List of Yale University people

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Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies. :

Notes:

• LL.B. is a graduate degree conferred by the Yale Law School

Alumni

Nobel laureates

• George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001
• Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D. 1942). Physics, 2002.
• John F. Enders (B.A. ca. 1921). Physiology or Medicine, 1954.
• John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940). Chemistry, 2002.
• Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948). Physics, 1969.
• Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962). Physiology or Medicine, 1994.
• Ernest Lawrence (Ph.D. 1925). Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him.
• Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948). Physiology or Medicine, 1958.
• David Lee (Ph.D. 1959). Physics, 1996.
• Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908). Literature, 1930.
• Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935). Chemistry, 1968.
• Dickinson Richards (B.A. 1917). Physiology or Medicine, 1956.
• William Vickrey (B.S. 1935). Economics, 1996.
• George Whipple (A.B. 1900). Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
• Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D.). Physiology or Medicine, 1995.

• Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), won 2004 Pulitzer for non-fiction
• Stephen Vincent Benét (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), Pulitzer-winning author
• Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978), U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, received the Pulitzer in 1998.
• John Hersey (B.A. 1936), Pulitzer-winning author, namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale
• David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), Stanford University professor, won the 2000 Pulitzer in History for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45"
• David McCullough (B.A. 1955), famous historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American Presidents Harry S. Truman and John Adams.
• J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986), Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for Feature Writing
• Samantha Power (B.A. 1992), winner of the Pulitzer for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985), reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for international reporting
• Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965), composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer in Music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version"
• Wendy Wasserstein, (M.F.A. 1976), playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of The Heidi Chronicles
• Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920), playwright, winner of two Pulitzers, the first in 1928 for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the second in 1938 for the play Our Town; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963
• Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965), journalist, co-author of the Pulitzer-winning book All the President's Men, won a second Pulitzer in 2002 for National Reporting
• Doug Wright (B.A. 1986), screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for drama, winner of a Tony Award
• Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953), composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006 for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis University
• Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968), wrote Pulitzer-winning ""; founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Technology & innovation

• David Bushnell (ca. 1776), inventor of the screw propellor, submarine, naval mine, and time bomb
• Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project
• Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the triode
• Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of CMOS image sensor
• W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (TQM) guru
• Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
• J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for Gibb's Phenomenon
• Grace Hopper (M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor of COBOL programming language
• Art Laffer (B.A. 1963), economist, best known for the "Laffer Curve"
• Paul B. MacCready (1947), "Engineer of the Century," won the Kremer prize for first human-powered flying machine (the Gossamer Condor); pioneer in solar powered flight; founder of AeroVironment
• Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of "category theory"
• Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
• Samuel Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of Morse code
• Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the Nyquist theorem
• John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl programming language
• Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award receipient
• George B. Selden, Awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895
• Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
• Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin

