Following is a list of notable alumni of Roanoke College.
Art and architecture
edit- Rob Balder – cartoonist
- Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels
- Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer
Business
edit- William W. Cates – vintner and co-founder of Tantara Winery
- John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway
- John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee
- John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings
- Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968
Education
edit- R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
- Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College
- Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
- Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West
- William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University
- Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia
- Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University
Entertainment
edit- Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer
- Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC
- Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive
- Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill[1]
- John Payne – film and television actor
- David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions
- Alice White – film actress
- Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist
- Kristen Wiig – actress known Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters
Law
edit- George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia1921–42[2]
- Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia1972–88 and United States Representative 1953–72[3]
- Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31[4]
- Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States Attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,1940–45
- James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972-2014 and Virginia Senate[5]
Literature and journalism
edit- R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
- Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States Representative
- Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author
- Ruth Randall – Biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln[6]
Military
edit- Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general[7]
- David C. Shanks – US Army major general[8]
- Yi Kang – Lieutenant General in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince
Politics
edit- Frederick C. Boucher – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011[9]
- Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea
- Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives
- Walter M. Denny – United States Representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97[10]
- Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry
- Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68[11]
- Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States Representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee
- Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
- Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I
- James W. Marshall – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95[12]
- William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates[13]
- Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate
- Park Hee-byung – a Korean independence activist
- E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13
- Richard H. Poff – United States Representative 1953–72; Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88[3]
- Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates
- Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate
- Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11
- James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972-2014[5]
- James P. Woods – United States Representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23[14]
- Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates
Religion
edit- William A. Brown – Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia
- Thomas C. Darst – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
- W. A. R. Goodwin – an Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg"
- Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Suffragan Bishop of New York
- Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries
- William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma
- Theodore Schneider – Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007
Science and medicine
edit- William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York
- Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher
- Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University
- Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University
Sports
edit- Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach
- Doc Ayers – professional baseball player
- William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
- Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player
- Lombe Honaker – college football coach
- Loren LaPorte – college softball coach
- Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team
- Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach
- Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach
- Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist
- John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach
- Ben Sanders – professional baseball player
- Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach
- Gordon C. White – college football coach
References
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- ^ "History of the Federal Judiciary". fjc.gov. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
- ^ a b "POFF, Richard Harding - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 23, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
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- ^ "Randall, Ruth Painter. Papers, 1954-1965 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections". Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, Manuscript Collections. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ Pope, Bob (August 12, 1956). "Army Came First: General Gets Degree After 40 Years". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Richmond, VA. p. D1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Personal Matters: David C. Shanks". Army and Navy Register. June 25, 1921. p. 622 – via Google Books.
- ^ "BOUCHER, Frederick C. - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
- ^ "DENNY, Walter McKennon - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
- ^ "Henry H. Fowler Biography". Roanoke College. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012.
- ^ "MARSHALL, James William - Biographical Information". congress.gov.
- ^ University of Virginia; its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni. Vol. 2. Lewis Publishing Company. 1904. pp. 240–241. Retrieved 2023-04-24 – via Archive.org.
- ^ "WOODS, James Pleasant - Biographical Information". congress.gov.