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Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
. For a list of Tufts' presidents, see List of presidents of Tufts University. It includes alumni and affiliates of the acquired Jackson College for Women and the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachus ...
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Nobel laureates

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Eugene F. Fama Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is currently Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Servi ...
(B.A. 1960), winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on
portfolio theory Modern portfolio theory (MPT), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversificatio ...
and
asset pricing In financial economics, asset pricing refers to a formal treatment and development of two main Price, pricing principles, outlined below, together with the resultant models. There have been many models developed for different situations, but cor ...
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Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon (born February 19, 1956) is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter ...
(M.D. 1982), winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels. *
Juan Manuel Santos Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, ...
, (Fulbright, 1981), winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, President of Colombia


Pulitzer Prize winners

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Leslie Gelb Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was an American academic, correspondent and columnist for ''The New York Times'' who served as a senior Defense and State Department official and later the President Emeritus of the Cou ...
(B.A. 1959), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations *
Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...
, poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982 * Philip Levine, poet and National Book Award recipient * April Saul, photojournalist, awarded Pulitzer Prize in Exploratory Journalism in 1997 *
Edward Schumacher-Matos Edward Schumacher-Matos is an American-Colombian journalist, lecturer and columnist. He served as the ombudsman at NPR from June 2011 to January 2015. He also lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as the James Madison V ...
(M.A.), American-Colombian journalist, part of staff of
Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...
who won Pulitzer in 1980 * Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer *
Natalie Wolchover Natalie Ann Wolchover (born October 16, 1986) is a science journalist. She is a senior writer and editor for ''Quanta Magazine'', and has been involved with ''Quanta''s development since its inception in 2013. In 2022 she won a Pulitzer Prize for ...
(Bachelors in Physics, 2008), science journalist, won the 2022
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting has been presented since 1998, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear pr ...
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Gordon S. Wood Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992). His book ''The Creation o ...
(B.A. 1955), professor of American history at
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
* Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for biography for ''Chasing Me to My Grave'', co-written with subject Winfred Rembert


Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

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Kuzhikalail M. Abraham Kuzhikalail M. Abraham is an American scientist, a recognized expert on lithium-ion and lithium-ion polymer batteries and is the inventor of the ultrahigh energy density lithium–air battery.US patent 5,510,209 Abraham is the principal of E-KEM ...
, (Ph.D. 1973), Pioneer in Lithium, Lithium-ion, Lithium-sulfur and Lithium-air batteries. Received Tufts Most Outstanding Achievement and Services Award in 2017. * Stephen Moulton Babcock, agricultural chemist who pioneered the development of nutrition as a science *
Frank N. Blanchard Frank Nelson Blanchard (December 19, 1888 – September 21, 1937) was an American herpetologist, and professor of zoology at the University of Michigan from which institution he received his Ph.D. He is credited with describing several new subspec ...
(B.S. 1913), influential herpetologist and zoologist * Harold Bornstein, doctor and former personal physician to
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 ...
. *
Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime ...
(B.S., M.S. 1913), engineer and scientist noted for his work on the atom bomb and early computing *
Sean B. Carroll Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American Evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Marylan ...
(Ph.D. 1983), influential researcher and professor of
evolutionary developmental biology Evolutionary developmental biology (informally, evo-devo) is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer how developmental processes evolved. The field grew from 19th-century beginni ...
* Anthony Cortese, environmental activist/researcher and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection *
Bernard Marshall Gordon Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion". Early life, education, and career ...
, inventor who holds over thirty patents; former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company *
Frederick Grinnell Frederick Grinnell (August 14, 1836 – October 21, 1905) was a pioneer in fire safety and was the creator of the first practical automatic fire sprinkler. Early life and education He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1855, he graduated ...
(Ph.D. 1970), cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books The Royal Society Science Books Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and ...
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Rick Hauck Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26. Per ...
(B.S. 1962), astronaut * Hassan Jawahery (Ph.D. 1981), American-Iranian physicist and former spokesperson for the
BaBar experiment The BaBar experiment, or simply BaBar, is an international collaboration of more than 500 physicists and engineers studying the subatomic world at energies of approximately ten times the rest mass of a proton (~10  GeV). Its design was motiva ...
* Sara Murray Jordan (M.D. 1921), gastroenterologist *
Victor A. McKusick Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008) was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its ...
, founding editor of the database
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and traits, with a particular focus on the gene-phenotype relationship. , approximately 9,000 of the over 25,000 entries in OMIM r ...
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Helen Abbott Michael Helen Cecilia De Silver Abbott Michael (December 23, 1857 – November 29, 1904) was an American scientist who was among the first to "in a systematic way study the relation of chemical composition to species of plants and to plant growth." Michae ...
, organic chemist *
Mark Plotkin Mark J. Plotkin (born May 21, 1955) is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems. Plotkin is an advocate for tropical rainforest conservation and host of Plants of the Gods: Hallucinog ...
(Ph.D. 1989), ethnobotanist and expert on rainforest ecosystems *
Victor Prather Lieutenant commander (United States), Lieutenant Commander Victor Alonzo Prather Jr. (June 4, 1926 – May 4, 1961) was an American flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit. On May 4 ...
(M.D. 1952),
US 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 of ...
surgeon, set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with Malcolm Ross in 1961 *
John Reif John H. Reif (born 1951) is an American academic, and Professor of Computer Science at Duke University, who has made contributions to large number of fields in computer science: ranging from algorithms and computational complexity theory to roboti ...
(B.S. 1973), computer science, nanotechnology, and DNA researcher and professor * Keith Ross, NYU computer science professor; dean of engineering NYU Shanghai; ACM and IEEE Fellow *
Eric Rubin Eric J. Rubin is an American microbiologist, infectious disease specialist, and is currently the editor-in-chief of the ''New England Journal of Medicine''. He is also an adjunct professor of immunology and infectious diseases and was formerly th ...
(M.D/Ph.D. 1990), editor-in-chief of
New England Journal of Medicine ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' (''NEJM'') is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as the oldest continuously published one. Hist ...
* Ellery Schempp (B.S. 1962), physicist and political activist *
Mary Jane Shultz Mary Jane Shultz is an American professor and researcher in physical, environmental, materials and surface chemistry at Tufts University. Since 2013, she is also a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Early life and educatio ...
, Tufts professor and researcher in physical, environmental, materials and surface chemistry *
Phillip Hagar Smith Phillip Hagar Smith (April 29, 1905 in Lexington, Massachusetts – August 29, 1987 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) was an electrical engineer, who became famous for his invention of the Smith chart. Smith graduated from Tufts College in 1928 w ...
(B.S. 1928), inventor of the
Smith chart The Smith chart, invented by Phillip H. Smith (1905–1987) and independently by Mizuhashi Tosaku, is a graphical calculator or nomogram designed for electrical and electronics engineers specializing in radio frequency (RF) engineering to assis ...
, a graphical aid to assist in solving problems with
transmission lines In electrical engineering, a transmission line is a specialized cable or other structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves in a contained manner. The term applies when the conductors are long enough that the wave nature of the transmis ...
and matching circuits * John Q. Trojanowski (M.D./Ph.D. 1976), neurological researcher and professor specializing in degenerative diseases * Frankie Trull, lobbyist and science advocate focusing on laboratory animal testing; president of the
National Association for Biomedical Research The National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) is an American nonprofit organization, 501(c)(6), located in Washington, DC. NABR was formed in 1985 when the Association of Biomedical Research merged with the National Society for Medica ...
,
Foundation for Biomedical Research The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) is an American nonprofit organization, 501(c)(3), located in Washington, DC. Established in 1981, the organization is dedicated to informing the news media, teachers, and other groups about the need f ...
, and Policy Directions Inc. *
Loring W. Tu Loring W. Tu (杜武亮, Wade–Giles: Tu Wu-liang) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry. Life He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the grandson of Taiwanese pharmacologist Tu Tsung-ming. He is a y ...
, Taiwanese-American mathematician working in algebraic topology and geometry. * Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor *
Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher i ...
(B.A. 1909), mathematician known as the founder of
cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...
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Esther Wilkins Esther Mae Wilkins (December 9, 1916 – December 12, 2016) was an American dental hygienist, dentist and author of the first comprehensive book on dental hygiene, ''Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist'' (first edition published in 1959). T ...
, dentist and author of ''Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist'' * Ronald C. Wornick (born 1932) food scientist and founder of The Wornick Company, selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to mass-produce meals.


