List of Denison University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Academia

 * Susan Campbell Baldridge - psychologist; Provost, Middlebury College
 * Cynthia Baum – clinical psychologist and academic administrator
 * David H. Bayley - pioneer in policing research and former Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, SUNY Albany
 * William G. Bowen - former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 * Richard Brandt - professor of philosophy, Swarthmore College and University of Michigan
 * Ernest DeWitt Burton - biblical scholar
 * George Cressey - geographer, author, and academic
 * Frederick German Detweiler - sociologist
 * George Amos Dorsey - ethnographer
 * Lottie Estelle Granger - president, Iowa State Teachers' Association
 * Stephen Holmes - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University
 * John S. Lowe - professor and expert in energy law
 * Roger H. Martin - 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
 * Jeffrey Masten - Shakespeare and sexuality studies scholar, Northwestern University; Guggenheim fellow
 * Kirtley F. Mather - geologist; professor and department chairman at Harvard University; civil libertarian and author
 * Thomas Skidmore - historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history
 * Maria Tatar - John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
 * Stephen Tuttle - musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia

Business

 * James Anderson - head of corporate communications and marketing, WarnerMedia; interim head of communications, CNN, Worldwide
 * Samuel Armacost - former president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
 * Joe Banner - President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
 * Brad Blum - former CEO of Burger King
 * George Bodenheimer - Executive Chairman of ESPN former President of ESPN and ABC Sports
 * John Canning, Jr. - Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners
 * Mark Dalton - CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation
 * Edward Andrew Deeds - engineer, inventor and industrialist
 * Michael Eisner - former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
 * William Esrey - former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation
 * John V. Faraci - chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper
 * Bill Giles - chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
 * Mark Haines - co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
 * Terry Jones - founder of Travelocity.com and Kayak.com
 * Andrea Mutters - Chief Information Officer of McHenry Advisers
 * Ralph Schlosstein - Chairman Emeritus of Evercore and former president and Co-founder of BlackRock

Arts and Entertainment

 * Susan V. Booth - Artistic Director, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; Artistic Director, Goodman Theatre, Chicago
 * Steve Carell - screen and television actor
 * Roe Conn - radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago
 * Tom Cotter (comedian) - comedian.
 * Franklin Cover - stage, screen and television actor.
 * Luke Ebbin - Grammy nominated record producer, songwriter and composer
 * John Davidson - stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares
 * Jennifer Garner - screen and television actress
 * Jeffrey Hatcher - playwright and screenwriter
 * Hal Holbrook - stage, screen and television actor, known for portrayal of Mark Twain
 * John Jeffcoat - screenwriter and film director, known for Outsourced
 * Ademir Kenović - film director and producer
 * Nancy Lynn - acrobatic pilot, killed in 2006 Culpeper Airfest crash
 * Ann Magnuson - actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer
 * John Malm Jr. - former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails
 * Daniel Meyer - conductor and musical director
 * Alex Moffat - actor and comedian
 * P-Star (Priscilla Diaz) - rapper, actress, singer, model, director, DJ
 * Hollis Resnik - singer and actress
 * José Rivera - first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award
 * John Schuck - screen, stage, and television actor
 * Kurt Vincent, director of The Lost Arcade
 * Andrew Levitt, drag queen known as Nina West
 * Chase Hilt, Good Mythical Morning Producer.
 * Chelsey Warner, Associate Producer - The Boys, Amazon


 * Charlie Burg - singer song writer
 * Meghan McGuire - writer and comedian
 * Ned Bittinger - portrait painter and illustrator

Government

 * Richard B. Austin - judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Ruth Sarles Benedict - anti-war activist, researcher and journalist
 * John T. Chain, Jr. - retired U.S. Air Force General
 * Robert Dold - U.S. Representative for IL's 10th congressional district
 * Edmund Burke Fairfield - minister, educator, and politician, including 12th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
 * Carty Finkbeiner - former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
 * Tony P. Hall - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Representative from Ohio
 * Andrew S. Hanen - judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
 * Judson Harmon - 45th Governor of Ohio and 41st United States Attorney General
 * Leonard D. Heaton - former Surgeon General of the United States Army
 * Edgar Winters Hillyer - judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada
 * Douglas Holtz-Eakin - former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign
 * Randy Hopper - former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
 * Sue W. Kelly - former member of the United States Congress from New York
 * Robert W. Levering - former United States Congressman
 * Richard Lugar - United States Senator from Indiana; on the Board of Trustees
 * Kenneth E. Melson - former ATF director
 * Jim Petro - former Ohio Attorney General
 * Jane Pringle - Member of the Maine House of Representatives
 * Lewis A. Sachs - former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
 * A. W. Sheldon - Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court
 * Erastus B. Tyler - Union Army general in the American Civil War
 * H. Clay Van Voorhis - former US Congressman
 * Ed Weber - former US Congressman
 * Yu Tsune-chi - Chinese Ambassador to Italy and Spain, United Nations delegate who took part in the San Francisco Conference
 * Allen Zollars - Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

Literature

 * James Clear - author and speaker about habits
 * James Frey - screenwriter and author; A Million Little Pieces, featured by Oprah's Book Club
 * Michael Glaser - Poet Laureate of Maryland
 * Lauren Shakely - poet, editor, and publisher
 * Pam Houston - author, speaker, teacher

Religion

 * Roger Ames - American Anglican bishop
 * Edgar J. Goodspeed - liberal theologian
 * Randolph Hollerith - Dean of Washington National Cathedral
 * James Madison Pendleton - 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian

Science

 * Homer Burton Adkins - organic chemist
 * John Berton - computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor
 * Richard B. Brandt - philosopher
 * William Ernest Castle - early American geneticist
 * William E. Forsythe - physicist
 * George Stibitz - scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs

Sports

 * Dan Daub - Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897
 * Woody Hayes - football coach of Ohio State, 1951–1978
 * Ken Meyer - former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers
 * Johnny O'Connell - professional sports car racer
 * Bobby Rahal - Indianapolis 500 champion
 * John Robic - assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky
 * Nate Schmidt - assistant men's basketball coach at Iowa State University