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(graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated with
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. People who have given public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars; studied as non-degree students; received honorary degrees; or served as administrative staff at the university are excluded from the list. Summer school attendees and visitors are generally excluded from the list, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with Princeton and use the following notation: * B indicates a
bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
* Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated * AM indicates a
Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...
degree * MPP indicates a
Master of Public Policy The Master of Public Policy (MPP), is one of several public policy degrees. An MPP is a master's-level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools. The MPP program places a focus o ...
degree awarded by the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...
* MPA indicates a Master in Public Affairs degree awarded by the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...
* MCF indicates completion of the Mid-Career Fellowship, a discontinued non-degree program of the Woodrow Wilson School * MSE indicates a
Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...
in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science * PhD indicates a
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
degree * GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree * F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty * T indicates a
Trustee of Princeton University The Trustees of Princeton University is a 40-member board responsible for managing Princeton University's endowment, real estate, instructional programs, and admission. The Trustees include at least 13 members elected by alumni classes, and the Go ...
, followed by years denoting the time of service * Pres indicates a President of Princeton University, followed by years denoting the time of service


Politics and government


Royalty

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Kyril, Prince of Preslav Kyril, Prince of Preslav, Duke in Saxony (born 11 July 1964), also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg, is the second son of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005 and previously tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, ...
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Prince Ali bin Hussein Prince Ali bin Hussein ( ar, الأمير علي بن الحسين; born 23 December 1975) is the third son of King Hussein of Jordan, and the second child of the king by his third wife, Queen Alia. He is also the half brother of King Abdullah I ...
of the
Hashemite The Hashemites ( ar, الهاشميون, al-Hāshimīyūn), also House of Hashim, are the royal family of Jordan, which they have ruled since 1921, and were the royal family of the kingdoms of Hejaz (1916–1925), Syria (1920), and Iraq (1921 ...
Kingdom of Jordan *
Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad (born 15 October 1966) is a Jordanian prince and a professor of philosophy. He is the son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and his first wife, Princess Firyal of Jordan, Princess Firyal. He is a grandson of King T ...
*
Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco ( ar, الأمير مولاي هشام بن عبد الله, born 4 March 1964) is the first cousin of the current King Mohammed VI and Prince Moulay Rachid. He is the son of Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, t ...
*
Queen Noor of Jordan Noor Al-Hussein ( ar, نور الحسين; born Lisa Najeeb Halaby; August 23, 1951) is an American-born Jordanian philanthropist and activist who is the fourth wife and widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She was Queen of Jordan from their marriag ...
* Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud


Military

* James Millikin Bevans
U.S. Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Sign ...
Major General *
Alexander Bonnyman Jr. Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman Jr. (May 2, 1910 – November 23, 1943) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action on Betio, Betio Atoll in the Gilbert Islands during World War II. A combat engineer, he received the Medal of ...
, 1932 – World War II
Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...
recipient killed in the
Battle of Tarawa The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, an ...
* William L. Brandon, 1819 – Confederate Army general *
James Caldwell James or Jim Caldwell may refer to: Politics * James Caldwell (Ohio politician) (1770–1838), U.S. Representative from Ohio, son on James Caldwell (1724–1804), an Irish emigrant who founded Wheeling, West Virginia * James Caldwell (Missouri spe ...
, A.B. 1759 –
American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...
ary soldier and chaplain *
James Robb Church James Robb Church (January 1, 1866 – May 18, 1923) was a United States Army Assistant Surgeon who received the Medal of Honor for his actions as part of the Rough Riders regiment during the Spanish–American War. He also served in World War I, ...
, 1888 –
Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...
recipient,
Spanish–American War , partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence , image = Collage infobox for Spanish-American War.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = (clock ...
* Kenneth F. Cramer, B.Litt. 1916, M.A. 1917 –
United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...
and
Chief of the National Guard Bureau The chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) is the highest-ranking officer of the National Guard and the head of the National Guard Bureau. The position is a statutory office (), held by a federally recognized commissioned officer who has serv ...
*
William J. Crowe William James Crowe Jr. (January 2, 1925 – October 18, 2007) was a United States Navy admiral and diplomat who served as the 11th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and as the ambassad ...
(1925–2007), Ph.D. 1965 –
U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
Admiral,
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the presiding officer of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The chairman is the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the United States Armed Forces Chairman: app ...
and American Ambassador to Great Britain *
Philip Dalton Lt. Philip Dalton (April 1, 1903 – July 25, 1941) was a United States military scientist, pilot and engineer. Dalton is best known for his invention of several slide-rule analog flight computers, the most famous being the E6B. Early life and e ...
(1903–1941) M.S. 1925 – American Naval aviator and engineer, creator of
E6B The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation and one of the very few analog calculating devices in widespread use in the 21st century. They are mostly used in flight training, because these flight computers have b ...
analog
flight computer A flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is called by the make or model name like E6B, CR, CRP-5 or in German, as the ''Dreieckre ...
* Glen Edwards, M.S. 1947 –
U.S. Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Sign ...
test pilot A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.Stinton, Darrol. ''Flying Qualities and Flight Testing ...
* Joseph C. Fegan Jr., B.A. 1943 –
United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...
Lieutenant general;
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
,
Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
and
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
*
Andrew Goodpaster Andrew Jackson Goodpaster (February 12, 1915 – May 16, 2005) was an American Army General. He served as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), from July 1, 1969, and Commander in Chief of the United States European Command (CINC ...
, A.M. 1949, M.S.E. 1949, Ph.D. 1950 –
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe The Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) is the commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) and head of ACO's headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The commander is ...
for
NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
* Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, A.B. 1773 – American Revolutionary cavalry officer, father of Robert E. Lee * Gordon Johnston, A.B. 1896 –
Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...
recipient,
Philippine–American War The Philippine–American War or Filipino–American War ( es, Guerra filipina-estadounidense, tl, Digmaang Pilipino–Amerikano), previously referred to as the Philippine Insurrection or the Tagalog Insurgency by the United States, was an arm ...
*
Mark A. Milley Mark Alexander Milley (born June 20, 1958) is a United States Army general who serves as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He previously served as the 39th chief of staff of the Army from August 14, 2015 to August 9, 2019, and hel ...
, A.B. 1980 – U.S. Army General, 20th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is the presiding officer of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The chairman is the highest-ranking and most senior military officer in the United States Armed Forces Chairman: app ...
*
David Petraeus David Howell Petraeus (; born November 7, 1952) is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to ...
, M.P.A. 1985 Ph.D. 1987 – former commander of
International Security Assistance Force ' ps, کمک او همکاري ' , allies = Afghanistan , opponents = Taliban Al-Qaeda , commander1 = , commander1_label = Commander , commander2 = , commander2_label = , commander3 = , comman ...
(ISAF) and United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A),
USCENTCOM The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was established in 1983, taking over the previous responsibilities of the Rapid Deployment Joint Tas ...
, and
Multi-National Force – Iraq The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF–I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of the ensuing Iraq War, led by the United States of America ( Operation Iraqi Freedom), Unit ...
; former
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) is a statutory office () that functions as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which in turn is a part of the United States Intelligence Community. Beginning February 2017, the D ...
*
Nathaniel Scudder Nathaniel Scudder (May 10, 1733 – October 17, 1781) was an American Founding Father, physician, and officer during the American Revolutionary War. He served as a delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress, where he was one of two del ...
– physician and patriot leader during the Revolutionary War *
Elliott White Springs Elliott White Springs (July 31, 1896 – October 15, 1959), was a South Carolina businessman and an American flying ace of World War I, credited with shooting down 16 enemy aircraft. Early life Springs was born to Col. Leroy Springs and Grac ...
, A.B. 1917 – World War I flying ace and memoirist *
Tamon Yamaguchi was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the Pacific War during World War II. Yamaguchi′s carrier force was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He subsequently participated in th ...
, 1921–1923 – Japanese Admiral *
Christopher G. Cavoli Christopher Gerard Cavoli is a United States Army general who serves as the commander of United States European Command since 1 July 2022 and Supreme Allied Commander Europe since 4 July 2022. He previously served as the commanding general of Uni ...
, A.B. 1987 – commander,
United States European Command The United States European Command (EUCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States military, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its area of focus covers and 51 countries and territories, including Europe, Russi ...
*
Blake Wayne Van Leer Blake Wayne Van Leer (January 13, 1926 – October 3, 1997) was a United States Navy officer who commanded the naval construction Battalion Seabees during World War II and the Vietnam War. He led the expansion of submarine-launched ballistic ...
, M.S. 1959 – commander and captain in the
U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
. Lead
SeaBee United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Force (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a heterograph of the initial letters "CB" from the words "Construction Battalion". Depending upon ...
program and lead the nuclear research and power unit at
McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...
during
Operation Deep Freeze Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There w ...
.


Academia

This section includes lists of notable academics who graduated from Princeton and notable Princeton faculty members.


