Franklin & Marshall College alumni

Edgar Nelson Transeau (1875-1960) was an American botanist and phycologist who served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the Ecological Society of America.

Barry R. Finegold (March 3, 1971 in Norwood, Massachusetts) was a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Essex and Middlesex district.

Wanda Austin (born 1954) is the former President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the nation’s national security space programs.

Jeffrey M. Lacker (born September 27, 1955) is an American economist and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond since 2004.

Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - August 27, 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a preeminent Jewish American educator and philanthropist.

J. Michael Eakin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

William M. Brish was a leader of closed circuit instructional television in public school elementary classrooms.

Mark M. Chamberlain (1931–2014) was an American educator and the fourth president of Glassboro State College (now known as Rowan University) from 1969 to 1984.

William Uhler Hensel (December 4, 1851 – February 27, 1915) was a Pennsylvania newspaper editor, lawyer, author, and state Attorney General.

Edward G. Smith (born 1961) is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Paul R. Brown is the eighth president of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, assuming office on August 1, 2013, and formally inaugurated on April 10, 2014.

David R. Smith (born c. 1941) was a major general in the United States Air Force who served as Commander of the United States Air Force Reserve Command, Headquarters U.

Kenneth Brian "Ken" Mehlman (born August 21, 1966) is an American businessman, attorney, and political figure.

John Phillips Saylor (July 23, 1908 – October 28, 1973) was a Republican member of the U.

John Weinland Killinger (September 18, 1824 – June 30, 1896) was a Republican member of the U.

William Scott Ritter Jr.

Patricia Harris (born September 1, 1956) held the position of first deputy mayor for the City of New York from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2013.

Paul Moyer Limbert (May 27, 1897 – December 24, 1998) was a clergyman, educator and Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCAs.

Paula T. Dow (born 1955) served as the 58th Attorney General of New Jersey, appointed by incoming Governor Chris Christie.

Clifford Alan Pickover (born August 15, 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity and is employed at the IBM Thomas J.

Harvey Elliott Klehr (born December 25, 1945) is a professor of politics and history at Emory University.

(This article is about the Pennsylvania political strategist. For the literary pseudonym, see Richard Blade (series).) Jeffrey "Jeff" Lord is a former member of the Ronald Reagan administration, a former White House associate political director 1987–1988, journalist, author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania.

John Lindsey "Jack" White (April 1, 1930 – October 9, 2001) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate.

Metropolitan Tikhon (secular name Marc R. Mollard; born July 15, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Eastern Orthodox bishop and the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, holding the rank of Metropolitan of All America and Canada.

Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (born Freeburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, 13 June 1817; died Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 6 May 1904) was an American minister of the German Reformed Church.

Ephraim Leister Acker (January 11, 1827 – May 12, 1903) was a Democratic member of the U.

Floyd Skloot (born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist who has often written about the search for meaning through personal loss and the struggle for coherence in a fragmented world.

Gregory Phillip Kane (c. 1951 – February 18, 2014) was an American journalist and political and social commentator.

Guy Kurtz Bard (October 24, 1895 – November 23, 1953) was a Pennsylvania educator who later became a judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1939 until 1952, when he resigned to be the Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.

Keenan Smith (born October 31, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television broadcaster who has been the morning and noon meteorologist at WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan since late September 2010.

Keith Edward Hamm is an American political scientist and Edwards Professor of political science at Rice University.

Keith J. Gillespie (born September 18, 1952) is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 47th District and was elected in 2002.

Liam O'Grady (born 1950) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Lisa Seidman (born April 27, 1957 in Massapequa, New York) is an American television writer who has primarily written for soap operas.

William Addison Duncan (February 2, 1836 – November 14, 1884) was a Democratic member of the U.

John Roland Kinzer (March 28, 1874 – July 25, 1955) was a Republican member of the U.

Wendell R. Garner (January 21, 1921 – August 14, 2008) was a Yale University psychology researcher credited with making significant contributions to the cognitive revolution, in which George Miller and others applied emerging research from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science to test ideas about human mental processes.

William Nicholas Knisely, Jr.

Anne Hultgren was the Branch Chief for research and development in the Chemical and Biological Defense Division of the Science and Technology Directorate of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

LeRoy Pernell is a former dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law and Florida A&M University College of Law.