Business

• Robert M. Bass (B.A. 1971), president, Keystone, Inc., member and former chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees
• Roland W. Betts, investor, film producer, owner of Chelsea Piers, lead owner in George W. Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership
• Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974), Time Warner President and COO
• Tim Collins (M.B.A.), founder and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
• Donna Dubinsky (B.A. 1977), former CEO of PDA company Palm Inc., co-founder of PDA company Handspring
• Ted Forstmann, co-founder & senior partner of Forstmann Little & Company, member of the Forbes 400
• Robert Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder & CEO, RealNetworks
• Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts
• Roberto Goizueta (B.E. 1953), former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of Emory University's business school)
• Briton Hadden (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine
• Henry Holt (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm Henry Holt & Company, which would later merge with other companies to become Holt, Rinehart, & Winston
• Robert S. Ingersoll (Class of 1937), former CEO and Chairman, BorgWarner
• Curtis Jensen (M.B.A.), co-chief investment officer, Third Avenue Funds
• Charles B. Johnson, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
• Ellis Jones (M.B.A.), CEO, Wasserstein & Co.
• Henry Bourne Joy, president of Packard
• Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder & former CEO, Lotus Software
• John C. Kebabian, Yale student, who in 1882 began America's first Oriental rug import company to pay his tuition.
• Herbert Kohler, chairman & president, Kohler Company
• Clarence King, founder of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• Loring Knoblauch (B.A. 1964), ninth president and CEO of Underwriters Laboratories, former leader of nine different companies in high technology and manufacturing
• Edward Lampert, founder & chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), Chairman of Sears Holding Company
• Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine.
• John Franklyn Mars, CEO, Mars, Incorporated (as in Mars & M&M candy)
• W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The Boeing Company
• Robert Moses, mid-20th-century New York City construction czar
• Indra Nooyi (M.B.A.), president and CFO, Pepsi
• Eric Ober (B.A.), president, CBS News, Food Network
• John Pepper (B.A. 1960), former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble
• Norman R. Prouty (B.A. 1961), investor and founder of the India Capital Fund--first American venture capitalist (VC) in India
• Wilbur Ross, investor, steel magnate, member of the Forbes 400
• Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder & CEO of the Blackstone Group, member of the Forbes 400
• Robert Sargent Shriver III (Law), part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
• Timothy Perry Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics
• David Singer (B.A. 1984), founder, former CEO, chairman of the board of Genesoft Pharmaceuticals (now Oscient Pharmaceuticals); founding president of Affymetrix and Corcept Therapeutics; principal of Maverick Capital Ltd.
• Frederick W. Smith, (B.A. 1966), founder & CEO, FedEx
• Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
• Richard Thalheimer (B.A. 1970), founder & CEO of The Sharper Image
• John L. Thornton (M.P.P.M. Yale School of Management 1980), former president and co-COO, Goldman Sachs
• Juan Trippe (B.A. 1921), founder & CEO, Pan Am
• Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder, Weyerhaeuser
• John (Jock) Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first venture capital firm in U.S.
• Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)

Academics

College founders and presidents

• Frederick Barnard (B.A. 1828), mathematician, educator, president (1856-1858) and chancellor (1858-1861) of the University of Mississippi , president (1864-1889) of Columbia University, posthumous namesake of Barnard College, active in the founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences
• Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968), president of Duke University
• Gerhard Casper (LL.B. 1962); Honorary doctorate, 2000), ninth president of Stanford University, former provost at the University of Chicago, member of the Yale Corporation
• Jonathan Dickinson, (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, which was later named Princeton University
• Thomas H. Gallaudet (B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810) Educator for the deaf, co-founder and principal (1817-1830) of the American School for the Deaf, namesake of Gallaudet University
• James Duderstadt ( B.E. 1964), President of the University of Michigan
• Daniel Coit Gilman (B.A. 1852), first president of Johns Hopkins University
• William Rainey Harper, (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the University of Chicago
• Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925) President (1929-1945) and Chancellor (1945-1951) of the University of Chicago
• Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714), First president of Columbia University (known at the time as King's College); father of U.S. Senator William Samuel Johnson
• William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), son of Samuel Johnson, president (1787-1800) of Columbia University (he was its first president under its new name of Columbia College; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as King's College), U.S. senator (Connecticut, 1789-1791) (See also: Senators for the many other roles he served)
• Yamakawa Kenjiro (ca. 1876), founder of Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Helen Parkhurst (M.A. 1943), progressive educator, created the Dalton Plan, founder of The Dalton School
• Charles Summerlin (M.Phil 1971, Ph.D. 1973), president of Schreiner University
• Andrew Dickson White (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of Cornell University
• Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733) Founder of Dartmouth College

Professors and scholars

• Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary (1981-2002)
• Eugene Bouton (B.A. 1875), First Principal of the New York State Teachers College
• Michael Burns, actor and professor of history
• Alan Dershowitz (LL.B. 1962) law professor at Harvard University
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
• Barbara Hicks (B.A.), comparative politics scholar specializing in Central and Eastern Europe
• David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at Bates College.
• Howard Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor, Harvard School of Public Health
• Paul Krugman (B.A. Economics, 1974), architect of "New Trade Theory," winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, Princeton University economics professor, New York Times columnist
• Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Stanford University
• Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian
• Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972), author of Sexual Personae, cultural critic and feminist scholar
• Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at University of Notre Dame
• James Rothman (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize")
• Matthias Storme, professor of law at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Antwerp University
• Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796), "father of American scientific education"
• David Swensen (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the Yale School of Management
• John Griggs Thompson (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
• Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree

