This list of notable people associated with Claremont McKenna College includes matriculating students,

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, attendees, faculty,

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s, and

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recipients of

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

Claremont, California Claremont () is a suburban city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of Los Angeles. It lies in the Pomona Valley at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had ...

Notable alumni

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Dropouts and transfers

Notable faculty

* William Ascher - Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics; dean of the faculty 2000–2005; prolific author; winner of the G. David Huntoon, Sr., Award for Superior Teaching * Fred Balitzer - professor of government; director of the

Republican National Committee The Republican National Committee (RNC) is the primary committee of the Republican Party of the United States. Its members are chosen by the state delegations at the national convention every four years. It is responsible for developing and pr ...

under President

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party a ...

, chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

; helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played a leading role in preventing efforts to make the

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a state *

Roderic Ai Camp Roderic Ai Camp (born 1945) is an American academic specialized in Mexican studies. He is a frequent consultant to international media including the BBC, ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', National Public Radio, and was once a ...

- McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim; author of 34 books on Mexico and Latin America; founding member of the Advisory Board, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2003–present; elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; Global Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2017–present; recipient of the Medal of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed to a foreigner for his contributions to Mexico *

Ross Eckert Ross Doud Eckert (November 11, 1941 – December 23, 1994) was the Boswell Professor of Economics and Legal Organization at Claremont McKenna College, the faculty of which he joined in 1979. He received his degrees from UCLA. He was one of the ...

- professor of economics who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply; worked on market-incentives to reduce congestion; worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation (deceased) * Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem; drafted the economic-incentives of the

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* Diane Halpern - former president of the American Psychological Association *

Eric Helland Eric Helland (born c. 1968) is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics in Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and ...

- Professor of Economics, Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003–2004) *

Alan Heslop David Alan Heslop (born 1938) is an American academic and government consultant and advisor. He was born in 1938 in England and gained BA and MA degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford. He later became a naturalized American citizen, and gained ...

- government consultant, founding director of the Rose Institute, felon, and former dean of faculty * Harry V. Jaffa - professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelian virtue, and the American founding; '' The National Review'' described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition" *

Charles Kesler Charles R. Kesler (born 1956) is an American political scientist. He is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University. He is editor of the '' Claremont Review of Books'', and the author of several boo ...

- editor of the ''

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'' and noted conservative scholar *

Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid (; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she now lives in North Bennington, ...

- novelist * Kenneth P. Miller - professor of Government specializing in California politics, direct democracy, and state constitutional law; associate director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government * Jonathan Petropoulos - historian and scholar of Holocaust-era looted art *

Mort Sahl Morton Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social Satire, satirist, considered the first modern comedian. He pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current e ...

- speechwriter for President

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected p ...

; famed comedian *

Michael Uhlmann Michael Martin Uhlmann (December 29, 1939 – October 8, 2019) was an American political scientist and high-ranking government official. He was Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and Government at Claremont Graduate Univers ...

- former Assistant Attorney General to President

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Ford assumed the p ...

; special assistant to President

; reportedly convinced Justice

Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. Afte ...

to join the federal judiciary

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