List of Denison University alumni

• William G. Bowen - former President of Princeton University, current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Richard Brandt - professor of philosophy, Swarthmore College and University of Michigan
• Ernest DeWitt Burton - biblical scholar
• Steven R. Carter - literary critic and academic
• George Cressey - geographer, author, and academic
• Frederick German Detweiler - sociologist
• George Amos Dorsey - ethnographer
• Lottie Estelle Granger - president, Iowa State Teachers' Association
• Stephen Holmes - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University
• John S. Lowe - professor and expert in energy law
• Roger H. Martin - 14th president of Randolph-Macon College
• Kirtley F. Mather - geologist; professor and department chairman at Harvard University; civil libertarian and author
• Thomas Skidmore - historian and scholar specialized in Brazilian history
• Maria Tatar - John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
• Stephen Tuttle - musicologist and former chairman of the department of music at the University of Virginia

• Samuel Armacost - former president, director, and CEO of BankAmerica Corporation
• Joe Banner - President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
• Brad Blum - former CEO of Burger King
• George Bodenheimer - Executive Chairman of ESPN former President of ESPN and ABC Sports
• John Canning, Jr. - Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners
• Mark Dalton - CEO of the Tudor Investment Corporation
• Edward Andrew Deeds - engineer, inventor and industrialist
• Michael Eisner - former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company
• William Esrey - former Chief Executive of Sprint Corporation
• John V. Faraci - chairman and chief executive officer of International Paper
• Bill Giles - chairman and part owner of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies
• Mark Haines - co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street
• Terry Jones - founder of Travelocity.com and Kayak.com
• Andrea Mutters - Chief Information Officer of McHenry Advisers

• Steve Carell - screen and television actor
• Roe Conn - radio personality, WLS 890AM, Chicago
• John Davidson - stage and television actor; game show host, including Hollywood Squares
• Jennifer Garner - screen and television actress
• Jeffrey Hatcher - playwright and screenwriter
• Hal Holbrook - stage, screen and television actor, known for portrayal of Mark Twain
• John Jeffcoat - screenwriter and film director, known for Outsourced
• Ademir Kenović - film director and producer
• Nancy Lynn - acrobatic pilot, killed in 2006 Culpeper Airfest crash
• Ann Magnuson - actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer
• John Malm Jr. - former manager of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails
• Daniel Meyer - conductor and musical director
• Alex Moffat - actor and comedian
• P-Star (Priscilla Diaz) - rapper, actress, singer, model, director, DJ
• Hollis Resnik - singer and actress
• José Rivera - first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award
• John Schuck - screen, stage, and television actor
• Kurt Vincent, director of The Lost Arcade
• Andrew Levitt, drag queen known as Nina West

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• Richard B. Austin - judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Ruth Sarles Benedict - anti-war activist, researcher and journalist[1]
• John T. Chain, Jr. - retired U.S. Air Force General
• Robert Dold - U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district
• Edmund Burke Fairfield - minister, educator, and politician, including 12th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
• Carty Finkbeiner - former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
• Tony P. Hall - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and United States Representative from Ohio
• Andrew S. Hanen - judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Judson Harmon - 45th Governor of Ohio and 41st United States Attorney General
• Leonard D. Heaton - former Surgeon General of the United States Army
• Edgar Winters Hillyer - judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin - former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign
• Randy Hopper - former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
• Sue W. Kelly - former member of the United States Congress from New York
• Robert W. Levering - former United States Congressman
• Richard Lugar - United States Senator from Indiana; on the Board of Trustees
• Kenneth E. Melson - former ATF director
• Jim Petro - former Ohio Attorney General
• A. W. Sheldon - Associate Justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court
• Erastus B. Tyler - Union Army general in the American Civil War
• H. Clay Van Voorhis - former US Congressman
• Ed Weber - former US Congressman

• James Frey - screenwriter and author; A Million Little Pieces, featured by Oprah's Book Club
• Michael Glaser - Poet Laureate of Maryland
• Lauren Shakely - poet, editor, and publisher
• Pam Houston - author, speaker, teacher

• Edgar J. Goodspeed - liberal theologian
• Randolph Hollerith - Dean of Washington National Cathedral
• James Madison Pendleton - 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian

• Homer Burton Adkins - organic chemist
• John Berton - computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor
• Richard B. Brandt - philosopher
• William Ernest Castle - early American geneticist
• William E. Forsythe - physicist
• George Stibitz - scientist, early pioneer of computer with Bell Labs

• Dan Daub - Major League Baseball player, 1892–1897
• Woody Hayes - football coach of Ohio State, 1951–1978
• Ken Meyer - former head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers
• Johnny O'Connell - professional sports car racer
• Bobby Rahal - Indianapolis 500 champion
• John Robic - assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Kentucky

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