Notable people

Alumni

• Notable Middlebury alumni include:
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  Alexander Twilight
  First African-American college graduate
  AB 1823
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  Brian Deese
  Director of the National Economic Council under President Joe Biden
  AB 2000
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  Eve Ensler
  Tony-award winning playwright, performer, creator of The Vagina Monologues
  AB 1975
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  Ari Fleischer
  White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush
  AB 1982
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  Julia Alvarez
  Poet, novelist, National Medal of Arts winner, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
  AB 1971
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  Ron Brown
  Secretary of Commerce for President Clinton
  AB 1962
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  Vendela Vida
  Novelist
  AB 1993
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  Jeff Lindsay
  Creator of the Dexter series
  AB 1975
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  Roger Easton
  Principal inventor and designer of GPS recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  AB 1943
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  Shawn Ryan
  Creator of The Shield
  AB 1988
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  Jim Douglas
  80th Governor of Vermont
  AB 1972
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  Anaïs Mitchell
  Tony and Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter
  AB 2004
• 
  Dan Schulman
  CEO of PayPal
  AB 1980
• 
  Jason Mantzoukas
  Comedian, writer, and actor
  AB 1995
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  Bill Maris
  Founder and CEO of Google Ventures
  AB 1997
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  Samuel Nelson
  Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
  AB 1813
• 
  Lado Gurgenidze
  17th Prime Minister of Georgia
  (attended)

Faculty

Presidents

1. Jeremiah Atwater, 1800–09
2. Henry Davis, 1809–18
3. Joshua Bates, 1818–40
4. Benjamin Labaree, 1840–66
5. Harvey Denison Kitchel, 1866–75
6. Calvin Butler Hulbert, 1875–80
7. Cyrus Hamlin, 1880–85
8. Ezra Brainerd, 1885–1908
9. John Martin Thomas, 1908–21
10. Paul Dwight Moody, 1921–43
11. Samuel Somerville Stratton, 1943–63
12. James Isbell Armstrong, 1963–75
13. Olin Clyde Robison, 1975–90
14. Timothy Light, 1990–91
15. John McCardell Jr., 1991–2004
16. Ronald D. Liebowitz, 2004–15
17. Laurie L. Patton, 2015–present