Reed College

Discover the notable alumni of Reed College. The list includes people like Steve Jobs, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Snyder, Ry Cooder & Harry Harlow. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as writers, intellectuals & academics, singers, musicians and activists etc.

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Steve Jobs

(Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO of 'Apple')

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Listed In: Business People

Birthdate: February 24, 1955

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Died: October 5, 2011

A college dropout, Steve Jobs, went on to be regarded as the Father of the Digital World. The founder/co-founder of Apple Inc, Pixar Animation Studios and NeXT Inc was a passionate visionary who was responsible for the development of iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPad and the iPhone which ushered in a new era in the computer, music and film industries.

Ry Cooder

(Musician)

Listed In: Musicians

Birthdate: March 15, 1947

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Hope Lange

(Actress)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: November 28, 1933

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Redding, Connecticut, United States

Died: December 19, 2003

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

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Morgan Spector

(Actor)

Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities

Birthdate: October 4, 1980

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Santa Rosa, California, United States

James Beard

(American Chef, Cookbook Author and Television Personality)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: May 5, 1903

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Died: January 23, 1985

Larry Sanger

(Co-Founder of Wikipedia)

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birthdate: July 16, 1968

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Bellevue

Internet entrepreneur Lawrence Sanger is one of the co-founders of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. He has also been associated with sites such as Everipedia, Citizendium, and Nupedia. He has, however, been critical of Wikipedia’s credibility after leaving the company in 2002. He is also a philosophy enthusiast and teacher.

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New York University

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Dr. Demento

(Disc jockey, Musicologist, Radio personality)

Listed In: Media Personalities

Birthdate: April 2, 1941

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Minneapolis

Barbara Ehrenreich

(Writer & Activist)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: August 26, 1941

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Butte, Montana, United States

Emilio Pucci

(Italian Fashion Designer Known for His Kaleidoscopic Colors and Geometric Prints)

Listed In: Fashion

Birthdate: November 20, 1914

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Naples, Italy

Died: November 29, 1992

Emilio Pucci was an Italian fashion designer turned politician. He is best remembered for his style of creating geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colors. He served as a pilot during World War II and became a fashion designer after the war. He also ventured into politics but didn’t enjoy much success in his political career.

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Stanford University

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David Eddings

(Novelist)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: July 7, 1931

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Spokane

Died: June 2, 2009

Gary Snyder

(American man of letters)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: May 8, 1930

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: San Francisco

Height: 5'3" (160 cm)

Daniel Kottke

(Computer scientist, Engineer)

Listed In: Scientists

Birthdate: April 4, 1954

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Bronxville

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University Of Michigan

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Mike Davis

(American Writer)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: 1946 AD

Birthplace: Fontana, California, United States

A self-defined "Marxist-Environmentalist" and an international socialist, Mike Davis is known for authoring numerous books and scholarly articles, making important contribution to the Marxist study of U.S. state, history and political economy. Currently a Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Riverside, and an editor of the New Left Review, he has also written a trilogy for young adults.

Robert Friedland

(Financier)

Listed In: Business People

Birthdate: August 18, 1950

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Chicago

Peter Norton

(Art collector, Programmer, Computer scientist)

Listed In: Scientists

Birthdate: November 14, 1943

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Aberdeen

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Daryl Bem

(American Social Psychologist and Professor)

Listed In: Miscellaneous

Birthdate: June 10, 1938

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, United States

Dell Hymes

(One of the First Sociolinguists to Pioneer the Connection Between Speech and Social Relations)

Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics

Birthdate: June 7, 1927

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Died: November 13, 2009

Dell Hymes was part of some of the pioneering studies on linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, and later focused on ethnopoetics and the SPEAKING model. He also founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor. In his later career, he was accused of sexual harassment.

Howard Rheingold

(Critic)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: July 7, 1947

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona

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Robert Morris

(American Sculptor, Conceptual Artist and Writer)

Listed In: Artists & Painters

Birthdate: February 9, 1931

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Died: November 28, 2018

Samuel W. Alderson

(Inventor)

Listed In: Engineers

Birthdate: October 21, 1914

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Died: February 11, 2005

Philip Whalen

(Poet)

Listed In: Writers

Birthdate: October 20, 1923

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Died: June 26, 2002

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Louis S. Goodman

(American Pharmacologist Who Pioneered the Chemotherapy Trials Using Nitrogen Mustard)

Listed In: Scientists

Birthdate: August 27, 1906

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States

Died: November 19, 2000

Louis S. Goodman was an American pharmacologist best remembered for his collaboration with Alfred Gilman, Sr. The two authored The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics and pioneered the chemotherapy trials using nitrogen mustard. In 1965, Louis S. Goodman was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mardy Murie

(Naturalist)