Knox College

Monson 1997 — novelist and poet, author of Other Electricities, and Vacationland, a collection of poems
John Podesta 1971 — Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton
Rose Polenzani — independent folk musician
Gene Rayburn — announcer for The Tonight Show; host of The Match Game and other game shows
Hiram R. Revels — AME and Methodist Episcopal minister, and first black U.S. Senator (1870–1871)
Barnabas Root 1870 — one of the first black men to receive a college degree in Illinois
Ezekiel S. Sampson — U.S. Representative and lawyer from Iowa
Don Samuelson — 25th governor of Idaho (1967–1971)
Ellen Browning Scripps 1859 — newspaper magnate, philanthropist; helped found Scripps College and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Robert Seibert 1963 — Professor Emeritus at Knox College and author of Politics and Change in the Middle East
Joseph J. Sisco 1941 — diplomat under Henry Kissinger; president of American University (1976–1980)
Zack Stephenson 2006 — Minnesota State Representative (2019–present)
Dorothea Tanning …