List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.

1930s

William Talman (1932), actor
Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll
Bob Bemer (1936), computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL
William Henry Scott (1939), historian

1940s

Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian
Barbara Lea (1947), singer
Daniel Ellsberg (1948), leaker of the Pentagon Papers

1950s

Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997
Ward Just (1953), author
Ivan Boesky (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year), arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street
Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress
Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist
Edmund White III (1958), author
Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist

1960s

Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist
Tod Williams (1961), architect
Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator
Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces
Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism^[1]
Mitt Romney (1965), former governor of Massachusetts; Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2012
Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher
Ann Romney (1967), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)
Cynthia Grissom Efird (1967), U.S. ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007
Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon
Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of Slate; former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
Sorayouth Prompoj (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany^[2]
Sven Birkerts (1969), author

1970s

Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way
Brad Leithauser (1971), author
Henry Tang (1971), former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems
Kenneth Dart (1972), venture capitalist, investor; co-owner of Dart Container
Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.
Dey Young (1973), actress
Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host ^[3]
Dan Dickerson (1976), radio play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers
Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (The Muppets, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory)
Douglas Sills (1978), actor
David Trott (1978), United States Congressman
Amy Denio (1979), musician
Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight
Emily Cinader Scott (1979), former CEO and Chairman of J. Crew^[4]

1980s

Rob Edwards (1981), television and feature film screenwriter and producer
Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver
Rick Schaden (1982), founder and chairman of Quizno's
Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World^[5]
Brad Keywell (1987), Managing Partner and co-founder of Lightbank; co-founder and Director of Groupon, Mediaocean, and Echo Global Logistics^[6]
Ronald Machen (1987), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg
Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (Damages)
Alexi Lalas (1988), professional soccer player; played in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 World Cup; National Soccer Hall of Fame
Renee Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (Ally McBeal)
Ari Schwartz (1989), Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House

1990s

Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress
Selma Blair (1990), actress
Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director
Gabriel Nguema Lima (1993), son of President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea (1979–present); Vice-Minister of Mines and Energy for Equatorial Guinea ^[7]
Jay Penske (Class of 1997, left prior to senior year), media and publishing entrepreneur; owner of WWD, Fairchild Publications, Variety Magazine, and other media brands
Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress

2000s

Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer
Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)
Andrew Miller (ice hockey, born 1988) (2007), professional hockey player (NHL) ^[8]
Patrick Brown (ice hockey) (2010), professional hockey player (NHL)^[9]

References

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