William Herbert "Bill" Gray III (August 20, 1941 – July 1, 2013) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1979 to 1991.

Jason Andrew Narvy (born March 27, 1974) is an American actor known for playing the role of Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch on the various iterations of Power Rangers and film franchise from 1993 to 2012, beginning with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in 1993.

Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was a Methodist missionary.

Rob Shepardson is a political consultant and marketing strategist, who in April 2014 was named by Barack Obama to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN).

Lisa Deborah Bonchek Adams (July 29, 1969 – March 6, 2015) was a noted writer, blogger, and outspoken supporter of and advocate for breast cancer research, employing social media, including her own personal blog as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Robert J. Kafin (born 1942) is an American lawyer.

Modia "Mo" Butler (born July 8, 1973), a Democratic strategist and public affairs executive, is a Managing Director at Mercury Public Affairs, LLC, a leading national, bipartisan public affairs firm.

Mary L. Schapiro (born June 19, 1955) served as the 29th Chair of the U.

Andrew Gehr Truxal (February 2, 1900 – February 3, 1971) was the third president of Hood College and the first president of Anne Arundel Community College.

David Brookman Smith (born December 4, 1951 in Altoona, Pennsylvania), known professionally as D.

Daniel Ermentrout (January 24, 1837 – September 17, 1899) was a Democratic member of the U.

Fred Benjamin Gernerd (November 22, 1879 – August 7, 1948) was a Republican member of the U.

George Frederick Baer (September 26, 1842 – April 26, 1914) was an American lawyer who was the President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.

Steven C. Rattner (born 1960) was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asset Management division and the former Head of its DLJ Merchant Banking Partners affiliate.

Steven R. Nickol was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representativesrepresenting the 193rd State House district, which then included areas of Adams and York counties.

Glen Tetley (born February 3, 1926, Cleveland, Ohio – died January 26, 2007, Florida) was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.

Eugene Leid Shirk (April 14, 1901 – February 17, 1994) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania for two terms as a Republican .

Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is a Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television.

William A. Schnader (October 5, 1886 – March 18, 1968) was Attorney General of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the law firm Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis.

William Henry Miller (February 28, 1829 – September 12, 1870) was a Democratic member of the U.

William Roedel Rathvon, CSB, (December 31, 1854 – March 2, 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V.

William Shearer Stenger (February 13, 1840 – March 29, 1918) was an American Democratic Party politician.

Kenneth M. Duberstein (born April 21, 1944) served as U.

Henry Kulp Ober is a former President of Elizabethtown College.

Robert A. Bernstein (born March 22, 1961 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American attorney and politician who represented the First Worcester District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1995–2001.

Ronald Lawrence Buckwalter (born December 11, 1936) is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Theodore E. Woodward (March 22, 1914 – July 11, 2005) was an American medical researcher in the field of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Chris Finch (born November 6, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player, and a current associate head basketball coach for the Denver Nuggets.

Claudia Katz is an American animation producer.

Dick Orkin (born July 9, 1933) is an award-winning voice actor and commercial radio producer who created the series Chickenman and The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy.

Donald Ralph Wert (born July 29, 1938), nicknamed "Coyote", is an American former professional baseball player.

Donnie Marsh is an assistant men's basketball coach at South Florida.

Louise M. Burkhart (born 1958) is an American academic ethnohistorian and anthropologist, noted as a scholar of early colonial Mesoamerican literature.

Salvatore Rocco Vincent Pansino is a professor of electrical engineering at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

Albert Tobias Clay (December 4, 1866 – September 14, 1925) was an American professor, historian and Semitic linguist.

Charles Thomas Campbell (August 10, 1823 – April 15, 1895) was a United States Army soldier, and a legislator, businessman, and town mayor.

David McCulloch (January 25, 1832 – September 17, 1907) was a prominent Illinois lawyer and judge.

Edwin Duing Eshleman (December 4, 1920 – January 10, 1985) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1967 to 1977.

James Allen Zimble (October 12, 1933 – December 14, 2011) was a commissioned officer in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.

James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist.

Jane Clare Orie is a convicted felon, an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served in both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.