This is a list of people associated with Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, including notable alumni and faculty.

Notable alumni

Academics 
 Laurence BonJour – philosopher at the University of Washington
 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (1958) – rhetorician, activist
 William P. Gerberding (1951) – President Emeritus, University of Washington
 David C. Hodge (1970) – President, Miami University
 Patricia Ingraham – Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University
 Michael Jensen – Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
 Jane Larson (1980) –  Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School
 Edward Everett Nourse – Congregational theologian
 Alexander Wendt – social constructivist scholar of international relations

Actors, directors, playwrights
 Peter Berg (1984) – director, actor, and producer
 Jessica Blank – playwright, The Exonerated
 Danai Gurira – actress (The Walking Dead, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), playwright (Eclipsed)
 Chris Kobin – producer (Hollywood Don't Surf!, Slasher: an IFC Original), writer (2001 Maniacs)
 John Koenig (2006) – Creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
 Carl Lumbly – actor, Men of Honor, Alias
 Chris Wedes (1949) – portrayed the clown J.P. Patches on the Emmy-winning J.P. Patches Show

Artists and architects
 Siah Armajani – Iranian-born American sculptor
 Chank Diesel – Typographer and artist
 Cass Gilbert – architect, known for United States Supreme Court building, Woolworth Building, and Minnesota State Capitol
 Duane Hanson (1946) – sculptor, known for his photorealistic human figures
 Judith Lodge (born 1941) – painter, photographer
 Anna Min – photographer
 Yuko Nii (1965) – Japanese-American artist
 Colleen Randall (born 1952) – American abstract painter 
 Monica Rudquist  – artist
 Flip Schulke — American photographer of Muhammad Ali, Jacques Cousteau, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Business and finance
 Jeremy Allaire – Internet entrepreneur
 J.J. Allaire – Software engineer and internet entrepreneur
 Ari Emanuel – talent agent, basis for the character Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage
 Omar Al Futtaim – Emirati businessman
 Lois Quam – executive who has worked in the public and the private sectors to expand access to health care
 Fred Swaniker – African entrepreneur and educator, co-founder of African Leadership Academy, named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2019
 DeWitt Wallace – founder, Reader's Digest magazine (did not graduate)

Musicians
 Bad Bad Hats -- American indie rock band with alumni Kerry Alexander and Chris Hoge
 M.anifest -- Ghanaian rapper, singer, songwriter; winner of Best Rapper and Hip Hop Song of the Year at 2017 Ghana Music Awards
 Gaelynn Lea -- winner of NPR's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest
 Gary Hines -- director of Grammy-winning Sounds of Blackness
 Bob Mould – musician, member of Hüsker Dü
 Will Sheff – singer and guitarist of indie band Okkervil River
 Steve Tibbetts
 Joey Waronker (1993) – drummer, known for his work with Beck, R.E.M. and Walt Mink
Walt Mink – indie rock band named after Macalester professor
 Amanda Warner – aka MNDR

Public servants
 Paul H. Anderson (1965) – Minnesota Supreme Court justice
 Kofi Annan (1961) – Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006), 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner
 Sharon Sayles Belton (1973) – former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1994–2001); attorney
 Leland Bush – Judge of the District Court of Minnesota; attorney
 Bobby Joe Champion – Minnesota House member since 2009
 Teresa Daly – Minnesota state politician
 Michael J. Davis (1969) – U.S. District Court judge
 Matt Entenza – former Minnesota House Minority Leader
 Juan Figueroa – foundation president and 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial candidate
 Gordon Gallagher - U.S. District Court Judge
 Frank Hornstein (1981) – Minnesota House member since 2003
 B. Todd Jones (1979) – Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota 
 Carlos Mariani – Minnesota House member since 1991
 Scott McCallum – former Governor of Wisconsin (2001–2003)
 Doug McFarland – law professor, Hamline University; Minnesota state politician
 Joan Mondale (1952) – Trustee Emeriti, former Second Lady of the United States
 Walter Mondale (1951) – U.S. Senator (1964–1976); Vice President of the U.S. (1977–1981); 1984 U.S. presidential candidate
 James C. O'Brien (1982) – American diplomat and attorney
 Julianne Ortman (1986) – Minnesota Senate member since 2003
 Rebecca Otto (1985) – Minnesota State Auditor; former Minnesota House member (2003–2004)
 Olli Rehn – European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society (2004), Enlargement (2004–2010), and Economic and Financial Affairs (2010–present)
 Leslie Stein – Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals
 Christopher O. Ward (1976) – Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
 Robert W. Warren (1950) – U.S. District Court judge
 Don I. Wortman (1951) – Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (1977–1978); federal government executive

Religion
Donald M. Hultstrand – Bishop of Springfield

Writers and journalists
 Gary Arndt (1991) – travel photographer
 Charles Baxter (1969) – University of Minnesota professor; author and National Book Award Winner for The Feast of Love
 Eric Dregni - author of travel memoirs and books about Minnesota, Norway, Italy, food and popular culture 
 Leo J. Enright – World Press Institute Fellow; Irish broadcaster
 Mary Karr – bestselling author, The Liars' Club (attended for one year)
 Jonathan Kauffman - food writer and James Beard Foundation Award winner and nominee
 Wade Keller – Pro Wrestling Torch editor
Ismail Khalidi – playwright
 Walter Kirn – author of Up in the Air (attended for his freshman year)
 Corina Knoll – sports writer
 Chris Kobin – motion picture and television writer/producer
 Alex Lemon (2000) – poet; writer; creative writing professor at Texas Christian University
 Tim O'Brien (1968) – bestselling author, The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato
 Paul Raushenbush – Religious Editor for The Huffington Post
 Mark Strauss – Editor of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
 Ursula Vernon – Hugo Award-winning author of Digger
 Dave Zirin – Sports Editor for The Nation magazine

Notable faculty 
 Yahya Armajani
 David Bressoud – former President of the Mathematical Association of America; Dewitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics
 Diane Glancy
 Duchess Harris
 Hubert Humphrey – U.S. Senator from Minnesota, U.S. Vice President, U.S. presidential candidate
 Marlon James – Jamaican novelist and winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
 Hildegard Binder Johnson - geographer
 Alvin King – composer, professor of music
 Kiarina Kordela
 George Latimer – former Mayor of St. Paul, 1976–1990.
 Harold LeVander – former Minnesota Governor
 William G. Moseley – geographer
 Edward Duffield Neill – founder
 Peter Rachleff
 Kristina Curry Rogers
 Raymond R. Rogers
 Brian C. Rosenberg
 Tracy Silverman – electric violin player
 James Spradley
 Karen J. Warren 
 Harry Waters Jr. – actor, known for Back to the Future and Angels in America
 Jack Weatherford
 James Wright

Presidents of Macalester College

 Edward Duffield Neill, 1874–1884
 Thomas A. McCurdy, 1884–1890
 David James Burrell, 1890–1891
 Adam Weir Ringland, 1892–1894
 James Wallace, 1894–1906
 Thomas Morey Hodgman, 1907–1917
 Elmer Allen Bess, 1918–1923
 John Carey Acheson, 1924–1937
 Charles Joseph Turck, 1939–1958
 Harvey Mitchell Rice, 1958–1968
 Arthur S. Flemming, 1968–1971
 James A. Robinson, 1971–1975
 John B. Davis, Jr., 1975–1984
 Robert M. Gavin, Jr., 1984–1996
 Michael S. McPherson, 1996–2003
 Brian C. Rosenberg, 2003–2019
 Suzanne Rivera, 2020–present

References

 

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