Alumni

Balzan Prize winners

Charles Coulston Gillispie Charles Coulston Gillispie (; August 6, 1918 – October 6, 2015) was an American historian of science. He was the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science at Princeton University, and was credited with building Princeton's history of scie ...

(1940) – 1997

Balzan Prize The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the b ...

;

George Sarton Medal The George Sarton Medal is the most prestigious award given by the History of Science Society. It has been awarded annually since 1955. It is awarded to a historian of science from the international community who became distinguished for "a lifet ...

;

Pfizer Award The Pfizer Award is awarded annually by the History of Science Society "in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science" that was "published in English during a period of three calendar years immediately preceding the ...

; professor, history of science, Emeritus,

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

* Russell J. Hemley (1977) – physicist; 2005

(with

Ho-Kwang Mao Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (; born June 18, 1941) is a Chinese-American geologist. He is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China. He was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the ...

); director,

Carnegie Institution for Science The Carnegie Institution for Science, also known as Carnegie Science and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an organization established to fund and perform scientific research in the United States. This institution is headquartered in W ...

;

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

Pulitzer Prizes

Ethan Bronner Ethan Bronner (born 1954) is Israel bureau chief and a senior editor for the Middle East at Bloomberg News, which he joined in 2015 following 17 years at ''The New York Times.'' Biography Bronner is a graduate of Wesleyan University's College o ...

(1976) –

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

(Explanatory Journalism, 2001); ''Battle for Justice'' (

The New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress a ...

, one of the 25 best books of 1989) * Lisa Chedekel (1982) –

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news Breaking news, also called late-breaking news, a special report, special coverage, or a news flash, is a current issue ...

(1999); finalist,

Pulitzer Pulitzer may refer to: *Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th century media magnate *Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism, literary, and music award *Pulitzer (surname) * Pulitzer, Inc., a U.S. newspaper chain *Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-pro ...

(2007);

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

; Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting;

Worth Bingham Prize The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award which honors: "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public inter ...

* Seth Faison (1981) – journalist,

Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news Breaking news, also called late-breaking news, a special report, special coverage, or a news flash, is a current issue ...

(1994); former Bureau Chief, ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' (1995–2000); author * Sue Fox (B.A. high honors 1993?) –

(2004) *

David Garrow David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American author and historian. He wrote the book ''Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference'' (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biogr ...

(1975) –

Pulitzer Prize for Biography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. The award honors "a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author." Award winners receive ...

(1987); Fellow,

Homerton College Homerton College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Its first premises were acquired in Homerton, London in 1768, by an informal gathering of English Dissenters, Protestant dissente ...

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

* Alan C. Miller (1976) –

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily ...

(2003),

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples o ...

(1997),

(1996) *

Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda (; born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper, and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals '' In the Heights'' and ''Hamilton'', and the soundtracks for the animated films '' Moana' ...

(2002) – playwright, winner of

Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were a ...

(2016) for ''

Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: * Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * ''Hamilton'' (musical), a 2015 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda ** ''Hamilton'' (al ...

'' * Lucille Renwick (1987) – 2 Pulitzers:

(1998);

(1995) * Barbara Roessner (1975) –

(1999); finalist,

(2007, 2003, 2001); Executive Editor, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers (2012–), Managing Editor (2006–09) *

Stephen Schiff {{Infobox person , name = Stephen Schiff , image = Stephen Schiff at the Peabody Awards 2019.jpg , image_size = 140 , alt = , caption = Schiff at the Peabody Awards 2019 , birth_na ...

(1972) – journalist; finalist,

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer in the United States who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by C ...

(1983) *

Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the field of creative music. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Ten Freedom Summers'', released on ...

– composer, musician; finalist,

Pulitzer Prize for Music The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted i ...

(2013) *

Leland Stowe Leland Stowe (November 10, 1899 – January 16, 1994) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist noted for being one of the first to recognize the expansionist character of the German Nazi regime. Biography Stowe was born in Southbury, Conn ...

(1921) –

(Correspondence, 1930); runner-up for second

(Correspondence, 1940) * Lawrence Rogers Thompson (B.A.) –

of Robert Frost (1971); professor of English,

MacArthur Fellows

The following alumni are fellows of the

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

(known as the "genius grant") from the

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 117 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.6 billion and ...

. As this is an interdisciplinary award, recipients are listed here in addition to their listing in their field of accomplishment. *

Ruth Behar Ruth Behar is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer.Ruth Behar
M ...

(1977–88) – first Latin woman named a MacArthur Fellow; professor, anthropology,

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

; poet, writer *

Majora Carter Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable ...

(1984–2005) – MacArthur Fellow;

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

advocate; urban revitalization strategist; public radio host; 2011

Peabody award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...

Mary Halvorson Mary Halvorson (born October 16, 1980) is an American avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist from Brookline, Massachusetts. Among her many collaborations, she has: led a trio with and Ches Smith, and a quintet with the addition of Jon Iraba ...

– 2019 MacArthur Fellow; avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist * James Longley (1994–2009) – MacArthur Fellow; documentarian, including ''

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...

'', ''

Iraq in Fragments ''Iraq in Fragments'' is a documentary film directed by James Longley. Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it won three awards: "Directing Aw ...

'', '' Sari's Mother'' *

– 2015 MacArthur Fellow; Broadway actor, composer, playwright, and lyricist ( ''In the Heights'', ''Hamilton''); 2008

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

winner for Best Musical and Best Original Score, 2008

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious ...

for Best Musical Show Album, 2016

winner

Academy, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy awards

Academy awards and nominations

Miguel Arteta Miguel Arteta (born August 29, 1965) is a Puerto Rican filmmaker known for his work in independent cinema and television. His film ''Chuck & Buck'' (2000) received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature made for under $500,000, while '' ...

(1989) –

Student Academy Award The Student Academy Awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an annual competition for college and university filmmakers. Description The awards were originally named the Student Film Awards and were first pres ...

Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award is presented to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $1,000,000 by the Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It is named aft ...

; film director (''

Chuck & Buck ''Chuck & Buck'' is a 2000 American black comedy drama film directed by Miguel Arteta and produced by Matthew Greenfield. It was written by and starred Mike White in the leading role. Arteta, Greenfield, and White met and first collaborated at ...

'', ''

The Good Girl ''The Good Girl'' is a 2002 American comedy-drama film. ''The Good Girl'' premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and released to theatres on August 7, 2002, in the United States. Plot Justine Last is a bored thirty-year-old woman liv ...

'', ''

Youth in Revolt ''Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp'' is a 1993 epistolary novel by C. D. Payne. The story is told in a picaresque fashion and makes heavy use of dark humor and camp. The book contains parts one through three of an eleven-part s ...

'', ''

Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in u ...

'') *

Shari Springer Berman Shari Springer Berman (born July 13, 1963) and Robert Pulcini (born August 24, 1964) are an American team of filmmakers. Biographies Both Springer Berman and Pulcini were born in New York City, New York, New York (state), New York. Springer Be ...

(1985) –

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

-nominated screenwriter, director, ''

American Splendor ''American Splendor'' is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the last one in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular interv ...

'' (Best Adapted Screenplay); '' The Extra Man'', ''

Cinema Verite ''Cinema Verite'' is a 2011 HBO drama film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. The film's main ensemble cast starred Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini and Patrick Fugit. The film follows a fictionalized account of ...

'' *

Akiva Goldsman Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes ''The Client (1994 film), The Client''; ''Batman Forever'' and its sequel ''Batman & Robin (film), Batman ...

(1983) –

-winning screenwriter, '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001, Best Adapted Screenplay);

Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every Janua ...

; '' The Client'', '' A Time to Kill'' * Michael Gottwald (2006) – producer; 2012 nomination,

Academy Award for Best Picture The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film a ...

* Dan Janvey (2006) – director, Academy Award winning producer,

Nomadland ''Nomadland'' is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book '' Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century'' by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand a ...

(2021,

), ''

Beasts of the Southern Wild ''Beasts of the Southern Wild'' is a 2012 American fantasy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-scored by Benh Zeitlin. It was adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar's one-act play ''Juicy and Delicious''. The film stars Quvenzhan� ...

'' (2012, nomination Academy Award for Best Picture) *

Sebastian Junger Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker who has reported in-the-field on Dirty,_dangerous_and_demeaning, dirty, dangerous and demanding occupations and the experience of Light_infantry#United_Sta ...

(1984) –

documentarian A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill N ...

; '' Restrepo''; 2011

nomination;

Grand Jury Prize A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent date and depe ...

, Best Documentary, 2010

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

* Jennifer Lame (2004) –

-winning film editor, ''

Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer ; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often ...

'' (2023,

Academy Award for Best Film Editing The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive year ...

) *

Kenneth Lonergan Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his works which explore complex emotional and interpersonal dynamics. He has received several awards including an Academy Award a ...

– playwright, screenwriter, director; nominated for two

s (2002, ''

Gangs of New York ''Gangs of New York'' is a 2002 American-Italian epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1928 book '' The Gangs of New York''. The fil ...

''; 2000, ''

You Can Count on Me ''You Can Count on Me'' is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan in his feature directorial debut. Starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick, the film follows a single mother living in ...

'') and

(2001, ''The Waverley Gallery'');

, Best Drama, 2000

(''

'') * James Longley (1994) – documentarian;

(1994);

-nominated ''

'' (2007),

-nominated '' Sari's Mother'' (2008); three jury awards,

2006 Sundance Film Festival The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 19 to January 29, 2006. It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 22nd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, and the c ...

Laurence Mark Laurence Mark is an American film and television producer. His works include ''The Greatest Showman'' (2017), ''Julie & Julia'' (2009), ''Dreamgirls'' (2006), ''I, Robot'' (2004), ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997), and ''Jerry Maguire'' (1996). ...

(1971) – producer, nominated for three

s: ''

Jerry Maguire ''Jerry Maguire'' is a 1996 American sports comedy-drama film directed and written by Cameron Crowe. It was produced by Crowe and James L. Brooks for Gracie Films and distributed by TriStar Pictures. It stars Tom Cruise as the titular spor ...

'', ''

As Good as It Gets ''As Good as It Gets'' is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive–compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt ...

'', ''

Working Girl ''Working Girl'' is a 1988 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island ...

''; ''

Dreamgirls ''Dreamgirls'' is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. It is based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, and p ...

'' (won

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Eligibility Eligible films must be at least 70 minutes in ...

);

Independent Spirit Award The Independent Spirit Awards, originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards, and later as the Film Independent Spirit Awards, are awards presented annually in Santa Monica, California, to independent filmmakers. Founded in ...

; ''

Julie & Julia ''Julie & Julia'' is a 2009 American biographical comedy drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the title roles with Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, and Linda Emond in supporting roles. The film ...

'' * Roger Weisberg (1975) –

;. Retrieved November 16, 2012. nominated for two Academy Awards (2000, ''

Sound and Fury "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" is the beginning of the second sentence of a soliloquy in William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Macbeth''. It takes place in the beginning of the fifth scene of Act 5, during the time when the Scottish troops, led b ...

''; 2002, ''

Why Can't We Be a Family Again ''Why Can't We Be a Family Again?'' is a 2002 American short documentary film directed by Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel about two African American brothers in Brooklyn struggling to reunite with their mother, a recovering drug addict. It ...

'') 1994 Peabody Award (''Road Scholar''); 100 other awards * Paul Weitz (1988) –

-nominated director, '' American Pie''; '' About a Boy'', '' Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant'', ''

Little Fockers ''Little Fockers'' (known as ''Meet the Parents: Little Fockers'' in the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia) is a 2010 American romantic comedy film and the third film in the ''Meet the Parents'' film series, serving as a sequel to '' Meet the Pa ...

'' *

Joss Whedon Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( ; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer' ...

(1987) –

-nominated screenwriter, ''

Toy Story ''Toy Story'' is a 1995 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the first installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and the Firsts in animation, firs ...

''; ''

Speed In kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a non-negative scalar quantity. Intro ...

''; director, screenwriter, ''

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is an American supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. The concept is based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film), 1992 film, also written by Whedon, a ...

'', '' Serenity'', ''

The Cabin in the Woods ''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a 2011 science fiction comedy horror film directed by Drew Goddard in his directorial debut, produced by Joss Whedon, and written by Whedon and Goddard. It stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchis ...

'', ''

The Avengers Avenger(s) or The Avenger(s) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Marvel Comics universe * Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes **Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes of "The Infinity Sag ...

'' *

Allie Wrubel Elias Paul "Allie" Wrubel (January 15, 1905 – December 13, 1973) was an American composer and songwriter. Biography Wrubel was born to a Jewish family in Middletown, Connecticut, United States, the son of Regina (née Glasscheib) and Isa ...

–

-winning composer, songwriter, ''

Song of the South ''Song of the South'' is a 1946 American Live-action animated film, live-action/animated musical film, musical comedy-drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, produced by Walt Disney, and released by RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pi ...

'', song, "

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie ''Song of the South'', sung by James Baskett. For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the Academy Award for Best ...

" (1947,

Best Original Song The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best ...

);

Songwriters Hall of Fame The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF) is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represent and maintain the heri ...

Benh Zeitlin Benjamin Harold Zeitlin (; born October 14, 1982) is an American filmmaker, best known for directing and co-writing the 2012 film ''Beasts of the Southern Wild'', for which he received two Academy Award nominations. Early life Zeitlin was born i ...

(2004) – filmmaker, composer, director; his ''

'' garnered four 2012

Academy Award nominations An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

; 2012

Caméra d'Or The Caméra d'Or ("''Golden Camera''") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week). The prize was created in 1978 Ca ...

award,

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...

; 2012

, Dramatic,

Emmy awards

=Emmy awards in journalism

= *

David Brancaccio David A. Brancaccio (; born May 17, 1960) is an American radio and television journalist. He is the host of the public radio business program ''Marketplace (radio program), Marketplace Morning Report'' and the PBS newsmagazine ''Now on PBS, Now' ...

(1982) –

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

-winning newscaster and host, ''

NOW on PBS ''Now on PBS'', shown onscreen as ''NOW'', is a Public Broadcasting Service newsmagazine which aired between 2002 and 2010, focusing on social and political issues. History First airing in January 2002, and originally called ''Now with Bill Moye ...

''; DuPont-Columbia Award;

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...

* Dina Kaplan (1993) – 2007

for Spot News *

Randall Pinkston Randall Pinkston was a correspondent/anchor for Al Jazeera America. Previously he was with CBS News. After a stint as a White House Correspondent in CBS's Washington Bureau, Pinkston became a general assignment reporter, contributing to CBS br ...

(1972) – three-time

-winning television journalist; RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award *

Stephen Talbot Stephen Henderson Talbot (born February 28, 1949) is a TV documentary film producer, producer, writer and reporter. Talbot directed and produced "The Movement and the 'Madman' " for the PBS series American Experience in 2023. He is a longtime co ...

(1970) – television reporter, writer, producer for PBS' ''Frontline''; two

s, two

s; Edward Murrow Award; DuPont-Columbia Award;

Edgar Allan Poe Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor ...

=Emmy awards in film and television

= *

Phil Abraham Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director. He worked on all six seasons of ''The Sopranos'', initially as a camera operator, then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director. He won the 2008 Primetime ...

–

-winning film and television

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

, director *

Dana Delany Dana Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American actress. After appearing in small roles early in her career, Delany received her breakthrough role as Colleen McMurphy on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television drama ''China Beach'' (1 ...

(1978) – two

s; actress; television shows ''

China Beach ''China Beach'' is an American war film, war drama television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe Beach in the city of Da Nang, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, nicknamed "China Beach" in English by Amer ...

'', ''

Presidio Med ''Presidio Med'' is an American medical drama television series created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward (who also executive produced NBC's '' ER''), that aired on CBS from September 24, 2002 to January 24, 2003. The series centers on a San Fran ...

'', ''

Desperate Housewives ''Desperate Housewives'' is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012, for a tota ...

