List of Reed College Peopl (305 items)report

• Julia Adams – sociologist; professor, Yale University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Jon Appleton, 1961 – composer; Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Louis T. Benezet, 1939 – President, Colorado College
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Sacvan Bercovitch (did not graduate) – Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Charles Bigelow, 1967 – Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of Technology
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Jonathan Boyarin, 1977 – Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Robert Brenner, 1964 – Professor of History, UCLA
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Joan Bresnan, 1966 – Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Robert A. Brightman, 1973 – Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed College
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Jessica Coon, 2004 – Linguistics Professor at McGill University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Galen Cranz, 1966 – Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Ann Cvetkovich, 1980 – Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books, including An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Shannon Lee Dawdy, 1988 – Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Kai T. Erikson, 1953 – President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 1950 – anthropologist
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Janet Fitch, 1978 – Professor of Professional Writing, University of Southern California
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Neil Fligstein, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• David H. French, 1939 – anthropologist and linguist
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Victor Friedman, 1970 – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Peter Gordon, 1988 – Professor of History, Harvard University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Ted Robert Gurr, 1957 – Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Loyd Haberly, 1919 – Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Peter Dobkin Hall, 1968 – Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Carol Heimer, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• David Hoggan, 1945 – controversial historian
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Dell Hymes, 1950 – anthropologist and linguist
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Maurice Isserman, 1973 – Professor of History, Hamilton College
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Lewis Webster Jones, 1921 – President of Rutgers University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Don Kates, 1962 – criminologist
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Gail M. Kelly, 1955 – anthropologist
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Wallace T. MacCaffrey, 1942 – scholar of Elizabethan England; chaired the Harvard University history department twice
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Brendan McConville, 1987 – Professor of History at Boston University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• William D. McElroy, 1939 – Chancellor, University of California, San Diego and former Director, National Science Foundation
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Dennis B. McGilvray, 1965 – Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Lisa Nakamura, 1987 – Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Kaori O'Connor, 1968 – Senior Research Fellow, University of London
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Christopher Phelps, 1988 – Professor of History, University of Nottingham
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Ray Raphael, 1965 – historian
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Diane Silvers Ravitch (did not graduate) – Professor of History, New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Barbara Reskin (did not graduate) – Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts; former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Stephen Shapin, 1966 – historian and sociologist of science at Harvard University; taught at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, San Diego
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Robert E. Slavin, 1972 – Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins; cooperative learning, project Success for All
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• George Steinmetz (academic), 1980 - Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Robert K. Thomas (did not graduate) – Academic Vice President, Brigham Young University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Katherine Verdery, 1970 – Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Jon Westling, 1964 – President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Richard Wolin, 1974 – Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center
  
  (Academia) (Alumni)

• Jacob Avshalomov, 1941 – composer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Kip Berman, 2002 – songwriter and vocalist for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Jody Bleyle, 1992 – singer, songwriter, musician
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Jennifer Camper, 1979, cartoonist
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Ry Cooder, 1971 – singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Robert Cornthwaite, 1939 – actor
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Lamar Crowson, 1948 – pianist
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Dr. Demento, born Barret Hansen, 1963 – radio personality
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Pozzi Escot, 1956 – composer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Johanna Fateman (did not graduate) – musician
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Simone Forti (did not graduate) – choreographer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Rob Heinsoo, 1987 – game designer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Hope Lange (did not graduate) – actress
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Jayne Loader, 1973 – writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Peter Mars, 1982 – artist
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Robert Morris, 1953 (attended two years) – sculptor
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Bill Morrison, 1985, filmmaker, Guggenheim fellow
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Charles Munch, 1968 – painter
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Daria O'Neill, 1993 – Portland radio and TV personality
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Eric Overmyer, 1973 – screenwriter, producer, playwright
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• David Reed, 1968 – artist
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Director of the Berkeley Art Museum
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Brian Rolland (did not graduate) – musician
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Leo Rubinfien, 1974 – photographer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Susan Silas, 1975 – artist
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Pat Silver-Lasky 1949– screenwriter and actress
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Morgan Spector, 2002 - actor
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Kim Spencer, 1970 – television producer
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• David Henry Sterry, 1978 – author, actor/comic
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Igor Vamos, 1990 – contemporary artist, member of The Yes Men
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Anne Washburn, 1991 – playwright (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)
  
  (Arts and entertainment) (Alumni)

• Emilio Pucci, 1937 – fashion designer; member of the Italian Parliament
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Bill Naito, 1949 – Portland businessman, developer, and civic leader
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Dan Greenberg, 1962 – CEO of Electro Rent
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Dan Drake, 1964 – co-founder of Autodesk
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Miriam Sontz, 1973 – CEO of Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore.
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Robert Friedland, 1974 – businessman and CEO of Ivanhoe Mines
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Suzan DelBene, 1983 – CEO of Nimble Technology and Vice President at Microsoft
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Elly Blue, 2005 – co-owner of Microcosm Publishing
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Michael Richardson, 2007 – co-founder of Urban Airship.
  
