- Liz Phair
Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- Eric Bogosian
Frequently mislabeled as a performance artist, Eric Bogosian is a writer and an actor known for his comedic monologues and social commentary. Born on the East Coast and educated in the Midwest, he wrote and performed numerous one-man shows around New York during the late '70s and early '80s. After doing shows in art spaces like The Kitchen, he eventually had his solo work Fun House committed to video. The 1987 production was taped in front of a live audience.
- William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
- Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). He is a distinguished researcher and academic, associated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. He received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and zoology. After working as a bacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, …
- Geoffrey Blodgett
Geoffrey Blodgett (October 13, 1931 - November 15, 2001) was Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio. As a student at Oberlin from 1949-1953, he was a wide receiver on the Yeomen, the college's men's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1953, Blodgett served two years with the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet. He received a PhD at Harvard University in 1961, …
- Jerry Greenfield
Jerry Greenfield (born March 14 1951) is an American entrepreneur, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum. He applied unsuccessfully for medical-school admission in two successive years. In 1978 Greenfield and his friend Ben Cohen opened Ben and Jerry's Homemade ice cream scoop shop in an old gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont.
- Erwin Griswold
Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (July 14 1904 - November 19 1994) was a prominent American lawyer. He served as Solicitor General of the United States (1967-1973) under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. He also served as Dean of Harvard Law School for 21 years. During a career that spanned more than six decades, he served as member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as President of the American Bar Foundation.
- Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices.
- Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs.
- Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher (born 7 August, 1951, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American politician. He is a member of the Ohio Democratic Party currently serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Fisher also serves as Ohio Director of Development. Fisher is a graduate of Oberlin College (where he has served as a college trustee) and of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity.
- Willard van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 - December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine was one of the most influential philosophers and logicians of the 20th century.
- John Kander
John Kander , the composer half of the legendary songwriting team, Kander and Ebb that has produced Cabaret , Woman of the Year , The Act and the incomparable Chicago , was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 18, 1927. Kander began studying music as a child and in his early career worked as a conductor and accompanying pianist for many productions. From 1955 through 1958, Kander was choral director and conductor for the Warwick Musical Theatre in Rhode Island.
- Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893, died at age 75) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909) (the brother of Elizabeth Blackwell) and the mother of Alice Stone Blackwell, another prominent suffragette, journalist and human rights defender. Stone was best known for being the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage. </tr> <tr> <td><center></center></td> </table>
- Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana) is an accomplished stage and television actor and jazz and opera singer. Brooks is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", and as Hawk on "Spenser: For Hire" and its spinoff "A Man Called Hawk".
- Karen O
Karen Lee Orzołek, better known as Karen O, is the lead vocalist for the New York art punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen's mother is Korean and father is Polish. Karen grew up in New Jersey, and attended Oberlin College, but transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Karen O has been noted for her sense of fashion, wearing over-the-top outfits made by her friend, fashion designer Christian Joy.
- John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston (December 14 1829 - November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was one of the first blacks in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio. Langston was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Lucy Langston, a slave of mixed African and Native American background.
- Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel , author of the critically acclaimed Fun Home (called "one of the very best graphic novels ever" in Booklist ) and of the syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF), has become a cultural institution for lesbians and discerning non-lesbians all over the planet. At the podium, Bechdel redefines race and gender roles while taking aim at some of the most controversial topics of the day.
- William F. Schulz
Dr. William F. Schulz was the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, the U.S. Section of Amnesty International, from March 1994 to 2006. He is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and previously served as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1985 to 1993. He is married to the Rev. Beth Graham, also a Unitarian Universalist minister, and they live in Massachusetts where Ms.
- Marc Canter
Type-A, gregarious, white Rasta, social software nerd, father of multimedia.
- Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 - April 17, 1994) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research. Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry. His father was in banking, and his mother trained in business school. Roger had one brother, Russell Loomis.
- Marc Cohn
Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album "Marc Cohn". He has issued two other studio albums to date, "The Rainy Season" (1993) and "Burning the Daze" (1998), both on Atlantic Records. A self-released live compilation, "Live 04-05" (2005), is being sold at concerts on his current tour.
- Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter is an American singer-songwriter born in Moscow, Idaho, Idaho in 1976. Ritter began writing songs while attending Oberlin College. He eventually changed his major from neuroscience and graduated in 1999 with a self-created American History through Narrative Folk Music major. His style is in the tradition of folk music and ballads - influenced by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen, …
- Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray (August 2 1835 - January 21 1901) was an electrical engineer and is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois.
- Bill Irwin
Bill Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, and has made a number of appearances on film and television.
- H. H. Kung
K'ung Hsiang-hsi (1881 - 1967), often known as H. H. Kung, was a wealthy Chinese banker and politician in the early 20th Century. Born in Shanxi Province, he was educated at Oberlin College and Yale University. Kung was an early supporter of Sun Yat-sen and later of Chiang Kai-shek. He long served in the Republic of China government as minister of industry and commerce (1928–1931), minister of finance (1933–1944), …
- Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier (born in Washington, DC in October of 1962) is a bestselling historical novelist. Her career began with the book "The Virgin Blue" but she became well known with her novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring", a book based on the creation of the famous painting by Vermeer. The film based on the novel received three Academy Award nominations in 2004. Chevalier was raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, …
- Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President (1898-1901) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the last president of the 19th century. Lorenzo Snow was the fifth child and first son of Oliver and Rosetta (Pettibone) Snow, residents of Mantua, Ohio, who had left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Ohio valley. Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities.
- Charles Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.
- James McBride
James McBride (b. 1957) is an American writer and musician whose compositions have been recorded by a variety of other musicians.
- Daniel Kinsey
Daniel Chapin Kinsey (January 22, 1902 - June 27, 1970) was an American hurdler and a scholar in physical education. Born in St. Louis, Kinsey attended the University of Illinois, studying education. He developed as a top hurdler, and in 1924 he first won the IC4A title in the high hurdles, followed by the Olympic gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He graduated in 1926, and continued his study in physical education at Oberlin College, …
- John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.
- Jane Pratt
Jane Pratt (born 11 November 1962 in San Francisco, California) is the founding editor of "Sassy" and "Jane".
- Brian Chase
Brian Chase (b. December 2 1978) is an American drummer with the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Chase grew up in Long Island and attended Friends Academy in Locust Valley, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio. Now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he also plays for the rock band The Seconds, and used to play drums for his longtime girlfriend Emily Manzo's band, until the pair split in 2006.
- Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg (born 1972) is an American novelist and musician. Goldberg grew up in Laurel, Maryland, and studied English at Oberlin College. She spent a year teaching and writing in Prague (the subject of her book of essays "Time's Magpie"), then moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she still lives.
- Rollo May
Rollo May (April 21, 1909, Ada, Ohio - October 22, 1994, Tiburon, California) was the best known American existential psychologist, authoring the influential book "Love and Will" in 1969. Although he is often associated with humanistic psychology, he differs from other humanistic psychologists such as Abraham Maslow or Carl Rogers in showing a sharper awareness of the tragic dimensions of human existence.
- Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920-1969) served as President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962 until his assassination in 1969. The fourth of 16 sons of a chieftain of the Bantu-speaking Tsonga tribe, Mondlane was born in Portuguese East Africa in 1920. He worked as a shepherd until the age of 12. He attended several different primary schools before enrolling in a Swiss-Presbyterian school.
- Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis (born September 17, 1939), an American poet, wrote "Practical Gods", which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 17, 1939. Dennis attended Oberlin College and the University of Chicago prior to receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1961. In 1966, Dennis received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Ed Helms
Ed Helms (born January 24, 1974) is an American actor and comedian perhaps most notable for his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and more recently as Andrew "Andy" Bernard on the American version of "The Office".
- Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker was a baseball player and author who is credited with being the first African-American to play professional baseball at the major league level.
- Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell (born September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee - July 24, 1954 in Annapolis, Maryland) was a writer and civil rights activist. Both her parents, Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers, were former slaves. Her father, Robert Reed Church, reputedly became a self-made millionaire off of real-estate investments in Memphis. He was the son of his white master, Charles Church.