'', ''

Body of Proof ''Body of Proof'' is an American medical drama, medical/crime drama, crime comedy-drama television series that ran on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from March 29, 2011, to May 28, 2013, and starred Dana Delany as medical examiner List of B ...

''; films ''

Tombstone A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab. The us ...

'', ''

Fly Away Home ''Fly Away Home'' ( ''Flying Wild'' and ''Father Goose'') is a 1996 children's film, family Adventure film, adventure drama (film and television), drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, and Dana Delan ...

'' * Janet Grillo (1980) –

-winning producer; writer and director *

Evan Katz Evan Katz is an American television writer and television producer. He is best known for his work as executive producer of the television series '' 24''. Career Katz was an executive producer of the television series '' 24'', which aired origina ...

–

-winning writer, executive producer of television series '' 24'' *

Michael E. Knight Michael Edward Knight (born May 7, 1959) is an American television actor, best known for his role as Tad Martin on ABC soap opera ''All My Children''. Biography Knight was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He was educated at The Thacher School i ...

(1980) – three

s; actor, best known for his role as

Tad Martin Tad Martin is a fictional character from the American daytime drama, ''All My Children''. Tad was played by three actors, according to the age of the character: Matthew Anton, John E. Dunn, and Michael E. Knight. Knight has portrayed the role on ...

on ''

All My Children ''All My Children'' (often shortened to ''AMC'') is an American television soap opera that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2 ...

'' *

David Kohan David Sanford Kohan (born April 16, 1964) is an American television producer and writer. After writing for ''The Wonder Years'' and ''The Dennis Miller Show'', Kohan co-created and produced ''Will & Grace'', '' Boston Common'', ''Good Morning, ...

(1986) –

-winning co-creator, executive producer, ''

Will & Grace ''Will & Grace'' is an American television sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on the friendship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a Gay men, gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra ...

'' and ''

Good Morning, Miami ''Good Morning, Miami'' is an American sitcom created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. The series ran on NBC from September 26, 2002, to December 18, 2003, and centered around the personal and professional life of Jake ( Mark Feuerstein), the ...

'' * Diane Kolyer –

winner for Outstanding Children's Program (2004); director, writer, producer * Jeffrey Lane – five

Golden Globe The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every Januar ...

, two

s, three

Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the name of two American labor unions representing writers in film, television, radio, and online media: * The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is headquartered in New York City and is affiliated wit ...

Awards; author, television scriptwriter, film producer * Alan Levin (1946) – three

s; maker of documentaries *

Marc Levin Marc Levin is an American independent film producer and director. He is best known for his ''Brick City (TV series), Brick City'' TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Fil ...

(1973) – three

s (1988, 1989, 1999), documentary filmmaker; 1998

award,

; 1998

; 1997 DuPont-Columbia Award; founder of

Blowback Productions Blowback Productions is an independent film and television production company founded in 1988 by Marc Levin. Levin and his producing partner Daphne Pinkerson have made over 30 films and won numerous awards. For over 20 years, Blowback Production ...

(1988) * Jim Margolis – six

s (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007), writer, producer, co-executive producer, ''

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The ...

'' *

Bruce McKenna Bruce C. McKenna (born March 14, 1962) is an American writer for television and film. He was the co-executive producer, creator, principal writer and researcher on the 2010 HBO 10 part mini-series, '' The Pacific'', which was co-produced by Steve ...

(1984) –

-winning television and movie producer, writer;

Writers Guild Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility The ...

; ''

The Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

'' * Mary McDonagh Murphy – six

s; independent documentary film director, writer and producer *

Owen Renfroe Owen Renfroe is an American film and television director. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied film with Professor Jeanine Basinger. His professional career began at age ten, when he sang in the children's chorus of the Metropoli ...

– three

s; three

Directors Guild of America Award The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America. The first DGA Award was an "Honorary Life Member" award issued in 1938 to D. W. Griffith. The statues are made by New York firm, Society Awards. Cate ...

s, television soap opera director; former film editor *

Matthew Senreich Matthew Ian Senreich (; born June 17, 1974) is an American screenwriter, television producer, director, and voice actor best known for his work with animated television series ''Robot Chicken'', which he co-created with business partner and close ...

(1996) –

-winning screenwriter, director; producer, ''

Robot Chicken ''Robot Chicken'' is an American adult animation, adult stop motion, stop-motion animated sketch comedy television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The twelve-minute ...

'' *

Bill Sherman Bill Sherman is an American composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is known for his work on ''In the Heights'', ''Hamilton'', and ''Sesame Street''. Sherman is also a member of Team Supreme that co-hosts the Questlove Supreme podcast ...

(2002) –

-winning composer (2011); currently Musical Director of ''Sesame Street'' *

Matthew Weiner Matthew Hoffman Weiner (; born June 29, 1965) is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series ''Mad Men'', and as a writer and executive producer on ''The Sopranos''. ...

(1987) – 2011 ''Time'''s "100 Most Influential People in the World"; ''

The Atlantic ''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 185 ...

'', one of 21 ''Brave Thinkers 2011''; nine

s, three

s; creator, executive producer, writer, ''

Mad Men ''Mad Men'' is an American historical drama, period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. It ran on cable network AMC (TV channel), AMC from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015, with seven seasons ...

''; screenwriter, supervising producer, ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The series follows Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey American Mafia, Mafia boss who suffers from panic attacks. He reluct ...

'' * Roger Weisberg (1975) –

;

–winning series ''Help Yourself''; Dupont-Columbia Award *

(1987) –

Nebula Award The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), a nonprofit association of pr ...

, two

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members. The award is administered by th ...

s; writer, creator, producer, director, ''

'', ''

Angel An angel is a spiritual (without a physical body), heavenly, or supernatural being, usually humanoid with bird-like wings, often depicted as a messenger or intermediary between God (the transcendent) and humanity (the profane) in variou ...

'', ''

Firefly The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...

'', ''

Dollhouse A dollhouse or doll's house is a toy house made in miniature. Since the early 20th century dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children, but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults. English-speakers in North Americ ...

'', ''

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'' is a 2008 musical comedy-drama miniseries made in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of an aspiring supervillain named Dr. Horri ...

'' *

Bradley Whitford Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the NBC television political drama ''The West Wing'' (1999–2006), for which he ...

(1981) –

-winning actor; television dramas, ''

The West Wing ''The West Wing'' is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where t ...

'', ''

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'' is an American comedy-drama television series created for NBC and primarily written by Aaron Sorkin. The series was about the production of a live comedy series similar to ''Saturday Night Live''. Produced by ...

''; films, ''

Billy Madison ''Billy Madison'' is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Tamra Davis, written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and produced by Robert Simonds. The film stars Sandler in the title role, alongside Bradley Whitford, Bridgette Wilson, Darren McGav ...

'', ''

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of five bestselling Young adult literature, young adult novels by Ann Brashares: ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001),'' ''The Second S ...

'' * Bill Wrubel (1985) – three

s (2010, 2011, 2012); co-executive producer, writer ''

Modern Family ''Modern Family'' is an American television sitcom, created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, that aired on ABC for 11 seasons from September 23, 2009, to April 8, 2020. The series follows the lives of three diverse but interrelated fa ...

'', ''

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. It is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea' ...

'', ''

Tony and Grammy awards

Bill Cunliffe William Henry Cunliffe Jr. (born June 26, 1956) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Cunliffe was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He discovered music at an early age, with particular emphasis on classical music as well as jazz ...

(1978) – jazz pianist, composer, arranger; 2009

; won 1989

Thelonious Monk Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the Jazz standard, standard jazz repertoire, includ ...

International Jazz Piano Award; won several Down Beat Awards; 2

Emmy The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award catego ...

nominations; 4

Grammy The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious a ...

nominations *

Thomas Kail Thomas Kail (born January 20, 1977) is an American theatre director, television director and producer, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals '' In the Heights'' and ''Hamilton'', garneri ...

(1999) – director;

winner for ''

'' and nominee for ''

In the Heights ''In the Heights'' is a musical with concept, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is a romance as well as a celebration of community, culture, and aspirations. It is set over the course of thr ...

'' * Jorge Arevalo Mateus (PhD) – 2008

(Best Historical Recording); curator/archivist, Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives (1996–) *

(2002) – creator, composer, lyricist, actor: ''

'' (two

s, 2008, Best Musical and Best Original Score;

, 2009) and ''

'' (three

s, 2016, Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score; Grammy Award, 2016) *

Jeffrey Richards Jeffrey Richards (born c.1945)Chris Arno"Fast Forward: Jeffrey Richards" ''The Guardian'', 11 January 2005 is a British historian. Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University Lancaster ...

(1969) – producer; six

s; including 2012

for Best Revival of a Musical, 2011 The Gershwins' ''Porgy and Bess'' (Paulus adaptation); '' August: Osage County'' (

, five

Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual cere ...

); co-producer, '' Spring Awakening'' (three

) * L. Shankar (PhD) –

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

Indian virtuoso violinist, composer; professor of music; 1994

; 1996

nomination * Bill Sherman (2002) – orchestrator, arranger; 2008

, Best Orchestration (

), 2009

* Frank Wood (1984) –

-winning actor (''

Side Man ''Side Man'' is a memory play by Warren Leight. His inspiration was his father Donald, who worked as a sideman, in jazz parlance a musician for hire who can blend in with the band or star as a solo performer, according to what is required by t ...

''); ''

Angels in America ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'' is a 1991 American two-part Play (theatre), play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The two parts of the play, ''Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'', may be presented separate ...

Academia

Presidents, chancellors, founders

''See also: for listing of additional college presidents.'' * Samuel Rogers Adams (B.A. 1851, M.A. 1856) – president, predecessor of the

University of Evansville The University of Evansville (UE) is a private university in Evansville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 as Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill College, Moores Hill College. The university operates a satellite center, Harlaxton Manor, Harlaxton College ...

(1856–61) * David Allison (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862) – president,

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839. Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccal ...

, Canada (1891–1911); 2nd president, Mount Allison College, Canada (1869–78) * John W. Beach (1845) – 7th president, Wesleyan University (1880–87) *

Joseph Beech Joseph Beech, or Joe Beech as he was more commonly known (October 3, 1867 – February 25, 1954), was an American Methodist missionary and educator, member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, and founding president of the West China Union Univers ...

(1899) – co-founder, 1st president,

West China Union University The West China Union University ( zh, t=華西協合大學), alternatively known as West China University or Huaxi University, was a private Christian university in Chengdu, Sichuan, western China. It was the product of the collective efforts of ...

Chengtu Chengdu; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; previously romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 at the 2020 census, it is the fourth most popu ...

, West China * Douglas J. Bennet (1959) – 15th president, Wesleyan (1995–07) * Katherine Bergeron (1980) – 11th president,

Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. Originally chartered as Thames College, it was founded in 1911 as the state's only women's colle ...

(2014–) * Anthony S. Caprio (1967) – 5th president,

Western New England College Western New England University is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts. Academic programs are provided through its College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, College of Engineering, School of Law, and College of Pharmacy a ...

(since 1996) * Hiram Chodosh (1985) – 5th president elect of

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

(2013–) * Charles Collins (1837) – 1st president,

Emory and Henry College Emory & Henry University (E&H or Emory) is a private university in Emory, Virginia, United States. The campus comprises of Washington County, which is part of the Appalachian highlands of Southwest Virginia. Founded in 1836, Emory & Henry U ...

(1832–52); 11th president,

Dickinson College Dickinson College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered on September 9, 1783, ...

(1852–60) * Edward Cooke (1838) – 1st president,

Lawrence University Lawrence University is a Private college, private liberal arts college and Music school, conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second colle ...

(1853–59); 2nd President,

Claflin University Claflin University is a private historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1869 after the American Civil War by northern missionaries for the education of freedmen and their children, it offers bachelo ...

(

HBCU Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African Americans. Most are in the Southern U ...

) (1872–84); Board of Examiners,

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Joseph Cummings Joseph Cummings (March 3, 1817 – May 7, 1890) was an American academic who served as the 5th president of Wesleyan University from 1857 to 1875, the 5th president of Northwestern University from 1881 to 1890, and the president of Genesee Coll ...

(1840) – 5th president, Wesleyan (1857–75); 5th president,

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

(1881–90); president, predecessor of

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...

(

Genesee College Genesee College was founded as the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, in 1831, by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The college was located in Lima, New York, and eventually relocated to Syracuse, becoming Syracuse University. Genesee Wesleyan Seminary ...

) * W. H. Daniels – interim president, Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, antecedent of

Eastern Nazarene College The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) was a Private university#United States, private, Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. Established as a Holiness Movement, holiness college in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1900, the college m ...

* Joseph Denison (1840) – co-founder, 1st president,

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant coll ...

(1863–73); president,

Baker University Baker University is a private university in Baldwin City, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1858, it was the first four-year university in Kansas and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Baker University is made up of four schools. Th ...

(1874–79); 1st president,

Blue Mont Central College Blue Mont Central College was a Private university, private, Methodist institute of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. The college was incorporated in February 1858, and was the forerunner of Kansas State University. Af ...

Nicholas Dirks Nicholas B. Dirks is an American academic and a former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. ...

(1972) – 10th chancellor-designate,

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

(effective June 1, 2013); professor, anthropology, history, and dean, faculty of arts and sciences,

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

* Paul Douglass – 6th president,

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

(1941–52) *

Gordon P. Eaton Gordon Pryor Eaton (March 9, 1929 – July 2, 2022) was an American geologist. Eaton was born in Dayton, Ohio. Life and career Dr. Eaton graduated from Wesleyan University, with high Honors, High Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi recog ...

(1951) – 12th president,

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

(1986–90) *

Ignatius Alphonso Few Ignatius Alphonso Few was an American attorney, farmer, and preacher who was selected to lead "a school for manual labor", which subsequently failed and was replaced by a program for “sub-freshmen” at the newly established Emory College. Few ...

(1838) – co-founder and first president,

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

* Cyrus David Foss (1854) – 6th president, Wesleyan (1875–80) * E. K. Fretwell (1944) – president,

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo (commonly referred to as UB, University at Buffalo, and sometimes SUNY Buffalo) is a public university, public research university in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. ...

(1967–78); 2nd chancellor,

University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs thr ...

(1979–89); interim president,

University of Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts is the Public university, public university system of the Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Lowell ...

(1991–92); interim president,

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

(1998) * Charles Wesley Gallagher (A.B. 1870, A.M. 1873) – 6th president,

(1889–93) * Bishop John W. Gowdy (1897) – president, Anglo-Chinese College, in

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

, China (1904–23); president,

Fukien Christian University Fujian Normal University () is a public university in Fuzhou, China. FNU has been hailed as the Fujian province's "Cradle of teachers." History Tracing its origin back to Fujian Superior Normal School, founded in 1907, Fujian Normal University ( ...

(1923–27) * A. LeRoy Greason (1944) – 12th president,

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...

(1981–90) * William R. Greiner (1955) – 13th president,

(1991–03); also professor, dean, and provost of the

University at Buffalo Law School The University at Buffalo School of Law (also known as State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, or SUNY Buffalo Law School) is the law school of the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1887, and affiliated with Niagara University until 1 ...

Burton Crosby Hallowell Burton Crosby Hallowell (May 2, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was the ninth president of Tufts University. Early life and education Born in Orleans, Massachusetts, he received bachelor's and master's degrees from Wesleyan University, and his Ph.D. ...

– 9th president,

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

(1967–76) *

Abram W. Harris Abram Winegardner Harris (November 7, 1858 – February 21, 1935) was an American academic, university president, and honor society founder. He the 8th president of Northwestern University, serving from 1906 to 1916. He was also the first preside ...

– 14th president,

(1906–16); 1st president,

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine, United States. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universitie ...

