List of Swarthmore College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College, a private, independent liberal arts college located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has graduated 156 classes of students.

As of 2022, the College enrolls 1,689 students and has roughly 21,300 living alumni.

As of spring 2022, Swarthmore employs nearly 200 faculty members.

Listed in alphabetical order by surname.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate David Baltimore , class of 1960
Actor and Playwright Stephen Lang , class of 1972
film critic Kenneth Turan , class of 1967
President of Brown University Christina Paxson , class of 1982
Suffragist and feminist Alice Paul , class of 1905
Development executive and finance director of Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign Dennis Cheng , class of 2001
Isabel Briggs Myers , co-creator of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator .
Author Jonathan Franzen , class of 1981
Poet W. H. Auden , Swarthmore professor from 1942 to 1945
Political scientist, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ralph Bunche
Barry Schwartz , Professor of Psychology from 1971 to 2016