This list of Clark University people features alumni, including currently matriculating students and alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students of Clark University and faculty.
Alumni
Academia
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. – father of Buzz Aldrin (DSc 1969), worked with Robert Goddard on his theories of rocketry (1915) Mildred Allen – physicist (PhD Physics 1922) Adelbert Ames, Jr. – research professor at Dartmouth College, pioneered the study of physiological optics Clarence Barber – Canadian economist (MA 1941) Jill Beck – president of Lawrence University, spent a summer as a Radio City Rockette while an undergraduate at Clark (BA Philosophy and Art History) Gwen Bell – co-founder and president of the Computer Museum (PhD Geography 1967, DSc 1994) Samuel Flagg Bemis – two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (LHD 1937) Moti Bodek – Tel Aviv University & Bezalel Academy of Art and Design professor (MPA 1995) Hermon Carey Bumpus – Fifth president of Tufts College (now Tufts University) (LLD 1909) Frederic Lister Burk (1862–1924), Canadian-born American educator, educational theorist, superintendent, educational reformer, and university president (Ph.D. 1898) Alexander Francis Chamberlain – anthropologist Pinkhos Churgin (1894–1957), Israeli first President of Bar-Ilan University Levi L. Conant – mathematician (no degree awarded; scholar of mathematics at Clark from 1890 to 1891) V. Raymond Edman – President of Wheaton College (Illinois) (MA, PhD 1933) Rona M. Fields – psychologist and author (MA 1965) John H. Flavell – Stanford University Professor (MA Psychology 1952, Phd 1955) E. Franklin Frazier – sociologist (MA) Yair Galily – Israeli sociologist (MSc Communications, 1996) Arnold Gesell – Yale professor known for his contributions to child psychology (PhD Psychology 1906) Henry H. Goddard – psychologist (PhD Psychology 1899) Robert H. Goddard – rocket engineer, invented the modern day rocket (MA Physics 1910, PhD Physics 1911, DSc 1945) Thomas F. Goreau – marine biologist and authority on coral reef ecology Frederick Grinnell – cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (BA Chemistry 1966) Clarence N. Hickman – rocket scientist and recipient of the Medal for Merit, known as the "Father of Scientific Archery" and for his involvement in the development of the bazooka (DSc 1946) John Irwin Hutchinson – mathematician (no degree awarded; scholar and fellow in Mathematics at Clark from 1890 to 1892) Grayson L. Kirk – President of the Council on Foreign Relations and president of Columbia University during the student protests of 1968 (LLD 1953) John Kneller – English-American professor and fifth President of Brooklyn College (B.A. 1938) William L. Langer historian, head of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (no degree awarded; took courses on international relations at Clark from 1915 to 1917 while teaching at Worcester Academy) Solomon Lefschetz – mathematician (PhD 1911, DSc 1952) J. Ross Mackay – Canadian geographer (BA Geography 1939) Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune – geographer, university president, and recipient of the Medal of Freedom (PhD Geography 1939, LLD 1960) Margaret Morse Nice – ornithologist (MA Biology 1915) Howard W. Odum – sociologist and founder of the journal Social Forces (PhD Psychology 1909) Vance Randolph – folklorist, his book Ozark Superstitions is dedicated to the memory of his Clark mentor G. Stanley Hall (MA Psychology) Mannque Rho – South Korean theoretical physicist (Bachelor's 1960, DSc 2003) Walter Ristow – head of map division at New York Public Library and Library of Congress (Doctorate) W.S. Small – experimental psychologist L. S. Stavrianos – historian (MA, PhD) Francis Sumner – first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology at an American university Amy Tanner – psychologist Lewis Terman – pioneer in cognitive psychology (PhD 1905) L.T.E. Thompson – physicist and ballistician (Physics MA 1915, PhD 1917) Thomas Gordon Thompson chemist and oceanographer, namesake of two oceanographic research ships (BA 1914) Albert Potter Wills – PhD advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi (PhD 1897)