemist

| {{cite news |last1=Kendall |first1=Mark |title=In Memoriam: Corwin H. Hansch |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2011/fall/in-memoriam-corwin-h-hansch/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=11 October 2011 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729140355/https://magazine.pomona.edu/2011/fall/in-memoriam-corwin-h-hansch/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jean|Walton}}

| 1949–1979

| style="text-align:left;" | Dean of women who reformed Pomona's residential life and co-founded its women's studies program

| {{cite web |last1=Kato |first1=Tanya M. |title=Collection: Jean Walton papers |url=https://claremont.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/3/resources/690 |website=ArchivesSpace Public Interface |publisher=The Claremont Colleges Library |access-date=2 November 2021 |date=2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102201226/https://claremont.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/3/resources/690 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|James|Grant|dab=artist}}

| 1950–1959

| style="text-align:left;" | Painter, sculptor

| {{cite web |title=James Grant: Painter, Sculptor |url=https://jamesgrant.org/resources.php |website=jamesgrant.org |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028171827/https://jamesgrant.org/resources.php |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Karl|Kohn}}

| 1950–1994

| style="text-align:left;" | Composer

| {{cite web |title=Kohn, Karl (Georg) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/kohn-karl-georg |website=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=October 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008220408/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/kohn-karl-georg |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Lord |first1=Christina |title=An Interview with Composer Karl Kohn |url=https://newclassic.la/2017/11/03/interview-composer-karl-kohn/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=New Classic LA |date=3 November 2017 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720173242/https://newclassic.la/2017/11/03/interview-composer-karl-kohn/ |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Swift |first1=Richard |title=Kohn, Karl |journal=Grove Music Online |year=2013 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2249977 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frederick|Sontag}}

| 1952–2009

| style="text-align:left;" | Philosopher and theologian

| {{cite web |title=1952 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1952 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018222915/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1950s/1952 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Leonard|Pronko}}

| 1957–2014

| style="text-align:left;" | Leading Western expert on Japanese dance-drama kabuki, awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1986

| {{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Dance Leonard Pronko |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/12/02-memoriam-professor-emeritus-theatre-and-dance-leonard-pronko |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=2 December 2019 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112234404/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2019/12/02-memoriam-professor-emeritus-theatre-and-dance-leonard-pronko |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Leonard Cabell Pronko |url=https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/obituaries/t34913-pronko |access-date=14 August 2020 |work=Claremont Courier |date=20 December 2019 |language=en |archive-date=January 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113034341/https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/obituaries/t34913-pronko |url-status=dead }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lewis|Baltz}}

| {{circa|1960|sortable=yes}}s

| style="text-align:left;" | Photographer

| {{cite web |title=Oral history interview with Lewis Baltz |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lewis-baltz-15758#transcript |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=23 August 2020 |language=en |date=15–17 November 2009 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919213350/https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lewis-baltz-15758#transcript |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Michael|Armacost}}

| 1960s

| style="text-align:left;" | Diplomat, ambassador to Japan and the Philippines, and president of the Brookings Institution

| {{cite news |title=Faculty Spotlight: Michael Armacost |url=https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-michael-armacost |work=Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center |publisher=Stanford University |date=29 October 2014 |language=en |access-date=5 November 2020 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121055053/https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-michael-armacost |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Stanley|Crouch}}

| {{circa|1969|sortable=yes}}–c. 1975

| style="text-align:left;" | Cultural critic known for coverage of jazz, novelist, and English professor

| {{cite magazine |last1=Boynton |first1=Robert S. |title=Stanley Crouch: The Professor of Connection |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/11/06/the-professor-of-connection |access-date=12 February 2021 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 30, 1995 |language=en-us |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415000619/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/11/06/the-professor-of-connection |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=In Memoriam: English Professor Stanley Crouch |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/09/17-memoriam-english-professor-stanley-crouch |access-date=12 February 2021 |publisher=Pomona College |date=17 September 2020 |language=en |archive-date=January 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124022601/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/09/17-memoriam-english-professor-stanley-crouch |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Gerald M.|Ackerman}}

