Bowdoin Prizes

• Jared Sparks, 1815, historian and president of Harvard
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820 and 1821, essayist and poet
• Charles Sumner, 1830 and 1832, politician and US Senator
• Jones Very, 1835 and 1836, Transcendentalist essayist and poet
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1837, lawyer and politician
• Edward Everett Hale, 1838 and 1839, author and historian
• Charles L. Flint, 1849, lawyer, horticulturalist, president of what is now University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Horatio Alger, Jr., 1851, prolific author of "rags to riches" novels
• Henry Adams, 1858, historian and author
• Richard Theodore Greener, 1870, statesman and dean of Howard University School of Law
• George Lyman Kittredge, 1881 and 1882, educator and scholar in English literature
• Alain LeRoy Locke, 1907, first African-American Rhodes Scholar, academic, writer, and "Father of the Harlem Renaissance"
• R. Nathaniel Dett, 1920, composer
• George Frazier, 1933, journalist
• Nathan Pusey, 1934, president of Harvard
• Daniel J. Boorstin, 1934, Rhodes Scholar, historian, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Howard Nemerov, 1940, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
• I. Bernard Cohen, 1941, historian of science
• Robert Galambos, 1941, neuroscientist
• Arthur Kinoy, 1941, attorney and civil rights leader
• Constantine Cavarnos, 1947, teacher, author, monk
• Henri Dorra, 1949, art historian
• Christopher Lasch, 1954, professor, author, historian, and social critic
• John Updike, 1954, writer
• Allen G. Debus, 1957 and 1958, historian of science
• Larry Siedentop, 1959, Marshall Scholar, political philosopher
• James Samuel Gordon, 1961 and 1962, author, psychiatrist, and mind-body medicine expert
• Robert Kirshner, 1970, astrophysicist
• Paul Starr, 1974, professor of sociology and public affairs
• Ralph Jay Hexter, 1974, professor of classics and comparative literature and provost of UC Davis
• James D. Weinrich, 1975, sex researcher and psychobiologist
• Robert W. Brooks, 1975, mathematician
• John Glover Roberts, Jr., 1976, Chief Justice of the United States
• Paul Alan Cox, 1978 and 1981, ethnobotanist
• Richard H. Ebright, 1979, molecular and microbiologist
• Mark W. Moffett, 1986, entomologist
• Jonathan Veitch, 1988, historian and president of Occidental College
• Nicholas A. Christakis, 1988, physician and sociologist
• Cyrus Patell, 1991, literary and cultural critic
• Faith Salie, 1992, Rhodes Scholar, actress, and media personality
• David S. Jones, 1993, historian and professor of the culture of medicine
• Elaine Goldenberg, 1993, lawyer
• William Pannapacker, 1994, 1999, academic and journalist
• Mark Greif, 1997, Marshall Scholar, academic and literary critic
• Joe Roman, 2000, author and conservation biologist