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{{cite book|last1=Skillman|first1=David Bishop|title=The Biography of a College: Being the History of the First Century of the Life of Lafayette College|date=1932|publisher=Lafayette College|location=Easton, Pennsylvania}}

{{cite book |last1=Gendebien |first1=Albert W. |title=The Biography of a College: A History of Lafayette College 1927 - 1978 |date=1986 |publisher=Lafayette College |location=Easton, PA}}

=Noted alumni and faculty=

{{Main list|List of Lafayette College people}}

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|+Alumni

! scope="col" style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Lafayette Leopards|border=0}}; color: white;" |Name

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

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

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Alexander|Ramsey}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1834‡

|U.S. Senator, 2nd Governor of Minnesota

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Alexander Ramsey (1879–1881) {{!}} Miller Center |url=https://millercenter.org/president/hayes/ramsey-1879-secretary-of-war |website=millercenter.org |access-date=28 December 2024 |language=en |date=4 October 2016}}{{cite web |title=Alexander Ramsey - Biography |url=https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=9465&body=H |website=archives.house.state.pa.us |access-date=28 December 2024}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Charles A.|Wikoff}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1855

|United States Army Colonel

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=EASTON’S CHARLES WIKOFF GAVE UP LAW FOR THE MILITARY |url=https://www.mcall.com/1998/05/28/eastons-charles-wikoff-gave-up-law-for-the-military/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The Morning Call |date=28 May 1998}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|John W.|Griggs}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1868

|43rd U.S. Attorney General, 29th Governor of New Jersey

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite book |last=Skemer |first=Don C. |title=Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays |publisher=Rivergate Regionals |pages=161–64 |chapter=John W. Griggs |chapter-url=http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GGRIG.pdf |chapter-format=PDF |access-date=December 27, 2024 |archive-date=March 12, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060312034734/http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GGRIG.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Peyton C.|March}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1884

|Chief of Staff of the United States Army

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=What They Say About General Peyton March in His Own Home Town in the Lehigh Valley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-union-what-they-say-about-ge/161693494/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The Morning Union |date=10 March 1918 |pages=25|via=Newspapers.com}}

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

| style="text-align:center;" |1894‡

|Author of The Red Badge of Courage

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Crane Society Collects Material Of Early Works |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-crane-society-collects-material/161692111/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The News |date=21 April 1954 |pages=26|via=Newspapers.com}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Philip S.|Hench}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1916

|Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Nobel Doctor Lafayette Graduate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-hench-obit/161680094/ |access-date=27 December 2024 |work=The Morning Call |date=2 April 1965 |pages=37|via=Newspapers.com}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|A. Mitchell|Palmer}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1919‡

|50th U.S. Attorney General

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Whelan |first1=Frank |title=History's Headlines: The Fighting Quaker |url=https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-the-fighting-quaker/article_f25379e0-0d9f-11ed-98f5-d36373b11631.html |access-date=27 December 2024 |work=WFMZ.com |date=30 July 2022 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Haldan K.|Hartline}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1923

|Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Waggoner |first1=Walter H. |title=H. Keffer Hartline is Dead at 79; Nobel Laureate in Vision Research |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/19/obituaries/obituary.html |access-date=27 December 2024 |work=New York Times |date=19 March 1983 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|George|Decker}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1924

|Chief of Staff of the United States Army

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Decker Nominated for Army Staff Command |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-waukesha-county-freeman-decker-nomin/161694093/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The Waukesha County Freeman |date=19 August 1960 |pages=7|via=Newspapers.com}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|S. Donald|Stookey}}

