This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of Haverford College. As of 2010, Haverford alumni include 5 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholarship recipients, 10 Marshall Scholarship recipients, 9 Henry Luce Fellows,^[1] 56 Watson Fellows,^[1] 2 George Mitchell Scholarship, 2 Churchill Scholars, 1 Gates Cambridge Scholar,^[1] 13 All Americans, and 23 NCAA post-graduate winners.

Alumni

Presidents of Haverford College

Notable current and former faculty

• Richard J. Bernstein, professor of philosophy (1966–1989); author of John Dewey (1966); Dean of Graduate Studies, New School of Social Research
• Lynne Butler, professor of mathematics and statistics
• Curt Cacioppo, professor of music; contemporary composer
• Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, associate professor of Spanish; Chilean author
• John Royston Coleman, President 1967-77; labor economist; author of Blue-Collar Journal; host of CBS program "Money Talks", later president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• Edward Drinker Cope, A.M. (Hon.) 1864, professor of zoology, 1864-67; renowned paleontologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist; long associated with Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences
• William C. Davidon, professor of physics and mathematics (1961–1991); peace and justice activist
• Elihu Grant, writer, professor of Biblical literature (1917–1938)
• Elaine Tuttle Hansen, provost of Haverford College 1995–2002; president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
• Louise Holland (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist
• Anita Isaacs, Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences; professor of political science
• Rufus Jones, professor of philosophy (1893–1934); Quaker mystic; co-founder of American Friends Service Committee
• Roger Lane, Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor in history; winner of the Bancroft Award from Columbia University and the Best Book Award from the Urban History Association
• Ira De Augustine Reid, professor and chair of sociology and anthropology and first tenured black faculty member (1948–1966), scholar of black urban and immigrant life in the United States
• Michael Sells, guest professor of comparative religions at Haverford (1984–2005); author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations; Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
• Ed Sikov '78, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. For a decade during the 1990s and 2000s he taught "Sex and Gender on Film: Screwballs, Devil Dames, and Closet Cases", then one of the most popular^[10] courses on campus
• Douglas V. Steere , professor of philosophy (1928 to 1964); organized Quaker post-war relief work in Finland, Norway and Poland; invited to participate as an ecumenical observer in the Second Vatican Council
• Ronald F. Thiemann, chairman of Religion (1975–1985), dean of Harvard Divinity School (1986–1998)
• Josiah ("Tink") Thompson, professor of philosophy (1965–1976); biographer and scholar of Søren Kierkegaard; expert on assassination of John F. Kennedy (author of Six Seconds in Dallas (1967)^[11] and Last Second in Dallas (2021);^[12] left academia to become a private investigator in San Francisco; author of memoir Gumshoe
• Cornel West, assistant professor of Philosophy (1987–88), currently professor of religion at Princeton University
• Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author and psychoanalyst, former student and biographer of Hannah Arendt
• Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy^[13]

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