Founded 1852 by the Christian Connexion. Campuses in several states.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Chester G. Atkins |
Politician |
14-Apr-1948 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1985-93 |
| Warren Bennis |
Educator |
8-Mar-1925 |
31-Jul-2014 |
Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge |
| Bill Bradbury |
Politician |
29-May-1949 |
|
Oregon Secretary of State, 1999-2009 |
| Arthur Brown |
Politician |
8-Mar-1843 |
13-Dec-1906 |
US Senator from Utah, 1896-97 |
| Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
| Ed Bullins |
Playwright |
2-Jul-1935 |
|
In the Wine Time |
| Mario Capecchi |
Scientist |
6-Oct-1937 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| John Chaney |
Basketball |
21-Jan-1932 |
|
Temple Head Coach, 1982-2006 |
| Marcia Cross |
Actor |
25-Mar-1962 |
|
Desperate Housewives |
| David C. Farrell |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of May Department Stores, 1979-98 |
| Clifford Geertz |
Anthropologist |
23-Aug-1926 |
30-Oct-2006 |
Thick Description |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Robert Greenwald |
Film/TV Producer |
28-Aug-1945 |
|
Outfoxed, Xanadu |
| A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Judge |
25-Feb-1928 |
14-Dec-1998 |
Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
| Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1-Jun-1920 |
6-Feb-2001 |
US Ambassador to China, 1981-85 |
| Peter H. Irons |
Activist |
11-Aug-1940 |
|
A People's History of the Supreme Court |
| Donald J. Kabat |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Former Partner, Arthur Andersen |
| Jorma Kaukonen |
Guitarist |
23-Dec-1940 |
|
Jefferson Airplane |
| Coretta Scott King |
Activist |
27-Apr-1927 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King |
| John Korty |
Film Director |
22-Jul-1936 |
|
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| Laurence Leamer |
Author |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
The Kennedy Men |
| Theodore Levitt |
Economist |
1-Mar-1925 |
28-Jun-2006 |
Marketing Myopia |
| Judy Lewis |
Relative |
6-Nov-1935 |
25-Nov-2011 |
Daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young |
| Leonard Nimoy |
Actor |
26-Mar-1931 |
27-Feb-2015 |
Commander Spock on Star Trek |
| Janne E. Nolan |
Educator |
28-Dec-1951 |
|
Defense and foreign policy analyst |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton |
Politician |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Congresswoman, Washington DC |
| Victor Nuñez |
Film Director |
1945 |
|
Ulee's Gold |
| Ric Ocasek |
Musician |
23-Mar-1949 |
|
Singer for The Cars, producer |
| O'Dell M. Owens |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
Coroner of Hamilton County, Ohio |
| Brenda Gayle Plummer |
Historian |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Haiti and the United States |
| John Robbins |
Author |
26-Oct-1947 |
|
Celebrity vegan |
| Cliff Robertson |
Actor |
9-Sep-1923 |
10-Sep-2011 |
Uncle Ben in Spider-Man |
| Susan Rosenberg |
Activist |
1955 |
|
Radical |
| Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
| Mark Strand |
Poet |
11-Apr-1934 |
29-Nov-2014 |
U.S. Poet Laureate 1990-91 |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Terri Windling |
Novelist |
1958 |
|
The Wood Wife |
