List of St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) people
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The following is a list of notable individuals associated with St. John's College, with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico – both in the United States.
Faculty
Douglas Allanbrook, tutor, musician and composer
Wye Jamison Allanbrook, tutor, musicologist
Eva Brann, tutor, dean; 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal
James M. Cain, novelist; professor of journalism 1923–24
Elliott Carter, composer; tutor, 1939–1941
William Hersey Hopkins, academic, first president of Goucher College, former acting president of St. John's College
Leon Kass, tutor at the college (1972–76); chair of the President's Council on Bioethics (2002–06)
Jacob Klein, tutor, dean; author of Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra and Commentary on Plato's Meno; leading 20th-century Platonist
Sara Larkin, artist; creator of Spacescapes
Thomas Parran, 6th Surgeon General of the United States
Leo Strauss (1899–1973), political philosopher; lectured at St. John's and was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Annapolis campus
Victor Zuckerkandl, tutor, music theorist
Students and alumni
This includes graduates of both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Academics
Rogers Albritton, philosopher; served as the chairman of both Harvard and UCLA's philosophy departments
Thomas J.J. Altizer, theologian, author of The Gospel of Christian Atheism
Amber E. Boydstun, political scientist and data scientist
John Bremer, educator, philosopher, author; after graduating from Oxford University, he came to St. John's College in 1951 on a Fulbright Fellowship
Graham Harman, philosopher
Joseph J. Himmel, Jesuit missionary and president of Georgetown University
Mark D. Jordan, alumnus; Andrew Mellon Professor, Harvard Divinity School; scholar of gender studies, sexual ethics, and theology
Wilfred M. McClay, intellectual historian
Ange Mlinko, poet and critic, Guggenheim Fellow 2014–15, poetry editor of The Nation, associate professor at the University of Florida
Tom G. Palmer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute
Ben Sasse, president, University of Florida
Pamela Sklar (1959–2017), psychiatrist and neuroscientist
O. Carter Snead, legal scholar and bioethicist
Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German scholar and historian
Writers, critics, and journalists
Michael Anton, writer; former deputy assistant to the president for Strategic Communications
Ken Baumann, writer, publisher, and former actor
Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner columnist and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Caitlin Cass, cartoonist
Seth Cropsey, director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute; regular contributor to the National Review
Robert A. George, journalist and news columnist
Danny Hakim, investigative journalist at The New York Times
Rax King, author, Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong
William Kowalski, author, Eddie's Bastard, Somewhere South of Here, The Adventures of Flash Jackson, The Good Neighbor
Andrew Krivak, author, National Book Award nominee for The Sojourn
Kenneth Kronberg, printing company owner, former LaRouche movement member
Tony Lagouranis, activist and author of Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey through Iraq
Lydia Polgreen, New York Times opinion columnist, former editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, 2006 winner of the George Polk Award
Salvatore Scibona, alumnus and author, 2008 National Book Award finalist for his first novel The End; his fiction has appeared in many literary journals; named one of "20 under 40" notable authors by The New Yorker in 2010 and published an essay about his experience at the college in the June 13, 2011 issue
Lisa Simeone, National Public Radio host
Charles Van Doren, garnered notoriety for his involvement in the rigged game show Twenty-One
Cecelia Watson, writer (Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark]
Jennifer Wright, writer
John C. Wright, alumnus and author of science fiction and fantasy novels; Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novel, Orphans of Chaos
Military personnel
Lewis J. Fields (1909–1988), United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
William H. Harrison (1896–1955), brigadier general in the Marine Corps during World War II
Erik S. Kristensen (1972–2005), U.S. Navy SEAL, attended Graduate Institute in Annapolis, killed in action in Afghanistan
James B. Lockwood (1852–1884), Army officer and arctic explorer
Robert Houston Noble, U.S. Army brigadier general, honorary Master of Arts, 1894
Reginald H. Ridgely Jr. (1902–1979), U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, POW during World War II
Politicians
Michael Anton, essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was previously a senior national security official
Joshua J. Cohen, mayor of Annapolis, Maryland
Clement Dorsey, congressman for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1825–31)
Alexander Contee Hanson, congressman for Maryland's 3rd District (1813–1816)
Emerson Harrington, governor of Maryland
J. T. C. Hopkins (1843–1922), Maryland state delegate
Reverdy Johnson, statesman and jurist, defense attorney of Sandford in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, prime minister of Latvia (2019–2023)
John Leeds Kerr, U.S. representative, Maryland's 7th District
Francis Scott Key, United States attorney for the District of Columbia; lyricist of the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Daniel Martin, governor of Maryland (1829–1830, 1831)
Keith Neville, 18th governor of Nebraska (1917–1919)
Thomas Parran Jr., 6th Surgeon General of the United States
William Pinkney (1764–1822), 7th attorney general of the United States
Alvin Milton Spessard (1860–1924), Alabama state politician and educator
Frederick Stone, U.S. representative from Maryland's 5th congressional district (1867–71), defense counsel for Samuel Mudd
Lucy Tamlyn, U.S. ambassador to Benin
Francis Thomas, governor of Maryland (1842–44); member of House of Representatives (1861–69)
Tobias Watkins (1780–1855), 4th auditor of the United States Treasury, writer, editor, and physician
Osborne I. Yellott (1871–1922), state delegate and lawyer
Filmmakers and musicians
Betsy Arakawa, classical pianist
Dimitri Devyatkin, Emmy Award–nominated video artist and filmmaker
Ahmet Ertegün, founded Atlantic Records in 1947
Jac Holzman, founded Elektra Records in 1950 while a student at St. John's
Eilen Jewell, blues and Americana singer/songwriter
Jonathan D. Krane, film producer, Look Who's Talking, Face/Off
Jeremy Leven, novelist, screenwriter and director (works include Don Juan DeMarco)
Lhasa de Sela, singer-songwriter
Glenn Yarbrough, original lead tenor of The Limeliters
Lee David Zlotoff, creator of MacGyver television series; director of The Spitfire Grill (1996), which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival
Businesspeople
James H. Frame, computer programming pioneer at IBM, and former vice president of software at ITT; founded James Frame Enterprises (JFE), a software development consulting company
John Seward Johnson III, co-founder of BuzzFeed, founded Eyebeam, philanthropist, filmmaker (Without a Trace, Ratchet) and entrepreneur
Eugene V. Thaw, art dealer and collector
Warren Winiarski, founder of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
Chefs
Daniel Rose, chef at restaurants in Paris (Spring, La Bourse et la Vie) and New York City (Le Coucou)
Miyoko Schinner, chef, cookbook author, animal sanctuary founder and owner of cheese brand Miyoko's Creamery
Scientists
Daryl Haggard, astronomer and associate professor of physics at McGill University
Cynthia Keppel, physicist
Aron Wall, 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory and gravity
Board members
Austin Ligon, co-founder/CEO (retired), CarMax, Inc.
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