Law & politics

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

• George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001-present), Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
• Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993-2001), Governor of Arkansas (1983-1992)
• George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989-1993), Vice President of the United States (1981-1989), member of Congress (R-Texas) (1967-1971)
• Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), President of the United States (1974-1977), Vice President of the United States (1973-1974), member of the House of Representatives
• William Howard Taft (1878), President of the United States (1909-1913), Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930)
• Dick Cheney (Class of 1963*), Vice President of the United States (2001-present)
• John Calhoun (B.A. 1804), Seventh Vice President of the United States, for two different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; Senator; Member of the House of Representatives; Secretary of State in the Tyler presidential administration
• Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (Class of 2000*, attended for two years)
• Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994-2000)
• Tansu Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), Prime Minister of Turkey (1993-1996)
• Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), Fifth President of Germany (1979-1984)

Supreme Court justices

• Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Supreme Court justice (2006-present)
• Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830-1844)
• David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889-1910)
• Henry B. Brown (1856), Supreme Court justice (1891-1906)
• David Davis (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862-1877)
• Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766*), Supreme Court justice (1796-1800)
• Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965-1969)
• Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949-1956)
• George Shiras, Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892-1903)
• Potter Stewart, Supreme Court justice (1958-1981)
• William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870-1880)
• William Howard Taft (1878), President of the United States (1909-1913), Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930)
• Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court Justice (1991-present)
• Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874-1888)
• William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881-1887)
• Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme Court Justice (1962-1993)

U.S. senators

• Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1923-24, 1932-1941)
• John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) U.S. attorney general (2001-2005), U.S. senator (R-Missouri, 1993-2001), governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
• Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772), U.S. Representative (1789-1799), U.S. Senator (1799-1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the University of Georgia (1786-1801)
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), governor of Connecticut (1844-46), U.S. senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1847-51)
• John Beall (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator (R-Maryland, 1971-1976)
• Hiram Bingham III (1898), governor of Connecticut (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924-1933); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of Machu Picchu, Peru; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional Indiana Jones character
• David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975-79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-94), president of University of Oklahoma
• Prescott Bush (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953-1963)
• James L. Buckley (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (C-New York, 1971-1977); president of Radio Free Europe, 1982-1985; federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) (1985-1996)
• John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962-69), Secretary of the Navy (1969-72), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976-99)
• John Clayton (1815), Secretary of State in the Taylor administration, U.S. senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829-1836; W-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware 1853-1856)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (J.D. 1973) Junior Senator from New York (2001-Present)
• LeBaron Colt (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
• David Daggett (1783), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1813-19)
• David Davis (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Lincoln (1862-1877); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877-1883)
• Henry L. Dawes (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875-93)
• John Danforth (J.D, DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-Missouri, 1976-95)
• Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-Minnesota, 2001-present)
• Fred Dubois (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-Idaho,1891-1897; D-Idaho, 1901-1907)
• William M. Evarts (1837), Secretary of State under Hayes, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885-91)
• Gary Hart (DIV 1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1975-1987)
• John Heinz(B.A. 1960), U.S. senator (Pennsylvania)
• James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796-1810 )
• James Jeffords (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (I-Vermont, 1989-present)
• William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress (1785-1787), delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, president (1787-1800) of Columbia University (he was its first president under its new name of Columbia College; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as King's College), U.S. senator (Connecticut, 1789-1791)
• John Kerry (B.A. 1966), U.S. senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985-present)
• James Lanman (1788), U.S. senator
• Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (D-Connecticut, 1989-present)
• Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785), U.S. Senator (DR-Ohio, 1808-181), 4th Governor of Ohio (1810-1814), 8th U.S. Postmaster General (1814-1823). Meigs County, Ohio is named in his honor.
• Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-Florida, 1979-91), astronaut (STS-61-C, 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001-present)
• Francis Newlands (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903-17)
• William Proxmire (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957-89)
• Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (R-Pennsylvania, 1981-present)
• Robert Taft, Jr. (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963-64, 1967-70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971-76),
• John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965-1970), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971-1977)
• Frederic Walcott (1891), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-35)
• John Wales (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator (W-Delaware, 1849-1851); co-founder of Delaware College
• Malcolm Wallop (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator (R-Wyoming, 1977-95)
• Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (R-Connecticut, 1968-1971), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1971-1989), Governor of Connecticut (1990-1994)
• Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983-1991), Governor of California 1991-1999

