Notable Alumni of Haverford College

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1889–1982

British politician and athlete, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Kōichirō Matsuura 1937–

Japanese diplomat, former UNESCO Director-General

Hafsat Abiola 1974–

Nigerian human rights and democracy activist

Also attended: Harvard University

Oscar Goodman 1939–

Attorney and mayor of Las Vegas from 1999 to 2011

Also attended: University of Pennsylvania

Spouse: Carolyn Goodman (University of Nevada--Las Vegas, Bryn Mawr College)

Charles Mathias 1922–2010

Maryland attorney and politician

Also attended: Yale University, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University System of Maryland

Thomas Barlow 1940–2017

Former US Representative from Kentucky

Charles T. Canady 1954–

Former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida

Bachelor of Arts · Class of 1976

Also attended: Yale University

Jim Moody 1935–2019

Former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin and economist

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley, Harvard University

Rob Simmons 1943–

Former US representative from Connecticut

Attended until 1965

Also attended: Harvard University

John J. Phillips 1887–1983

Businessman and California congressman

Attended until 1910

Thomas Djiwandono 1972–

Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

Father: J. Soedradjad Djiwandono (Boston University)

Samuel S. Stratton 1916–1990

Former New York congressman and mayor of Schenectady

Also attended: Harvard University, University of Rochester

Mark Geragos 1957–

Criminal defense lawyer

Richard G. Andrews 1955–

Senior US district judge in Delaware

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley

Howard Lutnick 1961–

41st United States Secretary of Commerce

Alexander C. Karp 1967–

Co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies

Also attended: Stanford University

Andy Gavin 1970–

Co-founder of Naughty Dog, game programmer

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jane Silber

Former CEO of Canonical

Also attended: Vanderbilt University

John C. Whitehead 1922–2015

Banker and Lower Manhattan Development Corporation chairman

Also attended: Harvard University

Spouse: Nancy Dickerson Whitehead (Catholic University of America, Clarke University)

Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. 1931–2016

Businessman and Pennsylvania politician

Also attended: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Samuel Hill 1857–1931

Businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and good roads advocate

Also attended: Harvard University

Michael Kim 1963–

Founder and chairman of MBK Partners

Also attended: Harvard University

Joseph Hooton Taylor 1941–

Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner

Also attended: Harvard University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Theodore William Richards 1868–1928

Chemist, first American Nobel laureate in Chemistry

Also attended: Harvard University

Father: William Trost Richards (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

George Smith 1941–

Nobel Prize-winning chemist

Also attended: Harvard University

Fredric Jameson 1934–2024

Literary critic and Marxist political theorist

Also attended: Yale University

Jon Kabat-Zinn 1944–

Creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic; professor emeritus of medicine

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Warren Sturgis McCulloch 1898–1969

Neurophysiologist and cybernetics pioneer

Also attended: Yale University, Columbia University in the City of New York

Curtis Callan 1942–

Theoretical physicist at Princeton University

Also attended: Princeton University

Stephen J. Lippard 1940–

MIT chemistry professor and bioinorganic chemistry founder

Bachelor of Arts · Chemistry · Class of 1962

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Charles Caldwell Ryrie 1925–2016

Theologian and Dallas Theological Seminary professor

Also attended: Stony Brook University

Rufus Jones 1863–1948

Quaker theologian and Haverford College professor

Also attended: Harvard University

Henry H. Goddard 1866–1957

Psychologist who translated the Binet-Simon test

Also attended: Clark University

James Clifford 1945–

Scholar combining history, literature and anthropology

Also attended: Harvard University, Stanford University

Kim Plofker 1964–

Historian of mathematics specializing in Indian mathematics

Bachelor of Arts · Class of 1985

Also attended: Brown University

Akira Iriye 1934–2026

Diplomatic historian who taught at Chicago and Harvard

Also attended: Harvard University

Walter Kaegi 1937–2022

Byzantine historian, University of Chicago professor

Also attended: Harvard University

Chevy Chase 1943–

Comedian and actor, original Saturday Night Live cast member

Also attended: Bard College

Daniel Dae Kim 1968–

Actor in television and film

Also attended: New York University, Bryn Mawr College

George Segal 1934–2021

American actor and musician

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Pratt Institute-Main

Dave Barry 1947–

Humor columnist for the Miami Herald

Spouse: Michelle Kaufman (University of Miami)

Takeo Arishima 1878–1923

Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist

Also attended: Harvard University

Judd Nelson 1959–

Actor known for The Breakfast Club

Christopher Morley 1890–1957

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

Child: Louise Cochrane (Bryn Mawr College)

Maxfield Parrish 1870–1966

Painter and illustrator

Also attended: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Logan Pearsall Smith 1865–1946

American-born British essayist and critic

Also attended: Harvard University

Sibling: Alys Pearsall Smith (Bryn Mawr College)

Sibling: Mary Berenson (Harvard University, Smith College)

William Henry Chamberlin 1897–1969

Historian and journalist, author of The Russian Revolution

Julius Katchen 1926–1969

Concert pianist known for Brahms recordings

Nicholson Baker 1957–

Novelist and essayist

Also attended: University of Rochester

Ken Ludwig 1950–

Playwright and director with Broadway productions

Also attended: Yale University, Harvard University

David Bispham 1857–1921

Operatic baritone

Hershel Shanks 1930–2021

Founder and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review

Roy Gutman 1944–

Journalist and author

Colin Harrison 1960–

Novelist and editor

Spouse: Kathryn Harrison (University of Iowa, Stanford University)

Andy Greenberg 2000–

Technology journalist, senior writer at Wired

Attended until 2004

Also attended: New York University

Frank Mankiewicz 1924–2014

Journalist and president of National Public Radio

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, Columbia University in the City of New York

Father: Herman J. Mankiewicz (Columbia University in the City of New York)

Child: Ben Mankiewicz (Tufts University, Columbia University in the City of New York)

Beth Cavener Stichter 1972–

Sculptor working in clay

Also attended: Ohio State University-Main Campus

Juan Williams 1954–

Fox News political analyst and journalist

Bachelor's degree

David Meyer Wessel 1954–

Journalist who shared two Pulitzer Prizes

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1977–

Nigerian writer

Also attended: Eastern Connecticut State University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University

Kriyananda 1926–2013

Yogananda disciple and founder of the Ananda movement