List of Franklin & Marshall College alumni

This is a list of alumni of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Arts

 * Richard Altick, Class of 1936, literary scholar known for his pioneering contributions to Victorian Studies, as well as for championing both the joys and the rigorous methods of literary research
 * Franklin Schaffner, Class of 1942, Oscar-winning film director (Patton, Planet of the Apes)
 * Glen Tetley, Class of 1946, choreographer
 * Ed Flesh, Class of 1953, art director, designed wheel for Wheel of Fortune
 * Roy Scheider, Class of 1955, Academy Award-nominated actor (Jaws and All That Jazz)
 * Dick Orkin, Class of 1956, radio announcer and commercial producer
 * James Lapine, Class of 1971, Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning playwright (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods)
 * Bruce Sussman. Class of 1971, Songwriter and librettist.
 * Treat Williams, Class of 1973, actor (Hair, Prince of the City, TV's Everwood)
 * Richard Plepler, Class of 1981, CEO of HBO
 * Jennifer Gareis, Class of 1992, actress (TV's The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless)
 * Spliff Star, Class of 1996, rapper and hypeman for MC Busta Rhymes
 * Jason Narvy, Class of 2002, actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
 * Jennifer Stanley, cozy mystery author
 * Dominic Akena, Class of 2016, xylophone player, subject of Emmy-winning documentary War/Dance member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity
 * Mallika Dua, Indian comic
 * Jeffrey Lord, Class of 1973, political analyst, most noted as a CNN surrogate for President Donald Trump

Government and law

 * John Weinland Killinger, Class of 1843, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1859–1863, 1871–1875, 1877–1881)
 * Thomas Bard McFarland (1828–1908), associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
 * Daniel Ermentrout (1837-1899), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district (1881-1889), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district (1897-1899), Pennsylvania State Senator from the 1st district (1873-1887)
 * J. Roland Kinzer, Class of 1896, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1930–1947)
 * George Kunkel, Class of 1915, Pennsylvania State Senator (1937-1941)
 * Guy K. Bard, Class of 1916, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * William I. Troutman, Class of 1927, Judge and U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1943–1945)
 * John P. Saylor, Class of 1929, member of U.S. House of Representatives, environmental advocate
 * Eugene Shirk, Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania (1964–1968, 1972–1976)
 * Edwin D. Eshleman, Class of 1942, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1967–1977)
 * Clarence Newcomer (1923–2005), Class of 1944, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * Ronald Buckwalter, Class of 1958, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * William H. Gray, Class of 1963, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1979–1991); House Majority Whip (1989–1991); President of United Negro College Fund (1991–2004)
 * Robert J. Kafin, Class of 1963, civic leader and environmentalist
 * Kenneth Duberstein, Class of 1965, White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan
 * Liam O'Grady, Class of 1973, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
 * The Hon. D. Brooks Smith, Class of 1973, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2002–present); former Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1988–2002); Chief Judge (2001–2002)
 * Jeffrey M. Lacker, Class of 1977, President of the Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia
 * Mary Schapiro, Class of 1977, former Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * Patricia Harris, Class of 1977, former First Deputy Mayor for the City of New York; current CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies
 * Paula Dow, Class of 1977, Attorney General of New Jersey (2010–2012)
 * Tim Canova, Class of 1982, law professor and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
 * Edward George Smith, Class of 1983, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * Ken Mehlman, Class of 1988, campaign manager for George H. W. Bush, former chairman of the United States Republican Party, 2005–2007
 * Evelyn Farkas, Class of 1989, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia
 * Barry Finegold, Class of 1993, Massachusetts State Senator
 * Daniel Ragsdale, former Acting Director of Immigration & Customs Enforcement
 * Rob Teplitz, Pennsylvania State Senator
 * Lloyd Smucker, Congressman from Pennsylvania's 11th district, did not graduate

Business

 * George Frederick Baer, Class of 1861, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
 * Wanda Austin, Class of 1975, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation
 * Rob Shepardson, Class of 1983, founding partner of advertising agency SS+K
 * Jacob Clark Hennebberger, Class of 1913, co-founder of Weird Tales magazine (1923)
 * J. M. Lansinger, Class of 1914, co-founder of Weird Tales and publisher of College Humor
 * Neil C. Krauter, commercial insurance industry executive
 * Susan Wendy Parker, Class of 1987, professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland

