List of Denison University alumni

The people listed alphabetically below studied at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z

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A

• Homer Burton Adkins (Organic chemist)
• Tully Alford - cult figure, inspiration for character of same name in The Addams Family (film) ^[1]
• Samuel Armacost (formerly the president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation)

B

• Joe Banner (current President and CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles)
• John Berton (computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor)
• Brad Blum (former CEO of Burger King)
• George Bodenheimer (current President of ESPN and ABC Sports)
• Laura Boulton (American ornithologist and ethnomusicologist)
• William G. Bowen (former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
• Ernest DeWitt Burton (American biblical scholar)

C

• John Canning, Jr. (Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners)
• Steve Carell (screen and television actor, best known as star of 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office, and Little Miss Sunshine)
• Steven R. Carter (American literary critic, and academic)
• William Ernest Castle (early American geneticist)
• John T. Chain, Jr. (retired U.S. Air Force General)
• Jen Clemmer (Bomb.com soccer star)
• Roe Conn (radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago)
• George Cressey (American geographer, author, and academic)
• Bruce Cumings (professor of history)
• Chris Curtin (Vice-President of Digital Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co.)

D

• Mark Dalton (businessman) (CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation)
• Dan Daub (Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897)
• John Davidson (stage and television actor, game show host, including Hollywood Squares)
• Edward Andrew Deeds (American engineer, inventor and industrialist)
• Robert Dold (U.S. Representative-elect for Illinois's 10th congressional district)
• George Amos Dorsey (ethnographer)

E

• Michael Eisner (former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company)
• William Esrey (former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation)

F

• Edmund Burke Fairfield (minister, educator and politician)
• John V. Faraci (chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper)
• Carty Finkbeiner (former mayor of Toledo, Ohio)
• James Frey (screenwriter and author - author of A Million Little Pieces which was featured on Oprah's Book Club)

G

• Jennifer Garner (screen and television actress, best known as star of TV show Alias also stars in romantic comedy "Valentines Day")
• Bill Giles (baseball) (chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies)
• Michael Glaser (poet) (Poet Laureate for the state of Maryland)
• Edgar J. Goodspeed (American liberal theologian)

H

• Mark Haines, co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
• Tony P. Hall (United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Congressman from Ohio)
• Judson Harmon (45th Governor of Ohio)
• Jeffrey Hatcher (playwright and screenwriter)
• Woody Hayes (football coach of Ohio State from 1951 to 1978)
• Leonard D. Heaton (former Surgeon General of the United States Army)
• Hal Holbrook (stage, screen and television actor, best known perhaps for portrayal of Mark Twain)
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign)
• Randy Hopper {Wisconsin State Senate)

J

• John Jeffcoat (film director, known for Outsourced (film))
• Terry Jones (Travel_Entrepreneur) (founder, Travelocity.com and Kayak.com)

K

• Sue W. Kelly (former member of the United States Congress from New York)
• Ademir Kenović (film director and producer)

L

• Robert W. Levering (former United States Congressman)
• John S. Lowe (professor and expert in energy law)
• Richard Lugar (Current United States Senator from Indiana, currently on the Board of Trustees)
• Nancy Lynn, (American acrobatic pilot, killed in Culpeper Airfest crash 2006)

M

• Ann Magnuson (American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer)
• John Malm Jr. (former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails)
• Roger H. Martin (14th president of Randolph-Macon College)
• Daniel Meyer (conductor) (conductor and musical director)
• Ken Meyer (former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers)
• Tod Mott (head brewer of The Portsmouth Brewery, and creator of Kate the Great Russian Imperial Stout and Harpoon Brewery's India Pale Ale)

O

• Johnny O'Connell (professional sports car racer)

P

• Jim Petro (former Ohio Attorney General)
• James Madison Pendleton (19th century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian)

R

• Bobby Rahal (Indianapolis 500 champion)
• Hollis Resnik (American singer and actress)
• José Rivera (first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award)
• John Robic (assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky)

S

• John Schuck (screen, stage, and television actor)
• Lauren Shakely (American poet, editor, and publisher)
• Thomas Skidmore (historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history)
• George Stibitz (American scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs))

T

• Jack Thompson (anti-video game activist)
• Stephen Tuttle (musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia)
• Erastus B. Tyler (Union Army general in the American Civil War)

V

• H. Clay Van Voorhis (former United States Congressman)

W

• Ed Weber (former United States Congressman)
• Melissa Murphy Weber (attorney and Pennsylvania politician)

References

External links

• Denison University