(1896–06); president, Maine State College (1893–96) * Bishop

Erastus Otis Haven Erastus Otis Haven (November 1, 1820 – August 2, 1881) was an Americans, American academic administrator, serving as the 2nd president of the University of Michigan from 1863 to 1869, as the 3rd president of Northwestern University from 1869 to ...

(1842) – 2nd president,

(1863–69); 6th president,

; 2nd Chancellor,

; overseer,

* Clark T. Hinman – 1st president,

(1853–54 (death)); president,

Albion College Albion College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Albion, Michigan. The college was founded in 1835 and its undergraduate population was approximately 1,500 students as of Fall 2021 ...

(1846–53) * Francis S. Hoyt (1844) – 1st president,

Willamette University Willamette University is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college with locations in Salem, Oregon, Salem and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest college in the Western United ...

(1853–60) *

Harry Burns Hutchins Harry Burns Hutchins (April 8, 1847 – January 25, 1930) was the fourth president of the University of Michigan (1909–1920). Biography On April 8, 1847, Harry B. Hutchins was born in Lisbon, New Hampshire. Hutchins got his education at New Ha ...

(1870) – 4th president,

(1910–20), twice acting president; dean,

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati ...

; organized law department,

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

* Isaac J. Lansing (B.A. 1872, graduate student 1872–73, M.A. 1875) – president, predecessor,

Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded on September19, 1865, as Atlanta University, it was the first HBCU in the South ...

(

) (1874–76) * Gregory Mandel – dean at

Temple University Beasley School of Law The James E. Beasley School of Law (known as Temple Law) is the law school of Temple University, a public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1895 and enrolls about 650 students. Student body Admission for the ...

* Oliver Marcy (1846) – twice acting president,

(1876–81, 1890); established the Northwestern University Museum of Natural History, served as its curator * Anthony Marx (1981, attended 1977–79) – 18th president,

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...

(2003–11); president,

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress a ...

(2011–) * Russell Zelotes Mason (B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847) – 2nd president,

(1861–65); acting president (1859–61); mayor,

Appleton, Wisconsin Appleton () is the county seat of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States, with small portions extending into Calumet County, Wisconsin, Calumet and Winnebago County, Wisconsin, Winnebago counties. Located on the Fox River (Green Bay tributary ...

* William Williams Mather (A.M. 1834) – acting president,

Ohio University Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the United States Department of the Treasury#Re ...

(1845) * John McClintock (1834) – 1st president,

Drew Theological Seminary Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey, United States. It has a wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three schools. While affiliated with the Methodism, Me ...

(later,

Drew University Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey, United States. It has a wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three schools. While affiliated with the Methodism, Me ...

) * Frank L. McVey (B.A.) – 4th president,

University of North Dakota The University of North Dakota (UND) is a Public university, public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. It was established by the Dakota Territory, Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishm ...

(1909–17); 3rd president,

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical ...

(1917–40); economist * Bishop

Samuel Sobieski Nelles Samuel Sobieski Nelles (October 17, 1823 – October 17, 1887) was a Canadian Methodist minister and academic. Born in Mount Pleasant in what was then Upper Canada, Nelles was the eldest son of William Nelles and Mary Hardy who had immigrate ...

(1846) – 1st chancellor, president,

Victoria University in the University of Toronto Victoria University is a federated college of the University of Toronto located at the St. George campus in Downtown Toronto. The school was founded in 1836 by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada as a nonsectarian literary institution. From ...

, Ontario, Canada (1884–87); president, Victoria College *

John W. North John Wesley North (January 4, 1815 – February 22, 1890) was an American Abolitionism, abolitionist, lawyer, and politician. A founder of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party of Minnesota, North also served in Minnesota's const ...

– co-founder,

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

; founding member of its board of regents (1851–60); wrote university's

charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the ...

* Henry S. Noyes (1848) – twice interim president,

(1854–56, 1860–67) *

Kennedy Odede Kennedy Odede is a Kenyan social entrepreneur and author. Odede is the co-founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO), a movement based in Nairobi, Kenya, and New York, USA. Odede was awarded the 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship and ...

(2012); founder of

Shining Hope for Communities Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) is a grassroots movement based in Nairobi, Kenya in urban slums providing services, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls. SHOFCO serves more than 350,000 ...

, Nairobi, Kenya * Brother John R. Paige (M.A.) – president, Holy Cross College (2010–); prior vicar general, the

Congregation of Holy Cross The Congregation of Holy Cross (), abbreviated CSC, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in 1837 by Basil Moreau, in Le Mans, France. Moreau also founded the Marianites of Holy Cross for women, n ...

in Rome * Bishop Charles Henry Payne (A.B. 1856, A.M. 1859) – 3rd president,

Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio Wesleyan University (abbrevriated OWU) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Ohio Valley, Centra ...

(1876–88) * Humphrey Pickard (B.A. 1839) – 1st president, Mount Allison Wesleyan College, Canada (later known as

) (1862–1869) * Matias Perez y Ponce (B.A.) – founder and first president, Cagayan Teachers College (Philippine Islands) (1948–1968) * John A. Randall (1881) – 4th president,

Rochester Institute of Technology The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, private research university in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York, Rochester. It was founded in 1829. It is one of only two institute of technology, institut ...

(1922–36) * George Edward Reed (1869) – 15th president,

(1889–1911); with William Tickett, re-established

Dickinson School of Law Penn State Dickinson Law, formerly Dickinson School of Law, is a public law school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is one of two separately accredited law schools of Pennsylvania State University. History The Law School offers J.D. and LL.M. ...

in 1890 * David Rhodes (1968) – 2nd president,

School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. History This school was started by Silas ...

(incumbent as of 2010) * Edward Loranus Rice (A.B. 1892, Sc.D. 1927) – acting president,

(1938–39); biologist; scientific consultant to

Clarence Darrow Clarence Seward Darrow (; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high-profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the ...

before Scopes Trial *

William North Rice William North Rice (1845–1928) was an American geologist, educator, and Methodist minister and theologian concerned with reconciliation of science and religious faith. Early life and education Rice was born November 21, 1845, in Marblehead, ...

(1865) – three-time acting president, Wesleyan University (1907, 1908–09, 1918); geologist, earned first PhD. in geology granted by

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

* B. T. Roberts – founder, predecessor of

Roberts Wesleyan College Roberts Wesleyan University is a private Christian university in suburban Rochester, New York, United States. Anchored in the liberal arts, it was the first educational institution established for Free Methodists in North America. Roberts is ac ...

(named in his honor) *

Michael S. Roth Michael Scott Roth (born April 8, 1957) is an American academic and university administrator. He became the 16th president of Wesleyan University in 2007. Formerly, he was the 8th president of the California College of the Arts (2000–2007), asso ...

(1978) – 16th president, Wesleyan University (since 2007); 8th president,

California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in ...

(2000–07) *

Richard S. Rust Richard Sutton Rust (September 12, 1815 – December 22, 1906) was an American Methodist preacher, abolitionist, educator, writer, lecturer, secretary of the Freedmen's Bureau, and founder of the Freedmen's Aid Society. He also helped found mult ...

(1841) – co-founder, 1st president,

Wilberforce University Wilberforce University (WU) is a private university in Wilberforce, Ohio. It is one of three historically black universities established before the American Civil War. Founded in 1856 by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), it is named after ...

(

); co-founder,

Rust College Rust College is a private historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Founded in 1866, it is the second-oldest private college in the state. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it is one of ten historically black colleges ...

(HBCU) (named in his honor) * Richard W. Schneider (M.A. 1973) – 23rd president,

Norwich University Norwich University is a private university in Northfield, Vermont, United States. The university was founded in 1819 as the "American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy". It is the oldest of six senior military college, senior militar ...

(since 1992) *

Edwin O. Smith Edwin Oscar Smith (1871 – October 28, 1960) was a Connecticut politician who served 28 years in the Connecticut House of Representatives and, from April through September, 1908, was president of the Connecticut Agricultural College, which is ...

(1893) – acting president, Connecticut Agricultural College (now the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

) (1908) * George Mckendree Steele (B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853) 3rd president

(1865–79) * Samuel Nowell Stevens (1921) – 9th president,

Grinnell College Grinnell College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalis ...

(1940–54) * Harold Syrett (1935) – President of

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

Beverly Daniel Tatum Beverly Christine Daniel Tatum (born September 27, 1954) is an American psychologist, administrator, and educator who has conducted research and written books on the topic of racism. Focusing specifically on race in education, racial identity dev ...

(1975) – 9th president,

Spelman College Spelman College is a Private college, private, Historically black colleges and universities, historically black, Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia ...

(

) (2002–); acting president,

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the h ...

(2002) *

John Hanson Twombly John Hanson Twombly (July 19, 1814 – January 1, 1893) was a Methodist minister and the fourth president of the University of Wisconsin. He was known as an advocate for co-education and women's education, which led to tensions with the universit ...

(1843) – 5th president,

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

(1871–74); co-founder,

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

; overseer,

* Joseph Urgo (M.A.) – president,

St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) is a Public college, public Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in St. Mary's City, Maryland.Maryland State Archives, Online Manual, "St. Mary's College Of Maryland: Origin & Fun ...

(since 2010); former acting president,

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, Clinton, New York. It was established as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and received its c ...

(2009) *

Daniel C. Van Norman Daniel C. Van Norman (August 17, 1815 - June 24, 1886) was a Canadian educator, clergyman, and school founder, who later moved to New York City. Early life and education Daniel Cummings Van Norman was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Nelson, P ...

(1838) – educator, clergyman, and school founder *

John Monroe Van Vleck John Monroe Van Vleck (March 4, 1833 – November 4, 1912) was an American mathematician and astronomer. He taught astronomy and mathematics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for more than 50 years (1853–1912) and served as a ...

(1850) – twice acting president, Wesleyan (1872–73, 1887–89); astronomer, mathematician * Francis Voigt (1962) – co-founder, president,

New England Culinary Institute The New England Culinary Institute (NECI) was a private for-profit culinary school in Montpelier, Vermont. It was open for 40 years before shutting down as result of the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the ...

(incumbent as of 2010) * Clarence Abiathar Waldo (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – twice acting president,

Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) is a private university in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. It was founded in 1874 and houses twelve academic departments with over thirty undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, en ...

(1885–86, 1888–89); mathematician *

Henry White Warren Henry White Warren (1831–1912) was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop and author. William Fairfield Warren was his brother. Biography Henry White Warren was born at Williamsburg, Massachusetts on January 4, 1831. He graduated in 1853 ...

(1853) – co-founder,

Iliff School of Theology Iliff School of Theology is a private graduate Methodist theological school in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1892, the school's campus is adjacent to the University of Denver. Iliff is one of thirteen United Methodist Church seminaries in th ...

William Fairfield Warren William Fairfield Warren (March 13, 1833 – December 7, 1929) was the first president of Boston University. Biography Born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, he graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1853), and there beca ...

(1853) – co-founder,

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

in 1870; 1st President,

(1873–03); acting president,

Boston University School of Theology The Boston University School of Theology (STH) is the oldest theological seminary of American Methodism and the founding school of Boston University, the largest private research university in New England. It is one of thirteen theological sc ...

(1866–73) * Robert Weisbuch (1968) – 11th president,

(since 2005); former president,

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) is a nonpartisan, non-profit institution based in Princeton, New Jersey that says it aims to strengthen American democracy by "cultivating ...

* Herbert George Welch (B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890) – 5th president,

(1905–16) * Bishop

Erastus Wentworth Erastus Wentworth (; Pinyin: ''Wànwéi''; Foochow Romanized: ''Uâng-ùi''; August 5, 1813 – May 26, 1886) was an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to Fuzhou, China. Life Dr. Wentworth was born in Stonington, Conne ...

(B.A. 1837) – 7th president,

McKendree College McKendree University (McK), formerly McKendree College, is a private university in Lebanon, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1828 as the "Lebanon Seminary", it is the oldest college or university in Illinois. The school was renamed McKendree ...

(1846–50) * Georg Whitaker (1861) – 4th president,

Wiley College Wiley University (formerly Wiley College) is a private historically black college in Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, it is one of the ...

(1888–91) (

); 7th president,

(1891–93); president,

Portland University Portland University was a private, Methodist post-secondary school in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1891 in a split from Willamette University, the school closed in 1900. The campus was located in what is now the University Park ne ...

Alexander Winchell Alexander Winchell (December 31, 1824, in North East, New York – February 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American geologist who contributed to this field mainly as an educator and a popular lecturer and writer. His views on evolutio ...

(B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850) – 1st chancellor,

(1872–74) * Elizabeth C. Wright (1897) – principal co-counder and secretary, registrar, and later 1st bursar,

* Henry Merritt Wriston (B.A. 1911, M.A.) – 11th president,

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

(1937–55); 8th president,

(1925–37); father of

Walter B. Wriston Walter Bigelow Wriston (August 3, 1919 – January 19, 2005) was an American banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp. As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp (later Citigroup) from 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single ...

(see below)

Professors and scholars

David Abram David Abram is an American ecologist and philosopher best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He is the author of ''Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology'' (2010) and ' ...

(1980) – philosopher, cultural ecologist *

Kenneth R. Andrews Kenneth Richmond Andrews (May 24, 1916 – September 4, 2005), was an American academic who, along with H. Igor Ansoff and Alfred D. Chandler, was credited with the foundational role in introducing and popularizing the concept of business strate ...

(M.A. 1932) – academic credited with foundational role (at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

) in introducing, popularizing concept of

business strategy In the field of management, strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's managers on behalf of stakeholders, based on consideration of resources and an assessment of ...

Elliot Aronson Elliot Aronson (born January 9, 1932) is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that facilitates learning while reducing i ...

(M.A. 1956) – among 100 most eminent psychologist of 20th century *

John William Atkinson John William Atkinson (December 31, 1923 – October 27, 2003), also known as Jack Atkinson, was an American psychologist who pioneered the scientific study of human motivation, achievement and behavior. He was a World War II veteran, teacher, sc ...

(1947) – psychologist, pioneered the scientific study of human

motivation Motivation is an mental state, internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particul ...

, achievement, and behavior *

Wilbur Olin Atwater Wilbur Olin Atwater (May 3, 1844 – September 22, 1907) was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. He is credited with developing t ...

(1865) – chemist, leader in development of agricultural chemistry * Adam J. Berinsky (1992) – professor of political science,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

Albert Francis Blakeslee Albert Francis Blakeslee (November 9, 1874 – November 16, 1954) was an American botanist. He is best known for his research on the poisonous jimsonweed plant and the sexuality of fungi. He was the brother of the Far East scholar George Hubbard ...

(1896) – botanist, director of the

; professor,

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smit ...

George Hubbard Blakeslee George Hubbard Blakeslee (August 27, 1871 in Geneseo, New YorkBLAKESLEE, George Hubb ...

(A.B. 1893, A.M. 1897) – professor of history,

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research uni ...

; founded the first American journal devoted to international relations *

Jennifer Finney Boylan Jennifer Finney Boylan (born June 22, 1958) is an American author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the ''New York Times''. In December 2023, she became the president of PEN America ...

(1980) – author, professor of English,

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, United States. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed Waterville College in 1821. The donations of Christian philanthropist Gardner ...

(1988–) *

Lael Brainard Lael Brainard (born January 1, 1962) is an American economist who served as the 14th director of the National Economic Council from 2023 to 2025. She previously served as the 22nd vice chair of the Federal Reserve between May 2022 and February 2 ...

– former professor of applied economics,

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

Kenneth Bruffee Kenneth Bruffee (September 1, 1934–January 20, 2019) was an American writing center administrator and professor emeritus in the department of English at Brooklyn College. Background Bruffee published the first peer tutoring handbook, ''A Short ...

– emeritus professor of English; wrote first peer tutoring handbook * Leonard Burman (1975) – economist, tax-policy expert; Professor of public affairs,

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Maxwell School) is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 1 ...

* Leslie Cannold (1987) – academic ethicist; Australian

public intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the wor ...

