Hiram College - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

• Laura Bell - Author, Claiming Ground (published by Knopf)
• James A. Campbell - Industrialist for whom Campbell, Ohio is named.
• Sharon Creech - Author, Walk Two Moons
• Randy Dearth - President and CEO, Lanxess U.S. subsidiary
• Peter R. DeMallie, Jr. - President and Principal, Design Professionals, Inc.
• Jonathan Estrin - Executive Vice President, American Film Institute
• Joseph Fernandez - Biotechnology entrepreneur, cofounder of Invitrogen, founder and CEO of Active Motif
• James A. Garfield - 20th President of the United States
• Osee Hall - U.S. Congressman
• David Brendan Hopes - Author
• Jan Hopkins - journalist (CNN Financial News show "Street Sweep"), businesswoman
• John Samuel Kenyon - Linguist, "the dean of American phoneticians"
• Vachel Lindsay - Poet

• Lance Liotta - Noted cancer biologist, pathologist
• J. Kevin McMahon - President and CEO, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
• Benjamin D. Pritchard - General who captured Jefferson Davis
• Robin Reed - Cell Biologist, Harvard Medical School, known for research on gene expression
• Dean Scarborough - President and CEO, Avery Dennison Corp.
• William C. Shivers - President of Huntington Bank's Greater Akron/Canton Region
• Platt Rogers Spencer - founder of Spencerian style of handwriting
• Mark Spong - Roboticist, known for work on robotic control theory
• Michael Stanley - American musician and radio announcer
• Claude Steele - Social psychologist, Provost of Columbia University
• Allyn Vine - Physicist, oceanographer who invented the Alvin submersible vessel that found the Titanic
• Tom Wesselmann - American Pop Artist
• Bill White - Former MLB first baseman, broadcaster, and National League President
• Harold Bell Wright - Best-selling author during the first half of the 20th century
• Allyn Abbott Young - American Economist