Notable Alumni of Clark University

P. C. Chang 1892–1957

Chinese diplomat, educator and playwright

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York

Sibling: Zhang Boling (Teachers College at Columbia University)

Olta Xhaçka 1979–

Former Albanian minister of Europe and foreign affairs

Joseph I. France 1873–1939

US Senator from Maryland, 1917–1923

Also attended: Hamilton College

Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis 1977–

Latvian politician and economist

Harriette L. Chandler 1937–

Former President of the Massachusetts Senate

Also attended: Simmons University, Wellesley College

Beth Edmonds 1950–

Former president of the Maine Senate

Kim Chungyum 1924–1978

Chief presidential secretary under Park Chung Hee

James A. Kelly Jr. 1926–2013

Massachusetts state legislator

Also attended: Florida International University, Becker College

Evelyn G. Lowery 1925–2013

Civil rights activist and leader

Also attended: Clark Atlanta University

Spouse: Joseph Lowery (Alabama A & M University, Paine College)

Willard Stewart Paul 1894–1966

Army lieutenant general, commanded 26th Infantry Division in WWII

Also attended: American University, Johns Hopkins University

D'Army Bailey 1941–2015

Judge, civil rights activist and actor

Also attended: Yale University, Southern University and A&M College

Jeffrey Lurie 1951–

Owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, film producer

Also attended: Boston University, Brandeis University

Marc Lasry 1961–

Co-founder and CEO of Avenue Capital Group

Also attended: New York Law School

Sibling: Sonia Gardner (Clark University, Yeshiva University)

Sonia Gardner 1962–

Hedge fund manager, co-founder of Avenue Capital

Also attended: Yeshiva University

Sibling: Marc Lasry (Clark University, New York Law School)

Michael Marcus 1947–

Commodities trader

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

Steven A. Kandarian 1952–

Former chairman and CEO of MetLife

Also attended: Georgetown University, Harvard University

Robert H. Goddard 1882–1945

Physicist who built the first liquid-fueled rocket

Also attended: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Edward B. Titchener 1867–1927

Psychologist who created structuralism

Solomon Lefschetz 1884–1972

Russian-born mathematician in algebraic topology

Attended until 1911

Lewis Terman 1877–1956

Educational psychologist at Stanford

Child: Frederick Terman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University)

Margaret Morse Nice 1883–1974

Ornithologist known for song sparrow studies

Also attended: Mount Holyoke College

Father: Anson D. Morse (Amherst College)

Arnold Gesell 1880–1961

Yale psychologist and pediatrician in child development

Also attended: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Albert Mehrabian 1939–

UCLA professor emeritus of psychology

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alan Kotok 1941–2006

Computer scientist at DEC and W3C

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E. Franklin Frazier 1894–1962

Sociologist, author of The Negro Family in the United States

Also attended: Howard University, University of Chicago, Columbia University in the City of New York

Lillian Rosanoff Lieber 1886–1986

Russian-American mathematician and popular author

Doctor of Philosophy · Class of 1914

Also attended: Barnard College, Columbia University in the City of New York

Sibling: Aaron Rosanoff (Cornell University)

Sibling: Martin André Rosanoff (New York University)

Li Ji 1896–1979

Chinese archaeologist, a founder of modern Chinese archaeology

Also attended: Harvard University

Matthew Sands 1919–2014

Physicist, co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rice University

Henry H. Goddard 1866–1957

Psychologist who translated the Binet-Simon test

Also attended: Haverford College

Adelbert Ames, Jr. 1880–1955

Scientist in physics, ophthalmology and psychology

Also attended: Harvard University

Father: Adelbert Ames (The United States Military Academy at West Point)

Samuel Flagg Bemis 1891–1973

Historian and biographer who taught at Yale

Also attended: Harvard University

Judith Plaskow 1947–

First Jewish feminist theologian

Also attended: Yale University

William L. Langer 1896–1977

Historian and Harvard history chairman

Also attended: Yale University, Harvard University

Spouse: Susanne Langer (Harvard University)

Sibling: Walter Charles Langer (Harvard University)

Albert Potter Wills 1873–1937

Physicist and PhD advisor of Isidor Rabi

Vernon Ahmadjian 1930–2012

Lichenologist and Clark University professor

Also attended: Harvard University

Mildred Allen 1894–1990

Physicist and professor

Doctor of Philosophy · Class of 1922

Also attended: Yale University, University of Chicago, Vassar College

Amy Tanner 1870–1956

Psychologist who discredited medium Leonora Piper

Also attended: University of Chicago

Elaine Rosa Salo 1962–2016

South African anthropologist specialising in gender studies

Also attended: Emory University

John H. Flavell 1928–2025

Developmental psychologist, Stanford professor emeritus

Frederic Lister Burk 1862–1924

Founding president of San Francisco State University

Also attended: Stanford University

Child: Dean Burk (University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Davis)

J. Ross Mackay 1915–2014

Canadian geographer known for Arctic permafrost research

Bachelor of Arts · Geology · Class of 1939

Also attended: Boston University

Chang Jen-Hu 1927–2019

Geographer specializing in ancient climate change

Padma Lakshmi 1970–

Television host of Top Chef, model and author

John Heard 1946–2017

American actor

Also attended: Catholic University of America

Alexander Gould 1994–

Actor who voiced Nemo in Finding Nemo

Also attended: Brandeis University

Xu Zhimo 1897–1931

Modern Chinese poet

Corey Carrier 1980–

Former child actor in Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Paul Pena 1950–2005

Singer, songwriter and guitarist

Moti Bodek 1961–

Israeli architect and professor of architecture

Ben Bagdikian 1920–2016

Journalist, news media critic and professor

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, Swarthmore College

Mark Bittman 1950–

Food writer and former New York Times columnist

Caitlin Davies 1964–

English author, historian, journalist and teacher

Master's degree

Danny Steinmann 1942–2012

American film director and screenwriter

Spencer Platt 1970–

Getty Images conflict photojournalist

Mitch Glazer 1953–

Writer, producer and actor

Also attended: New York University

Yoav Avni 1969–

Israeli author, translator and editor

Georgia Burke 1878–1985

Stage, radio and television actress

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, Claflin University

Carpier Leung Kai-chi 1978–

Hong Kong writer and commentator

Also attended: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Tisha Waller 1970–

High jumper, two-time Olympian

Also attended: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dan Trant 1961–2001

Basketball player and bond trader killed on 9/11

Tara Brach 1953–

Psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher

Also attended: Fielding Graduate University

Frederick M. Smith 1874–1946

Third Prophet-President of the Reorganized LDS Church

Also attended: Graceland University-Lamoni

Sibling: Israel A. Smith (Graceland University-Lamoni)

Sibling: W. Wallace Smith (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Goldie Michelson 1902–2016

American supercentenarian

Also attended: Brown University