Business

* Yusuf Hassan Abdi (M.A.), former director of IRIN *
Peter Ackerman Peter Ackerman (November 6, 1946 – April 26, 2022) was an American businessman, the founder and former chairman of Americans Elect, and the founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Ackerman was the managing director o ...
, managing director of Rockport Capital *
Vikram Akula Vikram Akula (born 7 November 1968) is an American banker and the founder of SKS Microfinance (now BFIL), a micro finance company and former chairperson of Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. SKS was an organization that offered microloans and insur ...
(B.A. 1990), founder and CEO of
SKS Microfinance Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (formerly known as SKS Microfinance Limited) or BFIL is a banking & finance company (NBFC), licensed by the Reserve Bank of India. It was founded in 1997 by Vikram Akula, who served as its executive chair unti ...
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Dan Barber Dan Barber (born October 2, 1969) is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, United States. He is the author of ''The Third Plate''. Education He is a 1992 graduate of Tufts Un ...
(B.A. 1992), chef and co-owner of Blue Hill Restaurant * John Bello (B.A. 1968), founder and former CEO of
SoBe SoBe (stylized as ) is an American brand of teas, fruit-juice blends and enhanced water beverages owned by PepsiCo. The name SoBe is an abbreviation of South Beach, named after the upscale area located in Miami Beach, Florida. In the past, the ...
Beverages and former President of
NFL Properties National Football League Properties, also known as NFL Properties (abbreviated NFLP), is the merchandising and licensing arm of the National Football League (NFL). The subsidiary of the league was founded in 1963 to maintain control of the brands of ...
*
Seamus Blackley Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley (born 1968) is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. He is best known for creating and designing the original Xbox in 2001. Career After enteri ...
, game developer who helped create the Microsoft
Xbox Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. The brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service by the name of Xbox network, and the development arm by the na ...
* Garnett Bruce (B.A. 1989), opera director *
David W. Burke David Warren Burke (April 3, 1936 – April 18, 2014) was an American news executive and political administrator. He was Vice President ABC News, where he worked with Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters, among others.CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
* Rob Burnett (B.A. 1984), President and CEO of
Worldwide Pants Worldwide Pants Inc. is an American television and film production company founded and owned by comedian and talk show host David Letterman. The company was formerly headquartered at the Ed Sullivan Theater building in New York City, but has sinc ...
, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of ''
Late Night with David Letterman ''Late Night with David Letterman'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on NBC, the first iteration of the ''Late Night'' franchise. It premiered on February 1, 1982, and was produced by Letterman's production company ...
'' * Samuel T. Byrne, founder of
CrossHarbor Capital Partners CrossHarbor Capital Partners is an American investment firm, specializing in private equity, based in Boston. CrossHarbor Capital Partners develops and manages private equity investment products in three principal business areas: real assets, ...
and owner of the
Yellowstone Club The Yellowstone Club is a private residential club, ski resort, and golf resort located in Madison County, just west of Big Sky, Montana. It is rated among the top 10 lifestyle estates in the world. History Real estate developer Tim Blixseth pu ...
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Dov Charney Dov Charney (born January 31, 1969) is a Canadian entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. He is the founder of American Apparel, which was one of the largest garment manufacturers in the United States until its bankruptcy in 2015. Charney subse ...
(attended), CEO and founder of
American Apparel American Apparel Inc. is an online-only retailer and former brick-and-mortar stores operator based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Canadian businessman Dov Charney in 1989, it was a vertically integrated company that ranked as one of the ...
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Charles S. Cohen Charles S. Cohen (born February 8, 1952) is an American real estate developer and film distributor. Early life and education Cohen was raised in a Jewish family in Harrison, New York. He is the son of Gloria and Sherman Cohen and nephew to Edd ...
(B.A. 1974), billionaire American real estate developer and film producer * William Cummings (B.A. 1958), head of the Cummings Foundation, one of the largest in New England, with over $2 billion in assets *
Susan Decker Susan Lynne Decker (born November 17, 1962) is an American businesswoman. She was president of Yahoo! Inc in 2007 and 2008, leading the operations of the company while Jerry Yang was chief executive officer. In 2017, Decker co-founded a social n ...
(B.S. 1984), former President of
Yahoo Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds ma ...
!, Inc. *
Lou DiBella Louis John DiBella Jr. (born May 17, 1960) is an American boxing promoter and television/film producer. Education DiBella is a graduate of Regis High School (New York City). He then continued his education at Tufts University before pursuing ...
, founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, owner of The
Connecticut Defenders The Connecticut Defenders were a Minor League Baseball team based in Norwich, Connecticut. The team, which played in the Eastern League, was the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants major-league club from 2003 until following the 2009 ...
, former head of programming for
HBO Sports Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...
, TV/film producer, and boxing promoter * Dick Dietrich (B.A. 1968), co-founder and CEO of
GED Integrated Glass Solutions The General Educational Development (GED) tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has United States or Canadian high school-level academic skills. It is an alternative to the US high ...
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Jamie Dimon James Dimon (; born March 13, 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and banker who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase – the largest of the big four American banks – since 2005. Dimon was previously on ...
(B.A. 1978), billionaire CEO of
JP Morgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the w ...
Corporation *
Peter R. Dolan Peter R. Dolan (born January 6, 1956) is an American business executive. In 2009, he became chairman and CEO of Gemin X Pharmaceuticals after joining the board in July 2008; he was formerly the chief executive officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb b ...
(B.A. 1978), former CEO of
Bristol-Myers Squibb The Bristol Myers Squibb Company (BMS) is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in New York City, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and consistently ranks on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the lar ...
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John J. Donovan John J. Donovan (born February 12, 1942) is a former management professor at MIT, and the former president and chief executive of the Cambridge Technology Group, an executive training company. On May 3, 2022, Donovan Sr. was convicted of a doze ...
, entrepreneur, founder of
Cambridge Technology Partners Cambridge Technology Partners (ケンブリッジ・テクノロジー・パートナーズ株式会社, CTP) is a Japan-based multinational professional services company that specializes in business and IT consulting. The company is known for f ...
* Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at
Trinity College (Connecticut) Trinity College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coed ...
* Ben duPont (B.S. 1986), American businessman, son of
Pete du Pont Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV (January 22, 1935 – May 8, 2021) was an American attorney, businessman, and politician from Rockland, in New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. He was the United States representative for Delaware from ...
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Seth Godin Seth W. Godin is an American author and former dot com business executive. Background After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in ...
(B.S. 1979), marketing expert and founder of
Yoyodyne Yoyodyne is the name of a number of companies, both fictional and real. Literary Yoyodyne was introduced as a fictional defense contractor in Thomas Pynchon's '' V.'' (1963) and featured prominently in his novel '' The Crying of Lot 49'' (1966). ...
and
Squidoo Squidoo was a revenue-sharing article-writing site. Articles were called "lenses". In 2010, the site consisted of 1.5 million lenses . On August 15, 2014, founder Seth Godin announced that HubPages had acquired Squidoo. History Development st ...
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Bernard Marshall Gordon Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion". Early life, education, and career ...
, former president and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company; inventor who holds over thirty patents *
Cary Granat Cary Granat is an American film producer and studio executive. He is best known for co-founding and serving as CEO for Walden Media from 2000 to 2009 and acting as president and COO of Miramax Films’ Dimension Division from 1995 to 2000. While ...
(B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of
Walden Media Walden Media, LLC or Walden Media is an American film investor, distributor, and publishing company. Its films are based on children's literature, biographies or historical events, as well as documentaries and some original screenplays. The corpo ...
, former president of
Miramax Miramax, LLC, also known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. It was initially a leadi ...
's Dimension Division *
Jonathan Greenblatt Jonathan Greenblatt (born November 21, 1970) is an American entrepreneur, corporate executive, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Prior to heading the ADL, Greenblatt served in the White House as Special A ...
, CEO of GOOD Magazine and co-founder of
Ethos water Ethos Water is an American brand of bottled water with a social mission of "helping children get clean water." A Starbucks subsidiary, Ethos began in 2001 when Peter Thum had the idea after working in communities in South Africa that lacked access ...
* Jacqueline Hernandez (B.A. 1988), President of
Combate Americas Combate Global (previously Combate Americas) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) sports franchise and media company directed toward a Hispanic audience. It includes TV broadcasts, live events, and mobile content Combate Global airs on Univi ...
, and CEO of
Telemundo Media Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with pro ...
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Eduardo Hochschild Eduardo Hochschild (born 1963/64) is a Peruvian businessman. He is the chairman of Hochschild Mining and Cementos Pacasmayo. Biography Hochschild is the son of Ana Beeck Navarro and Luis Hochschild Plaut. His father founded Cementos Pacasmay ...
, billionaire chairman of
Hochschild Mining Hochschild Mining plc is a leading British-based silver and gold mining business operating in North, Central, and South America. It is headquartered in Lima, Peru, with a corporate office in London, is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mai ...
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Robert Hormats Robert David "Bob" Hormats (born April 13, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland) is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. Immediately prior he served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (at the time, entitled Un ...
(B.A. 1965, M.A. 1966, M.A.L.D. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), Vice Chairman of
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...
International *
Meg Hourihan Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger.com, Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. Career Hourihan graduated from Tufts University in 1994. In 1999, she and Evan Williams (Int ...
, co-founder of
Pyra Labs Pyra Labs is a subsidiary of Google (Alphabet) that created the Blogger service in 1999. Google acquired Pyra Labs in 2003. History Pyra was co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web ...
, creator of
Blogger A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order s ...
* Mark Krikorian, executive director of
Center for Immigration Studies The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an anti-immigration think tank and a SPLC designated hate group. It favors far lower immigration numbers, and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graha ...
and conservative pundit *
Jeff Kindler Jeffrey B. Kindler (born May 13, 1955) is an American healthcare executive and private investor. He served as chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer from 2006 to 2010. Kindler has later served as CEO of Centrexion Inc., and chairm ...
(B.A. 1977), CEO of
Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer ...
Inc., former Vice President of
General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...
Co. and Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations at
McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechri ...
* Ellen J. Kullman (B.S. 1978), ex-CEO of
DuPont DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in ...
and an adviser on President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness *
Jeffrey Lam Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung, GBS, JP (; born 23 October 1951 in Hong Kong) is a non-official member of the Executive Council (Exco) and member of the Legislative Council (Legco), representing the Commercial (First) functional constituency. He is ...
, managing director of Forward Winsome Industries and member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
* Laura Lang (B.A. 1977), CEO of
Time Inc. Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake ''Time'', ''Sports Illu ...
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Jim Manzi Jim Manzi (born 1951) is the former chairman, president and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation and is currently a private investor in various technology start-up ventures. Early career Manzi received his B.A. in Classics from Colgate Univers ...
, former president, chairman, and CEO of
Lotus Development Corporation Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was "offloaded" to India's HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2- ...
* John T. McCarthy (B.A. 1968, M.A. 1973), Chairman of
ING Group The ING Group ( nl, ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale bankin ...
Turkey *
Harold McGraw III Harold Whittlesey "Terry" McGraw III (born August 30, 1948) is an American businessman and is the chairman emeritus of McGraw Hill Financial (now S&P Global and formerly McGraw-Hill Companies). He served as chief executive officer of the company ...
(B.A. 1972), President and CEO of
McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...
Companies; Chairman of the
Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable (BRT) is a nonprofit lobbyist association based in Washington, D.C. whose members are chief executive officers of major United States companies. Unlike the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose members are entire businesses, BRT ...
*
Umberto Milletti Umberto Milletti is the CEO and founder of InsideView, a San Francisco-based CRM intelligence company. The company is backed by Foundation Capital, Emergence Capital, Split Rock Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners. It has raised a total of $4 ...
, CEO and co-founder of
InsideView InsideView is a software as a service (SaaS) company that gleans insights and relationships from more than 40,000 sources of business information, contact data, online news, and social media. Founded in 2005, InsideView is mainly used by marketi ...
and co-founder of
DigitalThink DigitalThink was an electronic learning (eLearning) enterprise solutions company that aims to address the entire range of a corporation’s training and education needs. Founded in 1996 by Umberto Milletti, Pete Goettner and Steve Zahm At one ...
* Soichiro Minami, Japanese businessman and billionaire who founded job search and human resources software firm Visional * Susan Morse (B.A. 1969), first female president of the Olympic Club in San Francisco *
Khaldoon Al Mubarak Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak ( ar, خلدون المبارك; born 1975) is an Emirati Government official and business leader. Al Mubarak holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as: a member of the Executive Counci ...
(B.S.), CEO of
Mubadala Development Company Mubadala Investment Company PJSC ( ar, شركة مبادلة للاستثمار), or simply Mubadala, is an Emirati state-owned holding company that acts as a sovereign wealth fund. The company was established in 2017 when then-named Mubadala Dev ...
and chairman of
Manchester City F.C. Manchester City Football Club are an England, English association football, football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English football. Fo ...
* John Martin Mugar, retired chairman and President of Star Market *
Andrew M. Murstein Andrew Mead Murstein (born June 29, 1964) is founder, president, board member and, with his family, the largest shareholder of Medallion Financial Corp., an investment company publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol MFIN.M ...
, founder, board member, President and largest shareholder of Medallion Financial *
Joseph Neubauer Joseph Neubauer (born October 19, 1941 in Mandatory Palestine) is an American businessman and the former CEO of Aramark Corporation. Before joining Aramark, he served as vice-president at PepsiCo and Chase Manhattan Bank. Neubauer is listed at #82 ...
(B.S. 1963), former CEO and currently chairman of the board of
ARAMARK Aramark Corporation, known commonly as Aramark, is an American food service, facilities, and uniform services provider to clients in areas including education, healthcare, business, prisons, and leisure. It operates in North America (United St ...
Corporation *
Pierre Omidyar Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 199 ...
(B.S. 1988), billionaire founder of
eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a ...
*
Frederick Stark Pearson Frederick Stark Pearson (July 3, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Biography Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson was the son of Ambrose and Hannah (Edgerly) Pearson. He graduated from Tufts University in 1883 w ...
, electrical engineer and businessman *
Roy Raymond Roy Larson Raymond (April 15, 1947 – August 26, 1993) was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store in California in 1977. Early life and education Roy Raymond was born April 15, 1947, in Connecticut. H ...
, founder of
Victoria's Secret Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. As the largest ret ...
lingerie retail stores *
Shari Redstone Shari Ellin Redstone (born April 14, 1954) is an American media executive with a background in numerous aspects of the entertainment industry and related ventures. She currently serves as the non-executive chairwoman of Paramount Global (formerly ...
, Founder and Chairwoman of
ViacomCBS Paramount Global (doing business as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York. I ...
Inc. and President of
National Amusements National Amusements, Inc. is an American privately owned movie theater operator and mass media holding company incorporated in Maryland and based in Norwood, Massachusetts. It is the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global. History The ...
* Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of
Warner Brothers Television Warner Bros. Television Studios (operating under the name Warner Bros. Television; formerly known as Warner Bros. Television Division) is an American television production and distribution studio of the Warner Bros. Television Group division o ...
*
Ali Sabancı Ali İsmail Sabancı (May 5, 1969; Adana) is a Turkish businessperson and a third generation member of thSabancıFamily. He is the Chairperson of 'Esas Holding Education life Ali Sabancı earned his M.B.A. degree with a major in International ...
, member of the
Sabancı family The Sabancı family is one of the wealthiest families in Turkey according to the Forbes billionaires list of 2016, with an estimated fortune ranging between $20–30 billion. The family's main business entity was founded by Hacı Ömer Sabancı in ...
, chairman of
Pegasus Airlines Pegasus Airlines ( tr, Pegasus Hava Taşımacılığı A.Ş.) (), sometimes stylized as Flypgs, is a Turkish low-cost carrier headquartered in the Kurtköy area of Pendik, Istanbul with bases at several Turkish airports. History On 1 Dece ...
, Desas, and Esaslı Gıda, former Head of Projects at
Sabancı Holding Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş., commonly abbreviated as Sabancı Holding, is an industrial and financial conglomerate with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. The company's primary activities are in financial services, energy (electricity generat ...
*
Monty Sarhan Monty Sarhan is the CEO of SkyShowtime, a streaming service that is a joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global. Sarhan was named CEO in January 2022. He previously worked at Comcast as well as Epix, where he served in a number of roles i ...
, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of
Cracked Cracked may refer to: Television * ''Cracked'' (British TV series), a 2008 British comedy-drama television series that aired on STV * ''Cracked'' (Canadian TV series), a 2013 Canadian crime drama series that aired on CBC * "Cracked", a Season 8 ( ...
Entertainment, Vice President of Viacom * Scott Sanborn (B.A. 1992), CEO and President of
LendingClub LendingClub is a financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and to offer loan trading o ...
*
Anthony Scaramucci Anthony Scaramucci ( ; born January 6, 1964) is an American financier who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017. Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs's investment banking, equities, and priv ...
(B.A. 1986), founder of
SkyBridge Capital SkyBridge Capital is a global investment firm based in New York City, United States. It is run by founder Anthony Scaramucci, Brett S. Messing, Raymond Nolte and Troy Gaveski. SkyBridge produces the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or "SALT" C ...
*
Thomas Schmidheiny Thomas Schmidheiny (born 17 December 1945) is a Swiss billionaire businessman, and the former chairman of cement manufacturer Holcim. Early life Thomas Schmidheiny was born in 1945, the son of Max Schmidheiny (1908-1991). The family's construc ...
, billionaire and entrepreneur *
Neal Shapiro Neal B. Shapiro (born March 9, 1958) is the President and CEO of WNET. He worked previously as the President of NBC News and the executive producer for ''Dateline NBC''. Prior to this Shapiro spent 13 years as a news producer at ABC News. Early ...
(B.A. 1980), Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station
WNET WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
/ WLIW New York City, former president of
NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's var ...
*
Joel Simkhai Joel Simkhai ( he, יואל שמחאי; born c. 1976) is an Israeli-American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of geosocial networking and dating apps Grindr and Blendr. His original goal in starting Grindr was for people wit ...
(B.A. 1998), CEO and Founder
Grindr Grindr () is a location-based social networking and online dating application targeted towards members of the gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. It was one of the first geosocial apps for gay men when it launched in March 2009 an ...
and Blendr *
David Sonenberg David Alan Sonenberg is an American music manager, and the founder of the music management company DAS Communications. He is the producer of the Oscar-winning film ''When We Were Kings'' (1997). Early life and education Born and raised in New ...
(B.A. 1968), Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd. *
Jeff Stibel Jeff Stibel is an entrepreneur, having started numerous technology and marketing companies, and a venture capital investor, as co-founder (with Kobe Bryant) of Bryant Stibel. At age 32, he became one of the youngest public company CEOs in Amer ...
(B.A. 1995), CEO of
Web.com Web.com Group Inc. was an American company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida that provides domain name registration and web development services. Established in 1999 by Darin Brannan, the company was known as Website Pros Inc. until early ...
*
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist. Sulzberger was the chairman of The New York Times Company from 1997 to 2020, and the publisher of '' The New York Times'' from 1992 to 2018. Early life a ...
(B.A. 1974), publisher of ''
The 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 ...
'' *
Richard F. Syron Richard F. Syron is a former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Freddie Mac. He previously served as chairman and CEO of Thermo Electron Corp., and as CEO of the American Stock Exch ...
(Ph.D. 1971), former chairman and CEO of the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), commonly known as Freddie Mac, is a publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.Ed Tapscott (B.A. 1975), former president and CEO of the
Charlotte Bobcats Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populous ...
, head coach of the NBA's
Washington Wizards The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Eastern Conference Southeast D ...
*
Jonathan Tisch Jonathan Mark Tisch (born December 7, 1953) is an American businessman. He is the CEO of American luxury hospitality company Loews Hotels. Tisch is also a trustee of Tufts University, and a board member of the Tribeca Film Institute. He is a co ...
(B.A. 1976), billionaire chairman and CEO of
Loews Hotels Loews Hotels is an American luxury hospitality company that owns or operates 26 hotels in the United States and Canada. Loews' hotels and resorts are located in major North American city centers and resort destinations. Headquartered in New Yor ...
, co-owner of the
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
*
C. David Welch Charles David Welch (born 1953) is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State from 2005 through 2008. On August 14, 2008, in Tripoli, Welch signed the U.S.-L ...
,
Bechtel Bechtel Corporation () is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California, and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. , the ''Engineering News-Record'' ranked Bechtel as the sec ...
Regional President of Europe, Africa, Middle East, and South West Asia; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs *
Janice Savin Williams Janice Savin Williams (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is the co-founder and senior principal of The Williams Capital Group, L.P.. She has served on the board of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, North General Hospital, and ISI, Inc., as well as not-for-p ...
, founder and Senior Principal at Williams Capital Group *
Walter B. Wriston Walter Bigelow Wriston (August 3, 1919 – January 19, 2005) was a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp. As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp (later Citigroup) from 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influe ...
(M.A. 1942), chairman and CEO of
Citicorp Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomer ...
/
Citibank Citibank, N. A. (N. A. stands for " National Association") is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later became First National City ...
from 1967 to 1984


