This is a list of Dickinson College alumni. This list covers alumni from the first graduating class in July 1787[1] to the present.
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Clarke | built the Klondike brand and expanded it nationally | |||
| Former CEO of Gannett News Corporation | [2] | |||
| Head of the du Pont Company | [3] [4] | |||
| Cotton planter in the South prior to the Civil War, and second largest slave owner in the country | [5] [6] | |||
| Founder and CEO of Epic Systems | ||||
| Stephen Giannetti | Vice President and publisher of National Geographic magazine | [7] | ||
| Justin Gold | Founder and CEO of Justin's natural and organic foods | |||
| Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers | [8] | |||
| Plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist | [9] | |||
| Started the Christmas club savings program | [10] | |||
| Major League Baseball executive | [11] | |||
| Founder and CEO of Archer Gray media production, finance, and venture capital company | ||||
| President of the New York Knicks | ||||
| Steve Smith | President and CEO of L.L.Bean |
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editor-in-chief of Surface magazine | [12] | |||
| Author | [13] | |||
| Lighting designer, winner of 2009 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Billy Elliot the Musical | ||||
| Author | ||||
| Frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for the indie rock band The War on Drugs | [14] | |||
| The New York Times best-selling author, winner of PEN/Hemingway Award | [15] | |||
| Artist, activist & founder of the New York Peace Institute | [16] | |||
| Historical author, wrote three Newbery Honor books | [17] | |||
| Beauty Pageant Winner Miss Korea 2018 | ||||
| Actor, director, composer, and writer | ||||
| data-sort-value="00" | Stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and media personality | |||
| Television actor | [18] | |||
| Esther Popel | First Black female graduate of Dickinson, African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, activist, and educator | |||
| Creator of JenniCam.org | [19] | |||
| Time, Life journalist, later president of Time Inc., received honorary degree in 1959 | [20] | |||
| Richard Sher | Producer, creator and host of Says You! | [21] | ||
| Former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer | [22] | |||
| Poet and literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award | [23] | |||
| Associate Managing Editor at The New York Times | [24] | |||
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| President of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | ||||
| 2nd President of Centre College and the Centenary College of Louisiana | [25] [26] | |||
| Pastor and 4th president of Centre College | [27] | |||
| [28] | ||||
| President of Dickinson College | [29] | |||
| Founder, President, and namesake of Goucher College | ||||
| Chair of English at West Chester Normal School and Headmaster of the Pennington School | [30] | |||
| Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin | ||||
| Among the first women to receive a PhD in physics from a US institution. | ||||
| Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center | ||||
| Presbyterian professor at Princeton Theological Seminary | ||||
| Second principal of the Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University | [31] [32] | |||
| President of Humboldt State University | ||||
| Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison | ||||
| Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University | ||||
| Fourth president of Centre College |
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Reformed minister and author | ||||
| U.S. Army chaplain, missionary and plant collector | [70] | |||
| Minister, author, abolitionist | [71] | |||
| Minister; editor of The Methodist; professor at Drew Theological Seminary | ||||
| Founder of Reformed Episcopal Church | ||||
| Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church | [72] | |||
| Twice Chaplain of the United States Senate | ||||
| Minister, evangelist, president of the National Holiness Association | ||||
| Bishop of the Methodist Church; Vice President of the National Council of Churches | ||||
| Missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea |
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020 | [73] | ||
| NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets and AFL player with the Philadelphia Quakers | |||
| Hall of Fame baseball pitcher | |||
| NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets | |||
| NFL coach with the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys | |||
| Baltimore Orioles broadcaster since 2020 | |||
| AFL player with the New York Titans | |||
| US Olympic Track & Field athlete, 1904 Summer Olympics and 1908 Summer Olympics, first Native American to graduate from Dickinson | |||
| Chess player, Grandmaster, streamer | |||
| NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles | |||