Nearly 27,000!
That's a lot of Marietta College alumni. They live in 42 countries, and it would be difficult to name all of the successes that began at Marietta College.
But, here's a sampling of what a few of those graduates have done or are doing.
1845 Willard Warner, U.S. Senator from Alabama
1846 Joseph G. Wilson, U.S. Congressman from Oregon
1848 William Irwin, 13th Governor of California
1878 Albert B. White, 11th Governor of West Virginia
1884 Charles Gates Dawes, U.S. Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and U.S. Ambassador
1887 Ban Johnson, Founder of baseball's American League
1893 Elsie Eaton Newton, first Dean of Women at Marietta, daughter of John Eaton Jr.
1928 Wilbur Schramm, Founding Father of the Communication Studies Discipline
1938 C. William O'Neill, 59th Governor of Ohio
1941 Dean Hess 1941, Clergyman, Soldier, Humanitarian
1960 F. Story Musgrave, Retired NASA Astronaut and Shuttle Pilot
1963 Joy Williams, an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
1967 Kathy Brodsky, American Author and Poet
1968 Robert Dyson, Chairman/CEO of Dyson-Kissner-Morgan Corp.
1969 Gary Kott, Award-winning television and advertising writer, and an American Folk Artist
1969 Kent Tekulve, Former Major League Baseball pitcher
1970 Bart Gullong, Co-founder of Z-Medica Corp.
1978 Jim Tracy, Former Major League Baseball manager
1979 John Strotbeck Jr., Former U.S. Olympic Rower and founder and owner of Boathouse Sports
1985 Terry Mulholland, Former Major League Baseball pitcher
1986 Anita Gupta, Co-founder of Kiwi Tech
1987 Kevin O'Neill, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Acertitude
1987 Mike Salvino, Former President and CEO DXC Technology and currently General Manager, Duke Baseball
1990 Jan Dils, Founder of Jan Dils Attorneys at Law
1991 Michael Moffitt, Law Professor at the University of Oregon
1994 Susan MacKenty Brady, CEO, The Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
1995 Amy Giannotti, Environmental Scientist
1996 Carte Goodwin, U.S. Senator from West Virginia and U.S.-China Economic & Security Commissioner
1996 Jason Rebrook, CEO of Harvest Midstream/CEO of JDH Capital Co.
1996 Paula Pitasky, President of Encompass Marketing
2000 Andrea Parhamovich, National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 17, 2007
2000 Mike Templeman, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
2003 Matt DeSalvo, Former Major League Baseball pitcher
2005 Danielle Cisler, Principal Consultant with INSIGHT2PROFIT
2005 Kathryn Moriarty Bailey, Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of Peoples Bank
2006 Megs Schreck Yunn, Founder/Director of Beverly's Birthdays, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007 Joseph Webb, Vice President at St. Norbert College
2007 Lindsey Romick, Director of the NRM-based Metabolomics Core Facilty (University of Cincinnati)
2007 Nick Gehlfuss, Actor
2008 Ashley Wollam, Global People Strategy Executive and Certified Executive Coach
2010 Chad Walker, Head Athletic Trainer for the NHL's Anaheim Ducks
2013 Ben Reese, Counsel at Flannery | Georgalis
2013 Brittany Metcalf, Advisory Solution Consultant, ServiceNow
2014 Amy Kaufman Avery, Brand Journalist & PR Liaison, Mercy Chefs; former Evening News Anchor, WAVY‑TV 10/FOX43
2021 Leah Seaman, Owner, ArtaBella Gallery; Live Event Painter, Fine Artist & Muralist
To learn about more outstanding Pioneers honored by Marietta College, visit our Alumni Awards page.