Notable Alumni of Randolph-Macon College

Blanche Lincoln 1960–

Former U.S. senator from Arkansas

Also attended: University of Arkansas, Randolph College

Randy Forbes 1952–

Former U.S. representative from Virginia

Bachelor of Arts · Class of 1974

Also attended: University of Virginia-Main Campus

Claude A. Swanson 1862–1939

Virginia Senator and Secretary of the Navy under FDR

Also attended: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University of Virginia-Main Campus

Hugh Scott 1900–1994

Politician, lawyer and district attorney

Attended until 1919

Also attended: University of Virginia-Main Campus

Thomas Jordan Jarvis 1836–1915

44th Governor of North Carolina

John Letcher 1813–1884

34th Governor of Virginia during the Civil War

Also attended: Washington and Lee University

Walter Hines Page 1855–1918

Journalist, publisher, and US ambassador to Britain in WWI

Also attended: Duke University

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell 1821–1891

Confederate general, lawyer and politician

George Preston Marshall 1896–1969

Founder of the Washington Redskins NFL team

Spouse: Corinne Griffith (The University of Texas at Austin)

Christopher Chenery 1886–1973

Businessman and owner of racehorse Secretariat

Also attended: Washington and Lee University

Child: Hollis B. Chenery (University of Arizona, California Institute of Technology)

Child: Penny Chenery (Smith College, Columbia University in the City of New York)

William Alphonso Murrill 1869–1957

Botanist and mycologist

Also attended: Cornell University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Henry Ludwell Moore 1869–1958

Economist and pioneer of econometrics

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

John H. Gibbons 1929–2015

Nuclear physicist, White House science policy director under Clinton

Also attended: Duke University

George Ernest Barnett 1873–1938

Economist, professor at Johns Hopkins University

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University

William Malone Baskervill 1850–1899

Vanderbilt University professor of English literature

Pearl S. Buck 1892–1973

Writer, author of The Good Earth, Nobel Prize winner

Also attended: Cornell University

Dorian Leigh 1917–2008

Model, one of the first supermodels

Also attended: New York University

Jim Sanborn 1945–

American sculptor and installation artist

Bachelor of Arts · Class of 1968

Also attended: Pratt Institute-Main

Nader Talebzadeh 1953–2022

Iranian filmmaker and journalist

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York

Edwin Leland James 1890–1951

Managing editor of The New York Times and war correspondent

Marty Brennaman 1942–

Longtime Cincinnati Reds play-by-play broadcaster

Also attended: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Child: Thom Brennaman (Ohio University-Main Campus)

Gregg Marshall 1963–

College basketball coach, formerly at Wichita State

Bachelor of Arts · Class of 1985

Also attended: University of Richmond

Carter Heyward 1945–

Feminist theologian and Episcopal priest

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

John Stanley Grauel 1917–1986

Methodist minister and Christian Zionist leader