List of Clark University people

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This list of Clark University people features alumni, including currently matriculating students and alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students of Clark University and faculty.

Alumni

Academia

• Edwin Aldrin - father of Buzz Aldrin, worked with Robert Goddard on his theories of rocketry (1915)
• Adelbert Ames, Jr. - research professor at Dartmouth College, pioneered the study of physiological optics
• Alexander Francis Chamberlain - anthropologist
• John H. Flavell - Stanford University Professor (MA Psychology 1952, Phd 1955)
• E. Franklin Frazier - sociologist, MA
• Yair Galily - Israeli sociologist (M.Sc Communications, 1996)
• Robert H. Goddard - rocket engineer, invented the modern day rocket (MA Physics 1910, PhD Physics 1911)
• Frederick Grinnell - cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (BA Chemistry 1966)
• Clarence N. Hickman - rocket scientist
• Solomon Lefschetz - mathematician (PhD 1911)
• J. Ross Mackay - Canadian geographer (BA Geography 1939)
• Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune - geographer
• Margaret Morse Nice - ornithologist (MA Biology 1915)
• Howard W. Odum - sociologist and founder of the journal Social Forces (PhD Psychology 1909)
• W.S. Small - experimental psychologist
• Francis Sumner - first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology at an American university
• Amy Tanner - psychologist
• Lewis Madison Terman - pioneer in cognitive psychology (PhD 1905)
• L.T.E. Thompson - physicist and ballistician (Physics MA 1915, PhD 1917)
• Albert Potter Wills - PhD advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (PhD 1897)

Business

• Matt Goldman - co-founder of Blue Man Group (BA Economics 1983, MBA 1984)
• Alan Kotok - computer pioneer, Digital architect, associate chairman of W3C (MBA 1978)
• Marc Lasry - CEO and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group (BA History 1981)
• Michael Marcus - commodities trader
• Hugh Panero - CEO of XM Radio (BA Government 1978)
• Thomas Peterffy - entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Interactive Brokers Group and played a key role in founding the Boston Options Exchange
• Fred Rosen - former CEO of Ticketmaster, co-founder of the Bel Air Homeowners Alliance
• Ronald M. Shaich - CEO and founder of Panera Bread, co-founder of Au Bon Pain (BA 1976)

Law and politics

• D'Army Bailey - former Circuit Court Judge in Shelby County, TN and Civil Rights Activist
• David Brenerman - member of the Maine House of Representatives and ceremonial mayor of Portland, Maine (BA 1973)
• Beth Edmonds - Maine State Senator (BA Geography 1972)
• John M. Granville - USAID diplomat assassinated in Sudan
• Joseph L. Kennedy - independent candidate in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010 (BA Computer Science 1993)
• Raymond Mariano - Mayor of Worcester, MA, 1993-2001 (MPA 1982)
• Richard T. Moore - Massachusetts State Senator (BA History 1966)
• Michael P. Ross - member of the Boston City Council since 1999, representing District 8, which includes Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Fenway (BA 1993)

Military

• Andrew J. Olmsted - U.S. Army Major; blogger; killed in action while serving in the Iraq War (BA Government & International Relations 1992)

Journalism and media

• Ben Bagdikian - educator and journalist
• Mark Bittman - food journalist for The New York Times and author of How to Cook Everything
• Otis Ferguson - film critic for The New Republic in the 1930s

Literature

• Christopher Collier - children's author (My Brother Sam is Dead)
• Daniel Strachman - author of business books (BA Government 1993)

Art, entertainment, and architecture

• Moti Bodek - Israeli architect; senior lecturer in architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (MPA 1995)
• Corey Carrier - child actor (BA)
• Steven DePaul - Emmy Award-winning television producer and director of NYPD Blue (BA 1973)
• Ali Fedotowsky - host of NBC television show 1st Look, star of the sixth season of The Bachelorette (BA Psychology 2006)
• Mitch Glazer - film producer and screenwriter (Scrooged, The Recruit, Lost in Translation)
• Alexander Gould - actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo
• John Heard - actor (BA History 1968)
• Padma Lakshmi - host of television show Top Chef (BA Theater 1992)
• Paul Pena - singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Ben Schechter - Internet artist (BA Government 2003)
• Brian Shactman - former ESPN broadcaster; co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange on CNBC (MBA English)

Religion

• Noyuri Otsuka - Christian writer and researcher, honorary professor of Keisen University, Japan (MA 1952) Japanese Wikipedia
• Frederick Madison Smith - religious leader; author; a Prophet-President of the Community of Christ Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now renamed Community of Christ (PhD 1916)

Athletics and exploration

• Jeffrey Lurie - owner of Philadelphia Eagles (BA Psychology 1973)
• Paul Siple - Antarctic explorer and inventor of wind chill factor (PhD Geography 1939)

Activism and reform

• Robert Dexter - human rights (PhD Sociology 1927)
• Miriam Van Waters - prison reformer
• Mesfin Woldemariam - Ethiopian human rights activist

Faculty

• Taner Akcam
• Wallace Atwood
• Georg Baur
• George Athan Billias
• George Hubbard Blakeslee
• Franz Boas
• Oskar Bolza
• Edwin G. Boring
• Rafael Bruschweiler
• Leonard Carmichael
• William Damon
• Stephen DiRado
• Debórah Dwork
• J. Ronald Eastman, Professor of Geography, chief developer of IDRISI
• Cynthia Enloe
• Richard M. Freeland
• Benjamin Ives Gilman
• Robert Goddard
• Beverly Grier
• G. Stanley Hall, first president of the university
• Tamara Hareven
• David S. Hibbett
• Alan A. Jones
• Robert Kates
• Wolfgang Köhler
• Charles A. Kraus
• Douglas Little
• Drew McCoy
• J. Playfair McMurrich
• Albert Abraham Michelson
• John Ulric Nef
• Arthur Amos Noyes
• Gregory Pincus
• Relly Raffman
• Martin André Rosanoff
• Ellen Churchill Semple
• Christina Hoff Sommers
• William Edward Story
• Arthur Gordon Webster
• Heinz Werner
• Charles Otis Whitman
• Carroll D. Wright

Presidents

• G. Stanley Hall, 1888-1920 (University)
• Carroll D. Wright, 1902-1909 (College)
• Edmund Sanford, 1909-1920 (College)
• Wallace Walter Atwood, 1920–1946
• Howard B. Jefferson, 1946–1967
• Frederick H. Jackson, 1967–1970
• Glenn W. Ferguson, 1970–1973
• Mortimer H. Appley, 1974–1984
• Richard P. Traina, 1984–2000
• John E. Bassett, 2000–2010
• David Angel, 2010-