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This page lists notable alumni of American liberal arts institution, Reed College, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions.

Academia

 * Julia Adams – sociologist; professor, Yale University
 * Jon Appleton, 1961 – composer; Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
 * Louis T. Benezet, 1939 – President, Colorado College
 * Sacvan Bercovitch (did not graduate) – Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
 * Charles Bigelow, 1967 – Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of Technology
 * Jonathan Boyarin, 1977 – Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
 * Robert Brenner, 1964 – Professor of History, UCLA
 * Joan Bresnan, 1966 – Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
 * Robert A. Brightman, 1973 – Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed College
 * Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
 * Jessica Coon, 2004 – Linguistics Professor at McGill University
 * Galen Cranz, 1966 – Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley
 * Ann Cvetkovich, 1980 – Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books, including An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
 * Shannon Lee Dawdy, 1988 – Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
 * Kai T. Erikson, 1953 – President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
 * Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 1950 – anthropologist
 * Janet Fitch, 1978 – Professor of Professional Writing, University of Southern California
 * Neil Fligstein, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
 * David H. French, 1939 – anthropologist and linguist
 * Victor Friedman, 1970 – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
 * Peter Gordon, 1988 – Professor of History, Harvard University
 * Ted Robert Gurr, 1957 – Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
 * Loyd Haberly, 1919 – Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
 * Peter Dobkin Hall, 1968 – Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
 * Carol Heimer, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
 * David Hoggan, 1945 – controversial historian
 * Dell Hymes, 1950 – anthropologist and linguist
 * Maurice Isserman, 1973 – Professor of History, Hamilton College
 * Lewis Webster Jones, 1921 – President of Rutgers University
 * Don Kates, 1962 – criminologist
 * Gail M. Kelly, 1955 – anthropologist
 * Wallace T. MacCaffrey, 1942 – scholar of Elizabethan England; chaired the Harvard University history department twice
 * Brendan McConville, 1987 – Professor of History at Boston University
 * William D. McElroy, 1939 – Chancellor, University of California, San Diego and former Director, National Science Foundation
 * Dennis B. McGilvray, 1965 – Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado
 * Lisa Nakamura, 1987 – Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Kaori O'Connor, 1968 – Senior Research Fellow, University of London
 * Christopher Phelps, 1988 – Professor of History, University of Nottingham
 * Ray Raphael, 1965 – historian
 * Diane Silvers Ravitch (did not graduate) – Professor of History, New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
 * Barbara Reskin (did not graduate) – Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
 * Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts; former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
 * Stephen Shapin, 1966 – historian and sociologist of science at Harvard University; taught at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, San Diego
 * Robert E. Slavin, 1972 – Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins; cooperative learning, project Success for All
 * George Steinmetz (academic), 1980 - Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
 * Robert K. Thomas (did not graduate) – Academic Vice President, Brigham Young University
 * Katherine Verdery, 1970 – Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center
 * Jon Westling, 1964 – President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
 * Richard Wolin, 1974 – Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center

Arts and entertainment

 * Jacob Avshalomov, 1941 – composer
 * Kip Berman, 2002 – songwriter and vocalist for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
 * Jody Bleyle, 1992 – singer, songwriter, musician
 * Jennifer Camper, 1979, cartoonist
 * Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
 * Ry Cooder, 1971 – singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester
 * Robert Cornthwaite, 1939 – actor
 * Lamar Crowson, 1948 – pianist
 * Dr. Demento, born Barret Hansen, 1963 – radio personality
 * Pozzi Escot, 1956 – composer
 * Johanna Fateman (did not graduate) – musician
 * Simone Forti (did not graduate) – choreographer
 * Rob Heinsoo, 1987 – game designer
 * Hope Lange (did not graduate) – actress
 * Jayne Loader, 1973 – writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
 * Peter Mars, 1982 – artist
 * Robert Morris, 1953 (attended two years) – sculptor
 * Bill Morrison, 1985, filmmaker, Guggenheim fellow
 * Charles Munch, 1968 – painter
 * Daria O'Neill, 1993 – Portland radio and TV personality
 * Eric Overmyer, 1973 – screenwriter, producer, playwright
 * David Reed, 1968 – artist
 * Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Director of the Berkeley Art Museum
 * Brian Rolland (did not graduate) – musician
 * Leo Rubinfien, 1974 – photographer
 * Susan Silas, 1975 – artist
 * Pat Silver-Lasky 1949– screenwriter and actress
 * Kim Spencer, 1970 – television producer
 * David Henry Sterry, 1978 – author, actor/comic
 * Igor Vamos, 1990 – contemporary artist, member of The Yes Men
 * Anne Washburn, 1991 – playwright (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)

Business

 * Emilio Pucci, 1937 – fashion designer; member of the Italian Parliament
 * Bill Naito, 1949 – Portland businessman, developer, and civic leader
 * Dan Greenberg, 1962 – CEO of Electro Rent
 * Dan Drake, 1964 – co-founder of Autodesk
 * Miriam Sontz, 1973 – CEO of Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore.
 * Robert Friedland, 1974 – businessman and CEO of Ivanhoe Mines
 * Suzan DelBene, 1983 – CEO of Nimble Technology and Vice President at Microsoft
 * Elly Blue, 2005 – co-owner of Microcosm Publishing
 * Michael Richardson, 2007 – co-founder of Urban Airship.

