List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.

Contents 1 1930s 2 1940s 3 1950s 4 1960s 5 1970s 6 1980s 7 1990s 8 2000s 9 References

1930s

• William Talman (1932), actor
• Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll
• Bob Bemer (1936), Computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL
• William Henry Scott (1939), historian

1940s

• Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian
• Barbara Lea (1947), singer
• Daniel Ellsberg (1948), journalist; released the Pentagon Papers

1950s

• Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979-1997
• Ward Just (1953), author
• Ivan Boesky - (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year) Arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street
• Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
• Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress
• Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist
• Edmund White III (1958), author
• Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist

1960s

• Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist
• Tod Williams (1961), architect
• Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator
• Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces
• Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism^[1]
• Mitt Romney (1965), former governor of Massachusetts; former candidate for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination
• Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher
• Stuart Bloomberg (1967), former chairman of ABC Entertainment; executive producer of the TV show In the Motherhood^[1]
• Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon
• Jeffrey Dearth (1968), President and publisher of The New Republic magazine, 1984-95^[2]
• Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
• Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of Slate; former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
• Ann Romney (1968), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)
• Sorayouth Prompoj (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany^[3]
• Sven Birkerts (1969), author

1970s

• Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way
• Brad Leithauser (1971), author
• Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems
• Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.
• Dey Young (1973), actress
• Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host ^[4]
• Dan Dickerson (1976), play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers
• Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (The Muppets, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory)
• Douglas Sills (1978), actor
• Amy Denio (1979), musician
• Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight
• Emily Cinader Scott (1979), former CEO & Chairman of J. Crew.

1980s

• Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver
• Rick Schaden (1982), founder and chairman of Quizno's
• Christopher Ilitch (1983), CEO of Ilitch Holdings
• Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in TIME Magazine’s 2010 listing of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.^[5]
• Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg
• Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (Damages)
• Alexi Lalas (1988), former professional soccer player; General Manager and President of the Los Angeles Galaxy
• Renee Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (Ally McBeal)

1990s

• Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress
• Selma Blair (1990), actress
• Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director
• Gabriel Nguema Lima (1993), son of President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea (1979-present); Vice-Minister of Mines and Energy for Equatorial Guinea ^[6]
• Aaron Boesky - (Class of 1993, left prior to senior year), financial analyst
• Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress

2000s

• Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer
• Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://schools.cranbrook.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=108139
2. ^ Cranbrook Schools web site, 2008 Commencement speakers
3. ^ [1]
4. ^ http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/4223/Dyson-Michael-Eric-1958.html/
5. ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1985482,00.html
6. ^ http://www.petermaass.com/articles/a_touch_of_crude/