List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.

1930s[]

• William Talman (1932), actor
• Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll
• Bob Bemer (1936), computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL
• William Henry Scott (1939), historian

1940s[]

• Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian
• Barbara Lea (1947), singer
• Daniel Ellsberg (1948), leaker of the Pentagon Papers

1950s[]

• Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997
• Ward Just (1953), author
• Ivan Boesky (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year), arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street
• Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank
• Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress
• Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist
• Edmund White III (1958), author
• Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist

1960s[]

• Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist
• Tod Williams (1961), architect
• Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator
• Rich Gibson (1963), Marxist Professor Emeritus, Author
• Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces
• Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism^[1]
• Mitt Romney (1965), U.S. Senator from Utah; former governor of Massachusetts; Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2012
• Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher
• Ann Romney (1967), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)
• Cynthia Grissom Efird (1967), U.S. ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007
• Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon
• Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
• Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of Slate; former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
• (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany^[2]
• Sven Birkerts (1969), author

1970s[]

• Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way
• Brad Leithauser (1971), author
• Henry Tang (1971), former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong
• Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems
• Kenneth Dart (1972), venture capitalist, investor; co-owner of Dart Container
• Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.
• Dey Young (1973), actress
• Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host ^[3]
• Dan Dickerson (1976), radio play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers
• Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (The Muppets, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory)
• Jennifer Clement (1978), writer and President of PEN International
• Douglas Sills (1978), actor
• David Trott (1978), U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district 2015 - 2019
• Amy Denio (1979), musician
• Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight

1980s[]

• Rob Edwards (1981), television and feature film screenwriter and producer
• Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver
• Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World^[4]
• Eric Fanning (class of 1986, left prior to graduation), 22nd Secretary of the Army
• Brad Keywell (1987), managing partner and co-founder of Lightbank; co-founder and Director of Groupon, Mediaocean, and ^[5]
• Ronald Machen (1987), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg
• Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (Damages)
• Alexi Lalas (1988), professional soccer player; played in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 World Cup; National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Renée Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (Hamilton; Ally McBeal)
• Ari Schwartz (1989), former Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House

1990s[]

• Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress
• Selma Blair (1990), actress
• Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director
• Elissa Slotkin (1994), American politician and former CIA analyst serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2019
• Jay Penske (Class of 1997, left prior to senior year), media and publishing entrepreneur; owner of WWD, Fairchild Publications, Variety Magazine, and other media brands
• Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress

2000s[]

• Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer
• Brett Tremain (2004), Co-Founder of investment bank Ancoris Capital Partners
• Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)
• Andrew Miller (2007), professional hockey player (NHL)^[6]
• Patrick Brown (2010), professional hockey player (NHL)^[7]
• Lauren Withrow (2015), sports reporter for ESPN+ and Sports Illustrated^[8]

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