John Bissell Carroll John Bissell Carroll (June 5, 1916 – July 1, 2003) was an American psychologist known for his contributions to psychology, linguistics and psychometrics.Stansfield, Charles W. “Carroll, John Bissell.” ''Concise Encyclopedia of Educatio ...

(1937) – psychologist; known for his contributions to psychology, educational

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

psychometrics Psychometrics is a field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement. Psychometrics generally covers specialized fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and rela ...

* John C. Cavadini (B.A. 1975) – professor and chair, Theology Department,

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

;

Vatican Vatican may refer to: Geography * Vatican City, an independent city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy * Vatican Hill, in Rome, namesake of Vatican City * Ager Vaticanus, an alluvial plain in Rome * Vatican, an unincorporated community in the ...

adviser;

Order of St. Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (; ) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. The order is one of the five Papal order of knighthood, orders of knighthood of th ...

KC Chan Chan Ka Keung Ceajer (, born 10 February 1957), also referred to as KC Chan, is a Hong Kong politician and economist who previously served as the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury. He is also the ''ex officio'' chairman of th ...

– former professor of finance and dean, business management,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991, it was the territory's third institution to be granted university status, and the firs ...

; Hong Kong Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (since 2007); *

Arthur W. Chickering Arthur Wright Chickering (April 27, 1927 – August 15, 2020) was an American educational researcher in the field of student affairs. He was known for his contribution to student development theories. In 1990 he was appointed Dean of the Graduat ...

(1950) – educational researcher; known for contributions to

student development theories Student development theory refers to a body of scholarship that seeks to understand and explain the developmental processes of how students learn, grow, and develop in post-secondary education.Patton, L. D., Renn, K. A., Guido, F. M., & Quaye, S. J. ...

* John H. Coatsworth (1963) – historian of Latin America;

provost Provost may refer to: Officials Ecclesiastic * Provost (religion), a high-ranking church official * Prince-provost, a high-ranking church official Government * Provost (civil), an officer of local government, including the equivalent ...

; dean,

School of International and Public Affairs The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the List of schools of international relations in the United States, international affairs and public policy school, public policy school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League univers ...

(2007–12) * Marion Cohen (PhD in mathematics ( distribution theory)) – mathematician and poet * Kate Cooper – Professor of Ancient History at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

, England * Jeffrey N. Cox (1975) – professor of English literature; leading scholar of late 18th- to early 19th-century theater and drama *

Norman Daniels thumb Norman Daniels (born 1942) is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science, political theorist, ethicist, and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Har ...

(1964) – philosopher, ethicist, and bioethicist,

Ram Dass Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book '' Be Here Now'', which has been d ...

(M.A.) – former professor of psychology,

; spiritual teacher; wrote book '' Be Here Now'' * Marc Davis (1989) – founding director, Yahoo! Research Berkeley *

Walter Dearborn Walter Fenno Dearborn (July 19, 1878 – June 21, 1955) was a pioneering American educator and experimental psychologist who helped to establish the field of reading education. Dearborn, who approached the study of psychology from the perspective ...

(B.A. 1900, M.A.) – pioneering educator, experimental psychologist; helped establish field of

reading education Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word r ...

; longtime professor,

Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those ...

(attended) – professor of philosophy,

;

Jean Nicod Prize The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. The lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as part of its effort to promote int ...

* Stephen M. Engel – political scientist, professor at

Bates College Bates College () is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian ...

(1998–) *

Raymond D. Fogelson Raymond David Fogelson (August 23, 1933 - January 20, 2020) was an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee. He is considered a founder of the subdiscipline of et ...

–

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

; a founder of the subdiscipline of

ethnohistory Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may ...

; professor,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

Virginia Page Fortna Virginia Page Fortna is an American political scientist, a specialist in the study of peace negotiations. She is currently the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy at Columbia University. She is the recipient of the 2010 Kar ...

(1990) – professor of political science at

* Michael Foster – professor of Japanese literature, culture, and folklore; author *

Daniel Z. Freedman Daniel Zissel Freedman (born 1939 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American theoretical physicist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is currently a visiting profes ...

– physicist, professor of physics and

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...

; co-discovered

supergravity In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory; SUGRA for short) is a modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as ...

(1975) –

; fellow,

* Mark H. Gelber (1972) – American-Israeli scholar of comparative literature and German-Jewish literature and culture * Gayatri Gopinath (1994) – scholar of social and cultural analysis; director, Asian/

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

American Studies American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, History of the United States, history, Society of the United States, society, and Culture of the Unit ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Adolf Grünbaum Adolf Grünbaum (; ; May 15, 1923 – November 15, 2018) was a German-American philosopher of science and a critic of both psychoanalysis and Karl Popper's philosophy of science. He was the first Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the Unive ...

(1943) –

philosopher of science Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and critic of

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

and

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

Saidiya Hartman Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) is an American academic and writer focusing on African-American studies. She is currently a professor at Columbia University in their English department. Her work focuses on African-American literature, cultural histo ...

– professor of African-American literature and history,

(as of 2010) * Robert H. Hayes (1958) –

Philip Caldwell Philip Caldwell (January 27, 1920 – July 10, 2013) was the first person to run the Ford Motor Company (after John S. Gray) who was not a member of the Ford family. He orchestrated one of the most dramatically successful turnarounds in busi ...

Professor of Business Administration (1966–2000), Emeritus (since 2001),

Ole Holsti Olavi Rudolf Holsti (August 7, 1933 – July 2, 2020) was a Finnish-American political scientist and academic. He held the position of George V. Allen Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Duke University. He was noted for his writings on i ...

(MAT 1956) – political scientist,

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

(1974–1998), emeritus chair (since 1998); creator,

inherent bad faith model The inherent bad faith model of information processing is a theory in political psychology that was first put forth by Ole Holsti to explain the relationship between John Foster Dulles's beliefs and model of information processing. It is the most ...

Gerald Holton Gerald James Holton (born May 23, 1922) is a German-born American physicist, historian of science, and educator, whose professional interests also include philosophy of science and the fostering of careers of young men and women. He is Mallinck ...

(1941) – emeritus professor of physics and professor of the

History of Physics Physics is a branch of science in which the primary objects of study are matter and energy. These topics were discussed across many cultures in ancient times by philosophers, but they had no means to distinguish causes of natural phenomena fro ...

William G. Howell William G. Howell (born September 18, 1971) is an American political scientist and author. He is the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy. He was previously the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at Chicag ...

(1993) – Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at Chicago Harris and a professor in the Department of Political Science and the College at

the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, near the shore of Lake Michigan about fr ...

Shelly Kagan Shelly Ian Kagan (; born 1956) is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1995. He is best known for his writings about moral philosophy and normative ethics. In 2007, Kagan's course about death was offered ...

– Clark Professor of Philosophy,

; former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics, Yale University *

Douglas Kahn Douglas Kahn (born 1951 in Bremerton, Washington, USA) is known for his historical and theoretical writings on the use of sound in the avant-garde and experimental arts and music, energies in the arts, and history and theory of the media arts. Hi ...

(M.A. 1987) – Professor of Media and Innovation, National Institute for Experimental Arts,

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949. The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...

; Professor Emeritus in Science and Technology Studies,

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

; 2006

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

* Edwin W. Kemmerer – economist; economic adviser to foreign governments worldwide; professor,

William L. Lane William L. Lane (1931– March 8, 1999) was an American New Testament theologian and professor of biblical studies. Background and education Lane earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his M.Div. from Gordon Divinity School (1955), his Th. ...

–

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

theologian and professor of biblical studies *

Seth Lerer Seth Lerer (born 1955) is an American scholar and Professor of English. He specializes in historical analyses of the English language, and in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, particularly Geoffrey Chaucer. He is a Dist ...

(1976) – professor of English and comparative literature,

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Peter Lipton Peter Lipton (October 9, 1954 – November 25, 2007) was the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and a fellow of King's College, until his unexpected death in Novem ...

(1976) –

Hans Rausing Hans Anders Rausing, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE (25 March 1926 – 30 August 2019) was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist based in the United Kingdom. He made his fortune from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak ...

professor and head of the Department of

History and Philosophy of Science The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there ...

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

* Richard M. Locke (1981) – Provost, Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at

; former deputy dean,

* Silas Laurence Loomis (1844) – professor of chemistry, physiology, and toxicology,

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

* Delmar R. Lowell – historian and

genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their Lineage (anthropology), lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family ...

Saree Makdisi Saree Makdisi (born 1964) is an American literary critic and professor; specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. He is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Ma ...

(1987) – professor of English and comparative literature,

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

; also literary critic *

Harold Marcuse Harold Marcuse (born 1957 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American professor of modern and contemporary German history and public history. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Pat Dowell"German Filmmaker Tackles the Holocaust ...

(physics, 1979) – professor of modern and contemporary

German history The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as ''Germania'', thus distinguishing it from Gaul. The victory of the Cherusci, Germanic tribes ...

* Harold Marks – British educator *

David McClelland David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation need theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the ...

(1938) – noted for his work on

achievement motivation Need for achievement is a person's desire for significant accomplishment, mastery of skills, control, or high standards. The psychometric device designed to measure need-for-achievement, N-Ach, was popularized by the psychologist David McClelland. ...

; co-creator of scoring system for

Thematic Apperception Test The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective psychological test developed during the 1930s by Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan at Harvard University. Proponents of the technique assert that subjects' responses, in the narratives ...

; professor,

* Lee C. McIntyre –

Elmer Truesdell Merrill Elmer Truesdell Merrill (1860 – 20 April 1936) was an American Latin scholar, born at Millville, Massachusetts. Merrill graduated from Wesleyan University in 1881. He is primarily remembered for his student edition of the Roman poet Catullus and ...

(1881) – Latin scholar; professor of Latin,

* Joseph C. Miller (1961) – professor of history,

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...

(since 1972) *

Indiana Neidell Indiana Richard Alexander Neidell (born 28 September 1967) is an American-Swedish documentarian, historian, actor, voice actor, musician and YouTube personality, best known for presenting the video series, ''The Great War'' on '' The Great War Ch ...

(1989) – historian, host and lead writer of The Great War YouTube channel *

Eugene Allen Noble Eugene Allen Noble (March 5, 1865 – June 28, 1948) was an American academic and Methodist minister. He served as president of three institutions: Centenary University from 1902 to 1908, Goucher College from 1908 to 1911, and Dickinson College fro ...

(1891) – president of

Centenary University Centenary University is a private university in Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States. Founded as a College-preparatory school, preparatory school by the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867, Centenary evolved into a Jun ...

1902–1908, 3rd president of

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a Nonsectarian, nonsecterian Women's colleges in the United States, ...

1908–1911, 16th president of

1911–1914 * Tavia Nyong'o (B.A.) – historian,

Kenyan The Demographics of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in East Africa. Its total population was at 47,558,296 as of the 2019 census. A national census was conducted in 1999, although t ...

-American cultural critic; professor,

;

Marshall Scholarship The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is considered among the most prestigious scholarsh ...

* Thomas Pickard – Canadian professor of mathematics,

(1848–1869) * Horace Jacobs Rice (1905) – lawyer, Associate Dean,

Northeastern University School of Law The Northeastern University School of Law is the law school of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. History Northeastern University School of Law was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in 1898 as the f ...

, Dean of the College of Western New England School of Law from *

Paul North Rice Paul North Rice (February 9, 1888 – April 16, 1967) was an American librarian who served as Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library, Executive Secretary of the Association of Research Libraries and President of the Ame ...

(1910) – librarian, Director of Reference at the

, Director of NYU libraries, Director of the Wesleyan University Library 1953-56 *

Edward Bennett Rosa Edward Bennett Rosa (4 October 1873, Rogersville, New York, Rogersville, Steuben County, New York, Steuben County – 17 May 1921, Washington, D. C.) was an American physicist, specialising in measurement science. He received B.S. at Wesleyan Un ...

(1886) –

Elliott Cresson Medal The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848. Th ...

Franklin Institute The Franklin Institute is a science museum and a center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named after the American scientist and wikt:statesman, statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin ...

; professor of physics (1891–1901) *

Juliet Schor Juliet B. Schor (born 1955) is an American economist and Sociology Professor at Boston College. She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic inequality, and concerns ab ...

– professor, sociology,

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

; professor, economics (for 17 years),

Sanford L. Segal Sanford Leonard Segal ( – ) was a mathematician and historian of science and mathematics at the University of Rochester. Mathematically he specialized in analytic number theory, and complex analysis. He wrote the textbook ''Nine Introductions i ...

(1958) mathematician, professor of mathematics, historian of science and mathematics *

Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky (; born 1938, Fall River, Massachusetts) is professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a prolific author on policy and politics in Israel and the United States. He regul ...

(1960) professor emeritus, political science,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

; fellow National Academy of Public Administration (United States), National Academy of Public Administration * Steven M. Sheffrin (1972) economist and expert on property tax limitations in the U.S. * Horst Siebert – Demographics of Germany, German economist; chair, economic theory, University of Kiel (1989–2003), University of Konstanz (1984–89), University of Mannheim (1969–84) * Neil Asher Silberman – archaeologist and historian * Richard Slotkin (MAEE) – professor of American studies (appears above), published by Wesleyan University Press * Charles H. Smith (historian of science), Charles H. Smith (1972) – historian of science * Robert Stalnaker – Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy,

; delivered the 2006–2007 John Locke Lectures at Oxford University * H. Eugene Stanley (1962) – recipient, 2004 Boltzmann Medal; professor of physics,

* John Stauffer (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, MALS 1991) historian, 2002 Frederick Douglass Prize; chair, History of American Civilization and professor of English, Harvard *

(1921) – 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence; recipient, Légion d'honneur; professor and journalist,

in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor (1955–1970), emeritus (1970) * Mark C. Taylor (philosopher), Mark C. Taylor (1968) – philosopher of religion, professor and chair of religion,

* Lawrence Rogers Thompson (B.A.) – 1971

; professor of English,

* Edward Thorndike (1895) – psychologist; work led to theory of connectionism in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy of mind * Lynn Thorndike (1902) –

; historian; former professor,

* Robert L. Thorndike (1941) – psychometrician and educational psychologist * Robert M. Thorndike (1965) – professor of psychology known for several definitive textbooks on research procedures and

* Charles Tiebout (1950) – economist; known for his development of Tiebout model; free rider problem; feet voting * Aaron Louis Treadwell (B.S. 1888, M.S. 1890) – professor, biology and zoology, Vassar College * Albert E. Van Dusen (MA, PhD) – historian, professor of history,

(1949–1983); Connecticut State Historian (1952–1985) * Edward Burr Van Vleck (1884) – mathematician; professor,

* Christian K. Wedemeyer (1991) – history of religions faculty, University of Chicago Divinity School * William Stone Weedon (M.S.) – University Professor,

(philosophy, mathematics, logic, linguistic analysis) * Kenneth D. West (1973) – professor of economics,

; developed (with Whitney K. Newey) the Newey-West estimator *

(1847) – professor of physics and civil engineering, professor of geology and paleontology at

