List of Roanoke College alumni

Roanoke College is private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. Following are some of its notable alumni.

• Rob Balder – cartoonist
• Joel Christian Gill – cartoonist and author of graphic novels
• Wyatt C. Hedrick – architect, engineer, and developer

• William W. Cates – vintner and co-founder of Tantara Winery
• John P. Fishwick – former president of Norfolk and Western Railway
• John McAfee – software entrepreneur; founder of McAfee
• John A. Mulheren – Wall Street trader and philanthropist; provided funding for the construction of several Roanoke College buildings
• Stuart T. Saunders – founding chairman, Penn Central Railroad; appeared on the cover of Time in 1968

• R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
• Thomas David Gordon – reformed theologian, writer, and professor at Grove City College
• Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
• Lewis Lancaster – Buddhist scholar; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; past president, University of the West
• William Riley Parker – professor of English at Indiana University and New York University
• Rebecca Sharitz – ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Georgia
• Carol M. Swain – Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2002, political scientist, and professor at Vanderbilt University

• Jay Alaimo – film director, writer, and producer
• Ted Brown – radio personality in New York City with WMGM, WNEW and WNBC
• Walter Compton – radio and television broadcaster and executive
• Tom T. Hall – country music artist, attended Roanoke following military service via the G.I. Bill^[1]
• John Payne – film and television actor
• David C. Robinson – movie producer and vice president of Morgan Creek Productions
• Alice White – film actress
• Eve Whittle – actress and child psychologist
• Kristen Wiig – actress known Saturday Night Live and various comedic blockbusters

• George Warwick McClintic – judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia1921–42^[2]
• Richard Harding Poff – justice with the Supreme Court of Virginia1972–88 and United States Representative 1953–72^[3]
• Anthony D. Sayre – justice with the Supreme Court of Alabama 1909-31^[4]
• Frank S. Tavenner Jr. – United States Attorney, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,1940–45
• James C. Turk – judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1972-2014 and Virginia Senate^[5]

• R. H. W. Dillard – award-winning poet and author; and professor of English and creative writing at Hollins University
• Rorer A. James – owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee, Virginia House, Senate, and United States Representative
• Frederick Bittle Kegley – magazine editor and author
• Ruth Randall – Biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln^[6]
• William Seabrook— journalist, author, explorer and occultist; best known for introducing the Haitian Vodou concept of zombies into popular culture with his book, The Magic Island (1929).

• Leslie D. Carter – U.S. Army major general^[7]
• David C. Shanks – US Army major general^[8]
• Yi Kang – Lieutenant General in Imperial Korean Army and Korean prince

• Frederick C. Boucher – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1983–2011^[9]
• Park Hee Byung – Korean independence leader; worked to end the Japanese annexation of Korea
• Christy Underwood Clark – North Carolina House of Representatives
• Walter M. Denny – United States Representative, Mississippi's 6th congressional district, 1895–97^[10]
• Mawine G. Diggs – Liberian minister of Commerce and Industry
• Henry H. Fowler – United States Treasury Secretary, 1965–68^[11]
• Rorer A. James – Virginia House, Senate, United States Representative, owner and editor of the Danville Register and the Danville Bee
• Cornelius T. Jordan – Virginia Senate and president of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (New Mexico State University)
• Kim Kyu-shik – Korean independence leader; represented Korea at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I
• James W. Marshall – United States Representative, Virginia's 9th congressional district, 1893–95^[12]
• William McKendree Murrell – member of the Virginia House of Delegates^[13]
• Leonard G. Muse – Virginia Senate
• Park Hee-byung – a Korean independence activist
• E. J. Pipkin – member, Maryland State Senate, 2003–13
• Richard H. Poff – United States Representative 1953–72; Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1972–88^[3]
• Sam Rasoul – member, Virginia House of Delegates
• Lloyd M. Robinette – Virginia Senate
• Robert Spellane – member, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2001–11
• James C. Turk – Virginia Senate and judge with the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 1972-2014^[5]
• James P. Woods – United States Representative, Virginia's 6th congressional district, 1918–23^[14]
• Joshua Soule Zimmerman – West Virginia House of Delegates

• William A. Brown – Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia
• Thomas C. Darst – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina

• W. A. R. Goodwin – an Episcopal priest, historian, and author known as the "Father of Colonial Williamsburg"
• Arthur Selden Lloyd – coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and Suffragan Bishop of New York
• Richard L. Pratt Jr. – theologian, author, and founder and President of Third Millennium Ministries
• William Henry Roberts – Baptist minister who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma
• Theodore Schneider – Bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995–2007

• William Steel Creighton – myrmecologist and taxonomist with Department of Biology at the City College of New York
• Alan M. Friedlander – marine biologist and fisheries scientist
• Carl W. Gottschalk – professor of medicine, University of North Carolina; notable kidney researcher
• Bettie Sue Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University
• Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University

• Frankie Allen – college basketball player and coach
• Doc Ayers – professional baseball player
• William Beroza – lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
• Jim Brillheart – professional baseball player
• Lombe Honaker – college football coach
• Loren LaPorte – college softball coach
• Mike McGuire – head coach of the Radford University women's basketball team
• Herbert J. McIntire – college football coach
• Rock Norman – college basketball and track coach
• Shelley Olds – former professional racing cyclist
• John Pirro –- lacrosse player and coach
• Ben Sanders – professional baseball player
• Conley Snidow – college football and basketball coach
• Gordon C. White – college football coach

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