| 1971–1989

| style="text-align:left;" | Art history professor

| {{cite news |last1=Pohl |first1=Frances |title=Gerald Ackerman, Professor Emeritus of Art History, dies at 87 |url=https://arthistory.pomona.edu/2016/01/gerald-ackerman-professor-emeritus-of-art-history-dies-at-87/ |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=Art History Department |publisher=Pomona College |date=January 14, 2016 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520002842/https://arthistory.pomona.edu/2016/01/gerald-ackerman-professor-emeritus-of-art-history-dies-at-87/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|George|Gorse}}

| 1980–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Art history professor

| {{cite web |title=George L. Gorse |date=May 27, 2015 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/george-l-gorse |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=15 May 2022 |language=en |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521084739/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/george-l-gorse |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Steven|Koblik}}

| 1972–1992

| style="text-align:left;" | President of Reed College, President of the Huntington Library

| {{cite web |title=Koblik |date=May 27, 2015 |url=https://www.reed.edu/president/reed_presidents/koblick.html|publisher=Reed College|access-date=15 May 2022}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Martha|Andresen Wilder}}

| 1972–2006

| style="text-align:left;" | Scholar of Renaissance literature

| {{cite news |title=Martha Elizabeth Andresen Wilder |url=https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/obituaries/t27349-wilder |access-date=12 August 2020 |work=Claremont Courier |date=March 30, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044645/https://www.claremont-courier.com/articles/obituaries/t27349-wilder |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=In Memoriam: Martha Andresen Wilder (1944–2018) |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/2018/fall/in-memoriam-martha-andresen-wilder-1944-2018/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=5 September 2018 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044614/http://magazine.pomona.edu/2018/fall/in-memoriam-martha-andresen-wilder-1944-2018/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Bobby|Bradford}}

| 1974–2021

| style="text-align:left;" | Jazz musician

| {{cite web |title=Bobby Bradford |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/bobby-bradford |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=1 September 2020 |language=en |date=1 June 2015 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928061849/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/bobby-bradford |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Seven Pomona College Faculty Members Retire |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2021/07/09-seven-pomona-college-faculty-members-retire |access-date=28 November 2021 |publisher=Pomona College |date=9 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=November 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128073935/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2021/07/09-seven-pomona-college-faculty-members-retire |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert|Mezey}}

| 1976–2000

| style="text-align:left;" | Poet and translator

| {{cite news |last1=Gioria |first1=Dana |title=Pomona professor, poet and translator Robert Mezey dies |url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-04-29/pomona-professor-poet-and-translator-robert-mezey-dies |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=29 April 2020 |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902143140/https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-04-29/pomona-professor-poet-and-translator-robert-mezey-dies |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Robert Mezey |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/29-memoriam-emeritus-professor-english-and-poet-residence-robert-mezey |access-date=30 August 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=29 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044610/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2020/04/29-memoriam-emeritus-professor-english-and-poet-residence-robert-mezey |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Frank|Gibney}}

| {{circa|1979|sortable=yes}}–c. 2006

| style="text-align:left;" | Journalist known for humane postwar portraits of Japan and founder of the Pacific Basin Institute; awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 1976

| {{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |title=Frank Gibney, 81, Writer and Authority on Asia, Dies (Published 2006) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/us/frank-gibney-81-writer-and-authority-on-asia-dies.html |access-date=19 January 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 2006 |archive-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426224426/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/us/14gibney.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Woo |first1=Elaine |title=Frank Gibney, 81; American Expert on Japan |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-14-me-gibney14-story.html |access-date=19 January 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 April 2006 |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127204318/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-14-me-gibney14-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Gregg|Popovich}}

| 1979–1988

| style="text-align:left;" | Head basketball coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs

| {{cite web |title=1979 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1979 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028061028/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1970s/1979 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Kim |first1=Matthew |last2=Browning |first2=Kellen |title=Long before NBA titles, Spurs' Popovich says he 'fell in love' with DIII lifestyle at Pomona-Pitzer |url=https://tsl.news/gregg-popovich-san-antonio-spurs-nba-basketball-pomona-pitzer-diii-division-iii/ |access-date=26 October 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=6 May 2020 |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722090838/https://tsl.news/gregg-popovich-san-antonio-spurs-nba-basketball-pomona-pitzer-diii-division-iii/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Karl|Benjamin}}

