The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College, a private, independent liberal arts college located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has graduated 156 classes of students. As of 2022, the College enrolls 1,689 students and has roughly 21,300 living alumni. As of spring 2022, Swarthmore employs nearly 200 faculty members. Nobel laureates Listed chronologically by year of the award. MacArthur Fellows Listed chronologically by year of the grant. List of alumni Listed in alphabetical order by surname. Architecture Frances Halsband (1965) - FAIA, former Dean of School of Architecture at Pratt Institute Margaret Helfand (1969)- FAIA (attended 1965–68) Steven Izenour (1962) Marianne McKenna (1972) - RIBA Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting Joseph Altuzarra (2005) – fashion designer, winner of the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award Lisa Albert (1981) – television producer and writer, Mad Men, Beautiful People, Living Single, Becker, Murphy Brown, Major Dad Mark Alburger (1979) – composer; founder / music director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra; music director of Goat Hall Productions; founder / editor-publisher of 21st-Century Music. Miyuki Baker (2012) – mixed-media artist and activist Peter Bart (1954) – Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety Al Carmines (1958) – composer of Off-Broadway musicals; pastor Bruce Cratsley (1966) - American photographer specialized in still lifes, portraits of friends, and gay life in New York City Marshall Curry (1992) – documentary filmmaker of Street Fight, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Racing Dreams, and Point and Shoot; 2006 Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature; 2006 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story: Long Form; 2012 Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature, Academy Award-winning short film The Neighbors' Window (2019). David Dye (1972) – radio personality and host of the World Cafe Michael Forster Rothbart (1994) – photojournalist John Freeman (1996) – Writer, literary critic and former editor of the literary magazine Granta and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Steven Gilborn (1969) – Actor Alexandra Grant (1994) – visual artist Evan Gregory (2001) – member of The Gregory Brothers (creators of Auto-tune the News) Steven Izenour (1962) – architect; co-author of Learning from Las Vegas Grant S. Johnson (2014) - filmmaker Nicholas Kazan (1969) – screenwriter H. C. Robbins Landon (1946) – musicologist Stephen Lang (1972) – Tony Award-nominated actor and playwright; star of Avatar, Gods and