Well-known Hampshire College alumni include:
- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, The Civil War, Baseball and
Jazz
- John Falsey, television writer
and producer, co-creator of St. Elsewhere and Northern Exposure
- Jon Krakauer, mountain climber and author, Into Thin Air and Into The Wild
- Jeff Maguire, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, In The Line of Fire
- Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, The Manchurian Candidate
- Elliott Smith, singer and songwriter
- Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute
Well-known past and present faculty include:
- Eqbal Ahmad, post-colonial political scholar
- James Baldwin, writer
- Mark Dresser, jayy musician, contrabass virtuoso
- Norton Juster, architect and writer
- Yusef Lateef, jazz musician
- Michael Lesy, writer
- Jerome Liebling,
filmmaker and photographer