| 1979–1994

| style="text-align:left;" | Abstract painter

| {{cite news |last1=Tiffany |first1=Laura |title=Karl Benjamin, Professor Emeritus and Renowned Abstract Painter, Has Died |url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2012/07/27-karl-benjamin-obituary.aspx |publisher=Pomona College |date=27 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805233211/https://www.pomona.edu/news/2012/07/27-karl-benjamin-obituary.aspx |archive-date=5 August 2012 |access-date=5 November 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Everett L.|Bull}}

| 1981–{{circa|2020|sortable=yes}}

| style="text-align:left;" | Computer scientist

|{{cite web |title=Everett L. Bull |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/everett-l-bull |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=2023-05-12 |website= |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404110247/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/everett-l-bull |archive-date=2016-04-04}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Thomas|Leabhart}}

| 1982–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Corporeal mime

| {{cite web |title=Thomas G. Leabhart |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/thomas-g-leabhart |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=21 September 2020 |language=en |date=27 May 2015 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419061945/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/thomas-g-leabhart |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Hamilton |first1=Denise |title=Mime Artistry Finds Its Voice With Pomona College Teacher |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-me-129-story.html |access-date=21 September 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=26 July 1991 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001172418/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-26-me-129-story.html |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Samuel H.|Yamashita}}

| 1983–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Historian and Asian studies scholar

| {{cite web |title=Samuel H. Yamashita |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/samuel-h-yamashita |publisher=Pomona College |date= |access-date=2023-05-12 |language=en |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513010424/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/samuel-h-yamashita |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kenneth B.|Wolf}}

| 1985–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Scholar of medieval studies

| {{cite web |title=Kenneth Baxter Wolf |date= |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/kenneth-baxter-wolf |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 December 2020 |language=en |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029090224/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/kenneth-baxter-wolf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Wolf, Kenneth Baxter 1957– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/wolf-kenneth-baxter-1957 |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=4 December 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020173311/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/wolf-kenneth-baxter-1957 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Eleanor P.|Brown}}

| 1986-present

| style="text-align:left;" | Economist, co-editor for the Review of Economics of the Household

| {{cite web |title=Eleanor P Brown|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eGuOyskAAAAJ&hl=en|publisher=Google Scholar|access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Susana|Chavez‑Silverman}}

| 1989–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Creative nonfiction writer on Latin American culture

| {{cite web |title=Susana Chávez-Silverman |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/susana-ch%C3%A1vez-silverman |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=August 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828042542/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/susana-ch%C3%A1vez-silverman |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Shahriar|Shahriari}}

| 1989–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematician

|{{cite web |title=Shahriar Shahriari |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/shahriar-shahriari |website= |date= |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=2023-05-12 |language=en |archive-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329121628/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/shahriar-shahriari |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Larissa|Rudova}}

| 1991-present

| style="text-align:left;" | Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor of Modern Languages

| {{cite web |title=Rudova|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/larissa-v-rudova|access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Katherine|Hagedorn}}

| 1993–2013

| style="text-align:left;" | Ethnomusicologist and Santería priestess

| {{cite news |last1=Colker |first1=David |title=Katherine Hagedorn dies at 52; Pomona professor was Santeria priestess |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2013-nov-18-la-me-katherine-hagedorn-20131119-story.html |access-date=21 September 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=18 November 2013 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001174609/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2013-nov-18-la-me-katherine-hagedorn-20131119-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Bald |first1=Anthony |title=In Memoriam: Katherine Hagedorn |url=https://tsl.news/news3574/ |access-date=21 September 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=15 November 2013 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044605/https://tsl.news/news3574/ |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Ami|Radunskaya}}

| 1994–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematician, president of the Association for Women in Mathematics

| {{cite web |title=Ami Radunskaya|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/ami-e-radunskaya|website= |date= |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=2023-05-12 |language=en }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cecilia|Conrad}}

| 1995–2012

| style="text-align:left;" | Economist, managing director of the MacArthur Fellows Program

| {{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/about/people/203/|title=Cecilia A. Conrad — MacArthur Foundation|website=MacArthur Foundation|language=en|access-date=2018-10-31|archive-date=September 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921230030/https://www.macfound.org/about/people/203/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Cecilia A. Conrad's Biography |url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/cecilia-conrad |website=The History Makers |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803083705/https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/cecilia-conrad |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Cecilia A. Conrad |url=https://www.macfound.org/media/files/MacArthur_Fellows_Program_Cecilia_Conrad_Biography.pdf |website=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=19 September 2020 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628054718/https://www.macfound.org/media/files/macarthur_fellows_program_cecilia_conrad_biography.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|David Foster|Wallace}}