Economics

 * Dorothy Brady, 1925 – Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
 * Robert A. Brady, 1923 – Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
 * Rose Friedman, 1930 – author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year
 * Mason Gaffney, 1948 – economist and critic of neoclassical economics
 * John Krutilla, 1949, economist who developed concept of existence value
 * BushBerns.jpg (with First Lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush) receiving the National Humanities Medal]]Kalman J. Cohen, 1951 – Professor of Economics, Duke University
 * Dale W. Jorgenson, 1955 – economist, professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
 * Michael Rothschild, 1963 – economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
 * Nicolaus Tideman, 1965 – economist
 * Yoram Bauman, 1995 – economist and stand-up comedian
 * Ross Starr (did not graduate) – Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
 * Walter Berns (did not graduate) – Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Food and Drink

 * James Beard, expelled 1922/23; honorary degree 1976 – chef and cookbook author
 * Mark Bitterman, 1995 – food writer and author
 * Steven Raichlen, 1975 – television chef, author
 * Kate Christensen, 1986 – food writer and author
 * Susan Sokol Blosser, 1967 – founder of Sokol Blosser Winery
 * Sean Thackrey (did not graduate) – winemaker

Government

 * Josiah H. Beeman V, 1958 – United States Ambassador to New Zealand
 * Bud Clark (did not graduate) – Mayor of Portland
 * Richard Danzig, 1965 – 71st Secretary of the Navy
 * Suzan DelBene, 1983 – United States Representative from Washington State (D)
 * Chris Garrett, 1996 – member of the Oregon Legislature
 * Richard L. Hanna, 1973 – United States Representative from New York (R)
 * Cordelia Hood, 1936 – Office of Strategic Services and CIA agent
 * Sheldon T. Mills, 1927 – Former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
 * J. Elizabeth Mitchell, 1991 – member of the Maine Legislature
 * Norman Solomon (did not graduate) – candidate for the United States House of Representatives
 * Howard Wolpe, 1960 – Congressman (D-Michigan)

Law

 * Hans A. Linde, 1947 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
 * Berkeley Lent, 1948 – Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
 * George M. Joseph, 1951 – Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
 * Michael E. Levine, 1962 – Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of Law; Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management
 * Alex Martinez, 1973 – Chief Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
 * Jessica Litman, 1974 – Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, legal advisor
 * Katya Komisaruk, 1978 – civil rights lawyer
 * Alafair Burke, 1991 – Assistant District Attorney, Multnomah County, Oregon; Professor of Law, Hofstra University; crime and mystery writer
 * Chris Garrett, 1996 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
 * Gus J. Solomon (did not graduate) – US District Judge, District of Oregon
 * Jacob Tanzer (did not graduate) – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
 * Fay Stender (did not graduate) – lawyer and prisoners' rights advocate

Literature

 * Tamim Ansary, 1970 – author of West of Kabul, East of New York
 * Doon Arbus, 1967 – writer and journalist, daughter of Diane Arbus
 * Alison Baker, 1975 – writer
 * Mary Barnard, 1932 – modernist poet and translator of Greek poet Sappho
 * Margaret Bechard, 1976 – science fiction writer
 * Don Berry, 1931 – writer
 * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 1969 – poet
 * Lee Blessing, 1971 – playwright
 * Hob Broun, 1972, author who became paralyzed and wrote two books by puffing air through a tube.
 * Alafair Burke, 1991 – author
 * Robert Chesley, 1965 – playwright, novelist, and composer
 * Kate Christensen, 1986 – novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
 * Gordon Dahlquist, 1984 – playwright, novelist
 * William Dickey, 1951 – poet
 * Katherine Dunn, 1969 – journalist and author of Geek Love
 * Elana Dykewomon, ca. 1971 – author
 * Elyssa East, 1994 – novelist
 * David Eddings, 1954 – writer
 * Nancy Farmer, 1963 – novelist, winner of National Book Award for Young People's Literature
 * Elyse Fenton, 2003 – poet
 * Janet Fitch, 1978 – novelist, White Oleander, Paint It Black, and The Revolution of Marina M
 * Debra M. Ginsberg, 1984 – author
 * Shadab Zeest Hashmi, 1995 – poet
 * Ernest Haycox (did not graduate) – author
 * Myrlin Hermes, 1997 – author
 * Roger Hobbs, 2011 – author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games
 * Jemiah Jefferson, 1994 – author
 * Laleh Khadivi, 1998 – author and writer
 * Caroline B. Miller, 1959 – author
 * Lisa Dale Norton, 1976 – author
 * Steven Raichlen, 1975 – author and writer
 * Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer
 * M. C. Richards, 1938 – poet
 * David Romtvedt, 1972 – poet
 * Mary Rosenblum, 1975 – author
 * Vern Rutsala, 1956 – poet and writer
 * Tina Satter, 2004 – playwright
 * Leslie Scalapino, 1966 – poet, publisher, and playwright
 * Gary Snyder, 1951 – Pulitzer Prize winner and poet
 * Sally Watson, 1950 – writer
 * Philip Whalen, 1951 – poet
 * Lew Welch, 1950 – poet

