- Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstone was an American politician and two-term U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and was a professor of political science at Carleton College before being elected to the Senate in 1990. Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party. He served in the Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash on 25 October, 2002, in the 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, … - Gao Hong
Gao Hong (surname Gao; b. Luoyang, Henan, China, 1964) is a performer of the Chinese pipa (pear-shaped lute). Gao has lived in the United States since 1994. She performs traditional and modern Chinese music, with her groups Spirit of Nature and Beijing Trio (a different group from the Beijing Trio which includes Max Roach, Jon Jang, and Jiebing Chen). She has also participated in cross-cultural musical collaborations, … - Robert A. Oden
Robert A. Oden Jr. (pronounced "oh-dean") is the current president of Carleton College. He began his tenure on July 1, 2002. - Ian Barbour
Ian Graeme Barbour (b. 1923 Beijing, China) is an American scholar of the relationship between science and religion. He received his B.S. in physics from Swarthmore College, his M.S. in physics from Duke University in 1946, and a Ph.D. in physics from University of Chicago in 1950. He earned a B.D. in 1956 from Yale Divinity School. Barbour taught for many years at Carleton College with appointments as professor of religion and as Bean Professor of Science, Technology, … - Roy Grow
Professor Roy Grow is the Kellogg Professor of International Relations and the director of the International Relations program at Carleton College. His specialty is the political economy of East Asia, specifically China and Southeast Asia. He is also the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton focusing on the political economy of these regions. He has previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminar with Alfred Montero. - Robert K. Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990) was the founder of the modern Servant leadership movement. Greenleaf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1904. After graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota, he went to work for AT&T. For the next forty years he researched management, development, and education. All along, he felt a growing suspicion that the power-centered authoritarian leadership style so prominent in U.S. institutions was not working, … - Rush Holt
I am a US House Representative for the state of NJ. I am a Democrat. My religion is Protestant. I am Married. I received my BA from Carleton College. I received my PhD from New York University. I live in Hopewell Twp.. I was born in Weston, WV. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "50 Washington Rd., West Windsor, NJ 08550". - William Carleton
William Carleton (1797 - 1876) was a prosperous manufacturer of brassware from Charlestown, Massachusetts. In December 1870, Carleton was introduced to Reverend James W. Strong, the young president of Minnesota's fledgling Northfield College. Shortly thereafter, Strong was seriously, but not fatally, injured when his carriage was struck by a train. Upon learning of Strong's "almost miraculous" survival, Carleton was reportedly so moved that he gave $50,000 to the college, … - Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton (born 13 July 1957) is an American novelist. Hamilton lives in Rochester, Wisconsin. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the youngest of five children. She graduated from Carleton College in 1979 as an English major.Her first published works were short stories, "My Own Earth" and "Aunt Marj's Happy Ending", both published in "Harper's Magazine" in 1983. "Aunt Marj's Happy Ending" later appeared in "The Best American Short Stories 1984". - Pamela Dean
Pamela Dean (Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet) (born 1953) is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is "Tam Lin", based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota. She was a member of the writing group The Scribblies, along with Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Kara Dalkey, Nate Bucklin, Patricia Wrede and Steven Brust, … - David Strom
David Strom (born 1964) has been President of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota since January 2004. Prior to serving as President, he held positions as Vice President and Legislative Director. Strom graduated from Carleton College (1987) in Northfield, MN with a degree in Political Science and holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from Duke University (1992). He has taught political philosophy at Duke University, North Carolina State University, Carleton College, … - Michael Armacost
Michael H. Armacost is a fellow at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies. He previously was the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995-2002. In January 1977 Armacost was selected as a member of the National Security Council to handle East Asian and Chinese affairs under the Carter administration until July 1978, when he was replaced by Nicholas Platt. Years later he was appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1989-1993, … - Peter H. Raven
Peter Hamilton Raven (b. June 13, 1936) is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Raven was born in China to American parents. An uncle of his father's was, for a time, one of the wealthiest Americans in China, but was later jailed in a banking scandal. That incident and Japanese aggression in China led the Raven family to return to San Francisco in the late 1930s. - John Bates Clark
John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 - 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University. Clark was born and raised in Providence, R. I. and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts at the age of 25. - John Barry
John Barry is one of two co-leaders of the Green Party in Northern Ireland. Barry studied at University College Dublin and the University of Glasgow before becoming a lecturer at Keele University. In 2000, he moved to work at Queen's University Belfast. In January 2003, he was elected as joint leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland, a position he still holds alongside Kelly Andrews. He stood unsuccessfully in North Down at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, … - Barrie M. Osborne
Barrie M. Osborne is a movie producer, executive producer, production manager and director. He is an alumnus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Osborne's most notable work is "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture, which he shares with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. - James Loewen
James (Jim) W. Loewen (b. 6 February 1942) is an author, historian, and professor. He attended Carleton College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. For 20 years, Loewen taught race relations at the University of Vermont. Prior to that, he taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College, a historically black college. Since 1997, he has been a Visiting Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. - Donella Meadows
Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer. She was the lead author of "Limits to Growth", and proposed the twelve leverage points to intervene in a system. She was educated in science, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968. She then became a research fellow at MIT, … - Joseph Lee Heywood
Joseph Lee Heywood (August 12, 1837 - September 7, 1876) was head teller at the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota at the time of its attempted robbery by Jesse James and his gang of outlaws. Heywood was shot to death after refusing to open the safe, falsely claiming that it was secured by a time lock. Heywood also held positions as Treasurer for the City of Northfield and Treasurer of Carleton College. - John F. Harris