  (Business) (Alumni)

• Dorothy Brady, 1925 – Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Robert A. Brady, 1923 – Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Rose Friedman, 1930 – author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Mason Gaffney, 1948 – economist and critic of neoclassical economics
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• John Krutilla, 1949, economist who developed concept of existence value
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Kalman J. Cohen, 1951 – Professor of Economics, Duke University
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Dale W. Jorgenson, 1955 – economist, professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Michael Rothschild, 1963 – economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Nicolaus Tideman, 1965 – economist
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Yoram Bauman, 1995 – economist and stand-up comedian
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Ross Starr (did not graduate) – Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• Walter Berns (did not graduate) – Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
  
  (Economics) (Alumni)

• James Beard, expelled 1922/23; honorary degree 1976 – chef and cookbook author
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Mark Bitterman, 1995 – food writer and author
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Steven Raichlen, 1975 – television chef, author
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Kate Christensen, 1986 – food writer and author
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Susan Sokol Blosser, 1967 – founder of Sokol Blosser Winery
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Sean Thackrey (did not graduate) – winemaker
  
  (Food and Drink) (Alumni)

• Josiah H. Beeman V, 1958 – United States Ambassador to New Zealand
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Bud Clark (did not graduate) – Mayor of Portland
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Richard Danzig, 1965 – 71st Secretary of the Navy
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Suzan DelBene, 1983 – United States Representative from Washington state (D)
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Chris Garrett, 1996 – member of the Oregon Legislature
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Richard L. Hanna, 1973 – United States Representative from New York (R)
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Cordelia Hood, 1936 – Office of Strategic Services and CIA agent
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Sheldon T. Mills, 1927 – Former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• J. Elizabeth Mitchell, 1991 – member of the Maine Legislature
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Norman Solomon (did not graduate) – candidate for the United States House of Representatives
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Howard Wolpe, 1960 – Congressman (D-Michigan)
  
  (Government) (Alumni)

• Hans A. Linde, 1947 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Daniel Cross, 1987 - Washington County (Oregon) Justice of the Peace
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Berkeley Lent, 1948 – Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• George M. Joseph, 1951 – Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Michael E. Levine, 1962 – Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of Law; Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Alex Martinez, 1973 – Chief Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Jessica Litman, 1974 – Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, legal advisor
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Katya Komisaruk, 1978 – civil rights lawyer
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Alafair Burke, 1991 – Assistant District Attorney, Multnomah County, Oregon; Professor of Law, Hofstra University; crime and mystery writer
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Chris Garrett, 1996 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Gus J. Solomon (did not graduate) – US District Judge, District of Oregon
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Jacob Tanzer (did not graduate) – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Fay Stender (did not graduate) – lawyer and prisoners' rights advocate
  
  (Law) (Alumni)

• Tamim Ansary, 1970 – author of West of Kabul, East of New York
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Doon Arbus, 1967 – writer and journalist, daughter of Diane Arbus
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Alison Baker, 1975 – writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Mary Barnard, 1932 – modernist poet and translator of Greek poet Sappho
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Margaret Bechard, 1976 – science fiction writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Don Berry, 1931 – writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 1969 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Lee Blessing, 1971 – playwright
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Hob Broun, 1972, author who became paralyzed and wrote two books by puffing air through a tube.
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Alafair Burke, 1991 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Robert Chesley, 1965 – playwright, novelist, and composer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Kate Christensen, 1986 – novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Gordon Dahlquist, 1984 – playwright, novelist
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• William Dickey, 1951 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Katherine Dunn, 1969 – journalist and author of Geek Love
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Elana Dykewomon, ca. 1971 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Elyssa East, 1994 – novelist
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• David Eddings, 1954 – writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Nancy Farmer, 1963 – novelist, winner of National Book Award for Young People's Literature
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Elyse Fenton, 2003 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Janet Fitch, 1978 – novelist, White Oleander, Paint It Black, and The Revolution of Marina M
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Debra M. Ginsberg, 1984 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Shadab Zeest Hashmi, 1995 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Ernest Haycox (did not graduate) – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Myrlin Hermes, 1997 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Roger Hobbs, 2011 – author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Jemiah Jefferson, 1994 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Laleh Khadivi, 1998 – author and writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Caroline B. Miller, 1959 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Lisa Dale Norton, 1976 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Steven Raichlen, 1975 – author and writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• M. C. Richards, 1938 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• David Romtvedt, 1972 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Mary Rosenblum, 1975 – author
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Vern Rutsala, 1956 – poet and writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Tina Satter, 2004 – playwright
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Leslie Scalapino, 1966 – poet, publisher, and playwright
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Gary Snyder, 1951 – Pulitzer Prize winner and poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Sally Watson, 1950 – writer
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Philip Whalen, 1951 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Lew Welch, 1950 – poet
  