Governors

Alumni who have served as Governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as President or Senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

• John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 ) Governor of Missouri (1985-1993). (See also: Senators)
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), Governor of Connecticut (1844-46). (See also: Senators)
• Hiram Bingham III (1898), Governor of Connecticut (1925). (See also: Senators)
• David Boren (B.A. 1963), Governor of Oklahoma (1975-79). (See also: Senators)
• Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (J.D. 1964), Governor of California (1975-1983)
• George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), Governor of Texas (1995-2000). (See also: Presidents & Vice Presidents)
• John Chafee (B.A. 1947), Governor of Rhode Island (1962-69). (See also: Senators)
• William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), Governor of Arkansas (1983-1992). (See also: Presidents & Vice Presidents)
• Wilbur Cross (B.A.1885, Ph.D. 1889), Governor of Connecticut (1931-1939), Yale professor of English
• Howard Dean (B.A. 1971), Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
• Henry Haight (B.A. 1844), Governor of California (1867-1871)
• W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913), Governor of New York (1955-1958), United States ambassador to Russia (1943-1946), ambassador to Britain (1946), Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
• Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968), Governor of Alaska (1994-2002), mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1981-1987)
• William Livingston (B.A. 1741), First Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790) after the signing of the Declaration of Independence
• Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), Governor of Washington (1997-2005) (thereby the first Chinese American governor in the United States)
• Return Jonathan Meigs (B.A. 1785), 4th Governor of Ohio (1810-1814). (See also: Senators)
• George Pataki (B.A. 1967), Governor of New York (1995-present)
• Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935*), attended Yale from 1931 to 1934; Governor of Arkansas (1967-1971)
• William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), Governor of Pennsylvania (1963-1967), United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1976-1977)
• Robert Taft (B.A. 1953), Governor of Ohio (1999-present)
• Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), Governor of Connecticut (1990-1994).(See also: Senators)
• Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), Governor of California (1991-1999). (See also: Senators)

Executive council members

The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.

• Dean Acheson (B.A, 1915), United States Secretary of State in the Truman presidential administration
• James Jesus Angleton, (B.A. 1941), chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
• Les Aspin (B.A. 1960), Secretary of Defense, U.S. Congressman (D-Wisconsin (1971-1993)
• McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940), former Cabinet official
• John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962-69), Secretary of the Navy (1969-72), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976-99) (also listed under Senators and Governors)
• John Clayton (1815), Secretary of State in the Zachary Taylor administration, U.S. senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829-1836; W-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware 1853-1856) (also listed under Senators)
• William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003-2005), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, founder and former dean of the Yale School of Management, president of the New York Stock Exchange
• William M. Evarts (1837), Secretary of State in the Rutherford B. Hayes administration, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885-91) (also listed under Senators
• Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004-2006), Florida congressman
• Stephen Hadley, (J.D. 1972), National Security Adviser
• Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), United States Deputy Secretary of State and Ambassador to Japan under Presidents Nixon and Ford
• William McChesney Martin, Jr. (B.A. ca. 1926), the ninth and longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
• John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), first U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2005-present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq (2004-2005)
• Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999) in the Clinton presidential administration
• Henry L. Stimson, (B.A. 1888), United States Secretary of State in the Hoover presidential administration
• Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law), Attorney General and Secretary of War in the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration.
• Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968), Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001) in the Clinton presidential administration, President of the Brookings Institution
• Cyrus Vance, (B.A. 1939, Law 1942) United States Secretary of State in the Carter presidential administration