* Caleb Thomas Winchester (1869) – scholar of English literature

Art and architecture

* Natalia Alonso (economics 2000) – professional dancer, Complexions Contemporary Ballet; former dancer, Ballet Hispanico * Steven Badanes (1967) – architect; known for his practice, teaching of design/build * I Made Bandem (PhD, ethnomusicology) – Balinese people, Balinese dancer, author; rector, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta * Meredith Bergmann (1976) – sculptor, ''Women's Memorial'' (Boston) * Lisa Brown (artist), Lisa Brown (1993) – illustrator, author * Momodou Ceesay (artist), Momodou Ceesay (1970) – African fine artist and writer * George Fisk Comfort – founder, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art * Bradshaw Crandell – artist and illustrator; known as the "artist of the stars" * Jeffrey Deitch (1974) – art dealer, curator, and, since 2010, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) * Vincent Fecteau (1992) – sculptor; work in permanent collections, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art * Ralph Carlin Flewelling – architect * Ellen Forney (1989) – cartoonist; nomination, 2007 Eisner Award; illustrated winner, 2007 National Book Award * Danny Forster (1999) – architect; host, ''Extreme Engineering'' and ''Build It Bigger'' * Renée Green – artist, sculptor; professor, MIT School of Architecture and Planning * Lyle Ashton Harris (1988) – artist; collage, installation art, performance art * Rachel Harrison (artist), Rachel Harrison (1989) – contemporary sculptor; multimedia artist; Alexander Calder, Calder Prize * Morrison Heckscher (1962) – art historian and retired curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art * Dana Hoey (1989) – visual artist working with photography * Jonathan Horowitz (1987) – multimedia artist; sculptor, sound installations * Wayne Howard (1971) – graphic artist; created ''Midnight Tales'' * Bruce Eric Kaplan – cartoonist (''The New Yorker''); television writer (''Six Feet Under (TV series), Six Feet Under''; ''Seinfeld'') * Stephan Koplowitz (1979) – choreographer, director; 2004 Alpert Awards in the Arts, Alpert Award in the Arts * Abigail Levine – choreographer, dancer * C. Stanley Lewis – artist, professor of art * Paul Lewis (architect), Paul Lewis 1998 – Rome Prize; director, Graduate Studies,

School of Architecture; principal, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects), LTL Architects * Glenn Ligon – contemporary conceptual artist; work in collection of the White House * Nava Lubelski (1990) – contemporary artist * Thomas McKnight (artist), Thomas McKnight – artist; work commissioned by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton and in the permanent collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institution * Alix Olson (1997) – performance artist, award-winning slam poet * Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Jill Snyder (1979) – executive director, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland * John Spike (1973) – art historian of Italian Renaissance; contemporary art critic * Jim Sugar – photographer * Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1834–1837) – antebellum humorist, painter, illustrator, author * Lori Verderame (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, MLS) – best known as "Dr. Lor"; appraiser, TV show ''Auction Kings'' * Robert Vickrey – artist and author; collections in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art * Ben Weiner (2003) – contemporary artist; oil painting, video * Chris Wink – co-founder, Blue Man Group and Blue Man Creativity Center

Business

* Robert Allbritton (1992) – chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), Allbritton Communications; publisher, Politico *

(M.A. 1932) – credited with foundational role (at

) in introducing, popularizing concept of

* Douglas J. Bennet – former CEO, National Public Radio (1983–93) * William Nanda Bissell, William Bissell – sole managing director, Fabindia (1993–) * Jonathan S. Bush – co-founder, president, CEO, athenahealth (as of 2012) *

– ex-officio chairman, Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (2007–11); former director, Hong Kong Futures Exchange * Chirathivat family, Tos Chirathivat (1985) – CEO, Central Group, Central Retail * Robert Crispin (1968) – former president, CEO, ING Group Investment Management Americas (2001–07) * Ron Daniel (businessman), D. Ronald Daniel (1952) – managing partner (1976–88), McKinsey & Company; developed concept, critical success factors * Charles E. Exley, Jr. (1951) – president (1976–91), chairman (1984–91), CEO (1983–91), NCR Corporation * Mallory Factor – merchant banker * John B. Frank (B.A.) – managing principal (since 2007), general counsel (2001–06), Oaktree Capital Management * Mansfield Freeman (1916) – one of original founders, AIG; philanthropist * Jim Friedlich – media executive, Dow Jones & Company (1990–00); founding partner, ZelnickMedia (2001–11); founding partner, Empirical Media Advisors (since 2011) * Pete Ganbarg (1988) – president of A&R, Atlantic Records (as of 2017) * John Hagel III (1972) – co-chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation (as of 2012); coined the term "infomediary" * Henry I. Harriman – co-founder, New England Power Company * Charles James (attorney), Charles James (1976) – vice president and general counsel, ChevronTexaco * Herb Kelleher (1953) – founder, chairman, president, CEO, Southwest Airlines; chair, board of governors, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (2011–13) * Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. (1983) – co-founder, president (as of 2012), Marwood Group (Wall Street investment firm); attorney (disability law) * George M. La Monte (1884) – chairman, Prudential Insurance Company * Gary Loveman (1982) – president of the Aetna Inc. subsidiary Healthagen (since 2015); former chairman and former CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation; former professor, Harvard School of Business * John Macy – president, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1969–72); ran the Better Business Bureaus, Council of Better Business Bureau (1972–1979) * Tom Matlack (1986) – entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author * Nick Meyer – president, Paramount Vantage (until December 2008); former president, Lionsgate International, a division of Lionsgate Studios * Candace Nelson – founder, Sprinkles Cupcakes (2005); pastry chef; judge, television series ''Cupcake Wars'' (since 2010) * Chuck Pagano (ESPN), Chuck Pagano (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, MALS) – chief technology officer, executive vice president of technology, ESPN; ''Sporting News'' "Power 100" list (2003 and 2006) * Tom Rogers (executive), Tom Rogers (1976) – president, CEO, TiVo (since 2005); former chairman, CEO, Primedia; former president, NBC Universal Cable, NBC Cable; founded CNBC, established MSNBC * Jonathan I. Schwartz (1987) – president (2004–10), CEO (2006–10), Sun Microsystems; founder, CEO, Lighthouse Design (1989–96) * Marc Shmuger (1980) – chairman, Universal Pictures (until October 2009) * Jonathan Soros (1992) – hedge fund manager and political donor; son of George Soros * Steve Spinner – business executive, known for his work as an angel investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups * Gideon Stein – founder, former CEO, Omnipod, Inc. (now a division of NortonLifeLock, Symantec) * Gerald Tsai (1947–48) – founder, CEO, Primerica; pioneered use of performance funds * Laura Ruth Walker (1979) – president, CEO, WNYC, WNYC Public Radio Station, largest public-radio station in nation; named one of NYC's Most Powerful Women by ''Crain Communications, Crain's New York Business'' (2009) * Dan Wolf (1979) – founder, president, CEO, Cape Air (since 1988) * Luke Wood (1991) – president, chief operating officer, Beats Electronics *

(1941) – commercial banker; former chairman (1979–84), CEO (1967–84), Citibank and Citicorp * Strauss Zelnick (1979) – CEO (2011–), chairman (2007–), Take-Two Interactive; founder, managing partner, ZelnickMedia (2001–); president, chief operating officer (1989–93), 20th Century Fox; CEO, Sony BMG, BMG Entertainment (1998–2000)

Film, television, acting

''See also: ''

Writers

* Carter Bays (1997) – writer, creator, executive producer, ''How I Met Your Mother'' * Mark Bomback – screenwriter * Jennifer Crittenden (1992) – writer, producer; two Humanitas Prizes, ''Seinfeld'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' * Ed Decter (1979) – screenwriter, ''There's Something About Mary'', ''The Santa Clause 2'', ''The Santa Clause 3'' * Jennifer Flackett (1986) – screen/television writer, film director; ''Madeline (1998 film), Madeline'', ''Wimbledon (film), Wimbledon'', ''Little Manhattan'', ''Nim's Island'' and ''Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 theatrical film), Journey to the Center of the Earth'' * Liz Friedman – writer, producer; ''Xena: Warrior Princess'', ''Hack (American TV series), Hack'', ''The O.C.'', ''Numbers (TV series), Numb3rs'', ''House (TV series), House''; co-creator, writer, executive producer, ''Young Hercules'' * Liz W. Garcia (1999) – Television writer, writer and producer; ''Dawson's Creek'', ''Wonderfalls'', ''Cold Case (TV series), Cold Case''; co-created Turner Network Television, TNT series ''Memphis Beat'' * David H. Goodman (1995) – television writer and producer, ''Fringe (TV series), Fringe'', ''Without a Trace'' *Katie Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981), activist, comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, political commentator; host of ''The Katie Halper Show''; co-host of ''Useful Idiots (podcast), Useful Idiots'' with Aaron Maté * Willy Holtzman – screenwriter, playwright; Humanitas Prize,

* Alex Kurtzman – film, television screenwriter, producer; film: ''The Legend of Zorro'', ''Mission: Impossible III'', ''Transformers (film), Transformers'', ''Cowboys & Aliens'', ''Star Trek (2009 film), Star Trek'', ''Star Trek Into Darkness''; television: ''Fringe (TV series), Fringe'' * Catie Lazarus – writer, storyteller and talk show host * Brett Matthews (1999) – writer, TV shows and comics * Kate Purdy (2001) – Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation; writer, producer, ''Cougar Town'', ''Enlisted (TV series), Enlisted'', ''The McCarthys'', ''Bojack Horseman''; co-creator, writer, executive producer, ''Undone (TV series), Undone'' * Craig Thomas (screenwriter), Craig Thomas (1997) – writer, creator, executive producer ''How I Met Your Mother'' *

(1987) – creator of ''

'', ''

'' and screenwriter & director ''

'' * Zack Whedon (2002) – screenwriter * Mike White (scriptwriter), Mike White (1992) – two

s; co-creator, screenwriter, ''Enlightened (TV series), Enlightened'', ''

'', ''Orange County (film), Orange County'', ''

'', ''The White Lotus''

Directors

– television director, cinematographer (''

'', ''

'', ''Orange is the New Black'') * Michael Arias (attended from age 16 to 18) – film director, producer, visual effects artist; filmmaker active primarily in Japan *

(1989) – film director (''

'', ''

'') * Michael Bay (1986) – film director (''The Rock (film), The Rock'', ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'', ''Pearl Harbor (film), Pearl Harbor'', ''Bad Boys II, Bad Boys Series'', ''Transformers (film series), Transformers'' film series) * Eric Byler (1994) – film director (''Charlotte Sometimes (film), Charlotte Sometimes'', ''My Life Disoriented'', ''Americanese'', ''TRE'') * Jan Eliasberg (1974) – director (television, theatre, and film) * Michael Fields (director), Michael Fields – director * Ruben Fleischer (1997) – director; ''Zombieland'', ''30 Minutes or Less'' *

(1999) – film and theatre director * David Kendall (director), David Kendall – television and film director, producer, and writer; ''Growing Pains'', ''Boy Meets World'', ''Smart Guy'', ''Hannah Montana'', ''Dirty Deeds (2005 film), Dirty Deeds'', ''The New Guy'' * Daisy von Scherler Mayer (1988) – film director (''Party Girl (1995 film), Party Girl'', ''Madeline'', ''The Guru (2002 film), The Guru'', ''Woo (film), Woo'') * Matthew Penn (1980) – director and producer of television and theatre; ''NYPD Blue'', ''Law & Order'', ''

'', ''House (TV series), House'', ''Damages (TV series), Damages'', ''The Closer'', and ''Royal Pains'' * Ray Tintori (2006) – director (film and music videos) * Neo Sora (2014) – director (film and music videos) * Jon Turteltaub (1985) – film director (''Cool Runnings'', ''Phenomenon (film), Phenomenon'', ''While You Were Sleeping (film), While You Were Sleeping'', ''National Treasure (film), National Treasure'', ''3 Ninjas (film), 3 Ninjas'') * Matt Tyrnauer – director and journalist; ''Valentino: The Last Emperor'' (2009), short listed for an

nomination (2010) *

(2004) – film director (''

'')

Actors and others

* Edoardo Ballerini – actor, writer, director * Jordan Belfi (2000) – actor * Rob Belushi (2004) – actor, comedian and host of ''Get a Clue'' on Game Show Network * Amy Bloom (1975) – creator, ''State of Mind (TV series), State of Mind'' * Peter Cambor (2001) – film and television actor; ''NCIS: Los Angeles'' * Rob Campbell – actor (film, television, and stage) * Hunter Carson (1998) – actor, screenwriter, producer, director * Philip Casnoff (1971) – Golden Globe-nominated Broadway, television, and film actor (''Chess (musical), Chess, Shogun: The Musical'', ''North and South (TV miniseries), North and South'', ''Sinatra (miniseries), Sinatra'') * Lynn Chen (1998) – actress, ''Saving Face (2004 film), Saving Face'' * William Christopher (1954) – actor, Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'' * Jem Cohen (1984) –

, feature filmmaker and video artist * Sarah Elmaleh (2007) – voice actor * Toby Emmerich – producer, film executive, screenwriter; head, New Line Cinema (as of 2008) * Halley Feiffer (2007) – actress, playwright * Beanie Feldstein (2015) – actress * Jo Firestone (2009) actress and comedian * Sam Fleischner (2006) – filmmaker * Bradley Fuller – producer, co-owner of Platinum Dunes * Bobbito García (1988) – hip hop DJ, writer * Willie Garson, William "Willie" Garson – actor, ''White Collar (TV series), White Collar''; most known for his portrayal of Stanford on ''Sex and the City'' * Max Goldblatt (2005) – actor, writer, director * Matthew Greenfield –

, producer of independent films * Adam Hann-Byrd (2004) – actor, ''Little Man Tate'', ''The Ice Storm (film), The Ice Storm'', ''Jumanji (film), Jumanji'' * Elisabeth Harnois (2001) – actress, Young Artist Award (1993); ''Adventures in Wonderland (1992 TV series), Adventures in Wonderland'', ''Pretty Persuasion'' * Jack Johnson (actor), Jack Johnson (2009) – actor, best known for performance in ''Lost in Space (film), Lost in Space'' * Warren Keith – stage and film actor, director * Chrishaunda Lee – television host, actress * Jieho Lee (1995) – filmmaker * Tembi Locke – actress, has appeared on more than 40 television shows * Lauren LoGiudice – actress and writer * Monica Louwerens (1995) – actress, beauty queen from Canada, competed in 1996 Miss America Pageant * Barton MacLane – actor, playwright, screenwriter; appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s *

(2002)-Tony-Award-winning Broadway actor, librettist, and composer * Becky Mode – playwright, actress, television producer * William R. Moses (attended) – television and film actor * Indy Neidell – documentarian, historian, and actor * Julius Onah – filmmaker of Nigerian descent * Amanda Palmer (1998) – director ''Hotel Blanc'' (2002); playwright, actress, ''The Onion Cellar'' (2006); producer, actress in American Repertory Theater, ART's ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'' (2010) * Benjamin Parrillo (1992) – actor, ''Cold Case (TV series), Cold Case'', '' 24'', ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'', ''Boston Legal'' * Leszek Pawlowicz (1979) – Ultimate Tournament of Champions, 2005; won ''Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions'', 1992; won ''Win Ben Stein's Money, Ben Stein's Money'', 1999 * Zak Penn (1990) – screenwriter (''Fantastic Four (2005 film), Fantastic Four'', ''X-Men: The Last Stand'', ''PCU (film), PCU'', ''The Incredible Hulk (film), The Incredible Hulk''); director (''Incident at Loch Ness'', ''The Grand (film), The Grand''); co-creator, ''Alphas'' * John Rothman (1971) – film, stage, and television actor * Stefan Schaefer (1994) – director, screenwriter, producer, independent films; ''Confess (film), Confess'' and ''Arranged (film), Arranged''; Fulbright Scholar * Sarah Schaub (2006) – two Young Artist Awards, actress (''Promised Land (1996 TV series), Promised Land'') * Paul Schiff (1981) – film producer (''My Cousin Vinny'', ''Rushmore (film), Rushmore'', ''Mona Lisa Smile'', ''Solitary Man (film), Solitary Man'') * Lawrence Sher (1992) –

and producer, ''The Dukes of Hazzard (film), The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''Garden State (film), Garden State'' * Wendy Spero – actress, comedian, writer * Kim Stolz (2005) – ''America's Next Top Model'' Cycle 5 finalist *

(1970) – former TV child actor of the 1950s, 1960s; portrayed Gilbert Bates on ''Leave it to Beaver'' * Kim Wayans – actress; member of the Wayans brothers, Wayans family *

