Notable Alumni
Many former students at Grinnell College have gone into politics, made important contributions to science, or become prominent entertainers.
- Harry Hopkins, 1912, senior advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, principal architect of the New Deal, WPA administrator.
- Joseph Welch, 1914, Head attorney for the United States Army during the Army-McCarthy Hearings.
- Robert Noyce, 1949, nicknamed "Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founder of Intel, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
- Herbie Hancock, 1960, Jazz musician and composer who has won an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Awards, member of Miles Davis's "second great quintet".
- John Garang, 1969, leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, later vice president of Sudan.
- Thomas Cech, 1970, Co-winner of 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for discovery of catalytic properties of RNA", past president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- Bernice King, lawyer, orator, community organizer, associate pastor, and the youngest child of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King
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