Diplomats

• Hiram Bingham IV, U.S. vice consul in Marseilles, France, 1940-1941
• L. Paul Bremer (B.A. 1963), ambassador
• Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001-present)

Justices and attorneys

See also: Supreme Court Justices

• Cecilia Altonaga (J.D. 1986), federal judge, first Cuban American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States
• David Boies (LL.B.. 1966), famous lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster v. RIAA)
• Geraldo Brindeiro (L.L.M, J.D.), Attorney General of Brazil (1995-2003)
• Sir Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the High Court of Australia
• William Kunstler (B.A. 1941), Civil liberties lawyer
• Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), U.S. Assistant Attorney General
• Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former United States Attorney General

Activists

• Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820), abolitionist
• Cassius Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832), abolitionist. (The birth-name of boxer Muhammad Ali was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., who was named for the abolitionist.)
• Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958-1975), senior minister of Riverside Church in New York, political and civil rights activist, author
• Severn Cullis-Suzuki (B.S. 2002), environmental activist, speaker, television host, and author; member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Council (United Nations)
• David Dellinger (B.A. 1936), activist, member of the Chicago Seven
• Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the Indian Removal Act of 1830
• Barry Scheck (B.S., 1971) Co-founded the Innocence Project
• Sargent Shriver (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941), main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps. Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).
• Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969) Theologian and activist; President of Evagelicals For Social Action and Professor at Eastern University.
• John Wilhelm (B.A., 1967) Labor leader; President, Hospitality Division, UNITE HERE.

Commentators

• William F. Buckley (B.A. 1950), political pundit, founder of the National Review', host of public affairs television show Firing Line''
• David Gergen (B.A. 1963), political pundit, worked as an advisor for the Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton
• Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), conservative pundit
• Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show, Foreign Exchange

Frontiersmen

• Moses Cleaveland (B.A. 1777), founder of Cleveland, Ohio
• Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765), co-author of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, member of the Ohio Company of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in Ohio), U.S. Congressman (F-Massachusetts (1801-1805)
• James Gadsden (B.A. 1806), namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became Arizona and part of New Mexico.

Early American soldiers

• Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
• Nathan Whiting, (B.A. 1743), Colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War also the nephew of univ. president Thomas Clap.
• David Wooster (B.A. 1738), brigadier general in the American Revolutionary War; namesake of Wooster, Ohio, The College of Wooster, and the Wooster School

Other legislators

• Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A. 1972), U.S. representative, D-Texas.
• Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A. 1828), Member of the Texas State Senate, namesake for eponym maverick.
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for District of Columbia (1991-present)

Other

• Gifford Pinchot, founder of the United States Forest Service
• Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey
• John Lindsay (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948), Mayor of New York
• Cory Booker (J.D.), Mayor of Newark
• Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, Taliban spokesman
• Robert Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French Marshall Plan implementor and European Commissioner
• Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer featured in Band of Brothers
• Bradford Bishop, fugitive, indicted for murder

Religion

• Aaron L. Mackler (B.A. 1980), notable rabbi in the Conservative movement.
• Hiram Bingham II, one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
• William Ragsdale Cannon (B.D., 1940; Ph.D., 1942), professor and dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University; United Methodist Church bishop

