Arts and letters •
Selma Blair, actress (graduated from the
University of Michigan, but studied at Kalamazoo 1990–1992) •
Teju Cole, award-winning Nigerian American author •
Mark Crilley, comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator •
David France, journalist and author •
Holly Hughes, performance artist •
Quincy Isaiah (2017), actor best known for portraying
Magic Johnson in the HBO series
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty •
Nagai Kafu, author •
Jordan Klepper (2001), comedian,
The Daily Show •
Lisa Kron, 2015 Tony Award-winning (
Fun Home) playwright and actress •
Don Lane, singer, entertainer, TV host •
William Malatinsky, author •
Julie Mehretu, artist, winner of
MacArthur "Genius" Award •
Fern Persons (1933), actress •
Diane Seuss (1978), poet and educator, winner of the 2022
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry •
Dorothy B. Waage (1905–1997), numismatist •
Maynard Owen Williams,
National Geographic correspondent •
Steven Yeun (2005), actor best known for portraying Glenn in
The Walking Dead Government •
Garry E. Brown, politician •
Darrin Q. Camilleri, member,
Michigan House of Representatives •
Amy Courter, former national commander of the
Civil Air Patrol •
Brandt Iden, member,
Michigan House of Representatives •
Alexander Lipsey, Michigan politician •
Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of
Jackson,
Mississippi •
Gerald Ellis Rosen, United States District Court Judge •
Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman,
Federal Election Commission •
David Tarnas, member,
Hawaii House of Representatives •
Christopher P. Yates, judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals,
Michigan Court of Claims and
Michigan Circuit Court Business •
Harry Garland, entrepreneur •
Mark Spitznagel, hedge fund manager •
Jon Stryker •
Ty Warner, founder,
Ty Inc. (
Beanie Babies)
Academia •
Paula Arai,
Buddhist studies scholar, researcher, and professor •
George C. Baldwin, theoretical and experimental physicist and professor at
General Electric Company,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and
Los Alamos National Laboratory •
William F. DeGrado, professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco •
Kenneth G. Elzinga, economics professor at the
University of Virginia •
Cassandra Fraser, chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science •
Thomas F. Gieryn, sociology professor at the
University of Indiana known for developing the concept of "boundary work" •
David Heath, probabilist, known for developing the
Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework to model the evolution of the interest rate curve •
Floyd Wilcox, third president of
Shimer College Other •
Hannah P. Dodge, faculty of the Ladies' Department •
Fannie Ruth Robinson, college president, 1895 •
John E. Sarno, innovator in back-pain therapy •
Madelon Stockwell, first woman to graduate from the
University of Michigan •
David Hildebrand Wilson, founder and curator of
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