• Source: List of Roanoke College alumni

Roanoke College is private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. Following are some of its notable alumni.




Art and architecture


Rob Balder – cartoonist
Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels
Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer




Business


William W. Cates – vintner and co-founder of Tantara Winery
John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway
John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee
John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings
Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968




Education


R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College
Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West
William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University
Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia
Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University




Entertainment


Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer
Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC
Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive
Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill
John Payne – film and television actor
David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions
Alice White – film actress
Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist
Kristen Wiig – actress known Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters




Law


George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia1921–42
Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia1972–88 and United States Representative 1953–72
Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31
Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States Attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,1940–45
James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972-2014 and Virginia Senate




Literature and journalism


R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States Representative
Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author
Ruth Randall – Biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln
William Seabrook— journalist, author, explorer and occultist; best known for introducing the Haitian Vodou concept of zombies into popular culture with his book, The Magic Island (1929).




Military


Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general
David C. Shanks – US Army major general
Yi Kang – Lieutenant General in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince




Politics


Frederick C. Boucher – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011
Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea
Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives
Walter M. Denny – United States Representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97
Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry
Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68
Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States Representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee
Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I
James W. Marshall – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95
William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate
Park Hee-byung – a Korean independence activist
E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13
Richard H. Poff – United States Representative 1953–72; Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88
Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates
Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate
Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11
James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972-2014
James P. Woods – United States Representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23
Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates




Religion


William A. Brown – Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia
Thomas C. Darst – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina
W. A. R. Goodwin – an Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg"
Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Suffragan Bishop of New York
Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries
William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma
Theodore Schneider – Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007




Science and medicine


William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York
Alan M. Friedlander – marine biologist and fisheries scientist
Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher
Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University




Sports


Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach
Doc Ayers – professional baseball player
William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player
Lombe Honaker – college football coach
Loren LaPorte – college softball coach
Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team
Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach
Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach
Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist
John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach
Ben Sanders – professional baseball player
Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach
Gordon C. White – college football coach




References






External links


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