List of Amherst College people

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This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Amherst College.

Notable alumni

College founders and presidents

Academics

Professional athletes and coaches

Clergy and Biblical scholars

Prime ministers and heads of government

Cabinet members

United States Supreme Court

Diplomats and government officials

Senators, Congresspersons, and other politicians

Governors, elected and appointed

Lawyers and judges

Businesspeople

Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI), CIA, and the FBI

Nobel Prize winners

Crafoord Prize winner

Pulitzer Prize winners

MacArthur Fellowship winners

National Medal of Science winners

Astronauts

Engineers, inventors, and scientists

Physicians

Entertainers

Artisans

  • Printer Ronald Gordon 1965, established the Oliphant Press, New York City

Authors and artists

Military

Other notables

Fictional characters

  • Mr. Eu, a minor government functionary in the 1963 John Ford movie "Donovan's Reef", was an Amherst graduate, class of "'52"!"
  • Jonathan Fuerst and his roommate Sandy attend Amherst in the 1971 movie Carnal Knowledge.
  • Jordan McDeere, a character played by Amanda Peet on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, graduated from Amherst with a degree in American Studies.
  • Willie Tanner on ALF was a graduate of the college. His daughter Lynn Tanner was accepted but could not go.
  • Scangrade, a test-scanning robot from the MTV cartoon Clone High, graduated from Amherst.
  • David, a snobbish intellectual character played by Hugh Grant in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks, taught art at Amherst for a short period of time.
  • Julie, one of the protagonists of Julie and Julia, edited for the "Amherst College Literary Magazine." She is based on author Julie Powell '95.
  • Alyssa Clark, a pregnant teenage girl in the Bones episode "The Salt in the Wounds," turns down a full scholarship to attend Amherst.
  • Louise Goodwin, sister of Jeremy Goodwin on Sports Night. The episode "Dear Louise" centers Jeremy writing a letter to her as a sophomore at Amherst.
  • Frank Lyman from Animal House. His name also appears on the plaque underneath the Route 9 bridge.
  • Dr. Corinne from web comic Questionable Content is an Amherst grad and also based on a real-life alumnus.
  • Zoey from Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator graduated from Amherst with a degree in "feminist literature."
  • Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation chose to attend Indiana over Amherst her senior year of high school.

Notable faculty

References

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