(1981) – actor, ''

'', ''Get Out'' * Henry Willson – Hollywood talent agent; clients included Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Robert Wagner, Clint Walker; discovered Lana Turner; a large role in popularizing the beefcake craze of the 1950s * Scott Wiper (1992) – director, screenwriter, actor * Angela Yee (1997) – radio personality * Alexander Yellen (2003) –

Law

Non-U.S. government judicial figures

* George Edwin King (B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861) – 10th Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada (1893–01); attorney general of New Brunswick (1870–78); premier of New Brunswick (1870-1871 & 1872-1878); Supreme Court of New Brunswick (1880–93)

Supreme Court of the United States

* David Josiah Brewer (1851–54) – 51st Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1890–1910); major contributor to doctrine of substantive due process and to minority rights; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1884–90); U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1865–69); Kansas Supreme Court (1870–1884)

U.S. federal appellate and trial courts

* Frank R. Alley, III – judge, United States Bankruptcy Court, United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Oregon (as of 2011) * John Baker (Indiana politician), John Baker (A.M. 1879) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Indiana * John D. Bates (1968) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (2001–); judge, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (2006–) * Edward G. Biester, Jr. (1952) – judge, United States Court of Military Commission Review (2004–07); attorney general for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1979–80) * Denise Jefferson Casper (B.A. 1990) – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2010–); 1st black, female judge to serve on federal bench in Massachusetts * Alonzo J. Edgerton (1850) – judge, United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (1889–96); Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Dakota Territory * Katherine B. Forrest (1986) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2011–) * Frederick E. Fuller – federal judge for interior Alaska; appointed in 1912; early champion for the credibility of Alaska natives as witnesses in federal court * Steven Gold (1977) – chief United States magistrate judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1993–) * Terry J. Hatter (1954) – judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles (as of 2011); chief judge, 1998; senior status, 2005 * Andrew Kleinfeld (1966) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1991–); judge, United States District Court for the District of Alaska (1986–91) * Martin A. Knapp (1868) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1916–23); judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1910–16); judge, United States Commerce Court (1910–13) * Mark R. Kravitz (1972) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003–2012) * Arthur MacArthur Sr. – judge, predecessor, United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1870–87) * James Rogers Miller Jr. (1953) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1970–86) * Patricia Head Minaldi (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (2003–2018) * J. Frederick Motz (1964) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1985–), chief judge (1994–01); U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland * Michael S. Nachmanoff – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2021–present), magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2015–2021) * John Wesley North – judge, by Presidential appointment, predecessor, United States District Court for the District of Nevada; founder, Northfield, Minnesota and Riverside, California * High Court of American Samoa, Lyle L. Richmond (1952) – associate justice, High Court of American Samoa (in American Samoa, the highest appellate court below U.S. Supreme Court) (1991–); attorney general, American Samoa * Rachel A. Ruane (1997) – judge, Immigration court, United States Los Angeles Immigration Court (2010–) * Anthony Scirica (1962) – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia) (1987–); judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1984–87) * Dominic J. Squatrito (1961) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1994–2021); Fulbright scholar * Stephen S. Trott (1962) – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1988–); United States Attorney for the Central District of California * Ronald M. Whyte (mathematics 1964) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1992–) * John Simson Woolson (A.B. 1860, A.M. 1863) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Iowa

U.S. state courts

* Raymond E. Baldwin – chief justice (1959–63), associate justice (1949–59), Connecticut Supreme Court * New Mexico Court of Appeals, Richard C. Bosson (1966) – chief justice (2002–06), associate justice (2002–), New Mexico Supreme Court; Chief judge (United States), chief judge, New Mexico Court of Appeals (01–02) * John Currey, John Moore Currey – eighth chief justice (1866–68), associate justice (1864–66), Supreme Court of California * Charles Douglas III (1960–62) – associate justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court (1977–85) * Miles T. Granger (1842) – associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court * Ernest A. Inglis (1908) – chief justice (1853–57), associate justice (1850–53), Connecticut Supreme Court (1950–57) * Fred C. Norton (1950) – associate judge, Minnesota Court of Appeals * James McMillan Shafter – judge, California Superior Court and state legislator in California, Vermont, and Wisconsin * List of justices of the Supreme Court of California, Oscar L. Shafter (1834) – associate justice, Supreme Court of California (1864–1867) * Connecticut Supreme Court, David M. Shea (1944) – associate justice, Connecticut Supreme Court (1981–1992) * David K. Thomson – associate justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2019–present) * Arthur T. Vanderbilt – chief justice, New Jersey Supreme Court; twice declined nomination, United States Supreme Court * Josiah O. Wolcott – chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery; attorney general of Delaware

Government and other lawyers

* Gerald L. Baliles (1963) – attorney general of Virginia (1982–1985) and governor of Virginia (1986–1990) * Tristram J. Coffin, Tristram Coffin (1985) – U.S. Attorney, U.S. attorney for the District of Vermont (2009–2015) * Connecticut Attorney General, George C. Conway (1923) – Connecticut attorney general (1951–1953) * Edmund Pearson Dole (1874) – first Attorney General of Hawaii, attorney general of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii * Brian E. Frosh (1968) – attorney general of Maryland (2015-present) Maryland State Senate, Maryland State Senator (1995–2015); Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1995) * Theodore E. Hancock (1871) – New York State attorney general (1894–1898) * Rusty Hardin (1965) – trial attorney, efforts resulted in Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturning Arthur Andersen's conviction of obstruction of justice * Eddie Jordan (attorney), Eddie Jordan (1974) – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1994–2001); district attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orléans Parish (2003–2007) * Edward J. C. Kewen (1843) – first List of Attorneys General of California, attorney general of California; also Los Angeles County district attorney (1859–1861) * Theodore I. Koskoff (1913–89) A.B. – trial lawyer * John Gage Marvin (1815–55) A.B. – lawyer; legal bibliographer (''Marvin's Legal Bibliography, Marvin's Legal Bibliography, or A thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch law books''); figure in history of California; first California State Superintendent of Public Instruction * Connecticut Attorney General, Charles Phelps (B.A. 1875, M.A.) – first Connecticut attorney general (1899–1903); Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1897–1899) * Michele A. Roberts (1977) – trial lawyer; named "one of Washington's 100 Most Powerful Women"; partner, Skadden, Arps (2011–) * Abner W. Sibal (1943) – general counsel, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (1975–1978)

Legal academia

* Gabriel J. Chin (1985) – UC Davis School of Law (2011–); "Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 00–07", "50 Most Cited Law Profs Who entered Teaching Since 92" * S.J. Quinney College of Law, Hiram Chodosh (1985) – dean, S.J. Quinney College of Law (2006–) * Ward Farnsworth (1989) – dean, University of Texas School of Law, University of Texas School of Law at Austin (2012–); former List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6), law clerk, Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court * Shad Saleem Faruqi (B.A., age 19) – Professor of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA (1971–); constitutional consultant to Maldives, Fiji, Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Iraq * University of San Diego School of Law, Stephen C. Ferruolo (CSS 1971) – dean, University of San Diego School of Law (2011–); Rhodes Scholar; former faculty,

* John C.P. Goldberg (CSS 1983) – Eli Goldston Professorship, Harvard Law School (2008–); former List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6), law clerk, Byron White, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; expert in tort law and theory, political theory, jurisprudence * Robert J. Harris (mayor), Robert J. Harris – attorney and professor,

(1959–1974; adjunct faculty member, 1974–2005); Rhodes Scholar * Naomi Mezey (1987) – professor, Georgetown University Law Center (civil procedure, legislation, nationalism and cultural identity) (1997–); Watson Fellow * William Callyhan Robinson (1850–1852) – academician, jurist; professor, Yale Law School, Yale Law (1869–95); dean, Columbus School of Law (1898–1911) * NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Theodore Shaw (1979) – professor, Columbia Law School, Columbia Law (2011–); 5th President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (2004–08) * Rutgers School of Law–Camden, Raymond L. Solomon (1968) – dean, Rutgers Law School-Camden (since 1998); professor, University of Chicago Law School, Northwestern University Law School * Barbara A. Spellman (1979) – professor, University of Virginia Law School (2008–); professor of psychology,

(since 2007); editor-in-chief of ''Perspectives on Psychological Science'' * Arthur T. Vanderbilt (1910) – dean, New York University Law School (1943–48); professor, New York University School of Law, NYU Law (1914–43) * Charles Alan Wright (1947) – long-time professor, University of Texas School of Law, University of Texas School of Law at Austin; was foremost authority in U.S. on constitutional law and federal procedure

Literature

''See also: '' * Becky Albertalli (2004) – writer, ''Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda'' and other best-selling works * Steve Almond (1988) – writer, ''The Best American Short Stories'' 2010 * Stephen Alter – author * Suzanne Berne – novelist, winner of Great Britain's prestigious Orange Prize; professor of English * Kate Bernheimer – author, scholar, editor * Nicholas Birns (1987, attended but did not graduate) – literary critic and editor * Peter Blauner – novelist; Edgar Award, The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list * Amy Bloom (1975) – author, ''Away'' (''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, 2007); National Magazine Award, ''The Best American Short Stories'', O. Henry Award, O. Henry Prize Stories * Andrew Bridge (lawyer), Andrew Bridge – author, ''Hope's Boy'', ''New York Times'' bestseller, ''Washington Post'' Best Book of the Year * John Briggs (author), John Briggs (1968) – author, scholar, editor *

– his novel ''Battle for Justice'' was selected by

as one of the "Best Books of 1989" * Alexander Chee – writer, 2003 Whiting Writers' Award; former Visiting Writer at Amherst College * James Wm. Chichetto – poet, novelist, critic, lecturer, Catholic priest * Mei Chin – fiction writer, food critic * Kate Colby (1996) – poet, editor, Norma Farber First Book Award * Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook, Doctor of Medicine, MD (1962) – medical mystery writer; books have appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, including ''Coma'', ''Critical (novel), Critical'', ''Outbreak (novel), Outbreak'', and 29 others * Amanda Davis (writer), Amanda Davis (1993) – writer; author of "Wonder When You'll Miss Me" * Anna Dewdney (1987) – children's author and illustrator * Paul Dickson (writer), Paul Dickson (1961) – writer, American English language and popular culture * Melvin Dixon (1971) – author, poet, translator * Beverly Donofrio (1978) – author, ''Riding in Cars with Boys'' * Steve Englehart (1969) – comic book writer * Edward B. Fiske (1959) – educational writer; creator of ''The Fiske Guide to Colleges''; former education editor for ''The New York Times'' * Laura Jane Fraser (1982) – journalist, essayist, memoirist, and travel writer * Glen David Gold (1966) – author of ''Carter Beats the Devil'', ''Sunnyside (novel), Sunnyside'' * Elizabeth Graver (1986) – writer; Drue Heinz Literature Prize, O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize (2001), ''Best American Essays'', Cohen Awards (Ploughshares), Cohen Awards * Daniel Handler (1992) – author (under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket) of ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (children's book series) * Rust Hills (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949) – author and fiction editor * Adina Hoffman (B.A. 1989) – essayist, critic, biography in literature, literary biographer; 2013 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize; 2010 Wingate Prize * Albert Harrison Hoyt (1850) – editor and author * Christianne Meneses Jacobs – writer, editor, and teacher * Kaylie Jones – novelist *

(1984) – author of ''The Perfect Storm (film), The Perfect Storm'', ''War''; DuPont-Columbia Award; ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine Top Ten Non-fiction Books of 2010; National Magazine Award * James Kaplan – novelist, biographer, journalist; 1999 ''The New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year; ''NYT'' Top 10 Books of 2010; ''Best American Short Stories'' * Pagan Kennedy (1984) – author, short listed for Orange Prize; pioneer of the 1990s Zine Movement * Brad Kessler (1986) – novelist, Whiting Writers' Award (fiction, 2007), Dayton Literary Peace Prize; 2008 Rome Prize *Gerard Koeppel (1979) – writer, historian * Christopher Krovatin (2007) – author, musician * Alisa Kwitney – novelist, ''Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold'' *

(1976) – medievalist and literary critic; 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award (for criticism); 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism * Ariel Levy (writer), Ariel Levy – author of ''Female Chauvinist Pigs'', anthologized in ''The Best American Essays'' of 2008 and ''New York Stories'' * James Lord (author), James Lord – author, including biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso * Robert Ludlum (1951) – ''The Bourne Identity (novel), The Bourne Identity'', ''The Osterman Weekend'', ''The Holcroft Covenant'', 24 others; 9 of his books have made ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list; 290–500 million copies of his books in print * Joanie Mackowski – 2009, 2007 ''Best American Poetry'', 2008 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, 2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award * John Buffalo Mailer – author, playwright, and journalist * William J. Mann (M.A.) – novelist, biographer; ''Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn'', named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by ''The New York Times'' * Lew McCreary – editor, author, Senior Editor of the ''Harvard Business Review'' * Jack McDevitt – science fiction author; 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel (fifteen-time nominee), 2004 Campbell award (best novel), Campbell Award * Leslie McGrath (M.A.) – poet * John P. McKay (1961) – author, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, professor of history * Scott Mebus – novelist, playwright, composer * Melody Moezzi (2001) – author of ''War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims'' * Gorham Munson (1917) – literary critic * Blake Nelson (1984) – author; Grinzane Cavour Prize; novels ''Girl (Nelson novel), Girl'', ''Paranoid Park (novel), Paranoid Park'' * Charles Olson (B.A. 1932, M.A.) – modernist poet, crucial link between such poets as Ezra Pound and the The New American Poetry 1945–1960, New American poets, one of thinkers who coined the term postmodernism * Michael Palmer (novelist), Michael Palmer, Doctor of Medicine, MD (1964) – medical mystery writer, ''Side Effects (Palmer book), Side Effects'', ''Extreme Measures''; all of his 16 books have made the The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' Best Seller list * Carolyn Parkhurst (1992) – author of ''The Dogs of Babel'' (a ''

'' Notable Book) and ''Lost and Found (novel), Lost and Found'' (both on the The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' Best Seller list) * Peter Pezzelli – author, including ''Francesca's Kitchen'', ''Italian Lessons'' * Daniel Pinchbeck – author * Jason Pinter – novelist and thriller writer * Craig Pospisil – playwright * Michael Prescott (1981) – crime writer, many of whose novels have appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list * Kevin Prufer (1992) – poet, essayist, editor, novelist; winner of five Pushcart Prizes, ''Best American Poetry'' 2003, 2010, 2021. 2024 Rilke Prize for American Poetry * Delphine Red Shirt (MALS) – Oglala Lakota writer, adjunct professor at

and

* Spencer Reece – writer and poet, 2009 Pushcart Prize, 2005 Whiting Writers' Award for poetry * Jean Rikhoff – writer and editor * Mary Roach – The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' Best Selling author; ''New York Times'' Notable Books pick (2005); ''New York Times'' Book Review Editor's Choice (2008) * Carlo Rotella (1986) – writer, Whiting Writers' Award (nonfiction, 2007), L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award * Ruth L. Schwartz – poet * Sadia Shepard – author, Fulbright Scholar (2001) * Joyce Sidman (B.A. German) – children's writer; 2011 Newbery Honor Award * Maya Sonenberg (1982) – short story writer, 1989 Drue Heinz Literature Prize * Tristan Taormino (1993) – author and sex educator * Jonathan Thirkield – poet, 2008 Walt Whitman Award * Wells Tower (1996) – writer, two Pushcart Prizes, ''Best American Short Stories'' 2010 * Ayelet Waldman (1986) – author of ''Love and Other Impossible Pursuits'', ''Daughter's Keeper'', and the Mommy-Track Mysteries * David Rains Wallace – author of ''The Monkey's Bridge'' (a 1997 ''