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

|Inventor of CorningWare

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Yardley |first1=William |title=S. Donald Stookey, Scientist, Dies at 99; Among His Inventions Was CorningWare (Published 2014) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/business/s-donald-stookey-inventor-of-corningware-dies-at-99.html |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=7 November 2014 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|William E.|Simon}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1952

|63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Campus: Simon to speak at Lafayette ceremonies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-campus-simon-to-speak/161690086/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The Morning Call |date=7 May 1976 |pages=13|via=Newspapers.com}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Pete|Carril}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1952

|Basketball coach

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Litsky |first1=Frank |title=Pete Carril, Princeton’s Textbook Basketball Coach, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/sports/basketball/pete-carril-dead.html |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=15 August 2022 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Dominique|Lapierre}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1952

|French author

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Brian |title=Dominique Lapierre, author of best-selling historical narratives, dies at 91 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/06/dominique-lapierre-author-french-dies/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=Washington Post |date=6 December 2022 |language=en}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Jay|Weiss}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1962

|MacArthur fellow

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Lafayette to award five honorary degrees |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-lafayette-to-award-five/161690587/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The Morning Call |date=19 May 1994 |pages=56|via=Newspapers.com}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Barry|Wellman}}

| style="text-align:center;" |1963

|Sociologist

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Wellman '63 Honored for Lifetime Achievements |url=https://news.lafayette.edu/2001/10/17/wellman-63-honored-for-lifetime-achievements/ |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=Lafayette College |date=17 October 2001}}

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

| style="text-align:center;" |1976

|2x MLB World Series Manager

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Deegan |first1=Jim |title=Springsteen bandmate parties at Lafayette with Joe Maddon (PHOTOS) |url=https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/2016/11/springsteen_joe_maddon_lafayet.html |access-date=27 December 2024 |work=lehighvalleylive |date=19 November 2016 |language=en}}

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| colspan="4" style="{{NCAA secondary color cell|Lafayette Leopards}}; text-align:center;" |‡ Did not graduate from Lafayette

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|+Faculty

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

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

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

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scope="row" | {{sortname|Eugene C.|Bingham}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1916–1939

| Pioneer of Rheology

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=DR. EUGENE BINGHAM; Leading Rheologist Organized Society in 1929--Dies at 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/11/07/archives/dr-eugene-bingham-leading-rheologist-organized-society-in-1929dies.html |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=7 November 1945}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Guy|Consolmagno}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1985–1989

| Astronomer

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Br. Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J. |url=https://www.vaticanobservatory.va/en/who-are-we/staff/br-guy-j-consolmagno-s-j |website=Vatican Observatory |access-date=28 December 2024 |language=en-gb |date=13 May 2022}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Francis|March}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1857–1907

| Founder of modern comparative linguistics

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |title=Francis A. March Collection: Biographical Sketch |date=October 2015 |publisher=Lafayette College |url=https://archives.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/march.pdf |access-date=27 December 2024}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Theodore|Roethke}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1931–1935

| Pulitzer Prize winning poet

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |title=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/roethke__theodore |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=pabook.libraries.psu.edu}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Donald L.|Miller}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1978–Present

| Author

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite news |last1=Gage |first1=Beverly |title=The Roar of the Crowd |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/books/review/supreme-city-by-donald-l-miller.html |access-date=28 December 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 2014 |language=en}}

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

| style="text-align:center;" | 1983–1989

| Developer of Ratchet effect theory

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |last1=Coyne |first1=Christopher |title=The Intellectual Journey of Robert Higgs |url=https://fee.org/articles/the-intellectual-journey-of-robert-higgs/ |website=fee.org |access-date=28 December 2024}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|William Sebring|Kirkpatrick}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1875–1877

| U.S. House of Representatives

| style="text-align:center;" | {{cite web |title=KIRKPATRICK, William Sebring |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000241 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=28 December 2024}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Bruce Allen|Murphy}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1998–Present

| Judicial biographer

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |last1=Rozansky |first1=Michael |title=Rendell Center Offers Webinar Series for Teachers on Judicial Independence |url=https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/rendell-center-offers-webinar-series-for-teachers-on-judicial-independence/ |website=The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania |access-date=28 December 2024 |date=7 July 2022}}

scope="row" | {{sortname|Clement|Eaton}}

| style="text-align:center;" | 1931–1942

| Historian

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |title=Clement Eaton draft of The Waning of the Old South Civilization, 1860-1880sms738 |url=https://sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead/ms738.xml;query=;brand=default |website=University of Georgia Press |language=en}}