Law and politics


Heads of state

*
Shukri Ghanem Shukri Mohammed Ghanem ( ar, شكري محمد إمحمد غانم 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya (prime minister) from June 2003 until March ...
(Ph.D. 1975), former
Prime Minister of Libya This article lists the heads of government of Libya since the country's independence in 1951. Libya is in a tumultuous state since the start of the Arab Spring-related Libyan Crisis in 2011; the crisis resulted in the collapse of the Libyan Ar ...
*
Kostas Karamanlis Konstantinos A. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αλεξάνδρου Καραμανλής; born 14 September 1956), commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis ( el, Κώστας Καραμανλής, ), is a Greek politician who served as the ...
(M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1984),
Prime Minister of Greece The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρωθυπουργός της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), colloquially referred to as the prime minister of Greece ( el, Πρωθυ ...
*
Mulatu Teshome Mulatu Teshome Wirtu ( om, Mulaatuu Tashoome Wirtuu; ; born 1957) is an Ethiopian politician who was the president of Ethiopia from 2013 to 2018. Biography Mulatu was born in the town of Arjo in Welega Province. He was educated in China, rece ...
(M.A. 1990), former
President of Ethiopia The President of Ethiopia is the head of state of Ethiopia. The position is largely ceremonial with executive power vested in the Council of Ministers chaired by The Prime Minister. The current president is Sahle-Work Zewde, who took office on 2 ...


U.S. Cabinet secretaries

*
Bill Richardson William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary ...
(B.A. 1970), governor of
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
, former U.S.
Secretary of Energy The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when Pr ...
, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate * John G. Sargent (B.A. 1887), former
Attorney General of the United States The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...


U.S. governors

* General
Seldon Connor Seldon Connor (January 25, 1839July 9, 1917) was an American soldier, banker, and politician who was the 35th Governor of the U.S. state of Maine. Biography Seldon Conner was born in Fairfield, Maine, and in 1859 graduated at Tufts College, as ...
(B.A. 1859), former governor of
Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
* F. Ray Keyser Jr. (B.A. 1950), former governor of
Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
*
Bill Richardson William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary ...
(B.A. 1970), governor of
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
, former U.S.
Secretary of Energy The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when Pr ...
, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate *
John H. Sununu John Henry Sununu (born July 2, 1939) is an American politician who was the 75th governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989 and later White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Cuba to an American father and a Salva ...
, (Dean of Engineering) governor of
New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
, chief of staff of the White House for G.H.W. Bush. * Stanley C. Wilson (B.A. 1901), former governor of Vermont


U.S. senators

*
Scott Brown Scott Brown may refer to: Sportsmen *Scott Brown (American football), American college football coach of Kentucky State * Scott Brown (baseball) (born 1956), former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds *Scott Brown (footballer, bor ...
(B.A. 1981), former member of the
United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ...
*
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, diplomat and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 and served as an ...
(B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1961), former
U.S. Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...
from New York (1977–2001) and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India


U.S. representatives

*
Jeb Bradley Joseph E. "Jeb" Bradley (born October 20, 1952) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who serves in the New Hampshire Senate. He represents his hometown of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and 16 other towns in east-central New Ha ...
(B.A. 1974), former
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from New Hampshire *
Dan Crenshaw Daniel Reed Crenshaw (born March 14, 1984) is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving as the United States representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. The district includes parts of northe ...
(B.A. 2006), U.S. Representative from Texas * Joe Courtney (B.A. 1975), U.S. Representative from Connecticut *
Peter DeFazio Peter Anthony DeFazio (; born May 27, 1947) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 1987. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Roseburg, Coos B ...
(B.A. 1969), U.S. Representative from Oregon *
Cynthia McKinney Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician, academic, and conspiracy theorist. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American ...
(M.A. 1979), U.S. Representative from Georgia *
John Olver John Walter Olver (born September 3, 1936) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Olver graduated from college at the age ...
(M.S. 1956), Democratic United States Representative from Massachusetts *
Frank Pallone Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. (; born October 30, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1988 to ...
(M.A. 1974), U.S. Representative from New Jersey since 1988 * William Leon St. Onge (B.A. 1941), former U.S. Representative from Connecticut and mayor of Putnam * John Philip Swasey, former U.S. Representative from Maine


Other federal positions

* Tom Casey (B.A., M.A.L.D.), Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department beginning at the end of the George W. Bush's administration * Admiral
Jonathan Howe Jonathan Trumbull Howe (born August 24, 1935) is a retired four-star United States Navy admiral, and was the Special Representative for Somalia to United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali from March 9, 1993, succeeding Ismat Kittani ...
(B.A. 1980), former U.S.
Deputy National Security Advisor The United States Deputy National Security Advisor is a member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the United States National Security Council, serving under the President's National Security Advisor. Among other res ...
*
Richard N. Goodwin Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was married to ...
(B.A. 1953), former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, prominent political speechwriter, author, playwright, and husband of
Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream ...
*
Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Sec ...
(M.A., Ph.D.), former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and t ...
and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East. WINE ...
* Susan Livingstone (M.A.L.D. 1981), former acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment *
Winston Lord Winston Lord (born August 14, 1937) is an American diplomat and leader of non-governmental foreign policy organizations. He has served as Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor (1970–1973), Director of the State Department Policy P ...
(M.A. 1960), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations *
Gina McCarthy Regina McCarthy (born May 3, 1954) is an American air quality expert who served as the first White House national climate advisor from 2021 to 2022. She previously served as the thirteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency f ...
(M.S. 1981), Administrator of the
EPA The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it be ...
under President Obama *
Peter Navarro Peter Kent Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is an American political figure who served in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordina ...
(B.A. 1972), director of the
Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy The Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy (OTMP) was an office established within the White House Office by US President Donald Trump by Presidential Executive Order 13797 on April 29, 2017. During the Biden transition, the incoming administr ...
* Phyllis E. Oakley (M.A. 1957) U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration is the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, a ...
(1994–97) and Intelligence and Research (1997–99) * Tara D. Sonenshine (B.A. 1981), United States
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs is currently a top-10 ranking position in the U.S. Department of State that is intended to help ensure that public diplomacy is practiced in combination with public affairs and traditiona ...
for
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
's administration


Diplomats

*
Jonathan Addleton Jonathan S. Addleton (born 1957) is an American diplomat and author. He served as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from 2009 to 2012. He is Current Rector of Forman Christian College (FCCU). Addleton was born in Pakistan, the son of Baptis ...
(M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1991), U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia (2009–2012) * Rafeeuddin Ahmed (M.A. 1956), former UN Under Secretary General and Pakistan foreign service officer *
Anthony Banbury Anthony Banbury (born 1964) was appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in 2018. He served as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support until 5 February 20 ...
(B.A. 1986, M.A. 1992), United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support *
C. Fred Bergsten C. Fred Bergsten (born April 23, 1941) is an American economist, author, think tank entrepreneur, and policy adviser. He has served as assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger within the National Security Council and as a ...
(M.A. 1962, M.A.L.D. 1963, Ph.D. 1969), former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the
U.S. Treasury Department The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...
and senior fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington D.C. with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States. Founded in ...
and
Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, mi ...
* Barbara Bodine (M.A. 1971), former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait *
Richard Boucher Richard A. Boucher (born 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American diplomat who was deputy secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2009 until 2013. He took up post on November 5, 2009. Pr ...
(B.A. 1973), U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs #REDIRECT Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs {{R from other capitalisation ...
, former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, ambassador to Cyprus, and
Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong The Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau, represents the United States in Hong Kong and Macau. It has been located at 26 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, since the late 1950s. The consul general is H ...
* Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), prominent Hong Kong politician; both the first woman and the first Chinese person to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong *
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry is a Pakistani diplomat and Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. He served as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States and was succeeded by Ali Jehangir Siddiqui. Previously, he served as the ...
, current
Foreign Secretary The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...
of Pakistan *
Musa Javed Chohan Musa Javed Chohan (Urdu: ) (b. 30 May 1948 in Pind Dadan Khan, Pakistan) is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Canada, as well as the former ambassador of Pakistan to France and Pakistan's permanent representative to UNESCO from 2001 t ...
, former Pakistani Ambassador to France *
J. Adam Ereli Joseph Adam Ereli (born 1960) is an American lobbyist, who formerly served as a diplomat and ambassador. Early life and diplomatic career Mr. Ereli earned a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1982 and an M.A. in International Relations fro ...
(M.A. 1989), U.S. Ambassador to
Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
*
Jeffrey Feltman Jeffrey David Feltman (born 1959) is an American diplomat and former U.S. Special Envoy for Horn of Africa, serving from April 23, 2021 to January 10, 2022. He previously served as United Nations Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs. As ...
(M.A.L.D. 1983), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to
Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
* Michael Hammer (M.A. 1987), ambassador from the United States to
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
*
John E. Herbst John Edward Herbst (born August 12, 1952) is a retired American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003 and United States Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2003 to May 2006. Education Herbst received ...
, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, former U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
and
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
*
Wolfgang Ischinger Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger (born April 6, 1946) is a German diplomat who served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022. From 2001 to 2006, Ischinger was the German ambassador to the United States, and from 1998 to 20 ...
(M.A. 1973), former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K. * Masud Bin Momen, Bangladeshi foreign secretary *
Ismat Jahan Ismat Jahan (born June 3, 1960) is a Bangladeshi diplomat who is currently serving as the Permanent Observer of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to the European Union. From 2009 to 2016, she was Ambassador of Bangladesh to Belgium, Luxembou ...
, Bangladeshi Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, former ambassador the
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
* Roberta S. Jacobson (M.A.L.D 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–present) *
Michelle Kwan Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize. In figure skating Kwan is a two-time Olympic medalist (silver in 1998, bronze in 2002), a five-time W ...
(M.A.L.D. 2011), U.S. Ambassador to Belize (2022-present) and former Olympic figure skater *
Edwin W. Martin Edwin Webb Martin (August 31, 1917 – October 5, 1991) was an American diplomat and foreign policy scholar. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Burma from 1971 to 1973. Life Martin was born in Madurai, India, to American missionary parents. He we ...
, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Consul General of the United States in Hong Kong * David McKean (M.A.L.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg (2016–present); Director of Policy Planning (2013–2015) * General William T. Monroe (M.A. 1974), U.S. Ambassador to
Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
* Bernd Mützelburg, German special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former German ambassador to India *
Thomas R. Pickering Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering (born November 5, 1931) is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992. Early life and education Born in Orange, ...
(M.A. 1954), former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel, India, and Russia *
Mitchell Reiss Mitchell B. Reiss (born June 12, 1957) is an American diplomat, academic, and business leader who served as the 8th President and CEO of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the 27th president of Washington College and in the United States Depa ...
(M.A.L.D. 1980), former
Director of Policy Planning The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the department's internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. In the department, the Director of Policy Planning has a rank equivalent to Assistant ...
at the
United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other n ...
and
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland The United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (officially the Special Envoy of the President and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) is the top U.S. diplomat supporting the Northern Ireland peace process. The position is held ...
, current President of
Washington College Washington College is a private liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland. Maryland granted Washington College its charter in 1782. George Washington supported the founding of the college by consenting to have the "College at Chester" name ...
*
Bill Richardson William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary ...
(B.A. 1970), governor of
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
, former U.S.
Secretary of Energy The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when Pr ...
, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate *
Iqbal Riza Iqbal Riza (EEK-bahl Ree-zah) (born 20 May 1934 in Lonavla, India) is a retired Pakistani diplomat. He is currently a special adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and has worked for Spanish Foundation Concordia 21. He served as th ...
, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peacekeeping and Pakistani diplomat *
Alan Solomont Alan D. Solomont (born 1949) is the former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. He was selected for the post by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 29, 2009. Early life and education Born to a Je ...
(B.A. 1970), U.S. Ambassador to Spain (2009–2013) * Klaus Scharioth (M.A., M.A.L.D., Ph.D. 1978), German Ambassador to the United States * Konrad Seitz (M.A. 1967), former German Ambassador to
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, Italy, and China *
Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, ...
(M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, Ph.D. 1979), former UN Under-Secretary General and Indian Minister for External Affairs, current member of Indian Parliament *
Malcolm Toon Malcolm Toon (July 4, 1916 – February 12, 2009) was an American diplomat who served as a Foreign Service Officer in Moscow in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, during the Cold War, ultimately becoming the ambassador to the Soviet Union. Life Toon ...
(B.A. 1937, M.A. 1939), former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia * David Welch (M.A. 1977), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, former Ambassador to
Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
*
Sarah-Ann Lynch Sarah-Ann Lynch is the American ambassador who had served United States ambassador to Guyana. She was nominated by President Donald Trump on September 13, 2018 and presented her credentials on March 13, 2019 to President David Granger. Ambassa ...
(M.A. 1990), US Ambassador to Guyana (2019–Present)


Foreign officials

* Shafi U Ahmed, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom *
Bolaji Akinyemi Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi (born 4 January 1942) is a Nigerian professor of political science who was Nigeria External Affairs Minister from 1985 to late 1987. He is the chairman of the National Think Tank. Early life, academic career, and pers ...
(M.A. 1965, M.A.L.D. 1966), Nigerian Minister of External Affairs from 1985 to 1987 *
Kow Nkensen Arkaah Kow Nkensen Arkaah (14 July 1927 – 25 April 2001) was a Ghanaian politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 1993 to 1997. He was also a chief of Senya Breku. Early life Kow Arkaah was born on 14 July 1927 at Senya Breku in the Centr ...
(B.A. 1952), Vice President of
Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
from 1993 to 1997 *
Michael Dobbs Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and author, best known for his ''House of Cards'' trilogy. Early life and education Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordsh ...
, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist *
Colette Flesch Colette Flesch (born 16 April 1937 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgish politician and former fencer. Life She gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1960, then earned an M.A. in International Affairs from ...
, Luxembourgian politician and Olympic fencing competitor * Jean Francois-Poncet (M.A. 1948), French politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1981 *
Olga Kefalogianni Olga Kefalogianni ( el, Όλγα Κεφαλογιάννη; born 29 April 1975 in Athens) is a Greek politician who served as Minister of Tourism of the Greek Government from 2012 to 2015. She was appointed in this position by Prime Minister Anto ...
(M.A. 2006), Greek politician *
Shahryar Khan Shahryar Mohammad Khan ( ur, شہریار محمد خان; born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who became Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so until his retirement from service in 1994. He later served as ...
, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, author *
Jeffrey Lam Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung, GBS, JP (; born 23 October 1951 in Hong Kong) is a non-official member of the Executive Council (Exco) and member of the Legislative Council (Legco), representing the Commercial (First) functional constituency. He is ...
, member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
and managing director of Forward Winsome Industries *
Liu Xiaoming / ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text ...
, Former
Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom The Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom is the official representative from the People's Republic of China to the United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Formerly the Chinese ambassadors represented the Qing ...
*
Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish language, Spanish and Manx language, Manx versions of ''John (given name), John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronoun ...
, Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice * Mbuyamu I. Matungulu (Ph.D. 1986), senior economist at the
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
( IMF), former
DRC The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
Minister of Finance *
Phạm Bình Minh Phạm Bình Minh (born 26 March 1959) is a Vietnamese politician who is currently a Deputy Prime Minister since 2013. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 2011 to 2021. Phạm is also a member of P ...
, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam *
Vardan Oskanyan Vartan Minasi Oskanian ( hy, Վարդան Մինասի Օսկանյան; born February 7, 1954) is the former Foreign Minister of Armenia (1998–2008) and founder of the Civilitas Foundation. Early life and career Born into a wealthy Armenian ...
, former Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs * Surakiart Sathirathai, former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Finance Minister of
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
* Antoinette Sayeh (M.A. 1980, M.A.L.D. 1982, Ph.D. 1985), Director of the African Department at the
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
, former Finance Minister of
Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
* Radmila Sekerinska (M.A. 2007), Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia, Minister of Defense of Macedonia * Godfrey Smith (M.A. 2002), Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management *
Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, ...
(M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, Ph.D. 1979), Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, former U.N. Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and prolific author *
Hassan Wirajuda Noer Hassan Wirajuda (born July 9, 1948 in Tangerang, West Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian politician who was the foreign minister of Indonesia from 2001 to 2009. He served during the presidencies of Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo Bambang Yud ...
(M.A. 1984), Foreign Minister of Indonesia *
Edson Zvobgo Eddison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo (2 October 1935 – 22 August 2004) was a founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF, the Patriotic Front's spokesman at the Lancaster House in late 1979,
(B.A. 1964), founder of
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
's ruling party Zanu-PF and former Minister of Justice *
Abdulla Shahid Abdulla Shahid ( dv, ޢަބްދުﷲ ޝާހިދު; born 26 May 1962) is Maldivian politician who served as President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly between 2021 and 2022. Shahid is the first Maldivian politician to hold that post. ...
,
President of the United Nations General Assembly The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly. Election ...


Judges and attorneys

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Nancy Atlas Nancy Ellen Friedman Atlas (born May 20, 1949) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Early life and education Born in New York City, Atlas received a Bachelor of Science ...
(B.S. 1971), Judge on the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (in case citations, S.D. Tex.) is the federal district court with jurisdiction over the southeastern part of Texas. The court's headquarters is in Houston, Texas and has six ad ...
* Francis X. Bellotti (B.A. 1947), former Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General of Massachusetts The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The officeholder is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The officeholder al ...
* André Birotte Jr. (B.S. 1987), Judge on the
United States District Court for the Central District of California The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) is a Federal trial court that serves over 19 million people in Southern and Central California, m ...
* John L. Carroll, former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama and Dean of
Samford University Samford University is a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College by Baptists. Samford University describes itself as the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United Sta ...
's
Cumberland School of Law Cumberland School of Law is an American Bar Association, ABA accredited law school at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1847 at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and is the 11th oldest law schoo ...
* R. Guy Cole, Jr. (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: * Eastern District of Kentucky * Western District of ...
* Ralph Adam Fine,
Wisconsin Court of Appeals The Wisconsin Court of Appeals is an intermediate appellate court that reviews contested decisions of the Wisconsin circuit courts. The Court of Appeals was created in August 1978 to alleviate the Wisconsin Supreme Court's rising number of appe ...
Judge * Faith S. Hochberg (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (in case citations, D.N.J.) is a federal court in the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the ...
and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Treasury * Timothy Lewis (B.A. 1976), former federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (in case citations, 3d Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts: * District of Delaware * District of New Jersey * Ea ...
* Nancy E. Rice (B.A. 1972), former Chief Justice of the
Colorado Supreme Court The Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located in Denver, the Court consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. Powers and duties Appellate jurisdiction Discretionary appeals The Court p ...
* John G. Sargent (B.A. 1887), former
Attorney General of the United States The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the p ...
* Warren Silver,
Maine Supreme Court The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the state of Maine's judicial system. It is composed of seven justices, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate. From 1820 until 1839, justices served lifetime a ...
Justice *
Norman H. Stahl Norman H. Stahl (January 30, 1931 – April 8, 2023) was an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge of the United Sta ...
(B.A. 1952), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (in case citations, 1st Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: * District of Maine * District of Massachusetts * ...
* Laura Denvir Stith,
Missouri Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Missouri is the highest court in the state of Missouri. It was established in 1820 and is located at 207 West High Street in Jefferson City, Missouri. Missouri voters have approved changes in the state's constitution to give ...
Judge


State officials

* Phil Bartlett (B.A. 1998), Democratic State Senator in Maine, elected for the first time in 2004 * Francis X. Bellotti (B.A. 1947), former Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General of Massachusetts The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected constitutionally defined executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The officeholder is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The officeholder al ...
*
Horace T. Cahill Horace Tracy Cahill (December 12, 1894 – August 22, 1976) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and, from 1939 to 1945, as the 54th lieutena ...
, former
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts. The constitutional honorific title for the office is His ...
* Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), former member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...
while an undergraduate at
Tufts College Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
(now Tufts University) and third president of Tufts College * Anthony Cortese, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection; environmental activist and researcher *
Benjamin Downing Benjamin Brackett Downing (born September 11, 1981) is an American politician and Democratic former member of the Massachusetts State Senate. He represented the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin district from 2007 to 2013, before being redistr ...
, Democratic State Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2006 at age 24 *
Steve Dyer Steve Dyer (born May 4, 1972) is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 43rd District from 2007 to 2010. Life and career A former reporter for the ''Akron Beacon Journal'', Dyer graduated with a law ...
, former member of
Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...
from 2007 to 2010 * Michael E. Festa (B.A. 1976), former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs *
Dan Gelber Daniel Saul Gelber (born November 26, 1960) is an American politician and former prosecutor serving as the Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida. He served in the Florida Legislature from 2000 to 2010 and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General ...
, member of the
Florida Senate The Florida Senate is the upper house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida House of Representatives being the lower house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...
* Jack Hart (B.A. 1991), member of the
Massachusetts State Senate The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member sen ...
*
Albert W. Harvey Albert W. Harvey (March 10, 1879 – January 3, 1956) was a Vermont businessman and government official. He served as Vermont’s U.S. Marshal from 1922 to 1935. Early life Albert Walter Harvey was born in Sutton, New Hampshire on March 10, 187 ...
(attended),
United States Marshal The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States. The USMS is a bureau within the U.S. Department of Justice, operating under the direction of the Attorney General, but serves as the enforcem ...
for the District of Vermont *
Jon Hecht Jonathan Hecht is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 29th Middlesex district from 2009 to 2021. Early life and education Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hecht spen ...
, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives * Frank Hornstein, Minnesota State Representative, member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party; elected for the first time in 2002 * Thomas Kean, Jr., member and Minority Leader of the
New Jersey State Senate The New Jersey Senate was established as the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature by the Constitution of 1844, replacing the Legislative Council. There are 40 legislative districts, representing districts with an average population of 232, ...
; unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate; son of former New Jersey governor
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, ...
*
George Keverian George Keverian (June 3, 1931 – March 6, 2009) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served as the List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Speaker of the Massachusetts Hou ...
,
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives This is a list of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through ...
from 1985 until 1991 * Kristina Roegner, member of
Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...
* Carl M. Sciortino, member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...
2004–2014, Democratic Party *
Steve Simon Steve Simon (born December 12, 1969) is an American politician from the state of Minnesota serving as the 22nd Minnesota Secretary of State. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he previously represented District 46B ...
(B.A. 1992),
Minnesota Secretary of State The secretary of state of Minnesota is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of government of the U.S. State of Minnesota. Twenty-two individuals have held the office of secretary of state since statehood. The incumbent is Steve Simon, ...
2015–present, member of the
Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Pa ...
2005–2015 *
Keith L. T. Wright Keith L. T. Wright (born January 3, 1955) is an American politician and a former member of the New York State Assembly. He was first elected to the assembly in 1992 and was re-elected eleven times. In early 2007, he proposed a bill limiting reta ...
(B.A. 1977), member of the
New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...
(1992–present)


