List of Bucknell University alumni

This list of Bucknell University alumni includes graduates and former students of Bucknell University.

Academia

Peter Balakian, author and poet, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Samuel Zane Batten, professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
P. George Benson, twenty-first president of the College of Charleston
Edward McNight Brawley, first African-American graduate, co-founder and president of Selma University and Morris College
Charles E. Bunnell, first president of the University of Alaska
Steven T. DeKosky, Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine
Dennis A. Dougherty, George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology
Murray Edelman, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frank A. Golder (1877–1929), historian of Russian and a key builder of the Hoover War Library^[1]
Mary W.M. Hargreaves, author, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, and associate editor/coeditor of The Papers of Henry Clay, volumes I through VI (Kentucky, 1959–1981)
Marc Hauser, author, professor, and Director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab at Harvard University
David Jayne Hill, second president of the University of Rochester
Ronald D. Liebowitz, ninth president of Brandeis University, sixteenth president of Middlebury College
Marty Makary, Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Professor of Surgery and Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
David Nasaw, author, historian, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York
Douglas Noll, bioengineer, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Professor of Bioengineering at University of Michigan
George Morris Philips, principal of West Chester University from 1881 to 1920
Robert A. Scott, ninth president of Adelphi University
Amos Smith, Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Smith, Professor of English at Syracuse University
John Stasko, Regents Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech
J.D. Trout, Calamos Professor of Philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology
Barbara F. Walter, Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the University of California, San Diego, member of Council on Foreign Relations^[2]

Business

Ted Ammon, New York financier
Kunitake Andō, President & Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Corporation
Ronald S. Baron, New York financier, founder of Baron Funds
Charles Brandes, Founder, Brandes Investment Partners
Todd G. Buchholz, economist, investment manager, author, lecturer, and former White House director of economic policy; awarded the Allyn Young Teaching Prize by the Harvard University Department of Economics
Jane T. Elfers, CEO of The Children's Place, former CEO of Lord & Taylor
Jessica Jackley, cofounder of Kiva.org
Richard Johnson, founder of hotjobs.com
Kenneth Langone, helped secure capital for co-founders of Home Depot, and former director of the New York Stock Exchange
Doug Lebda, founder & CEO of LendingTree
Jessica Livingston, cofounder of YCombinator
Marc Lore, president & CEO of Walmart Ecommerce; founder & CEO of Jet.com
Takeo Shiina President of IBM Japan, and vice-president of IBM
Greg Skibiski Founder, former CEO & Chairman of Sense Networks
Trisha Torrey, entrepreneur, author, and founder and director of AdvoConnection and the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates
David Wood, leader of the Dell computer take-back campaign
George Young, General Manager of the New York Giants (1979-1997), named NFL Executive of the Year five times

Entertainment

Film and television

Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor; plays Chris Partlow on HBO's "The Wire"
Chris Bender, co-produced movies such as the American Pie series, The Hangover, and others
John Bolger, actor
William Bramley actor^[3]
Edward Herrmann, actor
Evan Coyne Maloney, webmaster/documentary filmmaker
Robert Mandel, film director and producer, dean of the AFI Conservatory
Les Moonves, former CBS chairman and CEO
Nyambi Nyambi, actor; plays Samuel on Mike & Molly
J.C. Spink, Hollywood talent manager and executive producer of "The Hangover" franchise
Ralph Waite, actor
Bill Westenhofer, Winner of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2008 (The Golden Compass) and 2013 (Life of Pi)

Music

Paul Althouse, opera singer
Bill Challis, pioneering jazz arranger (Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke)
Kristen Henderson, founder, guitarist and songwriter of Antigone Rising, co-author of Times Two: Two Women in Love and The Happy Family They Made (Simon & Schuster, 2011), named to Buzzfeed's Most Powerful LGBT Icons and Allies List
Bruce Lundvall, President and CEO of The Blue Note Label Group, including Blue Note Records
Martin Rubeo, musician and founder of alternative rock band Gramsci Melodic

Other

Shaw Loo (1839 – 1929), Burma's first physician, the father of western medicine in Burma, the first Burmese in America, the first international student of Bucknell University
Theodore Beale, a.k.a. Vox Day, musician, writer, publisher and philosopher
Billy McFarland, convicted fraudster and founder of Fyre Festival. Attended Bucknell for one semester.
John McPherson, "Close to Home" cartoonist
Garrett Neff, fashion model

