- William H. Gray
William Herbert Gray III served as president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (1991–2004). He was an influential United States Congressman in the 1980s and minister in Philadelphia - Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932 in Orange, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. - Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. In a June 2007 press release by the White House website, Mehlman was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial committee. - Alex Nackman
Alex Nackman (born October 20, 1983) is a New York City-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He grew up in Sleepy Hollow, New York, along the Hudson River, and attended high school at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. Having played the guitar since he was 11 and been trained classically as a violinist since he was 6, Nackman has had plenty of opportunities to hone his musical abilities. - Rebecca Gratz
Rebecca Gratz was a preeminent Jewish American educator and philanthropist. Gratz was the seventh of twelve children born to Miriam Simon and Michael. Her mother was the daughter of Joseph Simon (1712-1804), a preeminent Jewish merchant of Lancaster, while her father was descended from a long line of respected rabbis. Miriam and Michael were observant Jews and active members of Philadelphia’s first synagogue, Mikveh Israel. - Richard Winters
Richard D. Winters (born January 21, 1918) is a retired United States Army officer who commanded Company "E" (popularly referred to as "Easy Company") of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division during the Second World War. Winters was portrayed in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" by Damian Lewis. - Franklin Schaffner
Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 - July 2, 1989) was an American film director. The son of missionaries, Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in that country. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama. - Scott Ritter
William Scott Ritter, Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is noted for his role as a chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later for his criticism of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, … - Henry Harbaugh Apple
Henry Harbaugh Apple (November 8, 1869- 1943) was an American clergyman and educator born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1889 and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in 1892. Ordained to the ministry of his denomination, he became pastor of St. John's Church in Philadelphia (1892) and of Trinity Church in York, Pennsylvania. In 1905 he was president of the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church. - Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford A. Pickover is an author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction. - James Lapine
James Lapine is an American theatrical director and librettist. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College. Married to screenwriter/director Sarah Kernochan. Theatre first became a part of Lapine’s life when he was hired at Yale as a graphic designer in theatre. Before this he was a photographer, graphic designer and architectural preservationist. Winner of an Obie Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and three Tony Awards for “Best Book of a Musical". - John H. Dietrich
John Hassler Dietrich (1878-1957) was a Unitarian minister, born at Chambersburg, Pa., who advocated Religious Humanism. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College and at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pa. He was ordained in the ministry of the Reformed Church in 1905, but before this he held various various positions such as private secretary and manager of "Life's" Fresh Air Fund. From 1905 to 1916, he held various pastorates, … - Kenneth Duberstein
Kenneth M. Duberstein (born April 21, 1944) served as U.S. President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989. Duberstein graduated from Franklin and Marshall College (A.B. 1965) and American University (M.A. 1966). He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin and Marshall in 1989. While in college he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity. He is Jewish and is married to Jacqueline Duberstein, … - Guy K. Bard
Guy Kurtz Bard — also known as Guy K. Bard — was a Judge of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1939 until 1952 when he resigned to be the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. - Harvey Klehr
Harvey E. Klehr (born December 25, 1945) is a professor of politics and history at Emory University; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist movement, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with John Earl Haynes). He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1967, and his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971. - Edwin Duing Eshleman
Edwin Duing Eshleman (December 4, 1920-January 10, 1985) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1967 to 1977. He was born in Quarryville, Pennsylvania and attended Franklin and Marshall College, receiving a B.S. in 1942. He later studied at Temple University. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard. - Treat Williams
Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American film, stage and television actor. Expected to become a big star in the early '80s due to his talent and film exposure, he never quite did, though he did become a prolific character actor who remains active in films to this day. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the popular television series "Everwood". - Theodore Woodward
Theodore E. Woodward was a renowned University of Maryland, Baltimore researcher in the field of Medicine. In 1934, he graduated from Franklin & Marshall College. In 1948, he received a Nobel Prize nomination for his role in finding cures for typhus and typhoid fever. - William R. Rathvon
William Roedel Rathvon, CSB, (December 31 1854– March 2 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon, is the only known eye-witness to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, of the over 10,000 witnesses, to have left an audio recording of his impressions of that experience in 1938, one year before his death. A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a successful businessman, … - Randell Mills
Randell L. Mills (born September 3, 1957) is a U.S. scientist and inventor best known as the chief proponent of the controversial hydrino theory. This theory introduces a new model of atomic chemistry which predicts another form of the hydrogen atom called a "hydrino"; according to this theory forcing a hydrogen atom from its conventional state into the hydrino state would liberate intense amounts of energy (1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel, according to Mills). - Andrew Truxal
Andrew Gehr Truxal was the third president of Hood College and the first president of Anne Arundel Community College. Truxal was a lifelong academic serving as instructor at several institutions and chairman of the sociology department of Dartmouth College. - Richard Kneedler