Alumni and students

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Nicholas Allard Nicholas W. Allard (born October 4, 1952) is an American attorney and founding Dean of the Jacksonville University College of Law. Biography Allard grew up in Northport, Long Island, New York, and in Suffern, New York. He was inspired to go to ...
(born 1952), dean and president of
Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty. Brookly ...
* E. Spencer Miller (1836), dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...
*
Mark Steiner Mark Steiner (May 6, 1942 – April 6, 2020) was an American-born Israeli professor of philosophy. He taught philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Steiner died after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-1 ...
(1942–2020), professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Faculty and staff

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
was one of many scholars at the independent
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...
not formally associated with the university but nevertheless closely linked to it.


Architecture

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Stan Allen Stan Allen (born 1956) is an American architect, theorist and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. Biography He received a B.A. from Brown University, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and an M.Arch. from Princeton Universit ...
– former dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture; author of ''Points and Lines'' *
Elizabeth Diller Elizabeth Diller, also known as Liz Diller, is an American architect and partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which she co-founded in 1979. She is also an architecture professor at Princeton University. Life Elizabeth Diller was born in 1954 in ...
– architect, professor of
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
, winner of
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 50 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.0 billion and p ...
Fellowship A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...
1999–2004 *
Michael Graves Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, as well as principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Grou ...
– ''professor emeritus'' * Vincent Lee – architect, writer, mountaineer, and member of the Institute of Andean Studies * Paul Lewis – professor; associate dean; principal of
LTL Architects LTL Architects is an architecture firm founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David Lewis in New York City. The firm received a 2007 National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and was selected as one of six ...
* Sergey Padyukov – architect, engineer and human rights activist * Monica Ponce de Leon – dean of the School of Architecture; Winner
National Design Award The American National Design Awards, founded in 2000, are funded and awarded by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum housed within the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New Y ...
*
Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and director of her own firm, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, she co-founded the firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa & Associates). In 2010, Sejima was the second woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, which was awarded jo ...
– principal of Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA *
Sarah Whiting Sarah M. Whiting (born 1964) is an American architect, critic, and educator. Whiting is currently Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in addition to being a founding partner o ...
– assistant professor and M.Arch thesis director; editor of '' Assemblage'' and ''
Log Log most often refers to: * Trunk (botany), the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, called logs when cut ** Logging, cutting down trees for logs ** Firewood, logs used for fuel ** Lumber or timber, converted from wood logs * Logarithm, in mathe ...
''; principal of WW Architecture


Economics and business

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Orley Ashenfelter Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942) is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. H ...
– professor of
economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
, winner of the
Frisch Medal The Frisch Medal is an award in economics given by the Econometric Society. It is awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in ''Econometrica'' during the previous five years. The award was named in honor of Ra ...
(1982) *
Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Durin ...
– professor of economics and public affairs;
Chairman of the Federal Reserve The chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, and is the active executive officer of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The chair shal ...
Board *
William G. Bowen William Gordon Bowen (; October 6, 1933October 20, 2016) was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. From 1972 until 1988, he was the president of ...
– professor emeritus of economics; president of
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
, 1972–1988; president of
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City in the United States, simply known as Mellon Foundation, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pitt ...
, 1988–2006 *
Angus Deaton Sir Angus Stewart Deaton (born 19 October 1945) is a British economist and academic. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public ...
– professor of economics; president of the
American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members. History and Constitution The AEA was esta ...
;
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
in economics (2015) *
Avinash Dixit Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is an Indian-American economist. He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lin ...
– professor of economics; co-author of ''Games of Strategy''; former president of the
Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...
; 2008 president of the American Economic Association *
Gene Grossman Gene Michael Grossman (born December 11, 1955, in New York) is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massa ...
– professor of economics *
Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
– professor of economics and psychology,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
in economics (2002) *
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (born June 24, 1955) is a Japanese economist and the Harold H. Helms '20 Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. He is especially known for proposing several models that provide deeper microeconomic foundations for macroecon ...
– professor of economics; winner of the 1997
Nakahara Prize The Nakahara Prize (中原賞) is an annual award given by the Japanese Economic Association to Japanese economists under the age of 45 whose work has gained international recognition. The prize was created in 1995, and named after its sponsor Nob ...
of the Japan Economics Association and the 1999
Yrjö Jahnsson Award Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to: * Yrjö von Grönhagen, (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist * Yrjö Jylhä, (1903–1956), Finnish poet * Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish compo ...
of the
European Economic Association The European Economic Association (EEA) is a professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna and its first president was Jacques Drèze. The current pres ...
*
Alan Krueger Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served ...
– professor of economics *
Paul Krugman Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was th ...
– professor of economics, ''
New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' columnist, winner of the
John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...
,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
in economics (2008) * Arthur Lewis – former professor; Nobel laureate (Economics 1979) *
Burton Malkiel Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer most noted for his classic finance book '' A Random Walk Down Wall Street'' (first published 1973, in its 12th edition as of 2019). He is a leading proponent of the e ...
Ph.D. 964– professor of economics; former dean of the
Yale School of Management The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives ...
; author of ''
A Random Walk Down Wall Street ''A Random Walk Down Wall Street'', written by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton University economist, is a book on the subject of stock markets which popularized the random walk hypothesis. Malkiel argues that asset prices typically exhibit s ...
'' *
Eric Maskin Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism d ...
– professor of economics; Nobel Prize in economics (2007) *
Albert Rees Albert E. Rees (August 21, 1921 – September 5, 1992) was an American economist and noted author. An influential labor economist, Rees taught at Princeton University from 1966 to 1979, while also being an advisor to President Gerald Ford. ...
– former Provost, professor of economics and advisor to President
Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
*
Harvey S. Rosen Harvey Sheldon Rosen (born 29 March 1949) is an American Economist and Academic. Prior to his retirement and subsequent appointment as Emeritus Professor in 2019, Rosen was the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Prin ...
– professor of economics, former chairman of
Council of Economic Advisers The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...
* Harold Tafler Shapiro – professor emeritus of economics, former president of
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and of the
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
*
Christopher Sims Christopher Albert Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the No ...
– professor of economics; Nobel Prize in economics (2011) *
Lars E. O. Svensson Lars Erik Oscar Svensson, is a Swedish economist. He was on the faculty of Princeton University 2001–2009. Since June 2014, he is Affiliated Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since 2009 he is Affiliated Professor at Stockholm Un ...
– professor of economics; deputy governor of the central bank of Sweden; one of the ten best economists in the world according to
IDEAS/RePEc Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in many countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, preprints, ...


Government, law, and public policy

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Bruce Alger Bruce Reynolds Alger (June 12, 1918 – April 13, 2015) was an American politician, real estate agent and developer, and a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, the first to have represented a Dallas district since Reconstruction. He serv ...
– former U.S. Representative for
Texas's 5th congressional district Texas's 5th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in an area that includes a northeast portion of the City of Dallas, Dallas County including Mesquite plus a number of smaller suburban, exurban and rural counti ...
, based in
Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
*
Charles Beitz Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) is an American political theorist. He is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he has been director of the University Center for Human Values and director of the Program in Political ...
– professor of politics *
Jeremy Ben-Ami Jeremy Ben-Ami (born 1962) is the President of J Street, a liberal advocacy organization in the United States dedicated to promoting American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. He ...
– executive director of J Street and JStreetPac *
Cyril Edwin Black Cyril Edwin Black (September 10, 1915, Bryson City, North Carolina – July 18, 1989, Princeton, New Jersey) was a professor of history and international affairs, specializing in the modern history of Eastern Europe and, in particular, Russian his ...
– professor of history and international affairs 1939–1986, director of the
Center of International Studies The Center of International Studies (CIS) was a research center that was part of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton, New Jersey. It was founded in 1951 by six scholars who came to Princ ...
1968–1985 *
Willie Blount Willie Blount (April 18, 1768September 10, 1835) was an American politician who served as the third Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. Blount's efforts to raise funds and soldiers during the War of 1812 earned Tennessee the nickname, "Volu ...
Governor of Tennessee The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The governor is the only official in Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state. The current governor is Bill Lee, a ...
from 1809 to 1815 * Barbara Bodine – diplomat in residence *
Ken Buck Kenneth Robert Buck (born February 16, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who has represented Colorado's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2015. From March 30, 2019, to March 27, 2021, Buck s ...
– representative, Eastern Colorado, U.S. House of Representatives *
Thomas J. Christensen Thomas J. Christensen is an American political scientist. He is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Biography Christensen received his B.A. with honors ...
– William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace *
John E. Colhoun John Ewing Colhoun (1749October 26, 1802) was a United States Senator and lawyer from South Carolina. Colhoun, was born in Staunton, Virginia where he attended common schools before graduating from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Unive ...
– U.S. Senator and lawyer from South Carolina *
Ted Cruz Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from ...
– U.S. Senator for Texas, 2013–present; candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination *
Angus Deaton Sir Angus Stewart Deaton (born 19 October 1945) is a British economist and academic. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public ...
– Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, and professor of economics and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and department of economics * Alexandra Davis DiPentima,
chief judge A chief judge (also known as presiding judge, president judge or principal judge) is the highest-ranking or most senior member of a lower court or circuit court with more than one judge. According to the Federal judiciary of the United States, th ...
of the
Connecticut Appellate Court The Connecticut Appellate Court is the court of first appeals for all cases arising from the Connecticut Superior Courts. Its creation in 1983 required Connecticut's voters and legislature to amend the state's constitution. The court heard its f ...
*
Robert Ehrlich Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's United States House of Representatives, Maryland ...
– governor, Maryland, 2003-2007 *
Richard Falk Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 2004, he was listed as the author ...
– Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus *
Aaron Friedberg Aaron Louis Friedberg (born April 16, 1956) is an American political scientist. He served from 2003 to 2005 in the office of the Vice President of the United States as deputy assistant for national-security affairs and director of policy planning ...
– professor of
international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...
* Edgar S. Furniss Jr. – professor of
political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
* Robert P. George – professor of
jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...
,
constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a State (polity), state, namely, the executive (government), executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as th ...
scholar *
Robert Gilpin Robert Gilpin (; July 2, 1930 – June 20, 2018) was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he held th ...
– Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus * Bob Giuffra – partner, Sullivan & Cromwell *
Jan Gross Jan Tomasz Gross (born 1947) is a Polish-American sociologist and historian. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus, and Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University. Gross is the author o ...
– professor of history *
Thad Hutcheson Thaddeus Thomson Hutcheson (October 29, 1915 – August 3, 1986), was a Republican attorney in his native Houston, who was an early figure in the movement to establish a competitive two-party system in the U.S. state of Texas. Background Bor ...
(Class of 1937) – lawyer and Republican politician from
Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
,
Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
*
Robert Hutchings Robert Hutchings is the Walt and Elspeth Rostow Chair in National Security at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and served as dean of the school from 2010 to 2015. Previously he was Diplomat-in-Residence at the ...
– diplomat-in-residence * G. John Ikenberry – Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs * Harold James – professor of
History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
and
International Affairs International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...
*
Elena Kagan Elena Kagan ( ; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 10, 2010, and has served since August 7, 2010. Kagan ...
, associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court *
Thomas Kean Thomas Howard Kean ( ; born April 21, 1935) is an American businessman, academic administrator and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Kean served as the 48th governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Following his tenure as governor, ...
48th governor of New Jersey and chairman of 9/11 Commission *
Nannerl O. Keohane Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane (born September 18, 1940, in Blytheville, Arkansas) She is now a professor in social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where she is researching the theory and practice of leadership in democ ...
– Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs *
Robert Keohane Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941) is an American academic working within the fields of international relations and international political economy. Following the publication of his influential book ''After Hegemony'' (1984), he has beco ...
– university professor of
international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...
*
George Kern George Calvin Kern Jr. (April 19, 1926 – November 27, 2012), a native of Baltimore, Maryland, was a leading New York corporate lawyer in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Kern graduated with an A.B. from the School of Public and Internatio ...
, 1947 – lawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell *
Daniel Kurtzer Daniel Charles Kurtzer (born June 1949) is an American former diplomat. He served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt during the term of President Bill Clinton, and was the U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005 during the term of President George W ...
– diplomat-in-residence *
Ira Brad Matetsky Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962) is an American lawyer. Biography Matetsky has practiced law since 1987. He has been a partner (business rank), partner at Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer, a New York City business litigation and real estate law firm, ...
, A.B. 1984 – business litigation and real estate lawyer and prominent Wikipedian *
Nolan McCarty Nolan Matthew McCarty (born December 10, 1967 in Odessa, Texas) is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political methodology. He has made notable contributions to the study of partis ...
– Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs *
Helen Milner Helen V. Milner (born 1958) is an American political scientist and the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she is also the Director of the Niehau ...
– B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs *
Hassan Ali Mire Dr. Hassan Ali Mire ( so, Xasan Cali Mirreh; ar, حسن علي مير), also known as Hasaan ‘Ali Mirreh, was a Somali politician. During the early 1970s, he briefly served as the first Minister of Education of the Somali Democratic Republic. ...
– first Minister of Education of the
Somali Democratic Republic The Somali Democratic Republic ( so, Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; ar, الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية, ; it, Repubblica Democratica Somala) was the name that the socialist military government gave to Som ...
* Robert Morrow (Class of 1987) – former Republican county chairman in
Travis County Travis County is located in south central Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188. It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat is Austin, the capital of Texas. The county was established in 1840 and is na ...
, Texas *
Philip Pettit Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philos ...
– professor of politics and philosophy * Jay Powell – 16th chair of the Federal Reserve * Uwe Reinhardt – James Madison professor of political economy *
Paul Sarbanes Paul Spyros Sarbanes (; February 3, 1933 – December 6, 2020) was an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party from Maryland, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 a ...
– former US Senator from Maryland * Stephen Schulhofer (born 1942) – professor of law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...
and
NYU Law School New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1835, it is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in New ...
* Reed Shuldiner – Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...
*
Anne-Marie Slaughter Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. From 2002 to 2009, she was the Dean of Princeton University's School of Public and Internat ...
– dean of the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...
* John Thomas Steen Jr. – lawyer in
San Antonio ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= U.S. state, State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , s ...
and currently the 108th Secretary of State of Texas *
Isaac Tichenor Isaac Tichenor (February 8, 1754December 11, 1838) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the third and fifth governor of Vermont and United States Senator from Vermont. Biography Tichenor was born in Newark in the Province of ...
, 1775 – Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator * Robert C. Tucker – IBM Professor of International Studies, Emeritus *
John Waterbury John Waterbury is an American academic and former president of the American University of Beirut. Early years Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Waterbury attended Princeton University (BA 1961), studied Arabic at the American University of Cairo (196 ...
– William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Emeritus *
Joel Westheimer Joel Westheimer is an American-born academic, and is a full professor at the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is known for his work in citizenship education (subject), citizenship education. Biography Joel Westheimer was born ...
- professor of citizenship education at the
University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...
*
Thomas Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of ...
, A.B. 1879 – author of Congressional Government 1885; president of Princeton University, 1902–10; Governor of New Jersey, 1911–13; 28th president of the US, 1913–21; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1919, for promoting the establishment of the League of Nations *
Sheldon Wolin Sheldon Sanford Wolin (; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. A political theorist for fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, whe ...
– professor of politics


