Haverford College

Haverford College is a coeducational, undergraduate liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Notable alumni

• Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate), Newbery Award-winning author
• Nicholson Baker, novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Dave Barry, (B.A. in English, 1969), Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist
• Steve Cary, Quaker and former president of the American Friends Service Committee, Nobel Laureate as representative of the AFSC for their work during WWII
• Frank Conroy, author
• Armando Daniels, paleobotanist, author of The First Orchid, the Paleobotany of Uqbar
• Mark Geragos, defense attorney
• Oscar Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas
• Frederic Jameson, Marxist cultural critic
• Rufus Jones, author, philosopher and founder of the American Friends Service Committee
• Gerald M. Levin, former Time Warner CEO
• J. Howard Marshall, billionaire oil tycoon and once married to Anna Nicole Smith
• Christopher Morley, writer
• Judd Nelson, actor (never graduated)
• Maxfield Parrish, painter
• Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc. editor-in-chief
• Hunter R. Rawlings III, President of Cornell University from 1995-2003 (made interim president again in 2005)
• Theodore William Richards, (B.A. in science, 1885), Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1914)
• Ed Sikov, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (B.A. in physics, 1963), Nobel laureate (Physics, 1993)
• John C. Whitehead, former chairman of Goldman Sachs and deputy U.S. Secretary of State
• Juan Williams, NPR reporter