City officials

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Charles Neal Barney Charles Neal Barney (June 27, 1875 - April 24, 1949) was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member of the Common Council and as the 31st Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts. Biography Barney was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on June 27, 1875 to Wi ...
(B.A. 1895), former mayor of
Lynn, Massachusetts Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
*
Kirk Caldwell Kirk William Caldwell (born September 4, 1952) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Caldwell also held the position of acting mayor in 2010 following the resi ...
, mayor of
Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island o ...
* Richard B. Coolidge (B.A. 1902), former mayor of
Medford, Massachusetts Medford is a city northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus alo ...
*
Dan Gelber Daniel Saul Gelber (born November 26, 1960) is an American politician and former prosecutor serving as the Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida. He served in the Florida Legislature from 2000 to 2010 and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General ...
(B.A. 1982), 38th
Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida The mayor of Miami Beach is the nonpartisan chief executive of the municipal government of Miami Beach, Florida, and the presiding member of its seven-member City Commission. Modern-day mayors are elected to two-year terms and are term-limited to ...
* Philip Levine, 37th
Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida The mayor of Miami Beach is the nonpartisan chief executive of the municipal government of Miami Beach, Florida, and the presiding member of its seven-member City Commission. Modern-day mayors are elected to two-year terms and are term-limited to ...
* Patrick O. Murphy, former mayor of
Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...
* Bill Thompson (B.A. 1974),
New York City Comptroller The Office of Comptroller of New York City, a position established in 1801, is the chief financial officer and chief auditor of the city agencies and their performance and spending. The comptroller also reviews all city contracts, handles the s ...
and Democratic mayoral candidate *
Charles Yancey Charles Calvin Yancey (born December 28, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
(B.S. 1970), member of Boston City Council from 1983 until present


Other

*
Doug Bailey Doug Bailey (October 5, 1933 - June 10, 2013) was an American political consultant and founder of ''The Hotline'', a bipartisan, daily briefing on American politics. Life Douglas Lansford Bailey was born on Oct. 5, 1933, in Cleveland. After rec ...
, political strategist who founded
The Hotline ''The Hotline'' is a daily political briefing published by Atlantic Media from its headquarters at The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1987, It is currently edited by Kyle Trygstad. and published independently until its acquisi ...
and
Unity08 Unity08 was an American political reform movement that sought to offer all voters an opportunity to directly engage in politics by ranking the most crucial issues facing the country, discussing them with the candidates and engaging in an online, ...
* Jay Byrne, political strategist and former White House spokesperson * HRH Prince Cedza Dlamini of
Swaziland Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
; human rights activist; grandson of
Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
*
Farah Pandith Farah Pandith (born January 13, 1968) is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Simon Rosenberg Simon Rosenberg (born October 23, 1963) is the founder of New Democrat Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. Background Rosenberg was born on October 23, 1963, in New York City ...
, founder of the
New Democrat Network The New Democrat Network is an American think tank that promotes centrist candidates for the Democratic Party. NDN is a 501(c)(4) membership organization that functions in conjunction with its two subsidiary organizations, the NDN Political Fund ...
, former candidate for chairman of the DNC * Mary L. Trump, author of '' Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man'' (2020) * William L. Uanna, security officer,
Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...
and
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President ...
* Philip D. Zelikow (M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1995), Counselor of the U.S. State Department and Executive Director of the
9/11 Commission The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", includin ...
*
Geng Shuang Geng Shuang (; born April 1973) is a Chinese politician serving as China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He formerly served as the deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of the People's Republic o ...
(M.A. in International Relations 2006), Chinese diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations


Military

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Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ...
Leo Otis Colbert Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (31 December 1883 – 24 December 1968) was the third director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and a career officer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, predecessor of the National Oce ...
(B.S. 1907), third Director,
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (abbreviated USC&GS), known from 1807 to 1836 as the Survey of the Coast and from 1836 until 1878 as the United States Coast Survey, was the first scientific agency of the United States Government. It ...
* General
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. Joseph Francis Dunford Jr. (born December 23, 1955) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, who served as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2015, until September 30, 2019. He was the 36th commandant ...
, former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ex-commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Forces * General
Joseph P. Hoar Joseph Paul Hoar (December 30, 1934 – September 17, 2022) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. He served as Commander in Chief of United States Central Command from 1991 to 1994, retiring from the Marine Corps on September 1, 199 ...
(B.A. 1956), former commander-in-chief of the
United States Central Command 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 ...
* Admiral
James G. Stavridis James George Stavridis (born February 15, 1955) is a retired United States Navy admiral, currently Vice Chair, Global Affairs and Managing Director of the global investment firm the Carlyle Group, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rocke ...
,
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 ...
's
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 ...
and Commander of the U.S. European Command * Admiral
Patrick M. Walsh Patrick Michael Walsh (born January 13, 1955) is a former United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the 59th Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from September 25, 2009 to January 20, 2012. He served as the 35th Vice Chief of Nav ...
,
Commander Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In several countries this naval rank is termed frigate captain. ...
of the
U.S. Pacific Fleet The United States Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) is a theater-level component command of the United States Navy, located in the Pacific Ocean. It provides naval forces to the Indo-Pacific Command. Fleet headquarters is at Joint Base Pearl Harbor ...
, former U.S.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations The vice chief of naval operations (VCNO) is the second highest-ranking commissioned United States Navy officer in the Department of the Navy and functions as the principal deputy of the chief of naval operations and by statute, the vice chief ...
and
Blue Angels The Blue Angels is a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy.
aviator


Journalism

* Erin Arvedlund, author and financial journalist *
Matt Bai Matt may refer to: *Matt (name), people with the given name ''Matt'' or Matthew, meaning "gift from God", or the surname Matt *In British English, of a surface: having a non-glossy finish, see gloss (material appearance) *Matt, Switzerland, a mu ...
(B.A. 1990), author and political reporter for the ''
New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. ...
'' *
Dick Berggren Richard Berggren (born May 27, 1942) is a motorsports announcer and magazine editor from Manchester, Connecticut in the United States. He is commonly seen wearing a trademark flat cap. Academia Berggren described himself as "the worst student" ...
, motorsports announcer, magazine editor, and racecar driver * David Faber (B.A. 1985),
CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
market analyst and host of ''
Squawk on the Street ''Squawk on the Street'', which debuted on December 19, 2005, is a business show on CNBC that follows the first 90 minutes of trading on Wall Street in the United States. Originally airing as a one-hour program, the show doubled its airtime t ...
'' * Adam Felber, political satirist, radio personality, and humorist *
Leslie Gelb Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was an American academic, correspondent and columnist for ''The New York Times'' who served as a senior Defense and State Department official and later the President Emeritus of the Cou ...
(B.A. 1959), Pulitzer Prize-winner in Explanatory Journalism (1985); former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations *
Lilia Luciano Lilia Luciano (born October 12, 1984) is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker. She is currently a national correspondent at CBS News based in New York and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow. Before moving to Los Angeles, ...
, Puerto Rican actress and TV reporter working in Spanish-language television in the United States *
Tony Massarotti Anthony Ezio Massarotti (born October 28, 1967) is an American author and a former sportswriter for the ''Boston Herald'' and ''The Boston Globe''. He co-hosts a sports talk radio show, '' Felger & Mazz'', on 98.5 The Sports Hub with former '' ...
, sportswriter for ''
The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
'' and author * Jay Newton-Small, Washington Correspondent for
TIME Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
* Joanne Pransky, robotics journalist and editor of a magazine * Melissa Russo, TV news anchor for
WNBC-TV WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo station WN ...
News in New York City *
Neal Shapiro Neal B. Shapiro (born March 9, 1958) is the President and CEO of WNET. He worked previously as the President of NBC News and the executive producer for ''Dateline NBC''. Prior to this Shapiro spent 13 years as a news producer at ABC News. Early ...
(B.A. 1980), Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station
WNET WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
/ WLIW in New York City; former president of
NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's var ...
*
Atika Shubert Atika Lynn Shubert (born 2 August 1970) is a CNN correspondent based in Valencia, Spain. She covers Spain as well as the rest of Europe for CNN. Before her promotion she was based in Berlin and in London. Prior to working for CNN, she was a corres ...
, Jerusalem bureau chief for
CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
*
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist. Sulzberger was the chairman of The New York Times Company from 1997 to 2020, and the publisher of '' The New York Times'' from 1992 to 2018. Early life a ...
(B.A. 1974), publisher of ''
The 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 ...
'' *
Gordon S. Wood Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992). His book ''The Creation o ...
(B.A. 1955), Pulitzer Prize–winning professor of American history *
Daniel Paisner Daniel Paisner (born December 12, 1959) is an American journalist, author, and podcaster. He is best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator. He has published more than sixty books, including fourteen New York Times best-sellers. He ...
(B.A. 1982), author best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator *
Mouin Rabbani Mouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. Rabbani is based in Amman, Jordan and was a Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group, the Palestine Director of th ...
, a Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs


Literature

*
Elliot Ackerman Elliot Ackerman (born April 12, 1980) is an American author and former Marine Corps Special Operations Team Leader. He is the son of businessman Peter Ackerman and author Joanne Leedom-Ackerman and the brother of mathematician and wrestler Nate ...
(B.A. M.A.), American author *
Fawzia Afzal-Khan Fawzia Afzal-Khan ( ur, فوزیہ افضل خان; born 1958 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a professor of English and director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Montclair State University. Afzal-Khan received her BA from Kinnaird College f ...
(M.A., Ph.D.), author and professor * Jessica Anderson (B.A. 1994), Australian author * Ian C. Ballon, author of several Internet law books, including a four-volume treatise *
Cathy Bao Bean Cathy Bao Bean () is a Chinese-American writer and educator, and is the author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual'' (We Press, 2002). She lives in Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey, with her husband, artist Bennett Bean. ' ...
, author of ''The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual'' *
Ruben Bolling Ruben Bolling (born c. 1963 in New Jersey) is a pseudonym for Ken Fisher, an American cartoonist, the author of '' Tom the Dancing Bug'' and ''Super-Fun-Pak Comix''. His work started out apolitical, instead featuring absurdist humor, parodying c ...
, aka Ken Fisher, nationally syndicated cartoonist * Christopher Castellani, author of Maddalena trilogy and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow *
John Ciardi John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...
(B.A. 1938), poet and translator * Cid Corman, poet, translator, and poetry journal editor *
George Michael Cuomo George Michael Cuomo (1929 in New York City – October 26, 2015) was an American author of eight novels, as well as short stories, poetry, and a nonfiction book. Life He attended Stuyvesant High School and earned a B.A. from Tufts University ...
(B.A. 1952), author * Pieretta Dawn, Thai author * Barbara Delinsky (B.A. 1967), ''New York Times'' bestselling author *
Michael Dobbs Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and author, best known for his ''House of Cards'' trilogy. Early life and education Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordsh ...
, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist *
Christopher Golden Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults and teens. Early life Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts ...
, horror, fantasy, and suspense novelist *
Cary Granat Cary Granat is an American film producer and studio executive. He is best known for co-founding and serving as CEO for Walden Media from 2000 to 2009 and acting as president and COO of Miramax Films’ Dimension Division from 1995 to 2000. While ...
(B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of
Walden Media Walden Media, LLC or Walden Media is an American film investor, distributor, and publishing company. Its films are based on children's literature, biographies or historical events, as well as documentaries and some original screenplays. The corpo ...
, former president of
Miramax Miramax, LLC, also known as Miramax Films, is an American film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California. It was initially a leadi ...
's Dimension Division *
Christopher Lawford Christopher Kennedy Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of English actor Peter Lawford and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, who was ...
, actor and ''New York Times'' bestselling author, nephew of former president
John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
*
Bette Bao Lord Bette Bao Lord ( Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy. Early life Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and fa ...
(B.A. 1959, M.A. 1960), Chinese-American author and civic activist * William MacDonald, prolific Christian author *
Gregory Maguire Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of '' Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'', ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'', and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many ...
(Ph.D. 1990), author of the novels ''Wicked'' (later adapted into a musical) and ''
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'' is a 1999 fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, retelling the tale of Cinderella through the eyes of one of her "ugly stepsisters." In 2002, the book was adapted into a TV movie of the same name d ...
'' * Michael McDowell, author and screenwriter * Maliha Masood, author * Jane Lippitt Patterson (1829-1919), writer, editor *
Anita Shreve Anita Hale Shreve (1946 – March 29, 2018) was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, '' Past the Island, Drifting'' (published in 1975), was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976. Early years a ...
(B.A. 1968), author *
Darin Strauss Darin Strauss is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Strauss's 2011 book ''Half a Life (memoir), Half a ...
(B.A. 1992), novelist, winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Wylie Sypher Feltus Wylie Sypher (December 12, 1905 – August 1987) was an American non-fiction writer and professor. Sypher was born in Mount Kisco, New York to Harry Wylie Sypher and Martha Berry. He graduated from Amherst College in 1927. He received a ...
(M.A. 1929), writer *
Nathanael West Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: ''Miss Lonelyhearts'' (1933) and '' The Day of the Locust'' (1939), set ...
(did not finish), author and screenwriter *
Ellen Emerson White Ellen Emerson White is an American author who has written a number of young adult fiction novels. Writing Ms. White's first book, ''Friends for Life'' (1983) was published while she was a senior at Tufts University. White grew up in Narragans ...
, writer whose first book was published while she was a senior at Tufts *
Tiphanie Yanique Tiphanie Yanique (born September 20, 1978) from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is a Caribbean American fiction writer, poet and essayist who lives in New York. In 2010 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 Under 35" honoree. She also t ...
, fiction writer, poet, and essayist