Art, literature, and humanities

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah ( ; born 8 May 1954) is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah wa ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
* Edward J. Balleisen (BA 1987) – professor of history at
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
* Peter Brown – professor of history *
Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, d ...
– visiting professor, 1970–71; novelist and critic; author of ''
The Long Day Wanes ''The Malayan Trilogy'', also published as ''The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy'' in the United States, is a comic 'triptych' of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonisation of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration ...
'', ''
A Clockwork Orange ''A Clockwork Orange'' may refer to: * ''A Clockwork Orange'' (novel), a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess ** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (film), a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel *** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (soundtrack), the film ...
'' and ''
Earthly Powers ''Earthly Powers'' is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published in 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with ...
'' *
Américo Castro Américo Castro y Quesada (May 4, 1885 – July 25, 1972) was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising controversy with his conclusions that Spaniard ...
– professor of Hispanic literature * Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor of journalism;
Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...
-winning TV
news magazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do newspapers or new ...
producer, author *
Robert Darnton Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Life Darnton was born in New York ...
– emeritus professor of history * Donald Davidson – professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
*
Jeff Dolven Jeff Dolven is an American academic and poet. He is a professor of English at Princeton University, and the author of four books, one of which is a collection of his poems, and one of which was written in twenty-four hours. Career Dolven graduate ...
, professor of English at Princeton University. * Selden Edwards – best-selling novelist, headmaster, teacher *
Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and'' The Marriage Plot'' ...
– novelist, professor of creative writing and Pulitzer Prize Winner *
Robert Fagles Robert Fagles (; September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) was an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer. ...
– emeritus professor of English and comparative literature *
Denis Feeney Denis C. Feeney, FBA (born 1955) is Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. He was born in New Zealand and educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and Auckland Grammar School. He received his B.A. (1974), M ...
– professor of
classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
* John V. Fleming – emeritus professor of English and comparative literature *
Hal Foster Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip '' Prince Valiant''. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship ...
– art critic professor in the department of art and archeology * Arthur Frothingham – professor of Art and Archaeology *
Emmet Gowin Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer. He first gained attention in the 1970s with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith, and her family. Later he turned his attention to the landscapes of the American West, taking aerial photogr ...
– professor of
photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...
*
Anthony Grafton Anthony Thomas Grafton (born May 21, 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies. He i ...
– professor of history *
Gilbert Harman Gilbert Harman (May 26, 1938 – November 13, 2021) was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017. He has published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of min ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
, winner of the
Jean Nicod Jean George Pierre Nicod (1 June 1893, in France – 16 February 1924, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a French philosopher and logician, best known for his work on propositional logic and inductive reasoning, induction. Biography Nicod's main contr ...
Prize A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
*
William Howarth William Howarth (November 26, 1940 – June 6, 2023) was an American writer and professor emeritus at Princeton University. He published fourteen books and also wrote for such national periodicals as National Geographic, Smithsonian, The Washingt ...
– professor of English and
environmental studies Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. Environmental studies connects principles from the physical sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities, and social ...
*
Frank Cameron Jackson Frank Cameron Jackson (born 31 August 1943) is an Australian analytic philosopher and Emeritus Professor in the School of Philosophy (Research School of Social Sciences) at Australian National University (ANU) where he had spent most of the l ...
– professor of philosophy * Walter Kaufmann – professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
*
Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for ''Neo ...
– poet, professor in the Creative Writing Program (
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...
) *
Saul Kripke Saul Aaron Kripke (; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emerit ...
– professor emeritus of Philosophy at
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
; winner of the 2001
Schock Prize The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and, since 2005, are awarded every three years. Each recipient current ...
in Logic and Philosophy *
Mirjam Kuenkler Mirjam Künkler, (Ph.D. Columbia University) teaches Middle Eastern Politics at Princeton University. Kuenkler's expertise is in Iranian and Indonesian politics. Künkler has published widely on religion-state relations, law, party politics, soci ...
– assistant professor of
Near Eastern Studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studie ...
* Victor Lange – professor of modern languages * Paul Lansky – composer, professor of music *
Chang-Rae Lee Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing. E ...
– professor of writing, ''New York Times'' bestselling author *
David K. Lewis David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University fr ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
* Perry Link – professor of
East Asian Studies East Asian studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present. The field includes the study of the region's culture, written language, hist ...
*
Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' So ...
– professor in the Creative Writing Program, Nobel laureate (Literature 1993) *
Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University P ...
– professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner *
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his ...
– visiting professor, literature, creative writing *
Alexander Nehamas Alexander Nehamas ( el, Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is a Greek-born American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature and the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Huma ...
– professor of philosophy * Philip Nord – professor of history *
Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...
Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities; professor in the Creative Writing Program; author; Pulitzer Prize nominee *
Elaine Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosti ...
– professor of religion * Francis Landey Patton – professor of
theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...
; president of the university, 1888–1902 *
Ricardo Piglia Ricardo Piglia (November 24, 1941 in Adrogué, Argentina – January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public. Biography Born in Adrogué, Piglia ...
– professor of Latin-American literature *
Thomas J. Preston Jr. Thomas Jex Preston Jr. (October 26, 1862 – December 25, 1955) was an American archeology professor and academic administrator. Early life Preston was born on October 26, 1862, in Hastings on Hudson, New York. He graduated from Princeton Univer ...
– professor of
archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
*
Albert J. Raboteau Albert Jordy "Al" Raboteau II (September 4, 1943 – September 18, 2021) was an American scholar of African and African-American religions. Since 1982, he had been affiliated with Princeton University, where he was Henry W. Putnam Professor of R ...
– Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion,
Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
, former dean of the graduate school * Noliwe Rooks - associate director of the African-American program at Princeton University, author *
Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic phi ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
*
Carl Emil Schorske Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Carl E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for ...
– emeritus professor of history, winner of the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published duri ...
for his book '' Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture'' (1980) *
Ruth Simmons Ruth Simmons (born Ruth Jean Stubblefield, July 3, 1945) is an American professor and academic administrator. She is president of Prairie View A&M University, a historically black university. Simmons previously served as the 18th president of B ...
– vice provost, 1992–95 – first female and first black president of any Ivy League school (Brown) *
Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, ...
– professor of human values, expert on practical ethics * P. Adams Sitney – film historian, professor of visual arts *
Michael A. Smith Michael Smith or Mike Smith may refer to: Arts * Michael E. Smith (artist) (born 1977), American sculptor * Michael Paul Smith (born 1950), American artist and photographer *Michael Smith (performance artist) (born 1951), American performance ar ...
– professor of philosophy * Nigel Smith – professor of English *
Walter Terence Stace Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1 ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
*
Donald Steven Donald Steven (born 26 May 1945) is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of Univer ...
– Canadian composer, winner of the JUNO Award for Best Classical Composition and the Jules-Léger Prize *
Gregory Vlastos Gregory Vlastos (; el, Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a preeminent scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of many works on Plato and Socrates. He transformed the analysis of classical philosophy ...
– professor of
philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
* Andrew Fleming West – Giger Professor of Latin, 1883–1928; dean of the graduate school, 1900–1928 *
Cornel West Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society an ...
– professor of religion and Africa American studies *
C. K. Williams Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. ''Flesh and Blood'' won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. ''Repair'' (1999) won ...
– professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner * Michael Wood – professor in the English department


Math and science

* Forman S. Acton – professor of
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
*
Philip Warren Anderson Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 19 ...
Joseph Henry Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smith ...
Professor of
Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...
and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics *
Manjul Bhargava Manjul Bhargava (born 8 August 1974) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University, and also holds A ...
– Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, professor of mathematics, 2014
Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...
ist *
John H. Conway John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English people, English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to ...
– professor of
mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
, best known for the Game of Life *
Ingrid Daubechies Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance ...
– professor of mathematics; namesake of
Daubechies wavelet The Daubechies wavelets, based on the work of Ingrid Daubechies, are a family of orthogonal wavelets defining a discrete wavelet transform and characterized by a maximal number of vanishing moments for some given support. With each wavelet type ...
* Henry Eyring – professor of
chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
, known for the
Eyring equation The Eyring equation (occasionally also known as Eyring–Polanyi equation) is an equation used in chemical kinetics to describe changes in the rate of a chemical reaction against temperature. It was developed almost simultaneously in 1935 by Henr ...
; recipient of the
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
in 1966 *
Charles Fefferman Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University, where he is currently the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contrib ...
– professor of mathematics,
Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...
ist * Val Fitch – professor emeritus of physics, Nobel laureate *
J. Richard Gott John Richard Gott III (born February 8, 1947) is a professor of astrophysics, astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is known for his work on time travel and the Doomsday argument. Exotic matter time travel theories Paul Davies's ...
– professor of astrophysics, winner of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching *
James E. Gunn James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume ''The Road to Science Fiction, Road to Science Ficti ...
– Eugene Higgins Professor of
Astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...
, leader of the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project began in 2000 a ...
and predicted the eponymous Gunn–Peterson trough *
Joseph Henry Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smith ...
– professor of
natural philosophy Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin ''philosophia naturalis'') is the philosophical study of physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior throu ...
*
Thomas H. Jordan Thomas H. Jordan is an American seismologist, and former director (2002-2017) of the Southern California Earthquake Center at The University of Southern California. He was formerly the head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Depa ...
– former professor of earth sciences; current director of the
Southern California Earthquake Center The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists across 100 research institutions with a mission to: conduct research on earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere by gathering data, conductin ...
*
Mustapha Ishak Boushaki Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is known for his contributions to the studies of cosmic acceleration and dark energy, gravitational lensing, and testing al ...
– professor of physics *
Karl Jöreskog Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
– professor of statistics * Celeste Rohlfing – Deputy Assistant Director at the
National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
and Chief Operating Officer at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...
*
Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
– Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, winner of the 2002
Nobel Prize in Economics The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...
* Nicholas Katz – professor of mathematics *
Brian Kernighan Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-au ...
– co-author of
AWK AWK (''awk'') is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The AWK lang ...
and
AMPL AMPL (A Mathematical Programming Language) is an algebraic modeling language to describe and solve high-complexity problems for large-scale mathematical computing (i.e., large-scale optimization and scheduling-type problems). It was developed b ...
, author of ''
The C Programming Language ''The C Programming Language'' (sometimes termed ''K&R'', after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as ...
'' *
Elon Lindenstrauss Elon Lindenstrauss ( he, אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Profess ...
– professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist * Juan Martin Maldacena – professor emeritus of physics, 2012
Fundamental Physics Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capit ...
*
Fernando Codá Marques Fernando Codá dos Santos Cavalcanti Marques (born 8 October 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working mainly in geometry, topology, partial differential equations and Morse theory. He is a professor at Princeton University. In 2012, together ...
– professor of mathematics * George A. Miller – professor emeritus of
psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
, seminal contributions in
cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
and cognitive science *
Gananath Obeyesekere Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research focuses on psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which personal symbolism is relat ...
– professor of
anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...
*
Andrei Okounkov Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov (russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Окунько́в, ''Andrej Okun'kov'') (born July 26, 1969) is a Russian mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematic ...
– professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist *
Gerard K. O'Neill Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. L ...
– professor of physics, leader in field of
space colonization Space colonization (also called space settlement or extraterrestrial colonization) is the use of outer space or celestial bodies other than Earth for permanent habitation or as extraterrestrial territory. The inhabitation and territori ...
, author of '' The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space'' *
Jeremiah Ostriker Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Ostriker (born April 13, 1937) is an American astrophysicist and a professor of astronomy at Columbia University and is the Charles A. Young Professor ''Emeritus'' at Princeton where he also continues as a senior research s ...
– professor of
astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...
and recipient of the
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
*
Philip James Edwin Peebles Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regard ...
– professor emeritus of physics, one of the first to predict the nature of the
cosmic microwave background radiation In Big Bang cosmology the cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that is a remnant from an early stage of the universe, also known as "relic radiation". The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all spac ...
*
Peter Sarnak Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced St ...
– professor of mathematics *
Nathan Seiberg Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United ...
– professor emeritus of physics, 2012
Fundamental Physics Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capit ...
* Paul Seymour – professor of mathematics * Yigong Shi – professor of
molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...
, leader in the field of
apoptosis Apoptosis (from grc, ἀπόπτωσις, apóptōsis, 'falling off') is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes incl ...
*
Osamu Shimomura was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for th ...
– researcher honored with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on GFP *
Goro Shimura was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multipli ...
– professor emeritus of mathematics, fundamental contributions to
number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 ...
and
automorphic form In harmonic analysis and number theory, an automorphic form is a well-behaved function from a topological group ''G'' to the complex numbers (or complex vector space) which is invariant under the action of a discrete subgroup \Gamma \subset G of ...
s, especially in
Langlands program In representation theory and algebraic number theory, the Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures about connections between number theory and geometry. Proposed by , it seeks to relate Galois groups in algebraic num ...
* Yakov G. Sinai – professor of mathematics *
David Spergel David Nathaniel Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and the Emeritus Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University. Since 2021, he has been the President of the Simons Foundatio ...
– professor of astrophysics, leading astrophysicist *
Elias M. Stein Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician who was a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He was the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, w ...
– professor of mathematics, recipient of the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the
Schock Prize The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and, since 2005, are awarded every three years. Each recipient current ...
in Mathematics (1993), the
Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for ''"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of natio ...
in Mathematics (1999), the
National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...
(2002), and Stefan Bergman Prize (2005) *
Paul Steinhardt Paul Joseph Steinhardt (born December 25, 1952) is an American theoretical physicist whose principal research is in cosmology and condensed matter physics. He is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, where he ...
– Albert Einstein professor of physics; recipient of the Dirac Medal (2002) *
Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees a ...
– professor of
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
, inventor of many algorithms related to
graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...
, winner of the 1986
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...
, recipient of the 1982
Nevanlinna Prize The IMU Abacus Medal, known before 2022 as the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), for outstanding contributions in Mathematic ...
* Joseph Hooton Taylor – professor of physics, 1993
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*
Daniel C. Tsui Daniel Chee Tsui (, born February 28, 1939) is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical prop ...
– professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics *
John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in e ...
– professor emeritus of physics, later collaborator of
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
, advisor to
Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superflu ...
and
Kip Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Fey ...
*
Eric Wieschaus Eric Francis Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner. Early life Born in South Bend, Indiana, he attended John Carroll Catholic High School in Birming ...
– professor of
molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...
,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...
*
Andrew Wiles Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awar ...
– professor of mathematics, proved
Fermat's Last Theorem In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers , , and satisfy the equation for any integer value of greater than 2. The cases and have been k ...
, winner of the
Schock Prize The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and, since 2005, are awarded every three years. Each recipient current ...
(1995),
Royal Medal The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important ...
(1996),
Cole Prize The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number ...
(1996), Wolf Prize (1996),
King Faisal Prize The King Faisal Prize ( ar, جائزة الملك فيصل, formerly King Faisal International Prize), is an annual award sponsored by King Faisal Foundation presented to "dedicated men and women whose contributions make a positive difference". T ...
(1998) and Shaw Prize (2005) *
Edward Witten Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, q ...
– professor emeritus of physics, Fields Medalist, 2012
Fundamental Physics Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capit ...
*
Andrew Yao Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao use ...
– computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Turing award


