List of Kalamazoo College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.

Arts and letters

 * Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
 * Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author
 * Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
 * David France, journalist and author
 * Holly Hughes, performance artist
 * Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
 * Nagai Kafu, author
 * Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show
 * Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
 * Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host
 * William Malatinsky, author
 * Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
 * Fern Persons (1933), actress
 * Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist
 * Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
 * Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead

Government

 * Garry E. Brown, politician
 * Darrin Q. Camilleri, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
 * Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
 * Brandt Iden, Member, Michigan House of Representatives
 * Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
 * Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
 * Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
 * Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
 * Christopher P. Yates, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Claims and Michigan Circuit Court

Business

 * Larry Bell, founder of Bell's Brewery
 * Harry Garland, entrepreneur
 * Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
 * Jon Stryker
 * Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)

Academia

 * Paula Arai, Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor
 * George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at General Electric Company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
 * Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia
 * Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
 * David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve
 * Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
 * Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist
 * Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
 * Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
 * Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College

Other

 * Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department
 * Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president 1895
 * John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
 * Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan
 * David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology