Carleton College

: This article is about the Minnesota college. For the former Carleton College in Ontario, see Carleton University.

Notable faculty and alumni

• Michael Armacost, former ambassador and president of the Brookings Institution from 1995-2002.
• Ian Barbour, professor emeritus, 1989–91 Gifford lecturer on religion and science, and winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
• Jack Barnes, the leader of the Socialist Workers Party (USA)
• Pierce Butler, Supreme Court Justice from 1923 to 1939, is a 1887 alumnus
• John Bates Clark, famous American economist was a professor at Carleton and taught Veblen.
• Anthony Downs is a Carleton alumnus.
• Eric Hillemann, archivist at Carleton College, won the Carper Award in 2003. He is known as a formidable quizbowl player, and coach of the Carleton team.
• Melvin R. Laird, President Nixon's secretary of defense from 1969 to 1973, is a 1942 alumnus of Carleton.
• Ambassador Burton Levin, Former United States Consul General to Hong Kong and US Ambassador to Burma from May 1987 to September 1990 is currently the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy.
• Barrie M. Osborne, producer of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is a 1966 alumnus of Carleton.
• Don Rawitsch, creator of the popular educational computer game The Oregon Trail, is a 1971 alumnus.
• Peter Tork of The Monkees was a student of English at Carleton for three years until he left to pursue music full time.
• Garrick Utley, correspondent for CNN perhaps best known for his reports related to the 9.11.01 terrorist attacks, was a 1961 alumnus of Carleton, who majored in political science.
• Thorstein Veblen, American economist and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, was an 1880 Carleton alumnus.
• Paul Wellstone, a U.S. Senator from Minnesota until his death in 2002, was a professor of political science at Carleton from 1969 to 1990.