Engineering

* Amir Ali Ahmadi – professor of operations research and financial engineering *
Robert Calderbank Robert Calderbank (born 28 December 1954) is a professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc ...
– professor of
electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
, mathematics, and
applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...
* Erhan Çınlar – professor of
operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...
and
financial engineering Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathema ...
*
Ahmed Cemal Eringen Ahmet Cemal Eringen (February 15, 1921 – December 7, 2009) was a Turkish engineering scientist. He was a professor at Princeton University and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science.
– professor of
mechanical Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...
and
aerospace engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...
, leading expert in
elasticity theory In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed. Solid objects will deform when adequate loads are a ...
,
continuum mechanics Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such m ...
, and
plasticity Plasticity may refer to: Science * Plasticity (physics), in engineering and physics, the propensity of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation under load * Neuroplasticity, in neuroscience, how entire brain structures, and the brain it ...
* Jianqing Fan – professor of operations research and financial engineering * Jason W. Fleischer – associate professor of electrical engineeringFaculty profile
, Princeton Univ., retrieved 2011-05-21.
* Claire F. Gmachl – professor of electrical engineering *
Brian Kernighan Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-au ...
– professor of
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
and co-author of ''
The C Programming Language ''The C Programming Language'' (sometimes termed ''K&R'', after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as ...
'' * William A. Massey – professor of operations research and financial engineering * Robert Sedgewick – professor of
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...
*
Alexander Smits Alexander John Smits (born December 25, 1948) is an Australian-American engineer and academic who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is also the director of the Gas dyna ...
– professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, leading expert on
turbulence In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. It is in contrast to a laminar flow, which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between ...
and
fluid dynamics In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
* Howard Stone – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and chemical engineering, leading expert in fluid dynamics *
Robert J. Vanderbei Robert J. Vanderbei (born 1955) is an American mathematician and Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Biography Robert J. Vanderbei was born in Grand Rapids, MI, in 1955. He receiv ...
– professor of operations research and financial engineering, mathematics,
astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...
,
computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...


Business

* Gerhard Andlinger, A.B. 1952 – founder of Andlinger & Company *
James T. Aubrey James Thomas Aubrey Jr. (December 14, 1918 – September 3, 1994) was an American television and film executive. As president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, with his "smell for the blue-collar," he produced some of televi ...
, A.B. 1941 – president of
CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
and
MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...
* Norman Augustine, B.S.E. 1957– former CEO of
Lockheed Martin The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It ...
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Ben Baldanza Basil Ben Baldanza (born December 3, 1961) is an economist and was the chief executive officer and president of Spirit Airlines from 2005 to 2016, a period in which he led the transformation of the company into an ultra-low-cost carrier. Biogr ...
, M.P.A./U.R.P. 1986 – former CEO of
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Alexander Bannwart Alexander William Bannwart (December 25, 1880 – February 21, 1959), also known as Al Winn, was a Swiss-American businessman. He was involved in baseball, politics, and real estate. Bannwart graduated from Phillips Academy and Princeton Univer ...
, L.L.B 1906 *
Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ''né'' Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former preside ...
, B.S.E. 1986 – founder of
Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economi ...
*
Frank Biondi Frank Joseph Biondi Jr. (January 9, 1945 – November 25, 2019) was an American businessman and entertainment executive, who held leadership roles at Viacom, Universal Pictures, and HBO. Early life and education Biondi was born in New York ...
, A.B. 1966 – former chairman of
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John C. Bogle John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group, and is credited with creating the index fund. An avid inve ...
, A.B. 1951 – former founder and CEO of
The Vanguard Group The Vanguard Group, Inc. is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7 trillion in global assets under management, as of January 13, 2021. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-lar ...
, which pioneered the
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*
Charles W. Coker Charles Westfield Coker (born May 10, 1933) is the former president and CEO of Sonoco Products Company of Hartsville, South Carolina, United States. He also served as a director of Bank of America, Sara Lee Corporation, HanesBrands Inc., Springs ...
, A.B. 1955 – former CEO and chairman of
Sonoco Products Founded in 1899, Sonoco Products Company () is a United States-based international provider of diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services and the world's largest producer of co ...
* Archibald Crossley, B. 1950 – pollster and pioneer in the field of
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* Franklin D'Olier, A.B. 1898 – former president and chairman of
Prudential Insurance Company Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, retirement planning, investment management, and other products and services to both retail and institutional customers th ...
; first National Commander of the
American Legion The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is a non-profit organization of U.S. war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militi ...
(1919–20) * Steve Feinberg, A.B. 1982 – billionaire financier and a top economic adviser to President
Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
*
David Siegel (computer scientist) David Mark Siegel (born 1961) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, where he currently serves as co-chairman. Siegel has written for ''Business Insider'', ''The New York Times'', ''Financ ...
, B.S.E. 1983 – co-founder and co-chairman of
Two Sigma Two Sigma Investments is a New York City-based hedge fund that uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies. The firm is run by John Overdec ...
* George M. Ferris, Jr. – investment banker and philanthropist * Joseph Fichera, B. 1976 – founder and CEO of Saber Partners; auction rate securities expert * Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., class of 1920 – former CEO of
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is a tire company founded by Harvey Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled ...
*
Malcolm Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of ''Forbes'' magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalis ...
, A.B. 1941 – businessman and publisher *
Steve Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (; born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of ''Forbes'', a business magazine. He is the son of longtime ''Forbes'' publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandso ...
, A.B. 1970 – son of Malcolm Forbes; businessman and publisher of ''
Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...
'' magazine * William Clay Ford, Jr., 1979 – executive chairman of the board of directors Ford Motor Company * Thomas F. Frist, III, 1991 – investor *
William Fung William Fung Kwok Lun OBE JP () (born 21 February 1949) is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman who is the group managing director of Li & Fung Group, one of the largest trading companies in Hong Kong. Early life Fung was born in 1949 in Hong ...
, B.S.E. 1970 – managing director of Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd. * Franklin Potts Glass, Jr., 1877 – newspaper publisher *
Phil Goldman Phillip York Goldman (July 17, 1964 – December 26, 2003) was an American software engineer and entrepreneur. He was a Macintosh software engineer at Apple Inc., and was best known for co-founding WebTV. Early life Phillip York Goldman was born ...
, B.S.E. 1986 – founder of
WebTV MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The device design and service was developed by ...
*
Bob Hugin Robert John Hugin (born July 23, 1954) is an American businessman who was formerly the executive chairman of Celgene, a biopharmaceutical company. Hugin was the Republican nominee in the 2018 United States Senate election in New Jersey, where he ...
, A.B. 1976- former chairman of Celgene, and Republican nominee for New Jersey 2018 senate race. * Jaquelin H. Hume, B. 1928 – founder of
Basic American Foods Basic American Foods is an American food corporation.
, conservative philanthropist * Nathan Hubbard, B.A. - business and music executive, former CEO of Ticketmaster *
Carl Icahn Carl Celian Icahn (; born February 16, 1936) is an American financier. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach. Icahn takes l ...
, A.B. 1957 – corporate raider *
Andrea Jung Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻, pinyin: Zhōng Bīnxián, jyutping: zung1 ban1 haa4) (born 1958) is a Canadian-American executive, non-profit leader, and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014, she became president and ...
, A.B. 1979 –
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of
Avon Products Avon Products, Inc. or simply known as Avon, is an American-British multinational cosmetics, skin care, fragrance and personal care company, based in London. It sells directly to the public. Avon had annual sales of $9.1 billion worldwide in 2 ...
*
John Katzman John Katzman (born October 10, 1959) is an American EdTech pioneer. He has established a number of companies which assist students with their studies and career choices, including Princeton Review, 2U (company), 2U, and Noodle Partners. The last tw ...
, A.B. Architecture 1981 – founder of ''
The Princeton Review The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students. Services are delivered by 4,0 ...
'' * F. Thomson Leighton, B.S.E. 1978 – cofounder of
Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Inte ...
* Arthur D. Levinson, Ph.D. 1977 – chairman of
Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...
(2011–present); chairman of
Genentech Genentech, Inc., is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It became an independent subsidiary of Roche in 2009. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent center within R ...
(1999–2014), CEO
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* Peter B. Lewis, A.B. 1955 – chairman of Progressive * Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Jr. – head of Philadelphia publisher J. B. Lippincott & Co. *
Donold Lourie Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions ...
, A.B. 1922 – president and CEO of
Quaker Oats Company The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001. History Precursor miller companies In the 1850s, Ferdinand Schumacher and Robert Stuart founded oat mills. S ...
* Aaron Marcus, B.A. 1965 – founded Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. in 1982 *
Ginna Marston Ginna Sulcer-Marston (born Ginna Sulcer February 19, 1958) is an American advertising executive who has worked on anti-drug public service advertising campaigns at the Partnership for a Drug Free America, a nonprofit consortium of advertising pro ...
, B.A. 1980 – Public service announcement, public service advertising *James S. McDonnell, M.S. 1921 – founded McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in 1939 *Nick Morgan, A.B. English literature 1976 – speaking coach and author *Robert S. Murley, B.A. 1972 – chairman of the Investment Banking of Credit Suisse Securities and chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS). *Ellen Pao – CEO of Reddit *Sandi Peterson, M.P.A. – worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson *Louis Rukeyser, A.B. 1954 – former host of ''Wall $treet Week'' and business commentator *Eric Schmidt, B.S.E. 1976 – former
CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of Google; 136th wealthiest person in the world in 2011 *Jeffery A. Smisek, A.B. Economics 1976 –
CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of United Continental Holdings *Tad Smith – CEO, Sotheby's *Jon Steinberg, B.A. 1999 – president and COO of BuzzFeed *Rawleigh Warner, Jr., A.B. – former president, CEO and chairman of Mobil *John Weinberg, A.B. 1948 – head of Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990 *Meg Whitman, A.B. 1977 –
CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of eBay and Hewlett-Packard *Sir Gordon Wu, B.S.E. Civil Engineering 1958 – founder and chairman of Hopewell Holdings Ltd