Film, theater, and television

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Hank Azaria Henry Albert Azaria ( ; born April 25, 1964) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present), most notably Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Sna ...
(B.A. 1988), actor and voice actor most famous for his work on ''
The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, ...
'' and various films *
Jessica Biel Jessica Claire Timberlake (née Biel ; born March 3, 1982) is an American actress and model. She has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Biel be ...
(attended), film actress * Rob Burnett (B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of ''
Late Night with David Letterman ''Late Night with David Letterman'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on NBC, the first iteration of the ''Late Night'' franchise. It premiered on February 1, 1982, and was produced by Letterman's production company ...
,'' President and CEO of
Worldwide Pants Worldwide Pants Inc. is an American television and film production company founded and owned by comedian and talk show host David Letterman. The company was formerly headquartered at the Ed Sullivan Theater building in New York City, but has sinc ...
*
David Costabile David Costabile (; born January 9, 1967) is an American actor. He is best known for his television work, having appeared in supporting roles in several television series such as '' Billions'', ''Breaking Bad'', ''Damages'', ''Flight of the Conch ...
(B.A. 1989), actor, known for his recurring roles on ''
The Wire ''The Wire'' is an American Crime film, crime drama Television show, television series created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The series was broadcast by the cable network HBO in the United States. ''The ...
'', ''
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand musical comedy duo formed in Wellington in 1998. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Beginning as a popular live comedy act in the early 2000s, the duo's comed ...
'', and ''
Breaking Bad ''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...
'' * Chiara de Luca (B.A. 2001), French-Italian actress *
Dom DeLuise Dominick DeLuise (August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009) was an American actor, comedian, director, producer, chef, and author. Known primarily for his comedic performances, he rose to fame in the 1970s as a frequent guest on television variety shows ...
(attended), actor, most famous for his work in '' Blazing Saddles'' and ''
Space Balls ''Spaceballs'' is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It is primarily a parody of the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, but also parodies other sci-fi films and popular franchises including ...
'' and as host of the television show ''
Candid Camera ''Candid Camera'' is a popular and long-running American hidden camera reality television series. Versions of the show appeared on television from 1948 until 2014. Originally created and produced by Allen Funt, it often featured practical jokes ...
'' *
Nicole Fiscella Nicole Fiscella (born September 15, 1979) is an American actress and model, best known for her role as Isabel Coates on The CW's teen drama television series ''Gossip Girl''. Early life Nicole Fiscella was born on September 15, 1979, at the ...
, ''
Gossip Girl ''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, ran on The CW network for six sea ...
'' actress and model *
Peter Gallagher Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series ''The O.C.'' from 2003 to 2007, recurr ...
(B.A. 1977), Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actor, best known for his roles in ''
The O.C. ''The O.C. '' is an American teen drama television series created by Josh Schwartz that originally aired on the Fox network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. "O.C." is an initiali ...
'', '' American Beauty'', and ''
Mr. Deeds ''Mr. Deeds'' is a 2002 American comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Tim Herlihy, and starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder with Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, Erick Avari, and John Turturro in supporting roles. It w ...
'' *
Joshua Gates Josh Gates (born August 10, 1977) is an American television presenter and television producer. He was the host and co-executive producer of ''Destination Truth'' and ''Stranded (TV series), Stranded'' on Syfy, and currently hosts and co-executiv ...
, host of
Syfy Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Lau ...
channel's ''
Destination Truth ''Destination Truth'' is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 6, 2007, on Syfy. Produced by Mandt Bros. Productions and Ping Pong Productions, the program follows paranormal researcher Josh Gates around the wor ...
'' and the
Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...
's ''
Expedition Unknown ''Expedition Unknown'' is an American reality television series produced by Ping Pong Productions, that follows explorer and television presenter Josh Gates as he investigates mysteries and legends. The series premiered on January 8, 2015 and o ...
'' *
Jeff Greenstein Jeff Greenstein is an American television writer, producer and director. Greenstein was the showrunner of ''Will & Grace'' and '' Dream On'', as well as on '' Partners'' and ''Getting Personal'', both of which he created. A member of the Writers ...
(B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning TV writer and executive producer of ''
Will & Grace ''Will & Grace'' is an American television sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on the friendship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), ...
'' *
Jester Hairston Jester Joseph Hairston (July 9, 1901 – January 18, 2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor and actor. He was regarded as a leading expert on black spirituals and choral music. His notable compositions include " ...
(B.A. 1929), composer, conductor, and actor *
Susan Haskell Susan Haskell (born June 10, 1968) is a Canadian actress. She played the role of Marty Saybrooke on the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live''. Personal life She graduated from The American Academy of Arts in 1991. Haskell also appeared on ''Port ...
(B.S. 1985), Emmy Award-winning Canadian actress, ''
One Life to Live ''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes ...
'' *
Dan Hedaya Daniel G. Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor. He established himself as a supporting actor, often playing sleazy villains or wisecracking supporting characters. He has had supporting roles in films such as '' True Confessions'' (198 ...
(B.A. 1962), film actor, best known for ''
Clueless ''Clueless'' is a 1995 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling. It stars Alicia Silverstone with supporting roles by Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd. It was produced by Scott Rudin and Robert La ...
'' and ''
Blood Simple ''Blood Simple'' is a 1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. Its plot follows a Texas bartender w ...
'' *
William Hurt William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various awards including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. ...
(B.A. 1972), Academy Award-winning actor, well known for roles in films such as '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'', '' Broadcast News'', ''
A History of Violence ''A History of Violence'' is a 2005 action thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same title by John Wagner and Vince Locke. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, ...
'', and ''
The Incredible Hulk The Hulk is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the debut issue of '' The Incredible Hulk'' (May 1962). In his comic book a ...
'' *
Christopher Kennedy Lawford Christopher Kennedy Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of English actor Peter Lawford and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, who was ...
(B.A. 1977) son of
Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford ( Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor.Obituary ''Variety'', 26 December 1984. He was a member of the " Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and sen ...
, author, actor, and activist *
Kara Kennedy Kara Anne Kennedy (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011) was a member of the American political family, the Kennedy family. She was the oldest of the three children and only daughter of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and Joan Be ...
(B.A. 1983), filmmaker, social activist, daughter of Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy * Staś Kmieć, theater and dance choreographer, dancer, and the foremost U.S. authority on Polish folk dance and culture *
Brian Koppelman Brian William Koppelman (born April 27, 1966) is an American showrunner. Koppelman is the co-writer of ''Ocean's Thirteen'' and ''Rounders (1998 film), Rounders'', the producer for films including ''The Illusionist (2006 film), The Illusionist'' a ...
(B.A. 1988), screenwriter (''
Runaway Jury ''Runaway Jury'' is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rachel Weisz. An adaptation of John Grisham's 1996 novel ''The Runaway Jury'', the film pits lawyer We ...
'', ''
Ocean's Thirteen ''Ocean's Thirteen'' (stylized as ''Ocean's 13'') is a 2007 American heist comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. It is the final installment in the ''Ocean's'' film trilogy and the sequel ...
'', and ''
The Girlfriend Experience ''The Girlfriend Experience'' is a 2009 American slice of life drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring then-pornographic actress Sasha Grey. It was shot in New York City, and a rough cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festiva ...
'') and producer * Stephen Macht (M.A. 1967), TV and film actor *
Ben Mankiewicz Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz (born March 25, 1967) is an American television personality, political commentator, and film critic. He is a host on Turner Classic Movies and has been a commentator on ''The Young Turks'' and ''What the Flick?!'' ...
(B.A. 1989), TV personality and host of
Turner Classic Movies Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasti ...
*
Niels Mueller Niels Mueller (born 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His directorial debut film, ''The Assassination of Richard Nixon'', screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Biography Mueller was born and raised in Milw ...
, filmmaker (''
The Assassination of Richard Nixon ''The Assassination of Richard Nixon'' is a 2004 American drama film directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson and Naomi Watts. It is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Ric ...
'') * Ameesha Patel, (B.A.1997)
Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
actress *
Oliver Platt Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as ''Flatliners'' (1990), ''Beethoven'' (1992), ''Indecent Proposal'', ''The Three Musketeers'' (both 1993), ''Executiv ...
(B.A. 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG-nominated actor ('' Huff'', '' Frost/Nixon'', ''
2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
'') * Sendhil Ramamurthy (B.A. 1996), actor on ''
Heroes Heroes or Héroes may refer to: * Hero, one who displays courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good Film * ''Heroes'' (1977 film), an American drama * ''Heroes'' (2008 film), an Indian Hindi film Gaming * ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' ...
'' * Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of
Warner Brothers Television Warner Bros. Television Studios (operating under the name Warner Bros. Television; formerly known as Warner Bros. Television Division) is an American television production and distribution studio of the Warner Bros. Television Group division o ...
*
Joshua Seftel Joshua Seftel (born July 17, 1968) is an Academy Award-nominated film director. Seftel began his career in documentaries at age 22 with his Emmy-nominated film, ''Lost and Found'', about Romania's orphaned children. He followed this with sever ...
(B.A. 1990), filmmaker ('' War Inc.'') *
Justine Shapiro Justine Shapiro (born March 20, 1963) is a South African-born American actress, filmmaker, writer, hostess and producer, who was one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series '' Globe Trekker'' (also called ''Pilot Gu ...
, movie and TV actress; co-host of ''
Globe Trekker ''Globe Trekker'' (sometimes called ''Pilot Guides'' in Australia and Thailand, and originally broadcast as ''Lonely Planet'') was a British adventure tourism television series produced by Pilot Productions. The British series was inspired b ...
'' *
Ben Silverman Benjamin Noah Silverman (born August 15, 1970) is an American media executive. He is the co-CEO and chairman of the entertainment production company Propagate. From 2007–2009, Silverman served as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universa ...
(B.A. 1992), co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio *
Laura Silverman Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966) is an American actress and the older sister of actress and comedian Sarah Silverman. She acted in '' Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'' and ''The Sarah Silverman Program'' portraying a fictionalized versi ...
, actress on ''
The Sarah Silverman Program ''The Sarah Silverman Program'' is an American television sitcom, which ran from February 1, 2007, to April 15, 2010, on Comedy Central starring comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, who created the series with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. ''The Sa ...
'' and sister of comedian
Sarah Silverman Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on ''Saturday Night Live'', and she starred in and produced ''The Sarah Silverman Program'', which ran from 2007 to ...
*
David Sonenberg David Alan Sonenberg is an American music manager, and the founder of the music management company DAS Communications. He is the producer of the Oscar-winning film ''When We Were Kings'' (1997). Early life and education Born and raised in New ...
(B.A. 1968), Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd *
Will Tiao Will Tiao (born October 31, 1973) is a Taiwanese-American actor, producer, and real estate broker and investor. Early life Tiao was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. Tiao graduated from Manhattan High School. Education Tiao majored in ...
, TV actor *
Steve Tisch Steven Elliot Tisch (born February 14, 1949) is an American film producer and businessman. He is the chairman, co-owner and executive vice president of the New York Giants, the NFL team co-owned by his family, as well as a film and television pr ...
(B.A. 1971), billionaire Academy Award-winning producer and co-owner of the
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
with his brother
Jonathan Tisch Jonathan Mark Tisch (born December 7, 1953) is an American businessman. He is the CEO of American luxury hospitality company Loews Hotels. Tisch is also a trustee of Tufts University, and a board member of the Tribeca Film Institute. He is a co ...
*
Meredith Vieira Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as the original moderator of the daytime talk show '' The View'' (1997–2006), the original host of the syndicated ...
(B.A. 1975), TV host of ''
The Today Show ''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was ...
'', formerly of '' The View'' *
Aury Wallington Aury Wallington is an American novelist and TV writer. She has written extensively for TV, and her latest book is based upon science fiction series ''Heroes''. The novel, titled '' Heroes: Saving Charlie'', is the first in what will be a serie ...
(B.A. 1991), screenwriter and novelist *
Rainn Wilson Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'', for which he earned three consecutive Emm ...
(attended), actor and co-star of ''
The Office ''The Office'' is a mockumentary sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, first made in the United Kingdom, then Germany, and subsequently the United States. It has since been remade in ten other countries. The original series of ...
'' *
Gary Winick Gary Scott Winick (March 31, 1961February 27, 2011) was an American filmmaker whose films as a director include ''Tadpole'' (2002) and '' 13 Going on 30'' (2004), and who also produced such films as '' Pieces of April'' (2003) and ''November'' ...
(B.A. 1984), film director (''
Tadpole A tadpole is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian. Most tadpoles are fully aquatic, though some species of amphibians have tadpoles that are terrestrial. Tadpoles have some fish-like features that may not be found i ...
'', '' Charlotte's Web'') and producer *
Joanna Hausmann Joanna Hausmann Jatar (born 20 March 1989) is a British–born Venezuelan actress, comedian and television writer. She gained popularity through her videos on YouTube as well as on Univision's bilingual platform, Flama. She is currently the hea ...
(B.A. 2011), comedian and correspondent of ''
Bill Nye Saves the World ''Bill Nye Saves the World'' is an American television show streaming on Netflix hosted and created by Bill Nye. It is both a sequel and a revival of sorts of Bill Nye The Science Guy, which is also created by Bill Nye. The show's byline was, ...
''