History, literature, art & music

• Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
• Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), video and installation artist
• Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A), painter
• Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), American literary critic
• Jonathan Borofsky , artist
• Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author
• Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964), painter
• Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
• John Currin (M.F.A. 1986), painter
• James Fenimore Cooper (Class of 1805*), author of The Last of the Mohicans
• Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
• Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture writer
• Nancy Graves, sculptor
• Linda Greenhouse, journalist for the New York Times, covers the United States Supreme Court.
• Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
• Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music.
• Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class of 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborator with wife Lillith Stanwood on Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl. Authored the novel Famous All Over Town under the pseudonym Danny Santago. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on the film The Great Dictator. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. First cousin of Jesse James.
• John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of A Separate Peace
• Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), Playwright and gay activist
• George Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer
• Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M.Arch 1986, honorary Ph.D 1987), architect, best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer of the Broadway musical Avenue Q. Winner of 3 Tony Awards.
• Philip-Lorca diCorcia (M.F.A. 1979), photographer
• Alvin Lucier American experimental composer
• J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Douglas Moore (B.A 1915, B.M 1917) composer
• Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author.
• Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
• Mark Rothko (Class of 1924*), painter
• Eero Saarinen (B.Arch, 1934), architect, best known for the St. Louis Gateway Arch
• Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), art historian
• Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
• Robert A. M. Stern (M. Arch. 1965), architect, current dean of Yale School of Architecture
• Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Doonesbury cartoonist
• Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, Ll.D. 1823), lexicographer, author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found Amherst College
• Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984), feminist writer
• Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 ), lyricist, composer, Tony Award for Titanic

Athletics

• Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "Father of American Football"
• Ron Darling Mets pitcher
• Brian Dowling (B.A. 1969), quarterback
• Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1981) Profesional tennis player
• Chris Dudley (B.A. 1987), former NBA player
• Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest in Major League Baseball history
• Gary Fencik (Class of 1975, B.A. 1976), 2 time pro bowl NFL defensive back, recorded 38 interceptions in his 11 seasons and won a Super Bowl ring in Super Bowl XX
• Howard (Howdy) Groskloss, in 2006, at age 100, is recognized as the oldest living former MLB player
• Chris Hetherington (B.A. 1996), National Football League running back
• Calvin Hill (B.A. 1969), National Football League player with the Cowboys, Redskins and Browns
• Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic figure skating
• Bill Hutchison, former Major League Baseball player
• Sada Jacobson (Class of 2006), bronze medalist in 2004 Olympic women's saber
• Eric Johnson (B.A. 2001), National Football League tight end
• Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), National Football League tight end
• Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969) gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic Marathon
• Jeff Van Gundy Attended Yale College for his freshman year, head coach for the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association
• Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985) Three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)

Film

• Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), actress
• Jennifer Beals, (B.A. 1987 American Literature) actress, best known for Flashdance and The L Word.
• Henry Bean, screenwriter/director The Believer
• Jordana Brewster, actress, plays Mia in The Fast and the Furious
• Bruce Cohen, film producer, won an Academy Award for American Beauty
• Michael Cimino, Academy Award-winning director
• Jennifer Connelly (Class of 1992*), Academy Award-winning actress
• Claire Danes (Class of 2002*), actress
• Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
• Jodie Foster (B.A. in literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning actress and director
• Paul Giamatti (MFA, 1989), actor. Starred in Academy Award nominated "Sideways".
• David Alan Grier, actor, comedian
• Kathryn Hahn, actress
• George Roy Hill, Academy Award-winning director
• Holly Hunter, Academy Award-winning actress
• Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class of 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on the film The Great Dictator. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Collaborator with wife Lillith Stanwood on Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl. Authored the novel Famous All Over Town under the pseudonym Danny Santago. First cousin of Jesse James.
• Elia Kazan*, Academy Award-winning director
• Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian.
• Ron Livingston, actor. Best known for Office Space
• Frances McDormand (MFA), actress
• Paul Newman, Academy Award-winning actor
• Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), actor
• Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
• Vincent Price, actor
• Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
• Todd Solondz, director Welcome to the Dollhouse & Happiness
• Oliver Stone*, Academy Award-winning director
• Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress
• Ted Tally (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• John Turturro (MFA), actor
• Sam Waterston, (B.A. 1961), actor
• Sigourney Weaver (MFA), actress
• Jennifer Westfeldt, actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)

