List of Washington College alumni

[1] Modern college classes – freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior – were introduced in the 1870s by President William Rivers.

[2] At the same time, a class called sub-freshmen was created for students that did not meet the requirements to be freshmen.

[3] Washington College experienced major fires in 1827[4] and 1916[5] that destroyed most of the school's records.

Outside of the world of politics, nine alumni of Washington College played at least one game in Major League Baseball including Jake Flowers who was on two World Series winning teams.

Several alumni were successful writers including James M. Cain and Đỗ Nguyên Mai.

Photograph of four rows of men and women in formal-wear in their early-twenties sitting on a set of stairs with a brick building in the background
The class of 1927 sitting in front of William Smith Hall
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James M. Cain
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Linda Hamilton
Drawing of a man in a white and red baseball uniform swinging a bat.
D'Arcy "Jake" Flowers
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Bill Nicholson
A man in a dark suit
James Barroll Ricaud
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Charles Hopper Gibson
Photograph of a woman with a sign that reads "To ask freedom for women is not a crime. Suffrage prisoners should not be treated as criminals."
Lucy Gwynne Branham
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Barry Glassman
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Gilbert T. Rude
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Robert K. Crane