'' Notable Book) and ''The Klamath Knot'' (1984 John Burroughs Medal) * Austin Warren (scholar), Austin Warren (1929) – literary critic, author, and professor of English * Sam Wasson (2003) – author, film historian, publisher * D.B. Weiss – author and screenwriter * Michael Wolfe – author, poet * Paul Yoon (2002) – writer; 2009 John C. Zacharis First Book Award; O. Henry Award; ''Best American Short Stories 2006'' * Lizabeth Zindel – author, working primarily in the young adult (teen) genre

Medicine

* Malcolm Bagshaw, Doctor of Medicine, MD (B.A. 1946) – 1996 Kettering Prize; "one of the world's foremost experts in radiation therapy" * Andrea Barthwell, MD (B.A.) – named one of "Best Doctors in America" in 1997; Betty Ford Award in 2003 * Herbert Benson, MD (1957) – cardiologist; founding president, Mind-Body Medical Institute; professor, Harvard Medical School (as of 2012) * John Benson, Jr., MD (B.A.) – fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1991); IOM named Fellowship in his honor ('10); Abraham Flexner Award ('10) * Charles Brenner (biochemist), Charles Brenner (B.A. 1983) – professor, head of biochemistry, University of Iowa (as of 2012); leader, fields of tumor suppressor gene function and metabolism * Thomas Broker (B.A. 1966) – expert, human papilloma viruses; professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham (as of 2012); played central role, discovery of RNA splicing * William H. Dietz, MD (B.A. 1996) – Director, Division of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997–); fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences * Joseph Fins, MD (B.A. 1982) – chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College (as of 2012); fellow, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences * Michael Fossel, MD (B.A., M.A.) – professor, clinical medicine (as of 2012), known for his views on telomerase therapy * Scott Gottlieb, MD (1994) – Commissioner of Foods and Drugs (2017–2019), Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services * Laman Gray, Jr., MD (1963) – cardiologist; leader, field of cardiovascular surgery; redesigned, implanted world's 1st self-contained AbioCor artificial heart * Michael E. Greenberg (B.A. 1976) – neuroscientist; National Academy of Sciences; chair of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (2008–2012) * Allan Hobson, MD (B.A. 1955) – psychiatrist, dream researcher; professor, psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School (as of 2012) * Alex L. Kolodkin (B.A. 1980) – neuroscientist; professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; :Howard Hughes Medical Investigators, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2005–) * Jay A. Levy, MD (B.A. 1960) – co-discoverer, AIDS virus (1983); professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (as of 2012); editor-in-chief, ''AIDS (journal), AIDS'' journal * Joseph L. Melnick (B.A.) – epidemiologist, known as "a founder of modern virology"; Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal *Anne L. Peters, MD (B.A. 1979) – physician, diabetes expert, and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC * Ralph Pomeroy (gynecologist), Ralph Pomeroy, MD (B.A.) – gynecologist, famous for creation of "Pomeroy" tubal ligation; co-founder, the Williamsburg Hospital in Brooklyn, New York * David J. Sencer, MD (B.A. 1946) – director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–77); Head, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City Department of Health ('81–85) * Theodore Shapiro (psychiatrist), Theodore Shapiro, MD (B.A. 1936) – psychiatrist * Harry Tiebout, MD (B.A. 1917) – psychiatrist, promoted Alcoholics Anonymous approach to patients, fellow professionals, and the public * Peter Tontonoz, MD (B.A. 1989) – professor of pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; :Howard Hughes Medical Investigators, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2000–)

Military

* Brigadier General Allen Fraser Clark, Jr. (1910–90) (B.A.) – United States Army (in the 1960s) * Admiral Thomas H. Collins (four-star rank) (M.A.) – retired 22nd Commandant, United States Coast Guard (2002–08) (guided Coast Guard after 9/11) * Major General Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, Myron C. Cramer (two-star rank) (B.A. 1904) – 20th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army (1941–45); judge, The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, Japan (1946–49) * Rear Admiral Marshall E. Cusic Jr. Doctor of Medicine, MD (two-star rank) (B.A. 1965) – Medical Corps (United States Navy), Medical Corps U.S. Naval Reserve; Chief, Medical Reserve Corps, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery * Brigadier General Alonzo Jay Edgerton (B.A. 1850) – American Civil War, Union Army, List of United States Colored Troops Civil War units, 67th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops (Brevet (military), Bvt. March 13, 1865) * Lieutenant General William H. Ginn Jr. (three-star rank) (1946–48) – United States Air Force; Commander, United States Forces Japan, U.S. Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force, U.S. Fifth Air Force * Brigadier General John E. Hutton Doctor of Medicine, MD (B.A. 1953) – United States Army, U.S. Army; director, White House Medical Unit; Physician to the President, Physician to President Ronald Reagan * Brigadier General Levin Major Lewis (class of 1852) – Confederate States Army, American Civil War; assigned to duty as Brigadier General (CSA), Brig. General; president of several colleges * Admiral James Loy (four-star rank) (M.A.) – retired 21st Commandant, United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard (1998–2002); Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2005) * Brigadier General Robert Shuter Macrum (B.A. 1927) – United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force * Brigadier General Samuel Mather Mansfield (1858–60, B.A. 1911) – United States Army, U.S. Army; engineer * Rear Admiral (Ret.) Dr. Richard W. Schneider (two-star rank) (M.A. 1973) – United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard; significant role in the transformation of the Coast Guard * Lieutenant General Adolph G. Schwenk (three-star rank) (B.A. 1963) – United States Marine Corps; Commanding Gen., Fleet Marine Force, U.S.FMF (Atl.) and Fleet Marine Force, U.S. FMF (Eur.) * Rear Admiral (Ret.) R. Dennis Sirois (two-star rank) (M.A. physics) – United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard; Assistant Commander for Operations * Rear Admiral (Ret.) Patrick M. Stillman (two-star rank) (M.A.) – United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard, founding father of the Integrated Deepwater System Program * Tuskegee Airman Chuck Stone (B.A. 1948) – Congressional Gold Medal (March 29, 2007); United States Army Air Forces * Brigadier General John B. Van Petten (B.A. 1850, M.A. '53) – Union Army; his American Civil War, Civil War reminiscences became basis for ''The Red Badge of Courage''

Music

''See also: '' * Adolovni Acosta – graduate student; classical and concert pianist * Bill Anschell (1982) – pianist, composer; recorded with Lionel Hampton, Ron Carter * John Perry Barlow (1969) – lyricist for the Grateful Dead * Bob Becker (composer), Robert Becker – composer and percussionist * Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist), Paul Berliner (PhD) – professor of music,

* Marion Brown (M.A. ethnomusicology) – alto saxophonist, composer * Darius Brubeck (1969) – pianist, composer, band leader, professor of music * Kit Clayton – musician and programmer * Tim Cohen (B.A.) – San Francisco-based musician and visual artist * Bill Cole (musician), Bill Cole (PhD) – musician; professor of music, Dartmouth College,

, professor of African-American Studies,

* Nicolas Collins (B.A., M.A.) – composer, mostly electronic music; Watson Fellow * Amy Crawford (musician), Amy Crawford (B.A. 2005) – songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist and producer * Douglas J. Cuomo (attended) – composer * Nathan Davis (saxophonist), Nathan Davis (PhD) – musician; professor of music, University of Pittsburgh * Stanton Davis (M.A.) – trumpeter, educator * Santi Debriano (M.A.) – double bassist, bandleader * Frank Denyer (PhD) – professor of composition, Dartington College of Arts, South West England * Le1f, Khalif "Le1f" Diouf (2011) – musician; rapper * Arnold Dreyblatt (M.A. 1982) – composer, based in Berlin, Germany; elected to Akademie der Künste, German Academy of Art * Judy Dunaway (M.A.) – avant-garde composer; creator, sound installations * S. A. K. Durga (PhD) – musicologist, ethnomusicologist, professor of music * Tim Eriksen (M.A. 1993, PhD) – multi-instrumentalist; musicologist; performer, consultant for soundtrack of film ''Cold Mountain (film), Cold Mountain'' * James Fei (M.A. 1999) – composer and performer, contemporary classical music * Dave Fisher (1962) – lead singer, arranger, The Highwaymen (folk band), The Highwaymen; composer * William Galison – multi-instrumentalist, most famous as harmonica player, composer * Kiff Gallagher (1991) – musician, songwriter, helped create AmeriCorps * Alexis Gideon – composer, multi-media artist * Ben Goldwasser – founding member of

-nominated MGMT * Adam Goren (1996) – sole member of synth-punk band Atom and His Package *

(2002) – guitarist * Jon B. Higgins (B.A., M.A., PhD) – musician; scholar, Carnatic music * Jay Hoggard (1976) – current faculty, Wesleyan; vibraphonist; recorded often * Ashenafi Kebede (1969 M.A., 1971 PhD) – Ethiopian ethnomusicologist * Ron Kuivila (1977) – current faculty, Wesleyan; co-creator, software language Formula * Steve Lehman (composer), Steve Lehman (2000 B.A.; 2002 M.A.) – composer, saxophonist; Fulbright scholar * David Leisner – classical guitarist, composer; teacher, Manhattan School of Music * Charlie Looker (2003) – musician * MC Frontalot (Damian Hess) (1996) – rapper; innovator of phrase nerdcore * Mladen Milicevic (M.A. 1988) – composer, experimental music, film music * Justin Moyer (1998) – musician and journalist * Dennis Murphy (musician), Dennis Murphy (PhD) – composer, one of the fathers of the American gamelan * Hankus Netsky (PhD) – Klezmer musician, composer * Amanda Palmer (1998) – composer/singer/pianist, The Dresden Dolls * Hewitt Pantaleoni (PhD) – 20th-century ethnomusicologist; known for work in African music * Sriram Parasuram (PhD) – Hindustani people, Hindustani classical vocalist; also a violinist * Brandon Patton (1995) – songwriter, bassplayer * Andrew Pergiovanni (B.A.) – composer of "modern classical" and "popular" idioms * Chris Pureka – singer-songwriter * John Rapson (PhD) – jazz trombonist and music educator * Gregory Rogove (2002) – songwriter, indie-music drummer * Steve Roslonek – children's music performer and composer * Santigold (Santi White) – electropop/hip-hop artist * Sarah Kirkland Snider – composer of instrumental music and art songs; co-founder, co-director, New Amsterdam Records * Tyshawn Sorey (M.A. 2011; faculty 2017–2020) – composer, musician, contemporary classical music, MacArthur Fellow,

finalist; professor at University of Pennsylvania * Anuradha Sriram (M.A.) – Indian Carnatic music, carnatic singer; also, as playback singer, in more than 90 Tamil films, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi films * Carl Sturken (1978 B.A.) – musician, Rhythm Syndicate; songwriter and record producer with Evan Rogers, Syndicated Rhythm Productions * Karaikudi S. Subramanian (1985, M.A., PhD) – musician; educationist, Carnatic music * Sumarsam (1976 M.A.) – current faculty, Wesleyan; Javanese people, Javanese musician; virtuoso and scholar of Gamelan * Himanshu Suri (2007 B.A.) – rapper; writer; alternative hip hop group Das Racist * Tierney Sutton (1986) – three-time

nominated jazz singer; ''Jazzweek'' 2005 Vocalist of the Year * Laxmi Ganesh Tewari (PhD) – Hindustani music, Hindustani virtuoso vocalist, professor of music * Stephen Trask (1989) – composer (stage, screen); Obie Award;

nomination * Stephen S. Trott (1962) – early member, The Highwaymen (folk band), The Highwaymen, which originated at Wesleyan; #1 single ("Michael Row the Boat Ashore" 1961) * Andrew VanWyngarden – founding member of

nominated MGMT * Victor Vazquez (musician), Victor Vazquez (2006) – musician; rapper; alternative hip hop group Das Racist * T. Viswanathan (1975 PhD) – Carnatic music, Carnatic flute virtuoso, professor of music * Dennis Waring (1982 PhD) – ethnomusicologist and Estay Organ historian * Dar Williams (1989) – folksinger * Daniel James Wolf (M.A., PhD) – composer of modern classical music * Peter Zummo (1970, B.A.; 1975, M.A., PhD) – composer, musician (postminimalist)

News

''See also: and '' * Eric Asimov (1979) – restaurant columnist, editor, ''The New York Times'' (nephew of Isaac Asimov) * Doug Berman (1984) –

-winning producer, launched NPR's ''Car Talk''; creator, other news radio shows * Robert A. Bertsche – two-time winner, National Magazine Award; journalist, editor, media lawyer * William Blakemore (1965) – correspondent, ABC News (United States), ABC News, DuPont-Columbia Award * Dominique Browning (1977) – former editor-in-chief, ''House & Garden (magazine), House & Garden'' * Katy Butler (1971) – journalist, ''The Best American Essays, Best American Essays'', ''The Best American Science Writing, Best American Science Writing'', finalist for 2004 National Magazine Award * Marysol Castro (1996) – weather forecaster, CBS ''The Early Show'' (2011); weather anchor, contributing writer, American Broadcasting Company, ABC ''Good Morning America Weekend Edition'' (2004–10) * Hannah Dreier – ''

'' reporter and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting * Jonathan Dube – pioneer, online journalism; print journalist * E.V. Durling – nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and one of the first Hollywood reporters * Jane Eisner (1977) – editor, ''The Forward'', paper's first female editor; former editor, reporter, columnist, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' * Smokey Fontaine (1993) – editor-in-chief, writer, music critic, ''Giant (magazine), Giant'' (2006–); Chief Content Officer, Interactive One (2007–) * Steven Greenhouse (1973) – reporter, ''The New York Times''; 2010 New York Press Club Awards For Journalism; 2009 The Hillman Prize, Hillman Prize * Ferris Greenslet (1897) – editor, writer; associate editor, ''Atlantic Monthly''; director, literary adviser, Houghton Mifflin Co. * Vanessa Grigoriadis (1995) – National Magazine Award; writer * Peter Gutmann (journalist), Peter Gutmann (1971) – journalist, attorney * William Henry Huntington – journalist * Alberto Ibargüen (1966) – CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; former publisher, ''The Miami Herald'' * David Karp (pomologist), David Karp – pomologist, culinary journalist * Alex Kotlowitz (1977) –

;

, ''There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America'' * Dave Lindorff (1972) – Project Censored Award (2004); investigative reporter, columnist * Stephen Metcalf (writer), Stephen Metcalf – critic-at-large and columnist, ''Slate magazine, Slate'' magazine * Kyrie O'Connor (1976) – journalist, writer, editor * Gail O'Neill – television journalist; former elite African-American fashion model * Charles Bennett Ray – journalist; owner, editor, ''The Colored American (New York City), The Colored American'', first black student at Wesleyan in 1832 * Jake Silverstein – 4th editor-in-chief (2008–), ''Texas Monthly'', ten-time winner, National Magazine Award; 2007 Pen/Journalism Award; Fulbright Scholar * Chuck Stone (1948) – journalist; professor of journalism, University of North Carolina; former editor, ''Philadelphia Daily News'' * Laura Ruth Walker (1979) – 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award (CPB), Edward R. Murrow Award;

* Ulrich Wickert (Fulbright Scholar at Wesleyan in 1962) – broadcast journalist in Germany * Michael Yamashita (1971) – award-winning photographer, photojournalist, ''National Geographic (magazine), National Geographic'' * John Yang (journalist), John Yang (1980) –

-winning journalist; two-time winner, DuPont-Columbia Award; NBC News correspondent, commentator (2007–)

Politics and government

Religion

* Edward Gayer Andrews (Bachelor of Arts, BA 1847) – president, Cazenovia Seminary; later bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church * Osman Cleander Baker (1830–33) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church; biblical scholar; namesake of

, Baldwin City, Kansas, Baldwin City, Kansas * Lawrence Aloysius Burke (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, MALS 1970) – 4th archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica; 1st archbishop, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau * James Wm. Chichetto – Catholic priest,

