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Ric MacDowell attended Grinnell College from 1964 -1968. After his graduation, MacDowell worked for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). In 1997, he received the Joe Wall Alumni Service Award.

Born to a Quaker family in Indiana, Macy was raised on a farm near Lynnville, Iowa. At age 17 he walked fifteen miles across the prairie to enter Grinnell College. He remained associated with the college for the remainder of his life as a tutor, principal of the Academy, then as a respected professor. From 1885 to his retirement in 1912, he devoted himself to teaching political science and writing many books on political, social, religious, and international subjects. After retiring from Grinnell he travelled abroad more extensively and formed close associations with such people as James Bryce and George Bernard Shaw.

John Forrest Chapman was a 1924 Grinnell graduate who participated in the Grinnell-in-China program. He later became the foreign editor of Business Week magazine, a vice-president of McGraw-Hill International, and executive editor of The Harvard Business Review.

Pamela A. Ferguson was the 11th President, and first female President, of Grinnell College.