Television

• Demetri Martin (1995) stand-up comedian who often appears on The Daily Show
• Lewis Black (MFA 1977) stand-up comedian who often appears on The Daily Show
• James Bohanek (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actor
• Jimmy Burrows (M.A.), producer of shows such as: Cheers and Will & Grace
• Dick Cavett, TV personality, nominated eleven times for the Emmy Award, and won three times.
• Enrico Colantoni (MFA), actor, played womanizing fashion photographer "Elliot DiMauro" on Just Shoot Me and "Mathesar" in the movie Galaxy Quest
• Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°
• Bill Corbett (DRA 1989), actor, writer, played Crow T. Robot in Mystery Science Theater 3000
• David Duchovny (M.A. English literature), actor in The X-Files
• Sam Waterston, best known for his portrayal of A.D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order
• Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports division, helped launch Saturday Night Live
• Malcolm Gets (MFA), actor, best known for as "Richard Karinsky" on Caroline in the City
• John Gidding (B.A. 1999), architect, one of the designers on the ABC Family show Knock First
• Sara Gilbert, actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sit-com Roseanne
• Felipe Gozon, Philippine television executive
• Michael Gross (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of Michael J. Fox's character) on Family Ties
• Leo Laporte*, host of The Screen Savers on TechTV
• Crystal McKellar (B.A. 1999), played "Becky Slater" in The Wonder Years in her youth; now an attorney.
• Anne Meacham (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress (Another World)
• Ari Meyers (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on Kate & Allie
• Chris Noth (MFA), plays "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City
• Stone Phillips, television anchor for NBC
• Robert Picardo, the holographic doctor on the television show
• David Hyde Pierce, actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier; winner of four Emmy Awards
• Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and An Unreasonable Man
• Ben Stein (J.D.), economist, host of Win Ben Stein's Money
• Ming Tsai (B.A. 1986), chef on East Meets West with Ming Tsai on PBS
• Courtney B. Vance (MFA 1986), actor, current on as "Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver"
• Margaret Warner, co-anchor on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS' weekday news program
• Henry Winkler (MFA 1970), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
• Tony Shalhoub (MFA 1980) actor, "Monk"

Fictional

(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)

• "Paul Allen", victim of serial killer Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard alumnus) in the movie American Psycho.
• "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby
• "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by Helen Hunt) in television comedy series Mad About You
• "Charles Montgomery Burns", Class of 1914, the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
• "Nick Carraway", narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby
• "Charlotte" (played by Scarlett Johansson), main character of movie Lost in Translation.
• "Lane Coutell," Franny's boyfriend in J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
• "Dr. Niles Crane", Frasier's brother in the award-winning television comedy series Frasier. The actor who plays him, David Hyde Pierce, is a real-life alumnus.
• "Richard Gilmore", grandfather of Rory Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls.
• "Rory Gilmore"*, main character of the television series Gilmore Girls
• "Linus Larrabee", protagonist in the movie Sabrina, played by Humphrey Bogart in 1954 and Harrison Ford in 1995.
• Josh Lyman, Deputy Chief of Staff for President Barlett in the television show The West Wing is a graduate of Yale Law School.
• "Frank Merriwell," the most popular dime-novel hero of the early twentieth century. Protagonist of Gilbert Patten's 200 odd Merriwell novels.
• "Sherman McCoy," central character in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. McCoy was intended as an exemplar of New York in the "Greed in Good" 1980s.
• "Zack Morris," the main character on Saved by the Bell earns a 1502 on his SAT, is accepted to Yale, and plans on attending. However, his plans change and on , he goes to California University (presumed to be Berkeley).
• "Neela Rasgotra", (Medical degree) doctor on the television series "ER".
• "Dink Stover", hero of Owen Johnson's 1911 novel Stover at YaleStover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
• "Robert Underdunk Terwilliger" (with the stage name of "Sideshow Bob") in the television series The Simpsons
• "Clara Tillinghast," nickname "Clingfast," head of the New Yorker's Department of Factual Verification in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City
• "Troy" the secondary janitor on the television comedy Scrubs, whose obtuse and violent approach to life become humorous when the unnamed major janitor character says to him "You went to Yale".
• "Andrea Zuckerman", character of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210
• Senator Arnold Vinick (R-CA), Republican Presidential Nominee in The West Wing. Played by Alan Alda

(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)

Faculty

Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.

