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Undergraduate Colleges /
Oberlin College |
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Notable alumni |
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- Alison Bechdel (OC 1981), cartoonist
- Eric Bogosian (OC 1976), novelist/playwright
- Avery Brooks, actor
- James Burrows (OC 1962),
producer and creator of Cheers
- Tracy Chevalier (OC 1984), novelist (Girl with a Pearl Earring)
- Eduardo Mondlane (OC '53), Mozambican political leader
- Stanley Cohen (Master's degree, 1945), Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1986)
- Danny Elfman, lead singer of Oingo Boingo; Oscar-nominated film score
composer, Batman, Good Will
Hunting
- Lee Fisher, former attorney general of Ohio
- Kim France, editor of Lucky
magazine
- William Goldman (OC 1952), novelist and Oscar-winning
screenwriter (the Princess Bride and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid)
- Jerry Greenfield (OC 1973), Co-Founder Of Ben &
Jerry’s Ice Cream
- Al Haig
(pianist), jazz pianist
- Charles Martin Hall, co-discoverer of the electrolytic process of producing aluminium
- Ed Helms, correspondent on The Daily Show
- Bill Irwin (OC 1973), writer, director, choreographer, actor and clown
- Daniel Kinsey, Olympic champion in 110 m hurdles
- John Kander (OC 1951), composer, one half of the musical theater team
Kander and Ebb (Cabaret and Chicago, among
others)
- Romulus Linney (playwright),
playwright
- Michelle Malkin, journalist and political commentator
- James
McBride (novelist), author
- Josh McPhee (OC 1998), political
artist and stencil art
- John Mercer
Langston, early civil rights activist
- Robert Millikan, Nobel laureate (Physics 1923) for measuring the charge of the electron
- Adam Moss, editor of New York Magazine
- Liz Phair (OC 1989), rock musician
- Jane Pratt (OC 1984), creator of Sassy and Jane magazines
- W. V. Quine (OC 1930), philosopher
- David Rees, creator of My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On
- Josh Ritter, American folk singer/songwriter
- Henry Roe Cloud, Native
American political leader
- Carl T. Rowan (OC 1947),
journalist
- Roger Sperry, Nobel laureate
(Physiology or Medicine 1981)
- William Grant Still, composer
- Lucy Stone, feminist
- Anna Louise Strong
(OC 1905), activist and author
- Julie Taymor (OC 1974), theatrical and cinematic director, Frida, Titus, Broadway's The Lion King
- John Vinocur, foreign correspondent
- Moses Fleetwood Walker, first black player in baseball's major leagues
- William Westervelt, writer
- Thornton Wilder, author and playwright, Our Town
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Interesting Fact |
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The University of Oklahoma's Museum of Art houses a collection of 33 French Impressionist masterpieces including works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh. |
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Did you know... |
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The MyPlan.com Jr. College Database provides detailed profiles on more than 1,100 different community colleges in the U.S. |
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