Oberlin College alumni

American writer and playwright (1885–1951)

American physicist (1868–1953)

American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)

American astronomer and human calculator (1868–1921)

American biochemist

American neuroscientist

American actor, clown, and comedian (born 1950)

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy. In 2025, she created the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter.

American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist

American actor (1935–1978)

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)

American abolitionist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Israeli-American economist

American astronomer

American psychologist (1909–1994)

American geologist (1834-1902)

American stage and screen actor

American actor and comedian

American political scientist and international relations theoretician (1924-2013)

American cartoonist, author

American electrical engineer

American writer

African American sculptor (1844–1907)

American science fiction and fantasy writer

American actor, playwright and monologist, novelist

Portuguese anthropologist

American journalist

American chemist (1863-1914)

American film and theatre director (born 1952)

American actor and director

American actor (1936–2013)

American journalist, screenwriter and film producer

American singer and musician

Chinese banker and politician (1881–1967)

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

American sociologist (1863-1947)

American astrophysicist (1927–2020)

American minister (1825–1921)

American physicist and astronomer (1898–1973)

American musician

American plant biologist and geneticist (1955–2024)

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1814-1901)

American historian of the Holocaust

American musical theatre composer

Vice President of Taiwan since 2024

American filmmaker (1965–2020)

American athlete (1902–1970)

British cellist (born 1958)

U.S geologist and surgeon (1829-1887)

Sierra Leonean writer

South African philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist, and poet (1871-1946)

American journalist and writer

American musician

American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician

American economist

American singer-songwriter

American writer and photographer (1856-1928)

American composer (1895–1978)

American diplomat (1910-1990)