Science and technology

Here are listed alumni who made notable contributions to science and technology outside academia.


Astronauts

*James C. Adamson, M.S.E. 1977 *Daniel T. Barry, M.A. 1977, M.S.E. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 *Brian Binnie, M.S.E. 1978 *Pete Conrad, Jr., B.S.E. 1953, M.A. 1966, only Princeton graduate to Apollo 12, walk on the Moon. *Gerald P. Carr, Gerald Carr, M.S.E. 1962 *Gregory T. Linteris, B.S.E. 1979, Ph.D. 1990


Biology

*Gerhard Fankhauser (1901–1981) embryologist, professor from 1931 to 1969. *Donna M. Fernandes M.Sc. 1984, Ph.D. 1988, president and CEO Buffalo Zoo 2000 – 2017.


Engineering and other natural sciences

*Hal Abelson, A.B. 1969 – directed implementation of the Logo programming language for the Apple II; professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT *Yitzhak Apeloig (born 1944) – Israeli computational chemistry professor and president of the Technion *Daniel Barringer (geologist), Daniel Barringer, A.B. 1879 – geologist *David R. Boggs, B.S.E. 1972 – co-inventor (with Robert Metcalfe) of Ethernet *Eugene Lent Church, PhD, A.B. 1946 - nuclear and theoretical physicist and father of the Church-Weneser Effect *Henry Crew, A.B. 1882 – physicist; president of the American Physical Society in 1909 *Tom Hanks (seismologist), Thomas C. Hanks, 1966 – seismologist, introduced Moment magnitude scale to measure earthquakes *John D. Hunter, 1990 – neurobiology *Ernest Lester Jones, A.B. 1898 – head of the United States Geological Survey, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1914 until his death in 1929 *Susan Landau, A.B. 1976 – mathematician and cybersecurity policy expert *Yueh-Lin Loo, Ph.D. 2001 – chemical engineer *William Clyde Martin (physicist), William C. Martin, Ph.D. 1956 – atomic spectroscopist *Andreas Mandelis, Ph.D. 1980 – expert on photonics *Wilder Penfield, 1913 – Canadian neurosurgeon *John Warner (chemist), John Warner, Ph.D. 1988 – chemist, one of the founders of the field of green chemistry


Literature


Pulitzer Prize winners

*A. Scott Berg, A.B. 1971 – Pulitzer Prize winner for biography of Charles Lindbergh, winner of the National Book Award for biography of Max Perkins *Robert Caro, A.B. 1957 – two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for ''The Power Broker and Master of the Senate *George F. Kennan, A.B. 1925 – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for history in 1957 and biography in 1968; Cold War diplomat; architect of "containment" strategy (also listed in #Other, Government: Other) *Galway Kinnell, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet *Arthur Krock, A.B. 1908 – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner while writing for ''The New York Times'' in the 1930s *John Matteson, A.B. 1983 – Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography in 2008 for ''Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father'' *Charles McIlwain, A.B.1894 – Pulitzer Prize for history in 1924; professor at Princeton *John McPhee, A.B. 1953 – Humanities Council professor, 1999 Pulitzer Prize recipient *James M. McPherson – Professor of History; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1989 for ''Battle Cry of Freedom (book), Battle Cry of Freedom'' *W. S. Merwin, A.B. 1948 – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator *Steven Naifeh, A.B. 1974 – Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography in 1991 for ''Jackson Pollock: An American Saga'' *Eugene O'Neill, class of 1910 (did not graduate) – Nobel laureate (Literature 1936), three-time Pulitzer Prize winner *Ralph Barton Perry, A.B. 1896 – Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1936, professor at Harvard University *Ernest Poole, A.B. 1902 – Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918 *David Remnick, A.B. 1981 – Pulitzer Prize Winner for general non-fiction in 1994 for ''Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire''; general editor of ''The New Yorker'' magazine since 1998 *Booth Tarkington, A.B. 1893 – two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist for ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' and ''Alice Adams (novel), Alice Adams'' *William W. Warner, 1943 – science writer, Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1977 for ''Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay'' *Thornton Wilder M.A. 1925 – three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, once for fiction and twice for drama; National Book Award winner; ''Our Town'' premiered at Princeton *George F. Will, Ph.D. 1968 – Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977 *Jesse Lynch Williams, A.B. 1892 – Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1918


