List of Colorado College people

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The following is a list of notable people associated with Colorado College, located in the American city of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Notable alumni[]

Arts[]

Film, theatre, and broadcasting[]

Writers, journalists and publishers[]

Artists and musicians[]

Economics and business[]

Government and politics[]

  • Elizabeth Cheney, U.S. Representative for Wyoming
  • Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, novelist, conservative scholar, and former talk-show host
  • Mary Cheney, former campaign aide, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney
  • Matt Claman, member of the Alaska House of Representatives
  • Marian W. Clarke, former member U.S. House of Representatives
  • Diana DeGette, U.S. House of Representatives, attorney
  • Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Randall Edwards, State Treasurer of Oregon
  • Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA
  • Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, former prime minister of Yemen
  • Harrison Loesch, former Assistant Secretary of Interior
  • Helen Stevenson Meyner, former member U.S. House of Representatives
  • Ted Morton, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
  • Mark Norris, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
  • Philip Perry, attorney, former acting associate attorney general at Department of Justice, former general counsel of Office of Management and Budget, and former general counsel of Department of Homeland Security
  • Frederick Madison Roberts, great-grandson of Sally Hemings, elected to the California State Assembly, first African American elected to public office on the West Coast
  • Gregor Robertson, mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Ken Salazar, United States Secretary of the Interior, former United States senator
  • Harry H. Seldomridge, former U.S. Representative from Colorado
  • Joe Simitian, California politician
  • Colin M. Simpson, former House Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives
  • Richard H. Stallings, politician
  • Stuart Stevens, strategist[6] for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, cofounder of Washington, D.C. - based political media consultancy Stevens & Schriefer Group
  • Timothy Tymkovich, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Academia[]

  • William Drea Adams, former President, Colby College and Bucknell University
  • Anne Basting, winner of 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, Professor of Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Charles L. Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Frieda Ekotto, Professor of French, Comparative Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
  • Brian J. Enquist, Professor of Biology at the University of Arizona
  • Paul Franco, Barry N. Wish Professor of Government and Social Studies at Bowdoin College
  • Donna Haraway, prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies
  • James Heckman, winner of 2000 Nobel Prize for Economics, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development
  • Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension at Harvard University
  • Liang Shih-chiu, academic single-handedly responsible for translating the works of William Shakespeare into Chinese
  • Margaret A. Liu, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and the University of California, San Francisco
  • Reginald McKnight, Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia
  • Ted Morton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary
  • John Novembre, winner of 2015 MacArthur Fellowship, Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Chicago
  • Andrew Spielman, Professor of Tropical Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
  • Pauline Turner Strong, director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin
  • , Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University[7][8]
  • Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group

Science[]

  • Sarah Andrews, geologist and author
  • Brian J. Enquist, Biologist and Ecologist
  • Richard Green, chairman of the Space Sciences Institute, previously served as President and CEO of CableLabs
  • Myra Keen, malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist
  • Frank Leverett, geologist who specialised in glaciology
  • Margaret A. Liu, founder and leader in DNA vaccination, named one of the 50 most important women in science by Discover magazine
  • Jane Lubchenco, marine ecologist and environmental scientist, former NOAA Administrator
  • Marcia McNutt, ForMemRS, is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (NAS). She is the former editor-in-chief of Science, the 15th director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) (and first woman to hold the post), and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior.
  • Kenneth N. Ogle, scientist of human vision
  • Andrew Spielman, public health entomologist
  • G. Harry Stine, founding figure of model rocketry, science and technology writer
  • William A. Welch, engineer and environmentalist

Military[]

Athletics[]

Olympics[]

As of the 2014 Winter Olympics, 20 Colorado College students have competed in the Olympic Games, claiming a total of six medals (three golds, two silvers, one bronze).

Football[]

Hockey[]

Over 170 Colorado College alumni have gone on to play professionally, including over 30 current and former NHL players. In addition, nine Colorado College alumni have represented their country in hockey at the Olympics.[12][13]

Other[]

Presidents of Colorado College[]

Colorado College has had about 16 presidents and acting presidents since its founding:[15]

Professors[]

References[]

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