Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah

male, 29 years old
brown-brown, non-governmental organization, cocaine, UNICEF, NGOs, United Nations International School…oberlincollege, Oberlin College alumni
Ishmael Beah (b. 1980 in Sierra Leone) is the author of the memoir, "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier". In 1991, a vicious civil war...

Gary Lee Nelson

male, 69 years old
composer, Classical composer, American, oberlincollege
Gary Lee Nelson (born Albion, Michigan, 1940) is a composer and media artist teaching at Oberlin College in the Technology in Music and Related...
Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

female, 39 years old
commentator, Rhodes Scholarship, syndicated, filipino, rand corporation, oberlincollege…Oberlin College alumni
Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who m...
Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney

male, deceased (1875)
oberlincollege, Christian Revivalist, Christian, Christian evangelicalism, second great awakening, from Connecticut…president of Oberlin College
Charles Grandison Finney, often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening in America, which had a...

Nancy Dye

female
University of Wisconsin, University of Kentucky, vassar college, oberlin, oberlincollege, endowment…American university and college president
Nancy S. Dye was the 13th president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. She was appointed President of Oberlin after having served as Acting...
Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

female, deceased (1893)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, marriage, Henry B. Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Mount Holyoke College alumnae, from Worcester County, Massachusetts…Oberlin College alumni, oberlincollege
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...
Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda

male, 61 years old
Cornell University, Readings Essays and Literary Entertainments, An Open Book Coming of Age in the Heartland, comparative literature, Fulbright Fellowship, Ph.D.…Oberlin College alumni, oberlincollege
Michael Dirda (born 1948), a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is an award-winning book critic for the "Washington Post". Having studied at Oberlin...

Asa Mahan

male, deceased (1889)
vernon, oberlincollege
Asa Mahan (November 9, 1800, Vernon, New York - 1889), U.S. Congregational clergyman & educator; 1st pres. of Oberlin College 1835-1849.
John Mercer Langston

John Mercer Langston

male, deceased (1897)
Howard University, oberlincollege, African American, from Ohio, american civil war, Ambassador of the United States…Oberlin College alumni
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...

Paul Sears

male
Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Oklahoma, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ecologist, American…oberlincollege
Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891-April 30, 1990) was an American ecologist. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Sears attended Ohio Wesleyan...