List of Kalamazoo College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Kalamazoo College.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Alumni

Arts and letters

• Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo from 1990 to 1992)
• Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author^[1]
• Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator
• David France, journalist and author
• Holly Hughes, performance artist
• Nagai Kafu, author
• Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian, The Daily Show^[2]
• Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony-Award-winning (Fun Home) playwright and actress
• Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of MacArthur "Genius" Award
• Fern Persons (1933), actress
• Mike Vasas, singer/songwriter
• Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic correspondent
• Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in The Walking Dead^[3]

Government

• Garry E. Brown, politician
• Amy Courter, former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol
• Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician
• Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge
• Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman, Federal Election Commission

Business

• Harry Garland, entrepreneur^[4]
• Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager
• Ty Warner, founder, Ty Inc. (Beanie Babies)

Academia

• Kenneth G. Elzinga, an economics professor at the University of Virginia
• Thomas F. Gieryn, a sociology professor at the University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work"
• David Heath, a probabilist famous for developing the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve.^[5]
• Martin A. Larson, religion scholar
• Tad Schmaltz, philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, early modern philosophy scholar
• Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics^[6]
• Floyd Wilcox, third president of Shimer College^[7]

Other

• John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy
• David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of Museum of Jurassic Technology

References

1. Bard College | Faculty
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Levering, Robert; Katz, Michael; Moskowitz, Milton (1984). The Computer Entrepreneurs. New American Library. p. 36. ISBN 0-453-00477-6.
5. "David C. Heath Obituary", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2011-08-28, retrieved October 25, 2015
6. Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013). "Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
7. "Students: 1913". The Institution Bulletin 4. p. 274.