Hope College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Sylvia T. Ceyer, Professor and Chair of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Martin De Haan, editor of Our Daily Bread devotional
  • Max DePree, writer; industrialist; former CEO of Herman Miller furniture
  • Pete Hoekstra, former U.S. Representative and current candidate for U.S. Senate
  • Jim Kaat*, 25-year Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Terri Lynn Land, former Michigan Secretary of State
  • Doc Lavan, early 20th century professional baseball player
  • Arend Lubbers, retired president of Grand Valley State University
  • Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, founder of Slashdot
  • Wendell Alverson Miles, federal judge
  • Craig Morford, former United States Deputy Attorney General
  • A. J. Muste, pacifist, labor, and civil rights activist
  • Milton J. Nieuwsma, author, Emmy-winning filmwriter-producer
  • David A. Noebel, Christian writer
  • Clark V. Poling, military chaplain
  • Rachel Reenstra, host of Ms. Adventure on Animal Planet
  • Robert H. Schuller, televangelist, founder of The Hour of Power
  • Richard Smalley*, Nobel prize-winning chemist
  • Morris Steggerda, early 20th century physical anthropologist
  • Sufjan Stevens, musician
  • Eugene Sutton, Episcopal Bishop of Maryland
  • William Te Winkle, Wisconsin State Senator
  • Guy Vander Jagt, U.S. Representative
  • Eugene van Tamelen, biochemist
  • Carol van Voorst, US ambassador to Iceland
  • George F. Veenker, basketball coach at University of Michigan, football coach at U of M and Iowa State
  • Theodore O. Yntema, professor of business at University of Chicago, chairman of Ford Motor Credit Company
  • Annette Ziegler, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
  • Samuel Marinus Zwemer, scholar, missionary in Arabia

* attended but did not graduate from Hope

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