List of Bowdoin College people

This list is of notable people associated with Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. This list includes alumni, faculty, and honorary degree recipients.

Presidents of Bowdoin

Joshua L. Chamberlain statue near the entrance to Bowdoin College
  1. Joseph McKeen (1802–07)
  2. Jesse Appleton (1807–19)
  3. William Allen (1820–39)
  4. Leonard Woods (1839–66)
  5. Samuel Harris (1867–71)
  6. Joshua Chamberlain (1871–83)
  7. William DeWitt Hyde (1885–1917)
  8. Kenneth C.M. Sills (1918–52)
  9. James S. Coles (1952–67)
  10. Roger Howell, Jr. (1969–78)
  11. Willard F. Enteman (1978–80)
  12. A. LeRoy Greason (1981–90)
  13. Robert Hazard Edwards (1990–2001)
  14. Barry Mills (2001–2015)
  15. Clayton Rose (2015–2023)[1]
  16. Safa Zaki (2023-present)

Distinguished graduates

Selected Bowdoin Alumni
Poet and author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, class of 1825
Author and poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, class of 1825
14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce, class of 1824
Secretary of Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln, William Fessenden, class of 1823
Founder of Standard & Poor's (S&P), Henry Varnum Poor, class of 1835
Civil War General and founder of Howard University, Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850
Civil War Hero and General, governor of Maine, and president of Bowdoin, Joshua Chamberlain, class of 1852
8th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Melville Fuller, class of 1853
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thomas Brackett Reed, class of 1860
Co-founder of Mayo Clinic, Augustus Stinchfield, class of 1868
Leader of the first expedition to the North Pole, Robert Peary, class of 1877
Former Senate Majority Leader, George Mitchell, class of 1954
Former Senator and Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, Bill Cohen, class of 1962
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Thomas R. Pickering, class of 1953
43rd Mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee, class of 1974
Harlem Children's Zone CEO, Geoffrey Canada, class of 1974
Olympic Gold Medalist and world record holding marathon runner, Joan Benoit Samuelson, class of 1979
Founder and CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, class of 1983
Musician DJ Spooky, class of 1992

Arts and letters

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

Literature and poetry

Journalism and nonfiction writing


Film and television

Music

Art and photography

Government

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

Presidents

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries

U.S. Governors

U.S. Senators

U.S. Representatives

Other prominent federal governmental officials

Ambassadors and other diplomats

  • Wilhelm Haas 1953, former German Ambassador to Israel, Japan, and the Netherlands
  • Thomas Pickering 1953, US Ambassador to Jordan (1974–78), Nigeria (1981–83), El Salvador (1983–85), Israel (1985–88), the United Nations (1989–92), India (1992–93), and Russia (1993–96); recipient of thirteen honorary degrees
  • Laurence Pope 1967, US Ambassador to Chad (1993–96)
  • David Pearce 1972, US Ambassador to Algeria (2008–11) and Greece (2013-2016)
  • Christopher Hill 1974, US Ambassador to Macedonia (1996–99), Poland (2000–2004), South Korea (2004–2005), and Iraq (2009–2010); Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and chief US negotiator with North Korea (2005–2009)
  • Lawrence Butler 1975, US Ambassador to Macedonia (2002–2005)

Mayors

City and state officials

Activists

Law

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Federal and state judges

Federal attorneys

Military

Science and medicine

Athletics

Business

Charity and nonprofit

Academia

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

College founders and Presidents

Professors and scholars

Religion

Fictional Alumni

Honorary degree recipients

Color oil painting of a young white man with light brown short wavy hair and a plain countenance
Writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist John Neal
U.S. Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice

Notable faculty members and trustees (non-graduates)

See also

References

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  18. "Office of the President". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
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