List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.

1930s

 * William Talman (1932), actor
 * Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll
 * Bob Bemer (1936), computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL
 * William Henry Scott (1939), historian

1940s

 * Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian
 * Barbara Lea (1947), singer
 * Daniel Ellsberg (1948), leaker of the Pentagon Papers

1950s

 * Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997
 * Ward Just (1953), author
 * Ivan Boesky (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year), arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street
 * Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
 * Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress
 * Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist
 * Edmund White III (1958), author
 * Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist

1960s

 * Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist
 * Tod Williams (1961), architect
 * Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator
 * Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces
 * Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism
 * Mitt Romney (1965), U.S. Senator from Utah; former governor of Massachusetts; Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2012
 * Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher
 * Ann Romney (1967), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)
 * Cynthia Grissom Efird (1967), U.S. ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007
 * Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon
 * Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
 * Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of Slate; former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
 * Sorayouth Prompoj (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany
 * Sven Birkerts (1969), author

1970s

 * Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way
 * Brad Leithauser (1971), author
 * Henry Tang (1971), former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
 * Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems
 * Kenneth Dart (1972), venture capitalist, investor; co-owner of Dart Container
 * Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.
 * Dey Young (1973), actress
 * Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host
 * Dan Dickerson (1976), radio play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers
 * Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (The Muppets, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory)
 * Jennifer Clement (1978), writer and President of PEN International
 * Douglas Sills (1978), actor
 * David Trott (1978), U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district 2015 - 2019
 * Amy Denio (1979), musician
 * Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight

1980s

 * Rob Edwards (1981), television and feature film screenwriter and producer
 * Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver
 * Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
 * Eric Fanning (class of 1986, left prior to graduation), 22nd Secretary of the Army
 * Brad Keywell (1987), managing partner and co-founder of Lightbank; co-founder and Director of Groupon, Mediaocean, and Echo Global Logistics
 * Ronald Machen (1987), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
 * Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg
 * Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (Damages)
 * Alexi Lalas (1988), professional soccer player; played in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 World Cup; National Soccer Hall of Fame
 * Renée Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (Hamilton; Ally McBeal)
 * Ari Schwartz (1989), former Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House

1990s

 * Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress
 * Selma Blair (1990), actress
 * Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director
 * Elissa Slotkin (1994), American politician and former CIA analyst serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2019
 * Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress
 * Jay Penske (Class of 1997, left prior to senior year), media and publishing entrepreneur; owner of WWD, Fairchild Publications, Variety Magazine, and other media brands

2000s

 * Jamie Hodari (2000), Co-founder and CEO of Industrious
 * Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer
 * Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)
 * Andrew Miller (2007), professional hockey player (NHL)

2010s

 * Patrick Brown (2010), professional hockey player (NHL)