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24 notable alumni

Notable Alumni of Albany Medical College

Notable alumni of Albany Medical College include Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (Geologist who pioneered surveys of the Rocky Mountains), Theobald Smith (Pioneering epidemiologist and bacteriologist) and Jeffrey M. Friedman (Molecular geneticist who discovered leptin).

College data and admissions

Alumni list

Politics and law

  • Jef Valkeniers 1932–

    Belgian physician and politician

  • Chester Bidwell Darrall 1842–1908

    US representative for Louisiana

  • John Swinburne 1820–1889

    Physician and Republican congressman from New York

  • John J. Dewey 1822–1891

    Physician and Minnesota territorial legislator

  • San C. Po 1870–1946

    Karen nationalist leader in Burma

Business

  • Thomas C. Durant 1820–1885

    Financier central to Union Pacific Railroad's formation

Science and academia

  • Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden 1829–1887

    Geologist who pioneered surveys of the Rocky Mountains

    Also attended: Oberlin College

  • Theobald Smith 1859–1934

    Pioneering epidemiologist and bacteriologist

    Also attended: Cornell University

  • Jeffrey M. Friedman 1954–

    Molecular geneticist who discovered leptin

    Also attended: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The Rockefeller University

  • Ebenezer Emmons 1799–1863

    Geologist who named the Adirondack Mountains

    Also attended: Williams College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Russell Trall 1812–1877

    Physician and advocate of hydrotherapy and vegetarianism

  • John A. Sampson 1873–1946

    Gynecologist who studied endometriosis

    Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

  • James H. Salisbury 1823–1905

    Physician and inventor of the Salisbury steak

    Also attended: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • George Frederick Barker 1835–1910

    Physicist, physician and professor

    Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1863

    Also attended: Yale University

  • Anthony Levatino 1956–

    Obstetrician-gynecologist and anti-abortion activist

  • Walter M. Fleming 1838–1913

    Physician and co-founder of the Shriners

    Doctor of Medicine

  • Edward Khantzian 1935–2021

    Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry

    Doctor of Medicine

    Also attended: Boston University

  • William Olin Stillman 1856–1924

    Physician and animal welfare activist

    Doctor of Medicine

  • David R. Nalin 1941–

    Physiologist known for oral rehydration therapy research

    Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1965

    Also attended: Cornell University

  • Howard Townsend 1823–1867

    Physician and professor at Albany Medical College

    Also attended: University of Pennsylvania

  • Kenneth Blackfan 1883–1941

    Pediatrician focused on nutrition and hematology

  • Thomas William Salmon 1876–1927

    Psychiatrist and mental hygiene movement leader

Arts and media

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

Alumni network

Colleges that share the most alumni with Albany Medical College (people who attended both).