Yalies are persons affiliated with

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

, commonly including

alumni Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...

, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies. Yale University Shield 1

Alumni

For a list of notable alumni of

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & World ...

, see List of Yale Law School alumni.

Prize recipients

Paul Krugman-press conference Dec 07th, 2008-8

Nobel laureates

Thornton Wilder Yale graduation photo 1920

Pulitzer Prize winners

Architecture and visual arts

Arts and humanities

Yung Wing Frontispiece My Life in China and America 1909 FRD 4814

Athletics

Business

College founders and presidents

Film

Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill (cropped)

Inventors and innovators

Ben Carson by Skidmore with lighting correction

Life sciences and medicine

Mathematics and computer science

Physical sciences and engineering

Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874

Law and politics

Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers

Supreme Court justices

Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.

U.S. Senators

Amy Klobuchar, official portrait, 113th Congress

Arlen Specter, official Senate photo portrait

Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.

Other legislators

Eleanor Holmes Norton official photo (cropped)

Governors, other state officials and mayors

Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or

senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "''See also:''" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers

Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portrait crop

Henry Stimson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1929

The following have worked within the

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for their respective governments.

Diplomats

Judges and attorneys

Activists

Cassius Marcellus Clay (Madison County, Kentucky) (cropped)

Political commentators

Other

Matthew Adler Matthew D. Adler (born 1962) is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke Law School, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. Earlier in ...

(B.A. 1984 and J.D. 1991), law professor *

Algernon Sydney Biddle Algernon Sydney Biddle (October 11, 1847 – April 8, 1891) was an American lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. An endowed chair was established at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in his name. Biograph ...

(1847–1891), lawyer and law professor at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...

* Moses Cleaveland (B.A. 1777), founder of

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S ...

* Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765), co-author of the

Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Co ...

of 1787, member of the

Ohio Company The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americ ...

of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in

Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...

), congressman ( F-Massachusetts) (1801–05) *

James Gadsden James Gadsden (May 15, 1788December 26, 1858) was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining to land which the United States bought from Mexico, and which became the southern portions of Ar ...

(B.A. 1806), namesake of the

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, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of

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and

New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex , Offi ...

Clarence King Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer and author. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. Nominated by Republican President Rutherford B. H ...

(Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey * James Wadsworth (1787), founder of

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, and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley *

Amy Wax Amy Laura Wax (born January 19, 1953) is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as w ...

(B.S. 1975),

Robert Mundheim Robert Harry Mundheim (born February 24, 1933) is an American attorney and law professor. He is former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, Co-Chairman of the law firm Fried, Frank, Ha ...

Professor of Law at the

Military

Religion

Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl (8575188810) (cropped)

History, literature, and journalism

Naomi Wolf at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Musicians and composers

Faculty

Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in ''italics''.

Nobel laureates

Social sciences

Technologists

Television

Theatre

Others

Arts and humanities

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon World Economic Forum 2013

Life sciences and medicine

Mathematics

Laszlo Lovasz mg 1867 flipped horizontally

Physical sciences and engineering

Social sciences

Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University

The Reverend Timothy Cutler, of Christ Church, Boston extraction

Richard Levin at the India Economic Summit 2008

References

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