Journalism and Media

 * Ed Cony, 1948 – Editor of the Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961
 * Barbara Ehrenreich, 1963 – journalist, political activist, author of Nickel and Dimed
 * Jim Compton, 1964 – journalist at PBS
 * Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer, critic, and virtual media theorist
 * Oz Hopkins Koglin, 1974 – first African-American woman to be hired as reporter at the Oregonian.
 * Sheila Rogers, 1980 – columnist and TV producer for The Late Show With David Letterman
 * Gary Wolf, 1983 – author and writer for Wired.
 * Anya Schiffrin, 1984 – business journalist and author of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World
 * Adam L. Penenberg, 1986 – writer, professor of journalism at New York University
 * Peter S. Goodman, 1989 – reporter for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy
 * Robert Smith, 1989 — journalist, host of Planet Money.
 * Arun Rath, 1994 – correspondent for NPR and WGBH, former weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered
 * Michelle Nijhuis, 1996 – journalist
 * Peter Zuckerman, 2003 – journalist and author
 * Adrian Chen, 2009 – journalist and former staff writer at the The New Yorker.
 * Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, 2014 – journalist and producer at NPR's Planet Money.

Inventors and Innovators

 * C. Howard Vollum, 1936 – founder of Tektronix; inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope
 * Ken Koe, 1945 – co-inventor of Zoloft.
 * Bernard Smith, 1948 – sailboat designer
 * John Sperling, 1948 – founder of the University of Phoenix
 * Robert Gordon, 1949 – inventor of the Gordon Wrench
 * James Russell, 1953 – inventor of the compact disc
 * Peter Norton, 1965 – creator of Norton Utilities
 * Richard Crandall, 1969 – computer scientist who developed the irrational base discrete weighted transform used in finding large prime numbers
 * Steve Jobs, 1976 (attended as a freshman, did not graduate) – Apple co-founder and CEO; Pixar co-founder and CEO
 * Pamela Ronald, 1982 – geneticist and developer of flood-tolerant rice
 * Larry Sanger, 1991 – co-founder of Wikipedia
 * Luke Kanies, 1996 – created Puppet software system
 * Daniel K. Kim, 2001 – transportation entrepreneur

Philosophy

 * Karl Aschenbrenner, 1934 – philosopher of aesthetics
 * Sydney Shoemaker, 1953 – Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
 * Guy Sircello, 1958 – Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and scholar of aesthetics
 * Jay Rosenberg, 1963 – philosopher of metaphysics, epistemology, and language.
 * Allen W. Wood, 1964 – Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University
 * Tom Wasow, 1967 – Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford University
 * Sally Haslanger, 1977 – Professor of Philosophy, MIT
 * Eric T. Olson, 1986 – Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield; taught at Cambridge University
 * Lisa Kemmerer, 1988 – author and professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings

Psychology and Neuroscience

 * Harry Harlow, 1926 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 * Herbert Jasper, 1928 – professor of psychology, McGill University
 * Eleanor Maccoby, 1939 – psychologist at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences
 * M. Brewster Smith, 1939 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Chicago
 * Jeanne Block, 1947 – developmental psychologist, professor, Stanford University
 * Richard F. Thompson, 1953 – professor of psychology, University of Southern California
 * Daryl Bem, 1960 – professor of psychology, Cornell University
 * Eleanor Rosch, 1960 – professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley
 * Robert Frager, 1961 – social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
 * Mary Rothbart, 1962 – educational and developmental psychologist, professor at University of Oregon
 * Eleanor Rosch, 1962 – cognitive psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
 * Paul H. Taghert, 1975 – neuroscientist, Washington University in St. Louis
 * Roberto Malinow, 1979 – neuroscientist, UC San Diego
 * Cyma Van Petten, 1981 – cognitive neuroscientist, professor at SUNY-Binghampton
 * Gina G. Turrigiano, 1984 – professor of vision science, Brandeis University; MacArthur Fellow
 * Athena Aktipis, 2002 – director of the Human Generosity Project at Arizona State University
 * Allen Bergin (did not graduate) – psychologist

