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This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of
Kalamazoo College.
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Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the
University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
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Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author
[1]
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Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
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David France, journalist and author
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Holly Hughes, performance artist
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Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying
Magic Johnson in the HBO series
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
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Nagai Kafu, author
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Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian,
The Daily Show
[2]
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Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (
Fun Home) playwright and actress
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Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host
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William Malatinsky, author
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Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of
MacArthur "Genius" Award
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Fern Persons (1933), actress
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Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist
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Maynard Owen Williams,
National Geographic correspondent
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Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in
The Walking Dead
[3]
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Garry E. Brown, politician
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Darrin Q. Camilleri, Member,
Michigan House of Representatives
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Amy Courter, former National Commander of the
Civil Air Patrol
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Brandt Iden, Member,
Michigan House of Representatives
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Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
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Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of
Jackson,
Mississippi
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Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
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Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman,
Federal Election Commission
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Christopher P. Yates, Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals,
Michigan Court of Claims and
Michigan Circuit Court
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Paula Arai,
Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor
[5]
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George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at
General Electric Company,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
[6]
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Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the
University of Virginia
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Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
[7]
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Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the
University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
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David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the
Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve
[8]
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Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
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Katheryn Edmonds Rajnak, theoretical physical chemist
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Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
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Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics
[9]
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Floyd Wilcox, third president of
Shimer College
[10]
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"Bard College | Faculty". Archived from
the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
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^ Liberty, John (March 4, 2014).
"'The Daily Show' debut: Watch Jon Stewart tell Kalamazoo native Jordan Klepper to 'go back to Crimea'". MLive.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
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^ Liberty, John (2010-10-30).
"College grad vs. zombies: Michigan native stars in new AMC series 'The Walking Dead'".
Kalamazoo Gazette. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
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^ Levering, Robert; Katz, Michael; Moskowitz, Milton (1984).
The Computer Entrepreneurs. New American Library. p.
36.
ISBN
0-453-00477-6.
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"Paula K. Arai". Institute of Buddhist Studies. Berkeley, California. November 7, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
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"William Degrado | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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"Accolades: Three UVA Scientists Elected AAAS Fellows". UVA Today. 21 December 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
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"David C. Heath Obituary", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2011-08-28, retrieved October 25, 2015
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^ Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013).
"Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
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"Students: 1913". The Institution Bulletin. Vol. 4. p. 274.