List of Kenyon College people
Here follows a list of notable people associated with Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. This list includes the college's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor, in addition to notable members of its faculty and a complete chronological list of the presidents of the college.
Distinguished graduates
Academia
| Name | Occupation | Class year |
| Aaron Perzanowski | Thomas W. Lacchia Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School | 2001 |
| C. Lawrence Evans | Newton Family Professor of Government at William & Mary and former chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association | 1980 |
| Amos N. Guiora | Professor of law at University of Utah and Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps | 1979 |
| John Allen Gable | Executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1974 to his death in February 2005; considered the world's leading authority on Theodore Roosevelt | 1965 |
| Constantinos Patrides | Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan | 1952 |
Politics
Notable faculty members
- Chauncey Colton, Homiletics
- Virgil Aldrich, Philosophy
- Katherine Elkins, Integrated Program for Human Studies
- Robert O. Fink, Classics
- Bruce Haywood, German; Provost
- Jed Hoyer, Kenyon Baseball Coach; Executive Vice President and General Manager, Chicago Cubs
- Lewis Hyde, English
- Randall Jarrell, English
- P. F. Kluge, English
- Perry Lentz, English
- Robie Macauley, English
- Wendy MacLeod, Theater
- George E. McCarthy, Sociology
- Otto Nikodym, Mathematics
- Paul Radin, Anthropology
- John Crowe Ransom, English
- Charles Ritcheson, History
- Richard G. Salomon, History
- Benjamin Schumacher, Physics
- Joan Slonczewski, Biology
- Anna Sun, Sociology, Asian Studies
- Denham Sutcliffe, English
- Allen Tate, English
- John Kinsella, English
- Claire Messud, English
- Barry Unsworth, English
- Katharine Weber, English
- James Wood, English
Presidents of the College
- Philander Chase
- Charles Pettit McIlvaine
- David Bates Douglass
- * Samuel Fuller
- Sherlock A. Bronson
- Thomas M. Smith
- Lorin Andrews
- * Benjamin L. Lang
- Charles Short
- James Kent Stone
- Eli Todd Tappan
- * Edward C. Benson
- William B. Bodine
- Theodore Sterling
- William Foster Peirce
- Gordon Keith Chalmers
- * Frank E. Bailey
- F. Edward Lund
- William G. Caples
- Philip H. Jordan Jr.
- * Reed S. Browning
- Robert A. Oden Jr.
- * Ronald A. Sharp
- S. Georgia Nugent
- Sean M. Decatur
- * Jeff Bowman
- Julie Kornfeld