  (Literature) (Alumni)

• Ed Cony, 1948 – Editor of the Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Robert Richter, 1951 – documentary filmmaker and Academy Award winner
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Barbara Ehrenreich, 1963 – journalist, political activist, author of Nickel and Dimed
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Jim Compton, 1964 – journalist at PBS
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer, critic, and virtual media theorist
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Oz Hopkins Koglin, 1974 – first African-American woman to be hired as reporter at the Oregonian.
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Sheila Rogers, 1980 – columnist and TV producer for The Late Show With David Letterman
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Gary Wolf, 1983 – author and writer for Wired.
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Anya Schiffrin, 1984 – business journalist and author of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Adam L. Penenberg, 1986 – writer, professor of journalism at New York University
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Peter S. Goodman, 1989 – reporter for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Robert Smith, 1989 — journalist, host of Planet Money.
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Arun Rath, 1994 – correspondent for NPR and WGBH, former weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Michelle Nijhuis, 1996 – journalist
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Peter Zuckerman, 2003 – journalist and author
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Adrian Chen, 2009 – journalist and former staff writer at The New Yorker.
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, 2014 – journalist and producer at NPR's Planet Money.
  
  (Journalism and Media) (Alumni)

• C. Howard Vollum, 1936 – founder of Tektronix; inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Ken Koe, 1945 – co-inventor of Zoloft.
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Bernard Smith, 1948 – sailboat designer
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• John Sperling, 1948 – founder of the University of Phoenix
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Robert Gordon, 1949 – inventor of the Gordon Wrench
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• James Russell, 1953 – inventor of the compact disc
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Peter Norton, 1965 – creator of Norton Utilities
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Richard Crandall, 1969 – computer scientist who developed the irrational base discrete weighted transform used in finding large prime numbers
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Steve Jobs, 1976 (attended as a freshman, did not graduate) – Apple co-founder and CEO; Pixar co-founder and CEO
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Pamela Ronald, 1982 – geneticist and developer of flood-tolerant rice
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Larry Sanger, 1991 – co-founder of Wikipedia
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Luke Kanies, 1996 – created Puppet software system
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Daniel K. Kim, 2001 – transportation entrepreneur
  
  (Inventors and Innovators) (Alumni)

• Karl Aschenbrenner, 1934 – philosopher of aesthetics
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Sydney Shoemaker, 1953 – Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Guy Sircello, 1958 – Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and scholar of aesthetics
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Jay Rosenberg, 1963 – philosopher of metaphysics, epistemology, and language.
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Allen W. Wood, 1964 – Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Tom Wasow, 1967 – Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford University
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Sally Haslanger, 1977 – Professor of Philosophy, MIT
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Eric T. Olson, 1986 – Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield; taught at Cambridge University
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Lisa Kemmerer, 1988 – author and professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings
  
  (Philosophy) (Alumni)

• Harry Harlow, 1926 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Herbert Jasper, 1928 – professor of psychology, McGill University
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Eleanor Maccoby, 1939 – psychologist at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• M. Brewster Smith, 1939 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Chicago
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Jeanne Block, 1947 – developmental psychologist, professor, Stanford University
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Richard F. Thompson, 1953 – professor of psychology, University of Southern California
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Daryl Bem, 1960 – professor of psychology, Cornell University
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Eleanor Rosch, 1960 – professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Robert Frager, 1961 – social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Mary Rothbart, 1962 – educational and developmental psychologist, professor at University of Oregon
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Eleanor Rosch, 1962 – cognitive psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Paul H. Taghert, 1975 – neuroscientist, Washington University in St. Louis
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Roberto Malinow, 1979 – neuroscientist, UC San Diego
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Cyma Van Petten, 1981 – cognitive neuroscientist, professor at SUNY-Binghampton
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Gina G. Turrigiano, 1984 – professor of vision science, Brandeis University; MacArthur Fellow
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Athena Aktipis, 2002 – director of the Human Generosity Project at Arizona State University
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Allen Bergin (did not graduate) – psychologist
  
  (Psychology and Neuroscience) (Alumni)

