This list of notable people associated with Claremont McKenna College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree 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 ...

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* Roderic Ai Camp- 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-;recipient of the Medal of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed to a foreigner for his contributions to Mexico.” *

William Ascher William Ascher (born January 3, 1947) is the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, where he served as academic vice president and dean of the faculty (2000–2005). Previous ...

- Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics; served as Dean of the Faculty from 2000 to 2005; prolific author and winner of the G. David Huntoon, Sr., Award for Superior Teaching * Fred Balitzer - professor of government. He was director of the Republican National Committee under President

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

, chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of Brunei. He helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played a leading role in preventing efforts to make the District of Columbia a state. *

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 ...

- professor of economics who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply. The matter affected him personally as he was a hemophiliac who contracted HIV/AIDS from a bad transfusion. Eckert worked with Elliott on market-incentives to reduce congestion. He also worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation. (deceased) * Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem. Elliott drafted the economic-incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Thanks to his efforts, the number of first-stage smog-alerts days declined from one day in three in the 1960s to only one day in 1997. *

Diane Halpern Diane F. Halpern is an American psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association (APA). She is Dean of Social Science at the Minerva Schools at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute) and also the McElwee Family Professor of Psych ...

- 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 Harry Victor Jaffa (October 7, 1918 – January 10, 2015) was an American political philosopher, historian, columnist, and professor. He was a professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, and a distinguish ...

- professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelian virtue, and the American founding. '' The National Review'' once had a cover story that described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition." * Charles Kesler - editor of the '' Claremont Review of Books'' and noted conservative scholar * Jamaica Kincaid - novelist *Morcos Massoud - professor of Accounting at Claremont McKenna College since 1981. Publisher of numerous articles. Awarded CMC Presidential Award for Merit. 13 time recipient of the Glenn R. Huntoon Award for Superior Teaching. Recipient of CMC Alumni Association Jack Stark Distinguished Service Award. Recipient of John Faranda Student Service Award. * Kenneth P. Miller - professor of Government specializing in California politics, direct democracy, and state constitutional law. Miller is the Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, a research institute known for its expertise in redistricting, elections, demographic research, and public policy analysis. *

Jonathan Petropoulos Jonathan Petropoulos (born January 10, 1961) is an American historian who writes about National Socialism and, in particular, the fate of art looted during World War II. He is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna Colleg ...

- historian and scholar of Holocaust-era looted art * Mort Sahl - speech writer for President John F. Kennedy; famed comedian * Michael Uhlmann - former Assistant Attorney General to President

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

; special assistant to President

; reportedly convinced Justice Clarence Thomas to join the federal judiciary

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