Richard Kneedler is President Emeritus of Franklin & Marshall College and chairman of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Commission on Training America’s Teachers. In 2006, he was appointed interim president of Rockford College. During his fourteen year presidency (1988-2002), Franklin & Marshall completed two capital campaigns, raising $200,000,000. - Ronald L. Buckwalter
Ronald Lawrence Buckwalter is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in 1936 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Judge Buckwalter graduated from the Franklin and Marshall College in 1958 and received his B.C.L. from the William and Mary College of Law in 1962. Judge Buckwalter was in private practice in Lancaster from 1963 to 1980. - Jason Narvy
Jason A. Narvy, a native of Newbury Park, California (born March 27, 1974), spent a number of years working in Hollywood playing the character Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch on the "Power Rangers" television series and starred in several movies based on the series. After leaving the show, he left Los Angeles to pursue further education. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, … - George Frederick Baer
George Frederick Baer was an American lawyer who was the President of the Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. George Baer was born in Lavansville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and attended first Somerset Institute then Somerset Academy for a High School Education. At the age of thirteen, Baer dropped out of school and became a "printer's devil" at a local type shop. - William I. Troutman
William Irvin Troutman (January 13, 1905 - January 27, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Troutman was born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, he attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Pi Fraternities. After graduating in 1927, he attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earning his law degree in 1930. - Henry Appenzeller
Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858-June 11, 1902) was a Methodist missionary and one of two American missionaries (the other being Horace Newton Allen) who introduced Protestant Christianity into Korea in 1885. He was born in Suderton, Pennsylvania, in 1858. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1882, and later attended the Drew Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the ministry and appointed as a missionary to Korea in San Francisco in 1885. - Daniel Ermentrout
Daniel Ermentrout (January 24, 1837-September 17, 1899) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Daniel Ermentrout was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Elmwood Institute in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Reading. He was elected district attorney in 1862 and served for three years. - Melissa Trainer
Melissa G. Trainer (b. April 22, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an astrobiologist who in 2004 demonstrated empirically that life could have formed on Earth through the interaction of methane, carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light (sunlight), fundamentally revising fifty years of theory about the origins of life. - Emanuel Vogel Gerhart
Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (1817-1904) was an American minister of the German Reformed church. He was born at Freeburg, Pa., and was educated at Marshall College - now Franklin & Marshall College and at the Mercersburg Theological Seminary. After acting as president of Heidelberg College in 1851 he became professor of theology in the Theological Seminary of Tiffin, O., whence he was called to the presidency of Franklin and Marshall College in 1855, … - John Weinland Killinger
John Weinland Killinger (September 18, 1824-June 30, 1896) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John W. Killinger was born in Annville, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Annville and the Lebanon Academy in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Mercersburg Preparatory School in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1843. - Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley (2 February 1926, Cleveland, Ohio - 26 January 2007, Florida) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in 1946, Tetley studied in New York City with Hanya Holm and danced with Martha Graham's company. He danced with the Netherlands Dance Theater, from 1962 to 1965 and became its artistic director in 1969. From 1974 to 1976, Tetley danced with the Stuttgart Ballet. - William Stenger
William Shearer Stenger (February 13, 1840-March 29, 1918), was an American Democratic Party politician. William S. Stenger was born in Fort Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1858. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He served as executive director of the "Philadelphia Record". - Salvatore Pansino
Salvatore Rocco Pansino is a professor of electrical engineering at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1992, he ran against Congressman Jim Traficant as the Republican candidate in Ohio's 17th congressional district, losing the race. Pansino received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1957, an M.S. in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College in 1961, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968, … - James J. Whalen
James J. Whalen (March 5, 1927-September 6, 2001) was an American psychologist and educatonal administrator who served as president of Ithaca College from 1975 to 1997. - William Addison Duncan
William Addison Duncan (February 2, 1836-November 14, 1884) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William A. Duncan was born in Cashtown, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1857. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Duncan was elected district attorney in 1862 and 1868. - D. Brooks Smith
David Brooks Smith (born December 5, 1951 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. - Donnie Marsh
Donnie Marsh is an assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was previously the head coach at Florida International University. - Fred Benjamin Gernerd
Fred Benjamin Gernerd (November 22, 1879-August 7, 1948) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Fred B. Gernerd was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1901, from the school of political science of Columbia University in New York City, in 1903, and from the law school of Columbia University in 1904. - David Stein
David Stein is the host of "The David Stein Show" on the Sporting News Radio Network. Termed "a celebration of life through sports," this overnight show (2-6 AM EST) focuses on positive thinking and inspirational stories in sports and from its listeners. For instance, Stein begins each call from his listeners by asking, "What's good in your life?" The show can be heard on hundred of radio stations across America, on XM Satellite Radio, and on Sporting News' website.
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