Biology and Chemistry

 * Arthur H. Livermore, 1940 – biochemist
 * Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, 1951 – biologist, Rutgers University
 * Bruce Voeller, 1956 – biologist, AIDS researcher, gay-rights activist; coined the term AIDS
 * Daniel S. Kemp, 1958 – Professor of Chemistry, MIT
 * Mark Ptashne, 1961 – Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 * Donald Engelman, 1962 – biochemist at Yale University; Guggenheim fellow
 * Anne Hiltner, 1963 – polymer scientist and professor at Case Western Reserve
 * Kenneth Raymond, 1964 – Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 * Arlene Blum, 1966 – mountaineer and chemist
 * Michael Balls, 1966 – zoologist and professor, University of Nottingham
 * Mary Jo Ondrechen, 1974 – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University
 * Alison Butler, 1977 – metallobiochemist at UC Santa Barbara, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * Rachel E. Klevit, 1978 – Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington
 * Roger Perlmutter, 1973 – biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc.
 * Victor Nizet, 1984 – Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
 * Kevan Shokat, 1986 – Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
 * John Alroy, 1989 – paleobiologist
 * Stephen C. Sillett, 1989 – botanist, professor at Humboldt State University
 * Paul Knoepfler, 1989, stem-cell researcher, author, professor at UC Davis School of Medicine
 * Kent Kirshenbaum, 1994 – Professor of Chemistry, New York University

Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering

 * John Backus, 1932 – Professor of Physics, University of Southern California
 * John Alexander Simpson, 1940 – Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, and atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project
 * Clarence Allen, 1949 – Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology
 * Larry Shaw, 1961 – physicist and founder of Pi Day
 * David B. Dusenbery, 1964 – father of sensory ecology
 * David Flory, 1964 – physicist; Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University
 * Arthur Ogus, 1968 – Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
 * Thomas William Ferguson, 1965 – physician
 * Alan H. Borning, 1971 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
 * Jonathan Grudin, 1972 – computer scientist
 * Catherine Otto, 1975 – physician
 * Daniel Kottke, 1976 – computer scientist
 * Lawrence Philips, 1976 – software engineer; developer of the Metaphone family of phonetic encoding algorithms
 * Norman Packard, 1977 – chaos theory physicist
 * Steven McGeady, 1980 – technologist
 * Theodore James Courant, 1982 – mathematician
 * Kelly Falkner, 1983 – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
 * Peter Shirley, 1985, computer scientist
 * Keith Packard, 1986 – software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
 * Shep Doeleman, 1986 – astrophysicist, director of the Event Horizon Telescope project
 * Irena Swanson, 1987, mathematician and professor at Reed College
 * Craig DeForest, 1989 – astrophysicist, director of the PUNCH mission
 * Sasha Kramer, 1999 – ecologist and founder of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods
 * Edward Ramberg (did not graduate) – physicist

Other

 * Greta Christina, 1983 – blogger
 * Mike Davis (did not graduate) – activist and scholar
 * Randall Giles (did not graduate) – composer
 * Max Gordon, 1924 – owner of the Village Vanguard
 * Mukunda Goswami, 1961 – Hare Krishna guru
 * Christopher Langan – "America's smartest man;" won a scholarship to Reed after earning a perfect SAT score, but dropped out
 * Murray Leaf, 1961 – anthropologist
 * Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 2016 – human rights activist
 * Joann Osterud, 1968 – aviator and stunt pilot
 * Harry Wayland Randall, 1936 – member of international brigades in Spanish Civil War
 * Aaron Rhodes, 1971 – human rights advocate
 * Helen Sandoz – lesbian activist
 * Genny Smith – publisher
 * Peter Stafford (did not graduate) – author and writer
 * Sumner Stone, 1967 – typeface designer
 * Michael Teitelbaum, 1966 – program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
 * Donald Niven Wheeler, 1936 – political activist

Fictional alumni

 * Erlich Bachmann, from HBO's Silicon Valley
 * John William Barry from David Guterson's 2008 novel The Other
 * Bill McKay, portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1972 film The Candidate
 * Donald "Don" Miller in his semi-autobiographical 2003 book Blue Like Jazz and (portrayed by Marshall Allman) in the 2012 Blue Like Jazz film
 * Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel The Group
 * Japhy Ryder from Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums (based on Reed alum Gary Snyder)
 * Hunter Scangarelo (did not graduate), friend of Meadow Soprano in the 1999–2007 television series The Sopranos
 * Sierra from Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty's 2006 novel in the Jessica Darling series
 * Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy Blume's 1998 novel Summer Sisters

Faculty

 * William J. Connell – historian
 * Paul Douglas – US Senator from Illinois
 * David J. Griffiths – physicist
 * Daniel Reisberg – psychology