Notable Alumni
Graduates (or, in some cases, former students) of Girard College include:
- Mark Elkins (class of '70), singer-songwriter, CD 'Noisy Appetites'
- Lawrence Cunningham, author and professor
- Harry Davis, former Major League Baseball player
- Myer Feldman, aide to President John F. Kennedy
- Al Harker, 1934 FIFA World Cup and professional soccer player. Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Richard Harris, prospector-first major gold discovery in Juneau, Alaska
- George Hegamin, former National Football League player
- Gary Hodgson, former Major League Baseball player
- Russell Johnson, actor, "the professor" on Gilligan's Island
- Franz Kline, an American Abstract Expressionist painter from the 1940s and 1950s
- Tracey Lee, rapper
- Johnny Lush, former Major League Baseball player
- Harry "Moose" McCormick, former Major League Baseball player
- John "Jocko" Milligan, former Major League Baseball player
- Walter K. Durham, one of the most popular Main Line architect/builders of the 20th century
- James Hamilton Windrim, artist/architect-designed the Bank of North America
- Ashton Youboty, NFL Cornerback for the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Mike Freeman, Actor/Journalist
- William Ball, author of 21 books about the Linux operating system and other Open Source software
- John Gearhart, PhD, stem cell pioneer
- Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic.
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