List of Cranbrook Kingswood School alumni
Introduction The following is a list of notable alumni of Cranbrook Kingswood School and its predecessors, Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School for Girls.
1930s *William Talman (1932), actor*Florence Knoll (1934), designer; former head of Knoll*Bob Bemer (1936), computer pioneer; co-inventor of ASCII; named COBOL*William Henry Scott (1939), historian
1940s *Natalie Zemon Davis (1945), historian*Barbara Lea (1947), singer*Daniel Ellsberg (1948), leaker of the Pentagon Papers
1950s *Alan K. Simpson (1950), U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming), 1979–1997*Ward Just (1953), author*Ivan Boesky (Class of 1955 but left prior to senior year), arbitrageur; convicted felon; an inspiration for character Gordon Gekko in the film ''Wall Street''*Pete Dawkins (1955), Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar; former Army Brigadier General; former Vice Chairman of Citigroup Private Bank*Martha Henry (1955), American-Canadian actress*Thomas McGuane (1958), writer, essayist*Edmund White III (1958), author*Raymond Sokolov (1959), journalist
1960s *Joel E. Cohen (1961), mathematical biologist*Tod Williams (1961), architect*Michael Barone (1962), pundit and political commentator*Rich Gibson (1963), Marxist Professor Emeritus, Author*Charles Bigelow (1963), type designer; former professor of digital typography at Stanford University; co-designer of Lucida family of typefaces*Taro Yamasaki (1964), Pulitzer Prize winner for photojournalism*Mitt Romney (1965), U.S. Senator from Utah; former governor of Massachusetts; Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in 2012*Mary Fisher (1966), founder of Family AIDS Network; speaker at the 1992 Republican National Convention; daughter of businessman and philanthropist Max Fisher*Ann Romney (1967), wife of Mitt Romney (1965)*Cynthia Grissom Efird (1967), U.S. ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007*Reed Slatkin (1967), co-founder of EarthLink; convicted felon*Bing Gordon (1968), Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts*Michael Kinsley (1968), journalist; commentator; founder of ''Slate''; former editorial page editor of the ''Los Angeles Times''*Sorayouth Prompoj (1968), diplomat; Thai Ambassador to Germany*Sven Birkerts (1969), author
1970s *Kathryn Kolbert (1970), civil rights lawyer; former president of People For the American Way*Brad Leithauser (1971), author*Henry Tang (1971), former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong*Scott McNealy (1972), CEO of Sun Microsystems*Kenneth Dart (1972), venture capitalist, investor; co-owner of Dart Container*Lisa Frank (1972), founder of Lisa Frank Inc.*Dey Young (1973), actress*Michael Eric Dyson (Class of 1976 but left after 2 years; did not graduate), author and radio host*Dan Dickerson (1976), radio play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers*Bill Prady (1977), television writer and producer (''The Muppets'', ''Dharma & Greg'', ''The Big Bang Theory'')*Jennifer Clement (1978), writer and President of PEN International*Douglas Sills (1978), actor*David Trott (1978), U.S. representative for Michigan's 11th congressional district 2015 - 2019*Amy Denio (1979), musician*Bob Woodruff (1979), co-anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight''
1980s *Rob Edwards (1981), television and feature film screenwriter and producer*Robbie Buhl (1982), racecar driver*Tim Westergren (1984), founder of Pandora Radio; included in ''TIME'' Magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World*Eric Fanning (class of 1986, left prior to graduation), 22nd Secretary of the Army*Brad Keywell (1987), managing partner and co-founder of Lightbank; co-founder and Director of Groupon, Mediaocean, and Echo Global Logistics*Ronald Machen (1987), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia*Jay Adelson (1988), former CEO of Digg*Glenn Kessler (1988), screenwriter and television producer (''Damages'')*Alexi Lalas (1988), professional soccer player; played in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1994 World Cup; National Soccer Hall of Fame*Renée Elise Goldsberry (1989), actress (''Hamilton''; ''Ally McBeal'')*Ari Schwartz (1989), former Senior Director for Cybersecurity on the United States National Security Council Staff at the White House
1990s *Elizabeth Berkley (Class of 1990 but left prior to senior year), actress*Selma Blair (1990), actress*Todd A. Kessler (1990), screenwriter, television producer, and director*Elissa Slotkin (1994), American politician and former CIA analyst serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district since 2019*Jay Penske (Class of 1997, left prior to senior year), media and publishing entrepreneur; owner of WWD, Fairchild Publications, ''Variety Magazine'', and other media brands*Jaime Ray Newman (1996), actress
2000s *Jamie Hodari (2000), Co-founder and CEO of Industrious*Jamie Wineman (2002), AKA WolfGangGang, Visual artist and Music producer*Parker Lynch, Founder and CEO of Hedgehog Health*Ivan Krstić (2004), IT security engineer* Brett Tremain (2004), Co-Founder of investment bank Ancoris Capital Partners*Casey Wellman (2006), professional hockey player (NHL)*Andrew Miller (2007), professional hockey player (NHL)*Patrick Brown (2010), professional hockey player (NHL)*Lauren Withrow (2015), sports reporter and broadcaster for Northwestern Wildcats football, WGN Radio, and ESPN+
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