| 2002–2008

| style="text-align:left;" | Essayist and novelist, author of Infinite Jest

| {{cite web |title=2008 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2000s/2008 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=1 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125052624/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2000s/2008 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jo|Hardin}}

| 2002-present

| style="text-align:left;" | Statistician and Fellow of the American Statistical Association

| {{cite web |title=Johanna S Hardin |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/johanna-s-hardin#!tabset_0=4|publisher=Pomona College |access-date=3 September 2020 |language=en |date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=March 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250316082810/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/johanna-s-hardin#!tabset_0=4 |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Robert R.|Gaines}}

| 2003–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Geologist, acting president, dean of the college

| {{cite web |title=Robert R. Gaines |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/robert-r-gaines |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=3 September 2020 |language=en |date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420192044/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/robert-r-gaines |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Kim|Bruce}}

| 2005–2021

| style="text-align:left;" | Computer scientist

|{{cite web|url=https://cs.pomona.edu/~kim/Vita.pdf | title=Kim Bruce CV |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Department of Computer Science |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404042229/https://cs.pomona.edu/~kim/Vita.pdf |archive-date=2023-04-04}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Claudia|Rankine}}

| 2006–2015

| style="text-align:left;" | Poet

| {{cite news |last1=Pepitone |first1=Paige |title=Claudia Rankine Reads Poetry, Discusses Racism at Garrison |url=https://tsl.news/news5854/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=29 April 2016 |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810025807/https://tsl.news/news5854/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=First Lee Professor Appointed |url=http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2006 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512172528/http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml |archive-date=12 May 2008}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Susan|McWilliams Barndt}}

| 2006

| style="text-align:left;" | Political Theorist, co-editor of American Political Thought

| {{cite web |title=Susan Mcwilliams|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/susan-mcwilliams-barndt|access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Meredith|Landman}}

| {{circa|2010|sortable=yes}}–2018

| style="text-align:left;" | Linguist

|{{cite web|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/meredith-landman | title=Meredith Landman |access-date=2023-05-12 |website= |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404113425/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/meredith-landman |archive-date=2016-04-04}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jonathan|Lethem}}

| 2011–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Novelist, author of Fortress of Solitude

| {{cite web |title=Jonathan Lethem |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/jonathan-lethem |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |date=1 June 2015 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809063051/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/jonathan-lethem |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |last1=Ellis |first1=Lee |title=Lethem Goes to Inland Empire |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lethem-goes-to-inland-empire |access-date=22 September 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=23 April 2010 |language=en-us |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919072750/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lethem-goes-to-inland-empire |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Peters |first1=Cynthia |title=Jonathan Lethem Appointed Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College |url=http://pomona.edu/news/2010/04/22-jonathan-lethem.aspx |access-date=22 September 2020 |publisher=Pomona College |date=22 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306043419/http://pomona.edu/news/2010/04/22-jonathan-lethem.aspx |archive-date=March 6, 2012}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Amanda|Hollis-Brusky}}

| 2011-present

| style="text-align:left;" | Constitutional Law Scholar, editor for The Monkey Cage

| {{cite web |title=Hollis-Brusky|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/amanda-l-hollis-brusky|access-date=30 August 2020}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Cameron|Munter}}

| 2013–2015

| style="text-align:left;" | Diplomat, ambassador to Serbia and Pakistan

| {{cite news |last1=Kalow |first1=Jared |title=Former U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter To Teach International Relations at Pomona |url=https://tsl.news/news2496/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=12 October 2012 |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027232420/https://tsl.news/news2496/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Cameron Munter |url=https://www.eastwest.ngo/profile/cameron-munter |publisher=EastWest Institute |access-date=30 August 2020 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823093235/https://www.eastwest.ngo/profile/cameron-munter |url-status=live }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Edray|Goins}}

| 2018-present

| style="text-align:left;" | Mathematician, President of the National Association of Mathematicians, Preserver of the Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

| {{cite web |title=Goins|url=https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/edray-herber-goins/|access-date=23 March 2025}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Lise|Abrams}}

| 2018–present

| style="text-align:left;" | Cognitive psychologist

| {{cite web |title=Lise Abrams |url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/lise-abrams |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=30 August 2020 |language=en |date=16 July 2018 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924093706/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/lise-abrams |url-status=live }}