Government

Other

Ben T. Elliott, director of speech writing during President Ronald Reagan's administration
Jay Fisette, member of Arlington County, Virginia's Board of Supervisors
Dan Oates, Aurora, Colorado, Police Chief
Norman Thomas, six-time US presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America from 1928 to 1948
Janet Woodcock, physician and Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Journalism

Jim Vicevich, Radio talk show host of WTIC-AM's Sound Off Connecticut

Literature

Peter Balakian, author and poet, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
David Kahn, historian, journalist, and writer, author of The Codebreakers
Michael Malice, author, columnist, and media personality
Philip Roth, author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Man Booker International Prize, among many other honors.
Betsy Sholl, poet laureate of Maine, 2006-2011
Bruce Smith, poet
Nancy Wood, poet and photographer

Medical

Shaw Loo, Burma's first physician

Military

Martin Blumenson, military historian and author
Charles I. Carpenter, first Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
Susan J. Crawford, lawyer and judge who served as the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commissions, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Inspector General of the Department of Defense; also Chair of Bucknell Board of Trustees
Stephen J. Maranian, Retired United States Army major general and the highest ranking Armenian American to serve in the U.S. Army.
Lewis Merrill, Union Army general. Attended prior to entering West Point.
George H. Ramer, United States Marine Lieutenant, posthumously received the Medal of Honor on January 7, 1953
Theodore Van Kirk, Enola Gay Navigator on August 6, 1945
Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army colonel, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, vocal critic of the Iraq war. Attended for three years before volunteering for service in Vietnam

Religion

Samuel Zane Batten, Baptist minister, established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association
Tim Keller, theologian & pastor of the Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City

Sports

Jim Albus, professional golfer
Earl Beecham, NFL running back, played for the New York Giants
George Buckheit, long-distance runner
Bryan Cohen (born 1989), American-Israeli basketball player
Sean Conover, former NFL defensive end, played for the Tennessee Titans
Andrew Copelan, head coach of the Fairfield Stags men's lacrosse team
Bill Courtney, head coach of the Cornell Big Red men's basketball team
Matt Daley, Major League Baseball pitcher, played for the New York Yankees and Colorado Rockies
Sunil Gulati, President, United States Soccer Federation
Sam Havrilak, NFL running back and receiver, played for the Baltimore Colts, in Super Bowl V became the first player in NFL history to complete a pass, catch a pass, and take a handoff in a Super Bowl.^[5]
Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback, played for the Green Bay Packers, Hall of Fame inductee
Jon Robert Holden, naturalized Russian basketball player, played for CSKA Moscow and Russian Olympic team
Doggie Julian, former college and NBA basketball coach, led Holy Cross to NCAA national championship
Bob Keegan, Major League Baseball pitcher, played for the Chicago White Sox, All-Star in 1954, threw a no-hitter (August 20, 1957)
Christy Mathewson, former Major League Baseball player & member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Christopher McNaughton, German basketball international
Mike Muscala, Washington Wizards Center/Power Forward
Bill Reifsnyder, long-distance runner who won two U.S. marathon national titles
Greg Schiano, former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football teams
Tyler Senerchia, professional wrestler for All Elite Wrestling. Former long-stick midfielder for the Bucknell Bison men's lacrosse team.
Nate Sestina (born 1997), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Walt Szot, NFL tackle, played for the Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers
Brett Wilkinson, Olympic rower in Athens 2004^[6]
Ted Woodward, former head coach of the University of Maine basketball team
Jay Wright, former head coach of the Villanova University basketball team, 2001-2022
Weldon Wyckoff, Major League Baseball pitcher, played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox
George Young, General Manager of the New York Giants, 1979-1997

References

^ Bucknell Class of 1898, per Terence Emmons and Bertrand M. Patenaude (eds.), War Revolution and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914–1927. Stanford University: Hoover Institution Press, 1992; pg. xii.
^ "IR/PS - Faculty - Faculty Directory - Walter, Barbara F". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
^ "William Bramley, 57, actor". The Daily Item. Pennsylvania, Sunbury. November 14, 1985. p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Cope, Gilbert; Ashmead, Henry Graham, eds. (1904). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1. The Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 441–442. Retrieved 2023-12-05 – via Archive.org.
^ "Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic".
^ "Bucknell grad to compete in Beijing Olympics". Bucknell University. August 6, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2011.