Journalism

*Joel Achenbach, A.B. 1982 – writer for ''The Washington Post'' and author of the ''Post's Achenblog'' *R. W. Apple, Jr., A.B. 1957 – writer for ''The New York Times'' *Hamilton Fish Armstrong, A.B. 1914 – editor of ''Foreign Policy'' *William Attwood, A.B. 1941 – U.S. Ambassador and publisher of ''Newsday'' *Kate Betts, A.B. 1986 – editor-in-chief of ''Harper's Bazaar'' *John Brooks (writer), John Brooks, A.B. 1942 – author and staff member, ''The New Yorker'' *Robert Caro, A.B. 1957 – Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction writer *Patrick Chovanec, A.B. 1993 – commentator on the economy of China in Western media * Lisa R. Cohen – Ferris professor of journalism, Emmy-winning television producer, author *Burton Crane, 1922 – ''The New York Times'' foreign correspondent and financial author *Bosley Crowther, A.B. 1928 – film critic at ''The New York Times'' *Frank Deford, A.B. 1962 – writer for ''Sports Illustrated''; broadcaster on U.S. radio and television *James D. Ewing, 1938 – newspaper publisher, government reform advocate and philanthropist *Marc Fisher – writer for ''The Washington Post'' *F. Scott Fitzgerald, A.B. 1917 – novelist and short story author *Barton Gellman, A.B. 1982 – editor at ''The Washington Post'' and Pulitzer Prize winner *Charlie Gibson, A.B. 1965 – journalist, former ''Good Morning America'' host, anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight'' * Robert Hilferty, A.B. 1982 – writer for ''Bloomberg News'', ''New York (magazine), New York'', ''The New York Times'', ''Opera News'', and ''The Village Voice'' *Olivier Kamanda, B.S.E 2003 – editor, ''Foreign Policy Digest'' *Donald Kirk, A.B. 1959 – national correspondent, ''Chicago Tribune'' *Richard Kluger, A.B. 1956 – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and book publisher *John B. Oakes, A.B. 1934 – editorial page editor, ''The New York Times'' *Don Oberdorfer, A.B. 1952 – writer for ''The Washington Post'', current professor at Johns Hopkins University *Alexis Okeowo, 2006 – staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' *Norimitsu Onishi, A.B. 1992 – reporter for ''The New York Times'' *Ramesh Ponnuru, A.B. 1995 - editor of ''National Review'' *Paul Raushenbush, F. 2003–2011 – Editor of ''The Huffington Post, Huffington Post Religion'' *T.R. Reid, A.B. 1966 – former correspondent, ''The Washington Post''; bestselling non-fiction author *Maria Ressa, A.B. – 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Rappler CEO, included in the ''Time (magazine), Time''s Time Person of the Year, Person of the Year 2018 *James Ridgeway, A.B. 1959 – editor and writer, ''New Republic'' and ''The Village Voice'' *Rick Stengel, A.B. 1977 – managing editor of ''Time (magazine), Time'' *John Stossel, A.B. 1969 – ABC News anchor/correspondent *Annalyn Swan, A.B. 1973 – co-author of 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning ''De Kooning: An American Master'' *Katrina vanden Heuvel, A.B. 1981 – editor of ''The Nation'' *Christine Whelan, A.B. 1999 – contributor to ''The Wall Street Journal'' and others, author of ''Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women'' *Alexander Wolff, A.B. 1979 – writer for ''Sports Illustrated'' *Robert Sterling Yard, B.A. 1883 – journalist for the ''New York Sun'' and ''New York Herald''; editor-in-chief of ''The Century Magazine''; founder and first president of The Wilderness Society (United States), The Wilderness Society


Sports

*Kwesi Adofo-Mensah - General Manager for the Minnesota Vikings *Bella Alarie, A.B. 2020 – starting professional basketball career in 2020 with the WNBA's Dallas Wings *Hobey Baker, A.B. 1914 – ice hockey player; college hockey's top individual award is named in his memory *Carl Barisich – former professional football player, Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins *Danny Barnes (baseball), Danny Barnes – professional baseball pitcher *Darius Bazley(Basketball) Oklahoma City Thunder * Amir Bell (born 1996) – basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League *Moe Berg, A.B. 1923 – professional baseball player and spy *David Blatt, A.B. 1981 – Israeli-American basketball player and coach (most recently, for the Cleveland Cavaliers) *Arthur Bluethenthal, 1913 – All-American football player; decorated World War I pilot *Bill Bradley, A.B. 1965 – former basketball star; member of the Basketball Hall of Fame; former U.S. Senator *Bob Bradley, A.B. 1980 – US National Soccer Coach and MLS Cup-winning coach *Andrew Calof – ice hockey player *Devin Cannady - professional basketball player with the South Bay Lakers *Karl Chandler – former professional football player, New York Giants and Detroit Lions *Mike Chernoff (baseball), Mike Chernoff – Cleveland Indians general manager *Geep Chryst – quarterbacks coach, San Francisco 49ers *Mike Condon (ice hockey), Mike Condon – Professional hockey goaltender with the Ottawa Senators *Jon Dekker – professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers *Emerson Dickman – baseball coach (1949–51); his teams won two Eastern League championships and tied one, as the 1951 team reached the College World Series *Pablo Eisenberg (born 1932) - scholar, social justice advocate, and tennis player *Keith Elias, A.B. 1993 – former professional football player in the National Football League *Jonathan Erlichman, A.B. 2012 — Process and Analytics Coach, Tampa Bay Rays; first analytics coach in the history of Major League Baseball *John J. Fisher, John Fisher, A.B. 1983 – owner, Oakland Athletics *Jason Garrett – former professional football player, offensive coordinator, interim head coach, head coach (2011 – ) for the Dallas Cowboys *Charlie Gogolak – former professional football player, Washington Redskins and New England Patriots *Wycliffe Grousbeck, A.B. 1983 – CEO, governor, and co-owner, Boston Celtics *Jeff Halpern, A.B. 1999 – current National Hockey League, NHL player; plays for the NHL team Los Angeles Kings *Tora Harris – Princeton engineer undergraduate 2002, Olympic high jumper *Sara Hendershot, A.B. 2010 – rower at the 2012 Summer Olympics *Armond Hill – assistant coach, Los Angeles Clippers; former NBA basketball player, 1976 to 1984 *Red Howard – football player *Ariel Hsing – Olympic table tennis player *Lynn Jennings, A.B. 1983 – Olympic runner, three-time world cross country champion, member of National Distance Running Hall of Fame *Dick Kazmaier, A.B. 1952 – Heisman Trophy winner 1952 *Zak Keasey – former professional football player, San Francisco 49ers *Chloe Kim – Olympic snowboarder *Andrea Leand – tennis player *
Donold Lourie Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions ...
, A.B. 1922 – College Football Hall of Fame inductee *Larry Lucchino, A.B. 1967 – president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox *Tyler Lussi, A.B. 2017 – professional soccer player, winner of the 2017 NWSL championship with Portland Thorns FC *Jesse Marsch, A.B. 1995 – professional soccer player, winner of three MLS championships with D.C. United and the Chicago Fire S.C., Chicago Fire *Rich McKay, A.B. 1981 – president and general manager, Atlanta Falcons *Frank McPhee (American football), Frank McPhee – football player *Steve Mills (sports executive) – president of the New York Knicks *Steve Meister – tennis player *John Messuri – former professional hockey player, Princeton Tigers all-time leading scorer *Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum – American-born German showjumper *Edwin Mortimer Hopkins – First ever full-time head football coach at the University of Kansas, also was a long time English professor at the school *Cook Neilson, A.B. 1967 – motorcycle racer, member of American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame *Dennis Norman, 2001 – former professional football player, San Diego Chargers *Ross Ohlendorf – former Major League Baseball, MLB pitcher for the Washington Nationals *George Parros – professional ice hockey player, for the 2007 Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks *Geoff Petrie, A.B. 1970 – former National Basketball Association, NBA player; current president of basketball operations for the Sacramento Kings *Crista Samaras, A.B. 1999 – former lacrosse player and coach *Mark Shapiro (sports executive), Mark Shapiro – Toronto Blue Jays general manager; two-time MLB Executive of the Year *Brian Taylor (basketball), Brian Taylor – former ABA and NBA basketball player, 1972–1982 *John Thompson III, 1988 – basketball coach at Georgetown University, Georgetown *Soren Thompson, 2005 – fencer, NCAA épée champion, junior olympic champion, Maccabiah Games silver medalist, 2x Olympic fencer, team world champion. *Ross Tucker, 2000 – former professional football player, sports columnist *Bob Tufts – Major League Baseball pitcher *Terdema Ussery, A.B. 1981 – president and CEO of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks basketball team *Will Venable – outfielder for the Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers * Spencer Weisz (born 1995) – American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Haifa B.C., Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, Israeli Premier League *Kevin Westgarth – National Hockey League, NHL player; plays for the NHL team Los Angeles Kings *Lauren Wilkinson (rower) – 2012 Summer Olympics silver medalist *Erica Wu – Olympic table tennis player *Chris Young (baseball starting pitcher), Chris Young – starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals *Ben Zinn – international soccer player and academic at Georgia Tech


Entertainment


Art and architecture

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Stan Allen Stan Allen (born 1956) is an American architect, theorist and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. Biography He received a B.A. from Brown University, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and an M.Arch. from Princeton Universit ...
M.Arch. – dean of School of Architecture, Princeton University * Merritt Bucholz – partner of Irish-based Bucholz , McEvoy Architects, and Professor of Architecture at University of Limerick * Thomas S. Buechner – founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass; director of the Brooklyn Museum * Donald Drew Egbert, A.B. 1924, M.Arch. 1927 – art historian and Princeton professor *
Michael Graves Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, as well as principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Grou ...
– architect, designer and Princeton professor * Jodi Hauptman, A.B. 1986 – art historian and curator * Indrani (photographer), Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, A.B. Anthropology – photographer, director and digital artist, star of Bravo (US TV channel), Bravo's 2010 docu-series ''Double Exposure (American TV series), Double Exposure'' about her photography * Jim Lee, A.B. Psychology 1986 – comic book artist, known for work on ''X-Men'', ''Batman''; a founder of Image Comics * Bill Pierce (photographer), Bill Pierce, A.B. 1957 – freelance photographer for ''Time (magazine), Time'' *Demetri Porphyrios, M.Arch. 1974, Ph.D. 1980 – architect and architectural theorist * Frank Stella – artist * William Turnbull, Jr. – architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects * Margaret Rose Vendryes Ph.D. 1997 – visual artist, curator, and art historian * Robert Venturi, A.B. 1947, M.F.A. 1950 – architect, Pritzker Prize laureate 1991 * Marion Sims Wyeth – architect of Mar-a-Lago and other mansions


