Swarthmore College alumni

American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)

American biochemist (1916–1995)

American scientist (born 1933)

American economist (1940-2022)

American geneticist

American author (1907-1997)

American writer

American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)

Stephen Lang is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequels.

American politician

11th President of the World Bank Group

American astrophysicist

American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist

American political scientist

American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)

American law professor and free software advocate

Costa Rican diplomat engaged in UN

American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist

American politician (1934–2021)

United States Senator from Maryland

American poet (1934-2020)

American philosopher (1941–2001)

German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)

American physicist and futurologist (1927–1992)

American astronomer (1898-1990)

American philosopher (born 1960)

American sociologist (1940-)

American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)

American actress, comedian and television personality

American photographer and journalist (1931–2012)

Governor of Hawaii since 2022

American film critic

American composer, musical educator, and parodist (1935-2024)

American writer (1897–1980)

American anthropologist (1893–1953)

American economist (born 1962)

American musicologist (1926–2009)

American mathematician (1921–2008)

professor of philosophy and women's studies

American actor, educator (1936-2009)

American astronomer (1902-1995)

Nigerian-American visual artist (born 1983)

American legal scholar

American biophysicist

American biophysicist (1897–1975)

American philosopher (1938–2021)

American computer scientist

American philosopher

American economist (1942-2019)

American academic

American academic (1923–2013)

Polish-born Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist

American computer scientist

American historian and political scientist (born 1940)

Alexandra Grant is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work. Grant examines the process of writing and ideas based in linguistic theory as it connects to art and creates visual images inspired by text and collaborative group installations based on that process. She is based in Los Angeles.

American politician (1872-1936)

American sociologist (1914-2000)

American mathematician