Music

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Dan Avidan Leigh Daniel Avidan (born March 14, 1979), also known by his stage name Danny Sexbang, is an American musician, Internet personality, comedian, songwriter, actor and record producer. He is one half of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party with B ...
, comedian and singer, known for his work on
Ninja Sex Party Ninja Sex Party (often abbreviated as NSP) is an American musical comedy duo consisting of singer Dan Avidan and keyboardist Brian Wecht. They formed in 2009 in New York City and are currently based in Los Angeles. They are also known as two thi ...
and ''
Game Grumps ''Game Grumps'' is an American Let's Play web series hosted by Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan. Created in 2012 by co-hosts Hanson and JonTron, Jon Jafari, the series centers around its hosts playing video games. After Jafari left the show in 2013 to f ...
''. *
Matt Ballinger Dream Street were an American pop boy band that was formed in 1999 by Louis Baldonieri and Brian Lukow. The band disbanded in 2002 following a legal dispute between parents of the band members and the band's managers. History The group wa ...
, actor and boy band singer (
Dream Street Dream Street were an American pop music, pop boy band that was formed in 1999 by Louis Baldonieri and Brian Lukow. The band disbanded in 2002 following a legal dispute between parents of the band members and the band's managers. History The ...
) *
Alex Caplow Magic Man was a two-piece American major label electronic rock band from Boston, formed in 2010 by Alex Caplow (vocals) and Sam Lee (guitars and keyboard). They later added high school friend Gabe Goodman (bass) and college friends Justine Bowe (k ...
, lead singer of
Magic Man "Magic Man" is a song by the American rock band Heart released as a single off their debut album, '' Dreamboat Annie.'' Written and composed by Ann and Nancy Wilson, the song is sung from the viewpoint of a young girl who is being seduced by a ...
*
Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. Chapman is best known for her hit singles "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason". Chapman was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released ...
(B.A. 1987), multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter *
Slaid Cleaves Slaid Cleaves is an American singer-songwriter born in Washington, D.C. and raised in South Berwick, Maine and Round Pond, Maine, United States. An alumnus of Tufts University, where he majored in English and philosophy, Cleaves lives in Aus ...
, folk musician * Paul DeGeorge (B.S.Ch.E. 2001), member of the band
Harry and the Potters Harry and the Potters are an American rock band known for spawning the genre of wizard rock. Founded in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2002, the group is primarily composed of brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge, who both perform under the persona of ...
*
Ezra Furman Ezra Furman (born September 5, 1986) is an American musician and songwriter. Furman was the lead singer and guitarist of Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, formed in 2006, which ended with ''Mysterious Power'' (2011). Her subsequent work has include ...
, frontwoman of the band
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons Ezra Furman and the Harpoons were a four-piece rock band active between 2006 and 2011. The band consisted of Ezra Furman (vocals, guitar), Job Mukkada (bass guitar), Adam Abrutyn (Drum kit, drums), and Andrew Langer (guitar). They formed at Tufts ...
*
Adam Gardner Adam Seth Gardner (born May 31, 1973) is an American guitarist and vocalist of the band Guster and a member of the Tufts University Beelzebubs. Gardner grew up outside Morristown, New Jersey, and played for a band called Royal Flush while a stud ...
(B.A. 1995), guitarist and vocalist for the band
Guster Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and ...
*
Matt Glaser Matt Glaser is an American jazz and bluegrass violinist. He served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years. He is now the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots ...
, jazz and bluegrass violinist, former chair of the string department at the
Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...
*
Don Grolnick Don Grolnick (September 23, 1947 – June 1, 1996) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and record producer. He was a member of the groups Steps Ahead and Dreams, both with Michael Brecker, and played often with the Brecker Brothers. As a sessi ...
(B.A. 1968), jazz pianist and composer *
Guster Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel began practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and ...
, alternative rock band *
Jester Hairston Jester Joseph Hairston (July 9, 1901 – January 18, 2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor and actor. He was regarded as a leading expert on black spirituals and choral music. His notable compositions include " ...
(B.A. 1929), composer, conductor, and actor *
Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American- Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) a ...
, composer * James S. Levine (B.A. 1996), film and television composer *
Erik Lindgren Erik Lindgren (15 December 1954) is an American composer and pianist. He runs Arf! Arf! Records, and has led or been a member of several ensembles such as The Space Negros and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Early life Lindgren was born in Harrisb ...
(B.A. 1976), composer and musician *
Ryan Miller Ryan Dean Miller (born July 17, 1980) is an American former ice hockey goaltender who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) mostly for the Buffalo Sabres. Miller was drafted 138th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1999 NHL E ...
(B.A. 1995), lead singer and guitarist for rock band Guster * Jim Nollman, composer, musician, and author involved with animal communications * Charles North (B.A. 1962), poet *
Daniel Pritzker Daniel Pritzker (born 1959) is an American billionaire heir, musician, film director, and member of the Pritzker family. Early life Pritzker was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marian (née Friend) and Jay Pritzker. He is the grandson of A ...
(B.A. 1981), billionaire guitarist and songwriter for
Sonia Dada Sonia Dada was an American rock, soul, and rhythm and blues band, formed in Chicago in 1990. Founding member Daniel Pritzker enlisted Michael Scott, Paris Delane, and Sam Hogan after hearing the latter three sing in a subway station.Biography ...
, member of the
Pritzker family The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and List of wealthiest families, one of the wealthiest families in the United States of America (staying in the top 10 of ''Forbes'' magazine's "America's Riche ...
* Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist *
Jeff Saltzman Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * ...
, drummer for
Allegaeon Allegaeon is an American extreme metal band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed in 2008. They have released one EP and six studio albums. History Allegaeon was formed in 2007. They initially played small shows, at bars and houses in and arou ...
* Eric Schwartz, folk singer/songwriter *
Darrell Scott James Darrell Scott, known as Darrell Scott (born August 6, 1959), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The son of musician Wayne Scott, he moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana (known today as Lake Station, Indiana). ...
(B.A. 1988), country singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist *
Deke Sharon Deke Sharon (born December 12, 1967) is an American singer, arranger, composer, director, producer and teacher of a cappella music, and is one of the leaders and promoters of the contemporary a cappella community. He has been referred to as "th ...
, (B.A. 1991, double degree with
New England Conservatory Of Music The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a Private college, private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music Music school, conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The ...
)
a cappella ''A cappella'' (, also , ; ) music is a performance by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Ren ...
singer, composer, arranger, and producer *
Timeflies Timeflies is an American pop-rap duo formed in October 2010 consisting of Cal Shapiro (b. October 3, 1988) and Rob Resnick (b. May 26, 1989). They are known for their popular original music and popular YouTube covers. They first performed togeth ...
, pop/hip hop duo * Members of
the Rare Occasions The Rare Occasions are an American indie rock band, formed in Boston in 2012. Current members are Brian McLaughlin (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Cohen (bass guitar, backup vocals) and Luke Imbusch (drums, backup vocals). Lead guitarist Peter Stone left ...
met at Tufts University. * Michael "Mudcat" Ward, blues bassist, pianist and songwriter


Art and architecture

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Frederick Warren Allen Frederick Warren Allen (1888–1961) was an American sculptor of the Boston School. One of the most prominent sculptors in Boston during the early 20th century and a master teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Allen had a career in ...
, Sculptor, Teacher for 50 years, 30 as Head of Sculpture, 1907–1954, Emeritus * Marion Boyd Allen, painter. Attended 1902–09 *
David Aronson David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Biography Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed ...
, painter, sculptor; Emeritus Professor of Art, Boston University * David Armstrong (photographer), David Armstrong, photographer * Art School Cheerleaders, performance art troupe * Will Barnet, painter/printmaker. Attended 1928–1930 * Kaiju Big Battel, performance art troupe * Carol Beckwith, photographer, author, and artist * Ture Bengtz, painter/printmaker, teacher *
Seamus Blackley Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley (born 1968) is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. He is best known for creating and designing the original Xbox in 2001. Career After enteri ...
, video game developer * Sheila Blair, BA 1970, art historian * David Buckley, MFA 1977, painter/former musician with the Barracudas, * Frank Weston Benson, painter. Diploma, 1883 * Jan Brett, illustrator. Attended 1969–70 * Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, painter * Lisa Bufano, performance artist * Al Capp, cartoonist (''Li'l Abner''), attended briefly before having to leave for non-payment of tuition * Marie Cosindas, photographer. Attended 1947–50 and 1955–56 * Holly Coulis, painter. M.F.A., 1998 * Allan Rohan Crite, painter. Diploma, 1936 * Taylor Davis (sculptor), Taylor Davis, plywood sculptor * Frank Dengler, sculptor. Instructor c. 1877 * Jim Dine, painter/printmaker. Attended 1950–53 and 1955–58 * Adio diBiccari, Sculptor * Philip-Lorca diCorcia, photographer * Macy DuBois (B.A. 1951), Canadian architect whose work is prominent in Toronto * Omer Fast, video artist. BFA, 1995 * Zach Feuer Gallery, Zach Feuer, art dealer. BFA 1996–2000 * Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history * Esther Geller, painter, taught with Karl Zerbe 1943-44 * Kahlil Gibran (sculptor), Kahlil Gibran, painter/sculptor. Attended 1940–43 * Nan Goldin, photographer. Diploma, 1977; Fifth Year Certificate, 1978 * Charles Grafly, sculptor, Head of modeling, 1917 to 1929 * William Snelling Hadaway, attended 1890s * Leslie Hall (2000–2003), frontwoman for Leslie and the Ly's * William Melton Halsey, painter/sculptor, 1935–1939, recipient of William Paige Fellowship * Doc Hammer (briefly attended), painter * Juliana Hatfield, musician, 2012 * Todd Hido, photographer * Nancy Holt (B.A. 1960), artist and sculptor * Susan Howe (graduated 1961) poet, scholar, essayist and critic * Joan Jonas, performance artist. Attended 1958–61 * Tom Jung, graphic designer and illustrator * Lois Mailou Jones, painter. Diploma, 1927 * Ellsworth Kelly, painter/sculptor/printmaker. Diploma, 1948 * Eleanor de Laittre, artist * Arnold Borisovich Lakhovsky, painter/teacher * Mira Lehr, painter * Steven Lisberger (B.F.A. 1974), director of Tron * May Hallowell Loud, painter. Attended 1879–83 * David Lynch, filmmaker. Attended 1964–65 * Jim McNitt, mixed-media painter and photographer * F. Luis Mora, artist and illustrator * Mark Morrisroe, photographer * Laurel Nakadate, video artist and photographer * Sally Pierone, artist. Attended 1940–1942 * Stacy Poitras, chainsaw sculptor 1985–88 * Larry Poons, painter. Attended 1957–58 * Bela Lyon Pratt, sculptor, Head of modeling, 1893 to 1917 * Liz Prince (2002–2007), comic book artist, Ignatz Award winner * Richard Scarry, illustrator. Diploma, 1942 * Doug and Mike Starn photographers and performance artists. Diploma, 1984; Fifth Year Certificate, 1985 * Frank Stout (painter), Frank Stout, painter, 1949 * Tom Sutton, illustrator and comic book artist * Edmund Charles Tarbell, Edmund Tarbell, painter. Diploma, 1882 * Wallace Tripp, illustrator. Attended 1960, 1964 * Cy Twombly, painter/sculptor/printmaker. Diploma, 1949 * Michael Van Valkenburgh, American landscape architect, Attended 1974-75 * John A. Wilson (sculptor), John A. Wilson, sculptor * Peter Wolf, painter, singer * Levni Yilmaz, animator and cartoonist * Karl Zerbe, painter, head of Department of Painting 1937-1955 * Malcolm Travis, video artist and musician. Attended 1974-1978 * Chantal Zakari, book artist and graphic designer; faculty.


