List of Denison University alumni

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

Academia

William G. Bowen - former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Ernest DeWitt Burton - biblical scholar

Steven R. Carter - literary critic and academic

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

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

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

Cem Kozlu - Turkish businessman and politician

Entertainment

Tully Alford - cult figure, inspiration for character of same name in The Addams Family

Steve Carell - screen and television actor, former correspondent for The Daily Show, star of 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office, and Foxcatcher

Sharon Seigel Carr - Broadway producer of Tony Award-winning productions

Roe Conn - radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago

John Davidson - stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares

Jennifer Garner - screen and television actress, best known as star of TV show Alias

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

Carl Moellenberg - Broadway producer of Tony Award-winning productions

Hollis Resnik - singer and actress

José Rivera - first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award

Richard Roland - stage director; Broadway and soap opera actor

John Schuck - screen, stage, and television actor

Government

John T. Chain, Jr. - retired U.S. Air Force General

Robert Dold - U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district

Edmund Burke Fairfield - minister, educator and politician

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 Congressman from Ohio

Judson Harmon - 45th Governor of Ohio

Leonard D. Heaton - former Surgeon General of the United States Army

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

A. W. Sheldon - Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court

Jack Thompson - anti-video game activist

Erastus B. Tyler - Union Army general in the American Civil War

H. Clay Van Voorhis - former US Congressman

Ed Weber - former US Congressman

Literature

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

Edgar J. Goodspeed - liberal theologian

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

References

List of Denison University alumni Wikipedia

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