Science and medicine

 * Stanley Dudrick, Class of 1957, surgeon, pioneered the use of TPN
 * Charles M. Lieber, Class of 1981, chemist, pioneer in nanoscience; in 2021 guilty of federal charges related to Chinese research funding
 * Theodore E. Woodward, Class of 1934, Nobel Prize nominee; medical researcher
 * David Simons, Class of 1943, NASA physician, established altitude record of 102,000 feet in a helium balloon in 1957, testing equipment that would be used by astronauts
 * Michael J. Mumma, Class of 1963, NASA, Founding Director of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and Senior Scientist, Solar System Exploration Division.
 * Alan I. Leshner, Class of 1965, Director National Institute of Drug Abuse 1994-2001
 * David A. Ansell, Class of 1974, doctor and author
 * Elizabeth Cascio, Class of 1997, economist studying the economic impact of policies affecting education
 * Justin B. Ries, Class of 1998, geoscientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic change
 * Anne Hultgren, Class of 1999, Physicist, Department of Homeland Security
 * William Bevan, former president of the American Psychological Association
 * Clifford Pickover, Class of 1979, author and IBM researcher

Athletics

 * Frank Sprig Gardner, Class of 1930, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (1986); Franklin & Marshall College Athletic Hall of Fame (wrestling, 1992)
 * Bowie Kuhn, Class of 1948, Commissioner of Baseball (1969–1984)
 * Don Wert, attended in 1957, MLB player for 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers
 * J. Andrew Noel, Class of 1972, wrestling coach and athletic director at Cornell University
 * Jeff Rineer, attended 1974–75, former MLB pitcher
 * Peter Schaffer, Class of 1984, sports agent; columnist for Washington Post; star of Esquire Network docuseries The Agent
 * Michael T. Dee, Class of 1985, CEO, San Diego Padres (2009–2016)
 * Matt Steinmetz, Class of 1986, journalist and sportscaster
 * Chris Finch, Class of 1992, Current NBA head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and former assistant coach of the New Orleans Pelicans, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors, and Denver Nuggets
 * Rebecca Meyers, Class of 2021, Paralympic Games swimmer who won three gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Religion

 * Willam R. Rathvon, CSB, Class of 1873, Christian Science practitioner, lecturer, church director and the only known eyewitness of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to leave an audio recording of his impressions
 * Rev. Earl Honaman, BA, Class of 1925, former Episcopal Bishop of Central New York; Army Chaplain in World War II during the Battle of the Bulge
 * Metropolitan Tikhon (Marc Raymond Mollard), class of 1988.
 * Richard Druckenbrod, United Church of Christ pastor and Pennsylvania German linguist

Academia

 * David Bowman Schneder, Class of 1880, second President of Tohoku Gakuin University (1857–1936)
 * William Edwin Hoy, class of 1882, founder of Tohoku Gakuin University; missionary to Japan and China, (1888–1927)
 * Andrew Truxal, Class of 1920, president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College
 * Richard J. Stonesifer Class of 1944, fifth President of Monmouth University (1971–1979)
 * James J. Whalen, Class of 1950, president of Ithaca College (1975–1992)
 * Richard Kneedler, Class of 1965, President Emeritus of Franklin and Marshall College
 * Keith Hamm, Class of 1969, Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University
 * LeRoy Pernell (1971), former dean of Florida A&M University College of Law & Northern Illinois University College of Law
 * Paul R. Brown, Class of 1972, eighth president of Monmouth University
 * Louise Burkhart, Class of 1980, ethnohistorian and scholar of Mesoamerican literature; professor of anthropology at University at Albany, SUNY
 * Henry Kulp Ober, former President of Elizabethtown College
 * Roderic Grupen, Class of 1980, Computer Scientist, Roboticist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Military

 * Henry Kyd Douglas (1838-1903), Class of 1858, studied law in Lexington, VA and admitted to bar in Charleston, VA; major in the Confederate States Army (1861-1865), youngest Civil War officer of Stonewall Jackson; later Adjutant General of the Maryland Army National Guard; author of published manuscript memoir, "I Rode with Stonewall" (1940).
 * Richard Winters, Class of 1941, WWII officer and veteran of D Day, Operation Market Garden, Carentan and the Battle of The Bulge; main character in Band of Brothers; member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity
 * Richard P. Mills, Class of 1972, Lieutenant General, USMC Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration and Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command

Other

 * Bruce Bechdel, Class of 1955, high school teacher, funeral director and subject of his daughter Alison's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home and its 2013 musical adaptation
 * Scott Ritter, Class of 1979, former United Nations Weapons Inspector and convicted sex offender; in 2023 he did a book tour in Russia.