Roll Call of Ohio Wesleyan’s Distinguished Alumni

The Arts and Humanities

• Norman Vincent Peale ’20*, pastor and best-selling author
• Robert E. Lee ’39*, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Jean Carper ’53, best-selling author and columnist
• Richard North Patterson ’68, best-selling author
• Fred Baron ’72, Academy Award-winning producer
• Wendie Malick ’72, Golden Globe and CableACE-Award winning actress
• Abram Wilson ’95, Award-winning recording artist

Science

• F. Sherwood Rowland ’48, 1995 Nobel Prize-winner, Chemistry
• Herbert DuPont, MD ’61, Director, School of Public Health Center For Infectious Disease, The University of Texas
• Edward D. Miller, MD ’64, CEO and Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Nancy Reynolds Schneider, MD ’64, 4-time “Best Doctors in America”-winner

Politics and Government

• Charles W. Fairbanks, 1872*, Vice President of the United States
• David Hobson ’85, Member of Congress, Ohio’s Seventh District (ret. 2009)
• Paul Gillmor ’61*, Member of Congress, Ohio’s Fifth District
• Jo Ann Emerson, ’72 Member of Congress, Missouri’s Eighth District

Business

• Lou Simpson ’58, Chief Executive for Capital Operations, GEICO
• Evan Corns ’59, Founder, America’s Body Company (ret)
• George Conrades ’61, Executive Chairman, Akamai Technologies 

Journalism / Broadcasting

• Frank Stanton ’30* President, CBS News, 1946-1971
• Greg Moore’ 76, Editor, Denver Post
• Susan Headden ’77, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Byron Pitts ’82, CBS National Correspondent

Sports

• Branch Rickey 1904*, ESPN’s Most Influential Sports Figure of the 20th century
• Tom Butters ’60, Athletic Director, Duke University (1977-1998)
• Max Urick ’61, Athletic Director, Iowa State University (1983-1993), Kansas State University (1993-2001)
• Jeff Long ’82, Director, Men’s Athletics, University of Arkansas

* deceased