Other

*Thomas B. Craighead (Presbyterian minister), Thomas B. Craighead – Presbyterian minister, president of Davidson Academy and Cumberland College in Nashville, Tennessee *Collins Denny, Jr., 1921 – pro-segregationist lawyer *David W. Doyle, '49 – Central Intelligence Agency officer; author *Cate Edwards, '04 – daughter of two-time presidential candidate and 2004 Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards *John Frame (theologian), John Frame, '61 – Reformed theology, Reformed theologian *Donald B. Fullerton, 1913 – missionary and founder of the Princeton Christian Fellowship *Zelda Harris, '07 – former child actress, known for her starring role in the Spike Lee Comedy drama, dramedy ''Crooklyn'' *James Hogue – attended Princeton under the fraudulent persona of "Alexi Indris Santana", 1989–1991 * Dario Hunter, '04 – the first Muslim-born person to be ordained a rabbi *Jeffrey R. MacDonald, '65 – subject of Joe McGinnis' best seller "Fatal Vision"; Green Beret physician convicted of murdering his wife and two children at Fort Bragg *Lyle and Erik Menendez, Joseph (Lyle) Menendez – convicted murderer, left Princeton in 1988 following plagiarism charges *Michelle Obama, '85 – First Lady of the United States, wife of President of the United States, United States President Barack Obama *Zhuo Qun Song, '19 – currently the most highly decorated International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) contestant, with five gold medals and one bronze medal *Richard Aaker Trythall, '63 – composer and pianist, winner of the 1964 Rome Prize in Musical Composition, fellow and music liaison of the American Academy in Rome *Peter Aaron Van Dorn – lawyer, judge and planter from Mississippi *John C. Whitcomb, '48 – young earth creationist


In fiction

''Listed in alphabetical order by title name.'' * ''24'' – President Charles Logan (24 character), Charles Logan graduated from Princeton University * ''30 Rock'' – Jack Donaghy is an alumnus; multiple episodes center on his college experience * ''Across the Universe (film), Across the Universe'' – the character Max attends Princeton, but drops out * ''Atlanta (TV series), Atlanta'' — Earnest "Earn" Marks attended Princeton University before dropping out * ''Batman Begins'' – Bruce Wayne attended Princeton University, although he chose not to continue his education there after returning home (it is unknown whether he had completed his undergraduate school education and was attending graduate school or if he was dropping out of college) * ''A Beautiful Mind (film), A Beautiful Mind'' – tells of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.'s initial days at Princeton University (Although the film is a fictionalized biography, in real life Nash did receive his doctorate from Princeton and was a Princeton professor) * ''The Big Bang Theory'' – Leonard Hofstadter attended Princeton, and Amy Farrah Fowler served a fellowship there until Sheldon Cooper proposed to her. * ''Boardwalk Empire'' – Jimmy Darmody, James "Jimmy" Darmody attended Princeton, but dropped out to enlist in World War I, disappointing his guardian Enoch Thompson (character), Enoch Thompson * ''Burn After Reading'' – Osbourne Cox, the lead played by John Malkovich, was a Princeton Graduate Class of 1973, and in a scene at a fictional Princeton Club, leads a fast-tempo rendition of Princeton's anthem, Old Nassau * ''The Change-Up'' – Dave Lockwood graduated from Princeton University * ''Charles in Charge'' – Charles gets accepted as a graduate student in Princeton * ''A Cinderella Story'' – the characters played by Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray will be attending Princeton at the end of the movie * ''Commander in Chief (TV series), Commander in Chief'' – Kelly Ludlow, the press secretary played by Ever Carradine has graduated from Princeton * ''The Cosby Show'' – Sondra Huxtable and her (future) husband Elvin Tibideaux of graduated from Princeton * ''Cruel Intentions'' – Marci Greenbaum, Tara Reid's character was accepted into Princeton. Sebastian, the protagonist, manipulated her. * ''Designated Survivor (TV series), Designated Survivor'' – Tom Kirkman, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development turned President of the United States who was named designated survivor for the State of the Union address, and rose to the presidency after a terrorist attack killed the entire United States presidential line of succession, line of succession, was a Princeton alumni. * ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' – the namesake child prodigy graduated from Princeton at the age of 10 in 1983 and received his medical license at age 14 * ''Everwood'' – Amy Abbott is accepted to Princeton * ''Family Ties'' – "Young Republican Party (United States), Republican" Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) spends the first two seasons of the series preparing to attend Princeton * ''The Flintstones'' – in the 1961 episode entitled "Flintstone of Prinstone", Fred briefly attends Princeton's prehistoric counterpart, "Prinstone University", as a part-time student; in the 1964 episode "Cinderellastone", Fred's dream character also attended Prinstone * ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' – Princeton is Philip's alma mater; his son, Carlton, enrolls in Princeton by the final episode * ''Gilmore Girls'' – Rory Gilmore is accepted into Princeton University * ''The Girl Next Door (2004 film), The Girl Next Door'' – Eli is mentioned as having been accepted to Princeton * ''Good in Bed'', novel by Jennifer Weiner – protagonist Cannie Shapiro is a Princeton alumna * ''In Her Shoes (novel), In Her Shoes'' (1991), a novel by Jennifer Weiner – Rose Feller is a Princeton grad. Her younger sister Maggie camps out in a Princeton library * ''Leatherheads'' – the character of Carter Rutherford is a star Princeton quarterback * ''Left Behind'' series – character Cameron "Buck" Williams is a Princeton grad * ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'', science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper – Calvin Morrison had been a theology student at Princeton, but dropped out to join the U.S. Army and fight in the Korean War; He later becomes an officer with the Pennsylvania State Police and transported to another time-line * ''Mad Men'' – Paul Kinsey is a Princeton graduate (class of '55) and in "My Old Kentucky Home" (season 3, episode 3), Kinsey's classmate Jeffrey, a drug dealer, reminisces about the Tigertones a cappella group * ''Mars Attacks!'' – President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is a Princeton alumnus * ''The Mindy Project'' – the main character, Mindy Lahiri, attended Princeton * ''Numb3rs'' – the characters of Charlie Eppes and Larry Fleinhardt are Princeton Alumni (Charlie graduated at the age of 16 and Larry at the age of 19) * ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' – Anne Hathaway's character has graduated from Princeton * ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'', novel – the characters Changez and Erica are Princeton grads * ''Risky Business'' – Tom Cruise's character gets into Princeton after an unconventional interview at his own home * ''Rubber (2010 film), Rubber'' – one of the spectators ("film buff Ethan") appears wearing an orange-embroidered black baseball cap reading "PRINCETO" * ''The Rule of Four (book), The Rule of Four'', mystery novel – the protagonists are Princeton students and the Art Museum and its collections play a central role in the plot * ''Salt (2010 film), Salt'' – Angelina Jolie's character Evelyn Salt went to Princeton * ''The Simpsons'' – Cecil Terwilliger, the brother of Sideshow Bob, is an alumnus (Sideshow Bob refers to it as the years Cecil spent in Clown College); Snake Jailbird#Snake Jailbird, Snake also attended, but took a year off, presumably never to return * ''South Pacific (musical), South Pacific'' – Lt. Joe Cable attended Princeton * ''South Park'' – List of recurring South Park characters#Mayor McDaniels, Mayor McDaniels * ''The Sun Also Rises'' – Robert Cohn is a Princeton graduate * ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' – Dickie Greenleaf (played by Jude Law) has attended Princeton, and the title character Tom Ripley pretends he is a Princeton alumnus. * ''There's Something About Mary'' – Mary attended Princeton University, as did her ex-boyfriend "Woogie" who was also holder of a scholarship from Princeton * ''Thirtysomething'' – Hope Murdoch Steadman, portrayed by Mel Harris, graduated from Princeton * ''This Side of Paradise'', semi-autobiographical novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald – a Princeton alumnus himself, the protagonist Amory Blaine attends Princeton * ''The War of the Worlds (radio drama), The War of the Worlds'', 1938 radio adaptation Professor Richard Pierson of the Princeton Observatory, portrayed by Orson Welles * ''Watchmen (graphic novel), Watchmen'', a graphic novel created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins – Dr. Jon Osterman/Doctor Manhattan, born 1929, attended Princeton University in 1948–1958 and graduated with a Ph.D. in atomic physics * ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'' – the character Megan gets accepted into Princeton * ''The West Wing (TV series), The West Wing'' – former Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) is a ''magna cum laude'' Princeton graduateEpisode 406, "Game On", in which Seaborn says "I'm a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton and editor of the Duke University, Duke Law Review. Tell her I've worked for Congressmen and the D-triple-C."


See also

* History of Princeton University * List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University as alumni or faculty


References


External links


Official website
of Princeton University {{DEFAULTSORT:Princeton University People Princeton University people, * Lists of people associated with Princeton University, People