John F. Harris is Editor in Chief for the "The Politico", a Washington DC based newspaper about politics which launched on January 23, 2007. Harris, formerly of "The Washington Post", is the author of a book on Bill Clinton called "The Survivor", and the co-author with Mark Halperin of "The Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove and How to Take the White House in 2008". He is a 1985 graduate of Carleton College. - Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child (born 1957) is an author of techno-thriller and horror novels. Often paired with writing partner Douglas Preston, many of their novels have become bestsellers and one, "Relic", was adapted into a feature film. Child and Preston's books are known for their thorough research, making their stories credible and believable. Born in Westport, Connecticut, but now a New Jersey resident, Child graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, … - Robert Larson
Robert Larson (1942/43 - August 6, 2004) was an activist in neo-druidic organizations. He attended Carleton College in the 1960s, where he became a patriarch of the Reformed Druids of North America. After settling in Berkeley, California late in that decade, he shared his vision with Isaac Bonewits, and they subsequently worked in several of the same neo-druidic organizations. He worked for pay as a printer. - Robert John Russell
Robert John Russell is Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) and the Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union. He is a leading researcher and spokesperson for the growing international body of theologians and scientists committed to a positive dialogue and creative mutual interaction between these fields. - Peter Tork
Peter Halsten Thorkelson (born February 13, 1942), better known as Peter Tork, is an American musician and actor. Although born in 1942, many news articles will have him listed as born in 1944 as this was the date given on early Monkees press releases. This is rumored to make Michael Nesmith appear to be the oldest member of the group (as leader). He was born in Washington, D.C. and began studying piano at the age of nine, … - Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Berkeley, California, he earned his B.A. in geology in 1962 from Carleton College in Minnesota and Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University in 1967. His grandfather is the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather Luis F. Alvarez, who worked as a doctor in Hawaii, … - Reed Whittemore
Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. (born September 11, 1919) is an American poet and college professor. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he attended Phillips Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1941. As a sophomore at Yale, he and his roommate James Angleton started a literary magazine called Furioso which became one of the most famous "little magazines" of its day and published many notable poets including Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. - Bill Hillsman
William Gerard Hillsman, Jr. (born August 14, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American political consultant and advertising executive best known for his offbeat, populist political ads. He works and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A graduate of Carleton College, Hillsman worked for various ad agencies until founding his own, North Woods Advertising, in 1985. - David Wright
David Wright is an American writer who grew up in Borger, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, and an M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - Jack Barnes
Jack Barnes (born in 1940) is an American Communist and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes was elected the party's national secretary in 1972, replacing the retiring Farrell Dobbs. He had joined the SWP in the early 1960s as a student at Carleton College in Minnesota and quickly became a leading member of the party's youth wing. Barnes was one of a group of members, many of whom also attended Carleton College or other universities, … - Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures. Bird received his BA from Carleton College in 1973. He has written for "The Nation", and his biographical works include "The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms" (Touchstone, 1998), "The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment" (Random House, … - Henry Marshall Tory
Henry Marshall Tory (January 11, 1864 - February 6, 1947) was the first president of the University of Alberta (1908-1928), the first president of the National Research Council (1928-1935) and the first president of Carleton College (1942-1947). - Susan Golding
Hon. Susan Golding is president and chief executive officer of The Golding Group, Inc., a government relations and strategic consulting firm. She is also CEO of the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, a publicly-supported foundation based in San Diego, California. - Chris Kratt
Chris Kratt (b. July 19, 1969 in New Jersey) is an American host of children's television programs "Kratts' Creatures" and "Zoboomafoo" as well as "Be the Creature", which runs on the National Geographic Channel. Chris holds a B.A. in biology from Carleton College. In all of his educational childhood programs Chris co-hosts with his brother Martin Kratt. In 1990, he served as an intern at Conservation International in Washington, DC. A year later, … - Anthony Downs
Anthony Downs is a noted scholar in public policy and public administration, and since 1977 is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.. Downs has served as a consultant to many of the nation's largest corporations and public officials, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the White House. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the National Commission on Urban Problems in 1967, … - William Benton
William Burnett Benton was a U.S. senator from Connecticut (1949 - 1953) and publisher of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" (1943 - 1973). Benton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was educated at Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota until 1918, at which point he matriculated at Yale University, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. - Michael Gartner
Michael Gartner (born October 25, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American journalist and businessman. He is also President of the Iowa Board of Regents. He is a graduate of Carleton College and the New York University School of Law. His long career in journalism began in the sports department of the "Des Moines Register" at the age of 15. Eventually, he became page one editor of "The Wall Street Journal" (1960-1974), … - Patricia Wrede
Patricia Collins Wrede is an American fantasy writer, born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois; she is the eldest of five children. She graduated from Carleton College in 1974 with a BA in Biology. She married James Wrede in 1976; they divorced in 1991. She obtained an MBA from University of Minnesota in 1977. She finished her first book in 1978, working as an accountant and financial analyst in the meantime. - Peter Schjeldahl
Peter Schjeldahl was born in 1942 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up in small towns throughout Minnesota and attended Carleton College and the New School. He began his professional writing career as a reporter in Minnesota, Iowa and New Jersey. He is married to Brooke Alderson, an actress. - Stephen Thorsett
Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and for the use of binary pulsars to test the theory of general relativity. In 2004, with collaborators Ingrid Stairs and Zaven Arzoumanian, he made the first measurement of gravitational spin-orbit coupling in a binary system. - Marvin Rotblatt
Marvin Rotblatt (born October 18, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois), nicknamed "Rotty", is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox in the 1948, 1950 and 1951 seasons. His ERAs in 1948 (7.85) and 1950 (6.23) were the highest in the majors. He failed to get a base hit in his career, leaving him with a batting average of .000. His minor league Southern Association record included a season-high 202 strikeouts and a no-hitter.
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