List of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) people

The following is a list of notable individuals associated with St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and/or Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Faculty

 * Douglas Allanbrook, tutor, musician and composer
 * Wye Jamison Allanbrook, tutor, musicologist
 * Eva Brann, tutor, dean; 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal
 * James M. Cain, novelist; professor of journalism 1923–24
 * Elliott Carter, composer; tutor, 1939–1941
 * William Hersey Hopkins academic, first president of Goucher College, former acting president of St. John's College
 * Leon Kass, tutor at the college (1972–76); chair of the President's Council on Bioethics (2002–06)
 * Jacob Klein, tutor, dean; author of Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra and Commentary on Plato's Meno; leading 20th-century Platonist
 * Sara Larkin, artist; creator of Spacescapes
 * Leo Strauss (1899–1973), political philosopher; lectured at St. John's and was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Annapolis campus
 * Victor Zuckerkandl, tutor, music theorist

Students and Alumni
This includes graduates of both the Undergraduate and Graduate programs.

Academics

 * Rogers Albritton, philosopher; served as the chairman of both Harvard and UCLA's philosophy departments
 * Amber E. Boydstun, political scientist and data scientist
 * Joseph J. Himmel, Jesuit missionary and president of Georgetown University
 * Thomas J.J. Altizer, theologian, author of The Gospel of Christian Atheism
 * John Bremer, educator, philosopher, author; after graduating from Oxford University, he came to St. John's College in 1951 on a Fulbright Fellowship
 * Graham Harman, philosopher
 * Mark D. Jordan, alumnus; Andrew Mellon Professor, Harvard Divinity School; scholar of gender studies, sexual ethics, and theology
 * Wilfred M. McClay, intellectual historian
 * Ange Mlinko, poet and critic. Guggenheim Fellow 2014–15, Poetry Editor of the Nation, associate professor at the University of Florida
 * Tom G. Palmer, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
 * Ben Sasse, president, University of Florida
 * Pamela Sklar (1959–2017), psychiatrist and neuroscientist
 * Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German scholar and historian

Writers, critics, and journalists

 * Michael Anton, writer; former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications.
 * Seth Cropsey, Director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute; regular contributor to the National Review
 * Robert A. George, journalist and news columnist
 * Danny Hakim, investigative journalist at The New York Times
 * William Kowalski, author, Eddie's Bastard, Somewhere South of Here, The Adventures of Flash Jackson, The Good Neighbor
 * Andrew Krivak, author, National Book Award nominee for The Sojourn
 * Kenneth Kronberg, printing company owner, former LaRouche movement member
 * Tony Lagouranis, activist and author of Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey through Iraq
 * Lydia Polgreen, Editor-in-Chief for The Huffington Post, 2006 winner of the George Polk Award
 * James Portnow writer, game designer, co-founder of the Extra Credits YouTube channel.
 * Salvatore Scibona, alumnus and author, 2008 National Book Award finalist for his first novel The End; his fiction has appeared in many literary journals; named one of "20 under 40" notable authors by The New Yorker in 2010 and published an essay about his experience at the college in the June 13, 2011 issue
 * Lisa Simeone, National Public Radio host
 * Charles Van Doren, garnered notoriety for his involvement in the rigged game show Twenty-One
 * Cecelia Watson, alumna and author of Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
 * Jennifer Wright, alumnus and author
 * John C. Wright, alumnus and author

Military personnel

 * Lewis J. Fields (1909–1988), United States Marine Corps Lieutenant general
 * William H. Harrison (1896–1955), brigadier general in the Marine Corps during World War II
 * Erik S. Kristensen (1972–2005), U.S. Navy Seal, attended Graduate Institute in Annapolis, killed in action in Afghanistan
 * James B. Lockwood (1852–1884), American army officer and arctic explorer.
 * Robert Houston Noble, U.S. Army brigadier general, honorary Master of Arts, 1894
 * Reginald H. Ridgely Jr. (1902–1979), U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, POW during World War II

Politicians

 * Michael Anton, essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who previously a senior national security official
 * Joshua J. Cohen, Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland
 * Clement Dorsey, Congressman for Maryland's 1st congressional district, 1825–31
 * Alexander Contee Hanson, Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1813–1816
 * Emerson Harrington, Governor of Maryland
 * J. T. C. Hopkins (1843–1922), Maryland state delegate
 * Reverdy Johnson, statesman and Jurist, defense attorney of Sandford in the Dred Scott Case
 * Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister of Latvia, 2019-2023
 * John Leeds Kerr, U.S. Representative, Maryland's 7th District
 * Francis Scott Key, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia; lyricist of the United States national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner
 * Daniel Martin, Governor of Maryland, 1829–1830, 1831
 * Keith Neville, 18th Governor of Nebraska, 1917–1919
 * Thomas Parran Jr., sixth Surgeon General of the United States
 * William Pinkney (1764–1822), 7th Attorney General of the United States
 * Lucy Tamlyn, U.S. Ambassador to Benin
 * Francis Thomas, Governor of Maryland, 1842–44; member of House of Representatives, 1861–69
 * Dr. Tobias Watkins (1780-1855), 4th Auditor of the United States Treasury, writer, editor, and physician
 * Osborne I. Yellott (1871–1922), state delegate and lawyer

Filmmakers and musicians

 * Dimitri Devyatkin, Emmy-nominated video artist and filmmaker
 * Ahmet Ertegün, founded Atlantic Records in 1947
 * Jac Holzman, founded Elektra Records in 1950 while a student at St. John's
 * Eilen Jewell, blues and Americana singer/songwriter with five albums (as of 2011)
 * Jonathan D. Krane, film producer, Look Who's Talking, Face/Off
 * Jeremy Leven, author, screenwriter and director whose works include Don Juan DeMarco
 * Lhasa de Sela, singer-songwriter
 * Glenn Yarbrough, original lead tenor of The Limeliters
 * Lee David Zlotoff, creator of MacGyver; director of The Spitfire Grill (1996), which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival

Businesspeople

 * James H. Frame, computer programming pioneer at IBM, and former vice president of software at ITT; founded James Frame Enterprises (JFE), a software development consulting company
 * Eugene V. Thaw, American art dealer and collector
 * Warren Winiarski, founder of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Chefs

 * Daniel Rose (chef) Chef with restaurants in Paris (Spring, La Bourse et la Vie) and New York City (Le Coucou)
 * Miyoko Schinner, American chef, cookbook author, animal sanctuary founder and owner of cheese brand Miyoko's Creamery

Scientists

 * Cynthia Keppel, physicist
 * Aron Wall 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory and gravity.

Board Members

 * Austin Ligon, co-founder/CEO (retired), CarMax, Inc.
 * James T. Woodward, banker and owner of a major Thoroughbred horse dynasty and member of St. John's board of visitors, recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1909; namesake of Woodward Hall