• Arthur H. Livermore, 1940 – biochemist
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, 1951 – biologist, Rutgers University
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Bruce Voeller, 1956 – biologist, AIDS researcher, gay-rights activist; coined the term AIDS
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Daniel S. Kemp, 1958 – Professor of Chemistry, MIT
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Mark Ptashne, 1961 – Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Donald Engelman, 1962 – biochemist at Yale University; Guggenheim fellow
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Anne Hiltner, 1963 – polymer scientist and professor at Case Western Reserve
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Kenneth Raymond, 1964 – Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Arlene Blum, 1966 – mountaineer and chemist
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Michael Balls, 1966 – zoologist and professor, University of Nottingham
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Mary Jo Ondrechen, 1974 – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Alison Butler, 1977 – metallobiochemist at UC Santa Barbara, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Rachel E. Klevit, 1978 – Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Roger Perlmutter, 1973 – biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc.
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Victor Nizet, 1984 – Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Kevan Shokat, 1986 – Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• John Alroy, 1989 – paleobiologist
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Stephen C. Sillett, 1989 – botanist, professor at Humboldt State University
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Paul Knoepfler, 1989, stem-cell researcher, author, professor at UC Davis School of Medicine
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• Kent Kirshenbaum, 1994 – Professor of Chemistry, New York University
  
  (Biology and Chemistry) (Alumni)

• John Backus, 1932 – Professor of Physics, University of Southern California
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• John Alexander Simpson, 1940 – Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, and atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Clarence Allen, 1949 – Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Daniel Bump, 1974 - Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Larry Shaw, 1961 – physicist and founder of Pi Day
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• David B. Dusenbery, 1964 – father of sensory ecology
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• David Flory, 1964 – physicist; Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Arthur Ogus, 1968 – Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Thomas William Ferguson, 1965 – physician
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Alan H. Borning, 1971 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Jonathan Grudin, 1972 – computer scientist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Catherine Otto, 1975 – physician
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Daniel Kottke, 1976 – computer scientist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Lawrence Philips, 1976 – software engineer; developer of the Metaphone family of phonetic encoding algorithms
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Norman Packard, 1977 – chaos theory physicist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Steven McGeady, 1980 – technologist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Theodore James Courant, 1982 – mathematician
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Kelly Falkner, 1983 – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Peter Shirley, 1985, computer scientist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Keith Packard, 1986 – software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Shep Doeleman, 1986 – astrophysicist, director of the Event Horizon Telescope project
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Irena Swanson, 1987, mathematician and professor at Reed College
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Craig DeForest, 1989 – astrophysicist, director of the PUNCH mission
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Edward Ramberg (did not graduate) – physicist
  
  (Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering) (Alumni)

• Greta Christina, 1983 – blogger
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Mike Davis (did not graduate) – activist and scholar
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Randall Giles (did not graduate) – composer
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Max Gordon, 1924 – owner of the Village Vanguard
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Mukunda Goswami, 1961 – Hare Krishna guru
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Christopher Langan – "America's smartest man;" won a scholarship to Reed after earning a perfect SAT score, but dropped out
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Murray Leaf, 1961 – anthropologist
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Ben Manski (did not graduate) – democracy activist, lawyer, sociologist
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 2016 – human rights activist
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Joann Osterud, 1968 – aviator and stunt pilot
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Harry Wayland Randall, 1936 – member of international brigades in Spanish Civil War
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Aaron Rhodes, 1971 – human rights advocate
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Helen Sandoz – lesbian activist
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Genny Smith – publisher
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Peter Stafford (did not graduate) – author and writer
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Sumner Stone, 1967 – typeface designer
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Michael Teitelbaum, 1966 – program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Donald Niven Wheeler, 1936 – political activist
  
  (Other) (Alumni)

• Erlich Bachmann, from HBO's Silicon Valley
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• John William Barry from David Guterson's 2008 novel The Other
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Bill McKay, portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1972 film The Candidate
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Donald "Don" Miller in his semi-autobiographical 2003 book Blue Like Jazz and (portrayed by Marshall Allman) in the 2012 Blue Like Jazz film
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel The Group
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Japhy Ryder from Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums (based on Reed alum Gary Snyder)
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Hunter Scangarelo (did not graduate), friend of Meadow Soprano in the 1999–2007 television series The Sopranos
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Sierra from Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty's 2006 novel in the Jessica Darling series
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy Blume's 1998 novel Summer Sisters
  
  (Fictional alumni) (Alumni)

• William J. Connell – historian (Faculty)

• Paul Douglas – US Senator from Illinois (Faculty)

• David J. Griffiths – physicist (Faculty)

• Daniel Reisberg – psychology (Faculty)

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