, poet, critic * Davis Wasgatt Clark (1836) – 1st president, Freedman's Aid Society; predecessor, namesake of

, Atlanta, Georgia; bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church * Congregation Beth Elohim (Brooklyn, New York), Shira Koch Epstein (1998) – rabbi, Congregation Beth Elohim (Brooklyn, New York), Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, New York * James Midwinter Freeman – clergyman, writer * William Henry Gilder (clergyman), William Henry Giler – founder of a seminary and a college; chaplain during the American Civil War * Debra W. Haffner (1985) – Unitarian Universalist minister; director, The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing * Gilbert Haven (1846) – 2nd president, Freedman's Aid Society; early proponent of equality of the sexes; bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church * Robert T. Hoshibata (1973) – Native Hawaiians, Hawaiian bishop, United Methodist Church * Jesse Lyman Hurlbut (1864) – clergyman, author * John Christian Keener (1835) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church * Daniel Parish Kidder (1836) – theologian, missionary to Brazil * Isaac J. Lansing (B.A. 1872, M.A. 1875) – Methodist Episcopal minister of Park Street Church; college president, author * Delmar R. Lowell (1873) – minister, American Civil War veteran, historian,

* Willard Francis Mallalieu – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church * James Mudge (1865) – clergyman, author, missionary to India * Thomas H. Mudge (1840) – clergyman * Zachariah A. Mudge, Zachariah Atwell Mudge (1813–88) – pastor, author * Frederick Buckley Newell (Bachelor of Arts, AB 1913) – bishop, The Methodist Church (USA), The Methodist Church (elected 1952) * William Xavier Ninde (A.B. 1855, D.D. 1874) – bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church (now the United Methodist Church); president, Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, Evanston, Illinois * Spencer Reece (1985) – Episcopal priest; chaplain to the Bishop of Spain for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church (Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal) * Charles Francis Rice (B.A. 1872, M.A. 1875, D.D. 1893) – Methodist minister * William Rice (Methodist minister), William Rice (M.A. 1853, D.D. 1876) – Methodist Minister and librarian * Matthew Richey (M.A. 1836, D.D. 1847) – Canadian minister, educator, and leader in Nova Scotia, Canada * B. T. Roberts (university honors) – co-founder, Free Methodist Church of North America * A. James Rudin (1955) – rabbi, Senior Interreligious Adviser, The American Jewish Committee * James Strong (theologian), James Strong (A.B. 1844, D.D. 1856, LL.D 1881) – creator of ''Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible'' (1890); acting president Troy University (New York), Troy University, Troy, New York, Troy, New York; mayor *Conrad Tillard (born 1964) – politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist * Moses Clark White (1845) – pioneering missionary in China and physician; first linguistic study of Fuzhou dialect

Royalty

* Prince Carlos, Prince of Piacenza, Carlos, Duke of Parma, Duke of Parma (B.A. government) – House of Bourbon-Parma, head of Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma; member, Monarchy of the Netherlands, Dutch royal family

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics

* David P. Anderson (1977) – mathematician, computer scientist (as of 2012); Space Sciences Laboratory; Presidential Young Investigator Award * Taft Armandroff (1982) – astronomer; director, W. M. Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea (July 1, 2006–) * Harold DeForest Arnold (Ph.B. 1906, M.S. 1907) – physicist; research led to development of transcontinental telephony *

(1865) – chemist, agricultural chemistry; known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism * Oliver L. Austin – ornithologist; wrote the definitive study ''Birds of the World'' * Susan R. Barry (1976) – neurobiologist, specializing in neuroplasticity, neuronal plasticity (as of 2012) *

(1896) – botanist; leading figure in the genetics; known for research on jimsonweed and fungi * Everitt P. Blizard (1938) – Canadian-born American nuclear physicist, nuclear engineer; known for his work on nuclear reactor physics and shielding; 1966

* Earth Revisited, Byron Alden Brooks (1871) – inventor; author of ''Earth Revisited'' * Samuel Botsford Buckley (1836) – botanist, geologist, naturalist * Henry Smith Carhart (1869) – physicist, specializing in electricity; devised a voltaic cell, the Carhart-Clark cell, among other inventions * Kenneth G. Carpenter (1976, M.A. 1977) – astrophysicist (as of 2012); Project Scientist and Principal Investigator, NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Operations * David Carroll (physicist), David Carroll (PhD 1993) – physicist, nanotechnology, nanotechnologist (as of 2012); director, Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University * Jennifer Tour Chayes (1979) – mathematician, mathematical physicist (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; Head, Microsoft Research New England * Charles Manning Child (A.B. 1890, M.S. 1892) – zoologist; National Academy of Sciences; noted for his work on regeneration (biology), regeneration at the

* John Coffin (scientist), John M. Coffin (1966) – virologist, geneticist, molecular microbiology, molecular microbiologist (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; director, HIV Program, National Cancer Institute * Richard Dansky – software developer of computer games and designer of role-playing games (as of 2012) * Russell Doolittle (1951) – biochemist (as of 2012); co-developed the hydropathy index; National Academy of Sciences; 2006 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science; 1989 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize * Clay Dreslough (1993) – software developer (as of 2012); creator, ''Baseball Mogul'' and ''Football Mogul'' computer sports games; co-founder, president, Sports Mogul *

(1951) – geologist (as of 2012); 12th Director, United States Geological Service; director, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (1990–94) * Charles Alton Ellis – mathematician, structural engineer; chiefly responsible for the design of the Golden Gate Bridge * John Wells Foster (1834) – geologist, paleontologist *

– physicist,

(as of 2012); co-discovered

; (2006) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics; 1993 Dirac Medal (ICTP), Dirac Prize * George Brown Goode – ichthyologist; National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 3D Virtual Creature Evolution, Lee Graham (postdoc study, research) – artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computation, artificial life; created 3D Virtual Creature Evolution, an artificial evolution simulation program * Leslie Greengard (B.A. 1979) – physician, mathematician, computer scientist; co-inventor, fast multipole method, one of top-ten algorithms of 20th century; Leroy P. Steele Prize; Presidential Young Investigator Award; National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Engineering * Frederick Grover (1901) – physicist, National Bureau of Standards, precision measurements; electrical engineer * Henry I. Harriman (B.A. 1898) – inventor, patents for many automatic looms; builder, hydroelectric dams *

(1941) – physicist, Emeritus,

(as of 2012); 10th Jefferson Lecture;

; Abraham Pais Prize; Andrew Gemant Award * Orange Judd (1847) – agricultural chemist * George Kellogg (inventor), George Kellogg (1837) – inventor, patent expert; improved surgical instruments * Jim Kurose – computer scientist (as of 2012); 2001 Taylor Booth (mathematician), Taylor L. Booth Education Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers * Oscar Lanford (B.S.) – mathematician, mathematical physicist, dynamical systems theory (as of 2012); Dobrushin-Lanford-Ruelle equations * Albert L. Lehninger (B.A. 1939) – pioneering research in biological thermodynamics, bioenergetics; National Academy of Sciences * Silas Laurence Loomis, Doctor of Medicine, MD (1844) – mathematician, physiologist, inventor; astronomer, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States Coast Survey (1857); dean, Howard University * Emilie Marcus (1982) – Executive Editor, Cell Press; editor-in-chief, the scientific journal ''Cell (journal), Cell''; CEO, ''Neuron (journal), Neuron'' (each as of 2012) * Julia L. Marcus (A.M. 2003) – epidemiologist, science communicator, Harvard Medical School * William Williams Mather (A.M. 1834) – geologist, inventor; acting president,

(1845) * Jerry M. Melillo (B.A. 1965, M.A.T. 1968) – biogeochemist; Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (1996–2000) * George Perkins Merrill (post-graduate study and research) – geologist; National Academy of Sciences (1922) * Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1840) – geologist, paleontologist; discovered at least 80 new species of extinct plants and animals * Frank W. Putnam (B.A. 1939, M.A. 1940) – biochemist; National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences * Fremont Rider (M.A. 1937) – inventor, librarian, genealogist; named one of the 100 Most Important Leaders of Library Science and the Library Profession in the twentieth century * William Robinson (inventor), William Robinson (B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868) – inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer; invented first track circuit used in railway signaling, among other inventions *

(1886) – physicist; specialising in measurement science; National Academy of Sciences (1913);

* Richard Alfred Rossiter (1914) – astronomer, known for the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect * H. Eugene Stanley (1962) – physicist, statistical physics (as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences; 2008 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize; 2004 Boltzmann Medal * Carl Leo Stearns (B.A. 1917) – astronomer; namesake of asteroid 2035 Stearns, (2035) Stearns and crater Stearns (crater), Stearns (far side of the Moon) * John Stephenson (coachbuilder), John Stephenson – invented, patented the first street car to run on rails; remembered as the creator of the tramway * Charles Wardell Stiles (attended) – parasitologist; groundbreaking work, trichinosis, hookworm; 1921 Public Welfare Medal by National Academy of Sciences * Lewis B. Stillwell (1882–1884) – electrical engineer; 1933 AIEE Lamme Medal, 1935 IEEE Edison Medal; IEEE's Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame * Alfred Charles True (1873) – agriculturalist; director, Office of Agricultural Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture * George Tucker (luger), George Tucker (PhD) – Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican physicist (as of 2012); former Olympic sports, Olympic luger * Nicholas Turro (1960) – chemist,

(as of 2012); National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 2011 Arthur C. Cope Award; Willard Gibbs Award *

(1850) – astronomer, mathematician; namesake of Van Vleck (crater), Van Vleck crater on the Moon * Jesse Vincent (1998) – software developer (as of 2012); developed Request Tracker while a student at Wesleyan; author, ''Request Tracker, Request Tracker for Incident Response'' * Christopher Weaver (dual MAs and CAS) – software developer; founder, Bethesda Softworks; spearheaded creation, John Madden Football physics engine; visiting scholar,

* Henry Seely White (1882) – mathematician; National Academy of Sciences; geometry of curves and surfaces, algebraic twisted curves

Activists

* Mansoor Alam – humanitarian * John Emory Andrus (1862) – founder, SURDNA Foundation (1917) * Cliff Arnebeck – chair, Legal Affairs Committee, Common Cause, Common Cause Ohio; national co-chair and attorney, Alliance for Democracy (USA), Alliance for Democracy * Gerald L. Baliles (1987) – director, Miller Center of Public Affairs (since 2005) * Jeannie Baliles (M.A.T.) – founder and chair, Virginia Literacy Foundation (since 1987); First Lady of Virginia (1986–90) * John Perry Barlow (1969) – co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Fellow,

's Berkman Center for Internet and Society (since 1998) * Andrew Bridge (1984) – advocate for foster children; The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best-selling author; Fulbright Scholar * Ted Brown (attended) – Libertarianism, libertarian politician, speaker * Eric Byler (1994) – political activist; co-founder, Coffee Party USA * Sasha Chanoff (1994) – founder, Executive Director, RefugePoint (2005–) * Jaclyn Friedman (1993) – feminist writer and activist * Jon Grepstad – Norwegian people, Norwegian peace activist, photographer and journalist * Amir Alexander Hasson (1998) – social entrepreneur; 2010

's ''Technology Reviews TR35 award; founder, United Villages * David Jay – asexual activist and founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network * Marc Kasky – consumer activist; co-director, Green Center Institute * Matt Kelley (2002) – founder, Mavin Foundation * Harry W. Laidler (1907) – socialist, writer and politician * Melody Moezzi (2001) – founder, Hooping for Peace, a human rights, human-rights organization * Sandy Newman (1974) – non-profit executive, founder of three successful non-profit organizations * Robert Carter Pitman (1845) – temperance movement, temperance advocate * Do Something, Jessica Posner – 2010 Do Something, Do Something Award; co-founded Shining Hope to combat gender inequality and poverty in Kibera, Nairobi Area, Kenya * Charles Bennett Ray – first black student, Wesleyan in 1832; Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist; promoter, the Underground Railroad * Richard S. Rust (1841) – Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist; co-founder, Freedman's Aid Society *

– 2005 Leontief Prize (Wassily Leontief) by the Global Development and Environment Institute * Ted Smith (environmentalist), Ted Smith (1967) – environmental activist; founder and former executive director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition * Chuck Stone – associated with the civil rights, civil-rights and Black Power movements; first president, National Association of Black Journalists *Conrad Tillard (born 1964) – politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist * Arthur T. Vanderbilt – proponent of U.S. court modernization and reform

Sports

* Tobin Anderson (1995) – head coach of the Iona Gaels men's basketball, Iona Gaels men's basketball team (2023–present), Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball, Fairleigh Dickinson Knights men's basketball team (2022–2023); 2023 Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Purdue men's basketball game, coached Fairleigh Dickinson when they became the first No. 16 seed out of the First Four to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament * Everett Bacon (1913) – football quarterback, pioneer of the forward pass, College Football Hall of Fame * Bill Belichick (1975) – head coach of the New England Patriots; 2004 ''Time'''s "100 Most Influential People in the World"; nine-time Super Bowl participant as head coach, won in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, and 2018 (lost in Super Bowl XLII (2007), Super Bowl XLVI (2011), and Super Bowl LII (2017)); first NFL coach to win three Super Bowls in four years; NFL Coach of the Year three times (2003, 2007, 2010) * Ambrose Burfoot (1968) – first collegian to win the Boston Marathon; won Manchester Road Race nine times; executive editor, ''Runner's World'' magazine * Mike Carlson (1972) – National Football League and NFL Europe pundit (for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom) * Eudice Chong (2016) – professional tennis player, reached #366 in the WTA rankings, WTA singles rankings and #153 in the WTA rankings, WTA singles rankings * Logan Cunningham (coach), Logan Cunningham (1907–09) – football player and coach * Wink Davenport (1964) – former volleyball Olympic player, coach, and official; father, tennis champion Lindsay Davenport * Richard E. Eustis (1914) – football player and coach * Jeff Galloway (1967) – former Olympian, runner and author of ''Galloway's Book on Running'' * Frank Hauser (American football), Frank Hauser (1979) – football coach * Jed Hoyer (1996) – executive vice president and general manager, Chicago Cubs; former general manager (2009–11), San Diego Padres; former assistant general manager (2003–09), interim co-manager (2005–06), Boston Red Sox * Kathy Keeler (1978) – Olympic gold medalist, rowing (List of Olympic medalists in rowing (women), member of the women's eight) in the 1984 Olympics; Olympics coach in 1996 * Dan Kenan (1915) – football player and coach * Red Lanning – Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder; played for Philadelphia Athletics * Amos Magee (1993) – professional soccer player, coach; former head coach, Minnesota Thunder, and is Thunder's all-time scoring leader, United Soccer Leagues Hall of Fame * Jeffrey Maier (2006) – college baseball player; notable for an instance of interference (baseball)#Cases of possible spectator interference, spectator interference at age 12; Wesleyan's all-time leader in hits * Eric Mangini (1994) – former head coach, Cleveland Browns, New York Jets; National Football League, NFL analyst * Vince Pazzetti (1908–10) – elected to the College Football Hall of Fame * Bill Rodgers (athlete), Bill Rodgers (1970) – winner, four New York City Marathons, four Boston Marathons, one Fukuoka Marathon; only runner to hold championship of all three major marathons at same time * Henri Salaun (squash player), Henri Salaun (1949) – squash player; four-time winner, Men's National Champions (squash), U.S. Squash National Championships (1955, 1957, 1958 and 1961); won, inaugural United States Open (squash), U.S. Open (1954) * Harry Van Surdam (1905) – elected to the College Football Hall of Fame * James Wendell (1913) – Olympic silver medalist, 110-meter hurdles, 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm; one of teammates, General George S. Patton * Mike Whalen (1983) – athlete and coach * Jeff Wilner (1994) – National Football League player * Bert Wilson (American football), Bert Wilson (1897) – football player and coach * Field Yates (2009) – sportswriter and analyst for ESPN

Fictional characters

Notes

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