Berea College - Notable Alumni and Professors

Notable Alumni and Professors

  • John "Bam" Carney - educator; member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Campbellsville
  • James Bond - educator, grandfather of Civil Rights Movement activist Julian Bond.
  • William H. Danforth - creator of Purina Dog Chow, author of I Dare you!
  • John B. Fenn - winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • Rodney Griffin - award-winning songwriter and baritone with Southern gospel group Greater Vision
  • Sam Hurst - inventor of the first touch screen.
  • Finley Hamilton - United States Representative from Kentucky.
  • Julia Britton Hooks - second African-American woman in the United States to graduate from college and paternal grandmother of Benjamin Hooks
  • Juanita M. Kreps - U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Jimmy Carter
  • Keven McQueen, author of several books chronicling violent crime in pre-20th century Kentucky
  • C.E. Morgan - author of "All the Living"
  • Harold "Hal" Moses, M.D. - Director Emeritus, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Professor of Cancer Biology
  • Tharon Musser - Tony Award-winning lighting designer known especially for her work on A Chorus Line
  • Jeffrey Reddick - American screenwriter, best known for creating the Final Destination series.
  • Jack Roush - founder, CEO, and owner of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team
  • Helen Maynor Scheirbeck - Assistant Director for Public Programs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian
  • Miss B Hollywood - National Pop Rap Recording Artist
  • James Thindwa - community activist with Chicago's "Jobs with Justice"
  • Rocky S. Tuan - Director of Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
  • Naomi Tutu (Nontombi Naomi Tutu) - daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and activist
  • Paul S. Peercy - Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
  • Djuan Trent - Miss Kentucky 2010
  • Muse Watson - American actor
  • Billy Edd Wheeler - songwriter, performer and writer
  • Cleophus Charles - Former holder of the Carter G. Woodson Chair of African American Studies and Co-founder of the Cleo and Rosa Charles Student Development Fund.
  • Carter G. Woodson - African-American historian, author, and journalist. Co-founder of Black History Month
  • Silas House - NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies, author and activist.
  • bell hooks - Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies, author of over thirty books.

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