List of Allegheny College alumni

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Academia

 * John Aldrich – Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * Charles Craik -- Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco
 * Morris P. Fiorina – Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
 * Beth Gylys (1986) – professor at Georgia State University and award-winning poet
 * Specs Howard – founder of Specs Howard School of Media Arts
 * William C. Jason – longest-serving president of Delaware State University
 * Jennifer S. Lawton – Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery
 * William H. Parker – Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine
 * Victor Pickard – C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania
 * Carol Reardon – George Winfree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University; winner of the Helen Dortch Longstreet Prize, Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award, William Woods Hassler Award for Excellence in Civil War Education

Government

 * William B. Allison – U.S. Senator from Iowa
 * David W. Baine – Alabama lawyer and Confederate veteran
 * Robert J. Corbett – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1939–1941, 1945–1971)
 * Aylett R. Cotton – U.S. Representative for Iowa (1871–1875)
 * Clarence Darrow – lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
 * Lieutenant General Jon M. Davis – USMC Deputy Commandant for Aviation
 * R. Budd Dwyer – former Pennsylvania State Treasurer
 * John Wilson Farrelly – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district from 1847 to 1849
 * Cathi Forbes – Maryland legislator
 * Henry Donnel Foster – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1843-1847, 1871-1873) and 1860 Pennsylvania Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
 * W. Scott Hardy – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
 * Samuel Hays – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1843-1845)
 * Daniel Brodhead Heiner – U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania (1893–1897)
 * Robert F. Kent – Pennsylvania State Representative (1947–1956) and Pennsylvania State Treasurer (1957–1961)
 * Victoria Lipnic – former acting Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 2017 to 2019
 * Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. – 43rd Governor of Maryland (1896–1900); U.S. Representative (1873–1875)
 * Benjamin F. Martin (1854) – U.S. Representative (1877–1881)
 * William McKinley – 25th President of the United States of America
 * Francis Harrison Pierpont (1839) – the "Father of West Virginia," served as Governor of Virginia (1865-1868)
 * Raymond P. Shafer (1938) – 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–1971)
 * Thomas Tipton – U.S. Senator from Nebraska
 * Mike Veon – Pennsylvania State Representative (1985–2006)
 * Sabra Wilbur Vought (1899) – librarian at the US Department of the Interior
 * Rob Wonderling – Pennsylvania State Senator (2003–2009)

Journalism

 * Alex Steffen (1990) – environmental journalist
 * Ida M. Tarbell (1880) – pioneering investigative journalist, author of The History of the Standard Oil Company, which led to the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company
 * Bradley Roland Will (1992) – anarchist and journalist (1970–2006)

Literature

 * Valentino Achak Deng (attended) – "Lost Boy" of Darfur; subject of the book What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
 * Janette Hill Knox (PhD.) – temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author
 * Brooke McEldowney – cartoonist, 9 Chickweed Lane
 * Barbara Robinson – author, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972) and The Best School Year Ever (1994)
 * Chuck Rosenthal – author, Loop's Progress, My Mistress Humanity, Never Let Me Go

Performing arts

 * Ben Burtt – Academy Award-winning sound designer
 * Gene Hong – TV writer, actor and producer
 * Michele Pawk (attended) – Tony Award-winning actress
 * Trent Reznor (attended) – musician (Nine Inch Nails)
 * Lloyd Segan – TV and film producer
 * Flesh-N-Bone (attended on basketball scholarship)

Religion

 * Robert Appleyard – Bishop of Pittsburgh
 * Kathy Keller (1972) - Christian theological writer, church founder, wife of Tim Keller
 * William Fitzjames Oldham – Methodist Episcopal Bishop; founder of Anglo-Chinese School
 * Erastus Wentworth (1850) – Methodist Episcopal minister

Science

 * Jennifer S. Lawton – cardiothoracic surgeon
 * William H. Parker (1963) – physics professor
 * Edward Shanbrom (1947) – pioneering hematologist and medical researcher
 * Paul Siple (1932) – Antarctic explorer and the originator of the wind chill factor

Sports

 * Ronnie Anderson (1997) – former National Football League player
 * Glenn Beckert – former Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs
 * Stan Drayton (1993) – head football coach at Temple University; former National Football League assistant coach; assistant coach for national championship teams at Florida and Ohio State
 * Russ McKelvy – former Major League Baseball player
 * Babe Parnell – National Football League player
 * Jeremy Scott (2003) – Olympic pole vaulter
 * Josh Sharpless (2003) – relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team
 * Nathan T. Smith (2001) – four-time USGA Mid-Amateur Champion, three-time US National Team Member, NCAA Runner-up

Technology

 * Marco Arment (2004) - iOS developer and web developer, podcaster, technology writer and former magazine editor