Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college founded in Gambier, Ohio in 1824, by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase. Originally an all-male institution, Kenyon became co-educational in 1969. Kenyon remains loosely affliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Kenyon College is a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio, Great Lakes Colleges Association, and the Association of Episcopal Colleges.

Notable alumni

• Nick Bakay, television personality
• Jim Bellows, legendary journalist and newspaper editor
• Jim Borgman, political cartoonist
• Caleb Carr, novelist and military historian
• Jay Cocks, film critic
• Adam Davidson, Academy Award winning director
• David Davis, Senator, United States Supreme Court Justice
• E. L. Doctorow, novelist and cultural critic
• Rolla Dyer, developer of the typhus-vaccine, and director of the National Institutes of Health
• Carl Djerassi, the creator of the birth control pill, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1973
• Graham Gund, architect
• Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States
• Anthony Hecht, poet
• Allison Janney, actress, four-time winner of the Emmy Award for work on The West Wing
• Robert Lowell, poet
• Paul Newman, actor, winner of the Emmy Award, winner of the Academy Award
• Kris Osborn, CNN anchor
• Olof Palme, former Prime Minister of Sweden
• Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
• Coles Phillips, artist
• Josh Radnor, actor
• William Rehnquist (attended one year), former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Mark Rosenthal, MTV president
• Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War during the Lincoln administration
• Peter Taylor, writer
• Bill Watterson, cartoonist, best known for Calvin and Hobbes
• Matt Winkler, editor, Bloomberg News
• Jonathan Winters, actor and comedian
• James Wright, poet
• Victoria Wyatt, art historian