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| colspan="4" style="{{NCAA secondary color cell|Pomona College}}; text-align:center;" | Also an alumnus of the college

Presidents of Pomona College

File:James A. Blaisdell portrait.jpg, Pomona's fourth president and founder of the Claremont Colleges{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Seth |title=James Blaisdell-The Visionary |url=http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/tndy4010/page/James+Blaisdell-The+Visionary |website=Claremont Conversation |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928024653/http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/tndy4010/page/James+Blaisdell-The+Visionary |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}]]

From 1888 to 1890, trustee Charles B. Sumner was the college's "financial agent with supervisory authority", and assumed many of the duties of a president.{{cite book |last1=Brackett |first1=Frank P. |authorlink1=Frank Parkhurst Brackett |title=Granite and sagebrush; reminiscences of the first fifty years of Pomona College |date=1944 |publisher=Ward Ritchie Press |location=Los Angeles, California |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006103350 |access-date=30 August 2020 |oclc=4334585 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215045238/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006103350 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Lyon |first1=E. Wilson |authorlink1=E. Wilson Lyon |title=The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969 |date=1977 |publisher=The Castle Press |oclc=4114776}} The subsequent presidents are:

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scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | {{No.}}

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Name

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Tenure

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | Academic expertise

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Pomona College|border=0}}; color: white;" | {{Reference heading}}

1

! scope="row" | Cyrus G. Baldwin

| 1890–1897

| Congregational minister

| {{cite news |title=Pomona's Presidential Portrait Gallery |url=http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl04/FSpresidents.shtml |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2004 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415081549/http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl04/FSpresidents.shtml |archive-date=15 April 2014 |access-date=5 November 2020}}{{cite web |title=1890 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1890 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714230145/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1890 |url-status=live }}

2

! scope="row" | Franklin La Du Ferguson

| 1897–1901

| Congregational minister

| {{cite web |title=1897 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1897 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926001735/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1890s/1897 |url-status=live }}

3

! scope="row" | George A. Gates

| 1902–1909

| Congregational minister

| {{cite web |title=1902 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1900s/1902 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930072404/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1900s/1902 |url-status=live }}

4

! scope="row" | James A. Blaisdell

| 1910–1927

| Congregational minister

| {{cite web |title=1910 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1910 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=July 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720210515/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1910s/1910 |url-status=live }}

5

! scope="row" | Charles K. Edmunds

| 1928–1941

| Physics

| {{cite news |title=Dr. C. K. Edmunds Killed; Auto Strikes Noted Educator, Former President of Pomona |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/01/10/85323167.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}

6

! scope="row" | E. Wilson Lyon

| 1941–1969

| History

| {{cite web |title=1941 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1941 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018132500/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1941 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Arnold |first1=Roxane |title=E.W. Lyon, 84; Ex-President of Pomona College |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-05-mn-509-story.html |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=5 March 1989}}

7

! scope="row" | David Alexander

| 1969–1991

| Theology

| {{cite news |last1=Maidman |first1=John |title=Students, Faculty Honor David Alexander |url=https://tsl.news/news1553/ |access-date=1 November 2018 |work=The Student Life |date=October 4, 2010 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919090154/https://tsl.news/news1553/ |url-status=live }}

8

! scope="row" | Peter W. Stanley

| 1991–2003

| History

| {{cite news |last1=Silverstein |first1=Stuart |title=Pomona College Head to Retire |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-06-me-pomona6-story.html |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=6 April 2002 |archive-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407204421/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-06-me-pomona6-story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=1991 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1990s/1991 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807035858/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1990s/1991 |url-status=live }}

9

! scope="row" | David W. Oxtoby

| 2003–2017

| Chemistry

| {{cite web |title=2003 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2000s/2003 |website=Pomona College Timeline |publisher=Pomona College |access-date=4 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305045821/https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/2000s/2003 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Ison |first1=Lauren |title=Pomona President Oxtoby to Step Down in 2017 |url=https://tsl.news/news5583/ |access-date=28 August 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=4 March 2016 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804141325/https://tsl.news/news5583/ |url-status=live }}

10

! scope="row" | G. Gabrielle Starr

| 2017–present

| Literature, neuroscience

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