List of Amherst College people

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

Presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of national government

• Calvin Coolidge 1895, 30th President of the United States (1923–1929)
• George Papandreou 1975, former Prime Minister of Greece (2009–11) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1999–2004, 2009–10)
• Antonis Samaras 1974, former Prime Minister of Greece (2012–2015) and leader of New Democracy (2009–2015); Minister for Foreign Affairs (1989–92)
• Uhuru Kenyatta 1985, 4th President of Kenya (2013–2022).
• Francisco Flores Pérez 1981, 39th President of El Salvador (1999–2004).

Royalty

• Albert II 1981, Sovereign Prince of Monaco (2005–)

Cabinet members

United States Supreme Court

• Harlan Fiske Stone 1894, Associate Justice (1925–1941) and twelfth Chief Justice (1941–1946); the only justice physically to have filled all nine seats on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, having moved by seniority from the most junior Associate Justice to the most senior Associate Justice to the Chief Justice; principal role in upholding President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs

Diplomats and government officials

Senators, Representatives, and other politicians

Governors and Premiers, elected and appointed

Lawyers and judges

Businesspeople

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

• John M. Deutch 1960 (1995–96)
• Stansfield Turner ex 1945 (1977–81) (president of U.S. Naval War College, 1972–74)
• William H. Webster 1947 (1987–91) (FBI Director, 1978–87)

Nobel Prize winners

• Henry W. Kendall 1950 (1990, Physics)
• Edmund Phelps 1955 (2006, Economics)
• Harold E. Varmus 1961 (1989, Physiology or Medicine)
• Joseph E. Stiglitz 1964 (2001, Economics)
• Jeffrey C. Hall 1967 (2017, Physiology or Medicine)

Crafoord Prize winner

• Carl R. Woese 1950 (2003, Microbiology)

Pulitzer Prize winners

MacArthur Fellowship winners

National Medal of Science winners

• Paul Doughty Bartlett 1928, chemist
• Stephen Cole Kleene 1930, mathematician
• William Summer Johnson 1936, chemist
• Carl R. Woese 1950, microbiologist
• Harold E. Varmus 1961, physician

Astronauts

• Robert A. R. Parker 1958 (B.A., astronomy and physics; PhD, Caltech (Astronomy)); physicist
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman 1966 (B.A., astronomy; PhD, Harvard University (Astrophysics)); astrophysicist; mem. Spanish Academy of Engineering

Engineers, inventors, and scientists

Physicians

Entertainers

Artisans

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

Authors and artists

Military

Other notables

Notable faculty

References

External links

• Media related to People of Amherst College at Wikimedia Commons