Nobel laureates

• Sidney Altman: Chemistry, 1989.
• John Fenn: Chemistry, 2002. Received his PhD from Yale 1940, and was a member of the Yale faculty from 1962 to 1994.
• Tjalling Koopmans: Economics, 1975.
• George Palade, professor at Yale Medical School from 1973-1990: Physiology or Medicine, 1974.
• James Tobin: Economics, 1981.

Others

• Akhil Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984), law professor
• Harold Bloom (Ph.D 1955), writer and critic, author of The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and many other scholarly books.
• Yung-Chi (Tommy) Cheng, pharmacology, inventor of AIDS drug 3TC, known as Epivir.
• Paul de Man, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be antisemitic
• Jacques Derrida, philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man
• Irving Fisher, economist
• Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, in the Clinton Administration
• John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
• Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
• David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language
• Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
• Paul Hudak, computer scientist, known for his work on the Haskell programming language, author of "The Haskell School of Expression"
• Donald Kagan, historian of ancient Greece
• Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician, Kakutani fixed-point theorem
• Paul Kennedy, historian, coiner of the term "imperial overstretch" and author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
• Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician known for fractal geometry
• Julián Marías, philosopher, author of "History of Philosophy"
• Samuel E. Martin, linguist, developed the Yale Romanization#Korean system for transliterating Korean
• James Mitchell, actor, most known for his role as Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
• David Montgomery, Professor of History Emeritus
• William Nordhaus (1963), economist
• William Odom, director, National Security Agency
• Arthur Okun, economist
• Oystein Ore, mathematician
• Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of "The Christian Tradition"
• William Prusoff, pharmacologist, inventor of AIDS drug d4T, known as Zerit.
• Herbert Scarf, economist
• Robert Shiller, economist, author of "Irrational Exuberance", well known for his work in investor psychology
• Jonathan Spence, historian, author of "The Search For Modern China."
• John Szwed, John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, believed to be the first person at Yale to win a Grammy Award (2006 Grammy Award, "Best Album Notes").
• David Underdown, historian of 17th-century England

Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University

	Rectors of Yale College	birth–death	years as rector
1	Rev. Abraham Pierson	(1641–1707)	(1701–1707) Collegiate School
2	Rev. Samuel Andrew	(1656–1738)	(1707–1719) (pro tempore)
3	Rev. Timothy Cutler	(1684–1765)	(1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
4	Rev. Elisha William(s)	(1694–1755)	(1726–1739)
5	Rev. Thomas Clap	(1703–1767)	(1740–1745)

	Presidents of Yale College	birth–death	years as president
1	Rev. Thomas Clap	(1703–1767)	(1745–1766)
2	Rev. Naphtali Daggett	(1727–1780)	(1766–1777) (pro tempore)
3	Rev. Ezra Stiles	(1727–1795)	(1778–1795)
4	Timothy Dwight IV	(1752–1817)	(1795–1817)
5	Jeremiah Day	(1773–1867)	(1817–1846)
6	Theodore Dwight Woolsey	(1801–1899)	(1846–1871)
7	Noah Porter III	(1811–1892)	(1871–1886)
8	Timothy Dwight V	(1828–1916)	(1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
9	Arthur Twining Hadley	(1856–1930)	(1899–1921)
10	James Rowland Angell	(1869–1949)	(1921–1937)
11	Charles Seymour	(1885–1963)	(1937–1951)
12	Alfred Whitney Griswold	(1906–1963)	(1951–1963)
13	Kingman Brewster, Jr.	(1919–1988)	(1963–1977)
14	Hanna Holborn Gray	(1930– )	(1977–1977) (acting)
15	A. Bartlett Giamatti	(1938–1989)	(1977–1986)
16	Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.	(1942– )	(1986–1992)
17	Howard R. Lamar	(1923– )	(1992–1993) (acting)
18	Richard C. Levin	(1947– )	(1993– )

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