Athletics

* Michael Aresco (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1973), Commissioner of the American Athletic Conference * Bob Backus (B.A. 1951), Olympic track and field athlete who set world records in the hammer throw *Andrea Baldini (born 1985), Italian foil fencer * John Bello (B.A. 1968), former President of NFL Properties *
Dick Berggren Richard Berggren (born May 27, 1942) is a motorsports announcer and magazine editor from Manchester, Connecticut in the United States. He is commonly seen wearing a trademark flat cap. Academia Berggren described himself as "the worst student" ...
(M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), motorsports announcer, racecar driver, and magazine editor * Wally Clement, professional baseball player * Harrie Dadmun, professional American football, football player *
Lou DiBella Louis John DiBella Jr. (born May 17, 1960) is an American boxing promoter and television/film producer. Education DiBella is a graduate of Regis High School (New York City). He then continued his education at Tufts University before pursuing ...
, boxing promoter; founder and CEO of Dibella Entertainment; former head of programming for
HBO Sports Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is ba ...
; TV/film producer; owner of the minor league baseball team the
Connecticut Defenders The Connecticut Defenders were a Minor League Baseball team based in Norwich, Connecticut. The team, which played in the Eastern League, was the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants major-league club from 2003 until following the 2009 ...
* Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at
Trinity College (Connecticut) Trinity College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coed ...
* Frederick M. Ellis, athlete, coach, professor, head football coach at Tufts from 1946 to 1952 *Carl Etelman (1900–1963), football back and coach *
Colette Flesch Colette Flesch (born 16 April 1937 in Dudelange) is a Luxembourgish politician and former fencer. Life She gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1960, then earned an M.A. in International Affairs from ...
, Luxembourgian politician and three-time Olympic fencing competitor * Chuck Greenberg (attorney), Chuck Greenberg (B.A. 1982), sports Attorney at law (United States), attorney; chairman and founder of the Greenberg Sports Group * William Grinnell, football player and former head football coach at Northeastern University * Doc Haggerty, professional football player * Doc Hazleton, professional baseball player * Zander Kirkland, Olympic sailor *
Tony Massarotti Anthony Ezio Massarotti (born October 28, 1967) is an American author and a former sportswriter for the ''Boston Herald'' and ''The Boston Globe''. He co-hosts a sports talk radio show, '' Felger & Mazz'', on 98.5 The Sports Hub with former '' ...
(B.A. 1989), sportswriter for ''The Boston Globe''; author * David Mendelblatt, yachtsman and ophthalmologist * Mark Mendelblatt, yachtsman, three-time college All-American, silver medalist at 1999 Pan American Games and 2004 Laser World Championships *
Khaldoon Al Mubarak Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak ( ar, خلدون المبارك; born 1975) is an Emirati Government official and business leader. Al Mubarak holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as: a member of the Executive Counci ...
(B.S.), chairman of Manchester City F.C. and CEO of Mubadala Development Company * Percy S. Prince, former Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana Tech head football and baseball coach and Major (United States), Major in the United States Army during World War I * Harry Orman Robinson, former head coach of American football at UT-Austin and UMissouri-Columbia * Wendy Selig-Prieb (B.A. 1982), former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers and daughter of Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball * Heinie Stafford, professional baseball player * Genevra Stone, Olympic rower * Ed Tapscott (B.A. 1975), former head coach of the
Washington Wizards The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Eastern Conference Southeast D ...
*
Jonathan Tisch Jonathan Mark Tisch (born December 7, 1953) is an American businessman. He is the CEO of American luxury hospitality company Loews Hotels. Tisch is also a trustee of Tufts University, and a board member of the Tribeca Film Institute. He is a co ...
(B.A. 1976), co-owner of the
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
and chairman and CEO of
Loews Hotels Loews Hotels is an American luxury hospitality company that owns or operates 26 hotels in the United States and Canada. Loews' hotels and resorts are located in major North American city centers and resort destinations. Headquartered in New Yor ...
* Shane Waldron, tight ends coach for the New England Patriots * Art Williams (outfielder), Art Williams, Major League Baseball player * Peter Wylde, (B.A. 1989) Olympic gold medalist in team horse jumping


Criminals

* Edward and Elaine Brown, Elaine Brown, tax protester involved in a five-month armed standoff * Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron * Lea Fastow ''née'' Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow * Gina Grant, committer of matricide * Jonathan Pollard (did not graduate), Israeli-American spy * Harry Sagansky, member of the Jewish Mafia, oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison term * Jon Schillaci (did not graduate), convicted sex offender previously listed as one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives


Fictional alumni

* Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy), Jack Ryan book series * Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, from the television show ''Seinfeld'' * Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, played by Jill Hennessy, from the television show ''Crossing Jordan'' * Jennifer Melfi, played by Lorraine Bracco, from the television show ''The Sopranos'' * Dr. Susan Silverman, central character in Robert B. Parker's Spenser (character), Spenser book series, as revealed in ''Sudden Mischief'' * Brad Sloan, played by Ben Stiller, the titular character of the film ''Brad's Status'' * Zachary Vaughn, a character in one episode of ''
The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, ...
'' * Berg, Pete, and Sharon, the three principal characters of the sitcom ''Two Guys and a Girl'' * Hannah, the heroine in Curtis Sittenfeld's second novel, ''The Man of My Dreams'' * Mamie-Claire, played by Heather Lind, from the film ''Mistress America''


Academics


College and university presidents

* Lisa Anderson (scholar), Lisa Anderson (M.A.), Provost of the American University in Cairo and Middle East political scholar * Lawrence S. Bacow, 12th president of
Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
, 29th president of Harvard University * Oliver Dean, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the first and second presidents; founder of Dean College, Dean Academy * Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), third president of
Tufts College Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
(later
Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
) and former member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...
while an undergraduate at Tufts College * Leonard Carmichael (B.S. 1921), ninth president of Tufts University, former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society * John Albert Cousens (B.A. 1903), sixth president of Tufts College * John E. Endicott, co-president of Woosong University and American foreign policy analyst specializing in security issues * Hollis Godfrey (B.S. 1895), second president of Drexel University * Frederick W. Hamilton (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1886), fourth president of Tufts College * David R. Harris (educator), David R. Harris, 9th provost of Tufts, 19th president of Union College * William Leslie Hooper, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents * Moshe Many, Israeli urologist; President of Tel Aviv University, and President of Ashkelon Academic College. * Kathleen McCartney (college president), Kathleen McCartney (B.S. 1977), President of Smith College and former Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and developmental psychologist * George Stewart Miller, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the sixth and seventh elected presidents * Miriam E. Nelson, president of Hampshire College * Joseph W. Polisi (M.A. 1970), president of The Juilliard School * David Rosowsky (B.S./M.S. 1987), vice president of University of Vermont, former dean of engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. * Albert J. Simone, former President of Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii system * Richard J. Smith (M.D./M.S., 1973), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis * Katherine Haley Will (B.A. 1978), thirteenth president of Gettysburg College and former chair of the Annapolis Group * Michelle Ann Williams (M.S. 1986), Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


Professors and scholars

* Saleem Ali (academic), (B.S 1994), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader *
Kuzhikalail M. Abraham Kuzhikalail M. Abraham is an American scientist, a recognized expert on lithium-ion and lithium-ion polymer batteries and is the inventor of the ultrahigh energy density lithium–air battery.US patent 5,510,209 Abraham is the principal of E-KEM ...
, (Ph.D 1973), Pioneer in Lithium, Lithium-ion, Lithium-sulfur and Lithium-air batteries. Received Tufts Most Outstanding Achievement and Services Award in 2017. * Hady Amr (B.A. 1988), policy analyst and author specializing in U.S.-Arab relations * Reid Barton, winner of the Morgan Prize and successful performer of the International Science Olympiads * Scott C. Beardsley, dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business * Arnaud Blin, French historian and political scientist * John L. Carroll, Dean of
Samford University Samford University is a private Christian university in Homewood, Alabama. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College by Baptists. Samford University describes itself as the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United Sta ...
's
Cumberland School of Law Cumberland School of Law is an American Bar Association, ABA accredited law school at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1847 at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and is the 11th oldest law schoo ...
and former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama * Martha Constantine-Paton (B.S. 1969), founding member of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT * Ram Dass (B.A. 1952), aka Richard Alpert, former Harvard psychology professor involved with the Harvard Psilocybin Project * Robert Daum, director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at the Vancouver School of Theology * Dan Ehrenkrantz (B.A. 1983), president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and influential rabbi * James S. Famiglietti, Jay Famiglietti (B. S.,1982), professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine * Eugene Fama (B.A. 1960), 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize–winning economist particularly known for his work on
portfolio theory Modern portfolio theory (MPT), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversificatio ...
and
asset pricing In financial economics, asset pricing refers to a formal treatment and development of two main Price, pricing principles, outlined below, together with the resultant models. There have been many models developed for different situations, but cor ...
* Rolf Faste (M.S. 1971), industrial designer and professor at Stanford University * Lewis M. Feldstein, co-chairman of the Saguaro Seminar and President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation *
Matt Glaser Matt Glaser is an American jazz and bluegrass violinist. He served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for more than twenty-five years. He is now the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots ...
, former chair of the string department at the
Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...
, jazz and bluegrass violinist * Alan L. Gropman (Ph.D., 1975), professor of history and grand strategy, National Defense University * Bartholomew W. Hogan (M.D. 1925), former Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association * Thomas L. Hopkins, progressive education professor and theorist * Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and former Executive Director of MIT Media Lab * Robert Kayen (B.S. 1981), professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley, previously University of California, Los Angeles * David W. Kennedy (M.A.L.D. 1979), Vice President of International Affairs at
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and legal scholar * Jill Lepore (B.A. 1987), historian and professor at Harvard University *
Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of the Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Center for Sec ...
(M.A., Ph.D.), director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East. WINE ...
, frequent terrorism pundit, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and t ...
* Julie Livingston, one of thirty-four "genius" MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellows in 2013, for her research at Rutgers University * Mahmood Mamdani (M.A. 1968, M.A.L.D. 1969), African political expert and professor * Frederick Nelson (B.S. 1954), mechanical engineer and professor * Padraig O'Malley, professor of international studies specializing in the problems of divided societies * Martin Theodore Orne, psychiatry and psychology professor and researcher * Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, Puerto Rican policy analyst and author *
Mitchell Reiss Mitchell B. Reiss (born June 12, 1957) is an American diplomat, academic, and business leader who served as the 8th President and CEO of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the 27th president of Washington College and in the United States Depa ...
(M.A.L.D. 1980), Vice-Provost of International Affairs at The College of William and Mary, former
Director of Policy Planning The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the department's internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. In the department, the Director of Policy Planning has a rank equivalent to Assistant ...
at the
United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other n ...
and
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland The United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (officially the Special Envoy of the President and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) is the top U.S. diplomat supporting the Northern Ireland peace process. The position is held ...
* Lew Rockwell, Libertarianism, libertarian political activist and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute *
Eric Rubin Eric J. Rubin is an American microbiologist, infectious disease specialist, and is currently the editor-in-chief of the ''New England Journal of Medicine''. He is also an adjunct professor of immunology and infectious diseases and was formerly th ...
(M.D./Ph.D. 1990), chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health * Herbert Charles Sanborn (1873–1967), received a master's degree from Tufts College in 1897; served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942. * Richard J. Smith (anthropologist), Richard J. Smith (M.D./M.S., 1973), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, influential anthropologist and dentist


Faculty


Nobel Laureates

* Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), physicist, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, inventor of the CAT scan * Mohamed Elbaradei, winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize; former Vice-President of Egypt * Wassily Leontief, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics; Global Development and Environment Institute, GDAE advisory board member and researcher 1993-1999* * Mario Molina, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; GDAE advisory board member * Paul Samuelson, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics; part-time professor of international economic relations at Fletcher (1945) * Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics; GDAE advisory board member. * Rainer Weiss, astrophysicist, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics


Pulitzer Prize winners

* Richard Eberhart, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet * William A. Henry III, television critic and author, two time Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1976 and 1980 *
Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982. Biography Early years Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June ...
, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982 * Erin I. Kelly, professor of philosophy


Others

* Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972–1986), Japanese politician and activist * Nalini Ambady, social psychologist, famous for pioneering and coining thin-slicing * Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics * Lawrence S. Bacow, economist * Nancy Bauer (philosopher), Nancy Bauer, philosopher * Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of ''Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice'' (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty * Jamshed Bharucha, Provost & Senior Vice President, Professor of Psychology, Music and Neuroscience (2002-2011) * Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School, served as Secretary of State Clinton's Special Representative for North Korea Policy * Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter * Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. United States Department of Education, Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University * Antonia Chayes, Professor of International Politics and Law, former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force * Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'' and ''Consciousness Explained'' *
John J. Donovan John J. Donovan (born February 12, 1942) is a former management professor at MIT, and the former president and chief executive of the Cambridge Technology Group, an executive training company. On May 3, 2022, Donovan Sr. was convicted of a doze ...
, entrepreneur, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (1973–1983) * Michael Downing (writer), Michael Downing, writer (''Perfect Agreement'', ''Breakfast with Scot'') * Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics; regular featured columnist in ''Foreign Policy'' magazine * Lee Edelman, English professor, author of ''No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive'' * David Elkind, Professor Emeritus of Child Development, author of "The Hurried Child," and "Giants in the Nursery," and "The Power of Play" and other bestsellers * Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor * John Galvin (soldier), John Galvin (1995–2000), General and former Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy * Frank Pierrepont Graves, historian of education * Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of ''Henry Hobson Richardson'' and other books on architectural history * Joseph Igersheimer (1879–1965), German ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey * Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of ''Foundations of Language'' * Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar * Sheldon Krimsky * Alfred Church Lane, geologist * Louis Lasagna, former Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine, School of Medicine, known for introducing the modern Hippocratic Oath * Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine * Linda Datcher Loury, former professor of economics * David J. Malan, former professor of computer science, Gordon Mckay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, known for teaching CS50 * Jerold Mande, former professor of practice (2017–2020); former Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA (2009–2011) * William C. Martel, Associate Professor of International Security Studies * William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman *Gilbert E. Metcalf, John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of economics; author of ''Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America'' (Oxford University Press, Oxford Univ Press) * William Green Miller, Professor and Associate Dean, United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998 * Haruki Murakami, Japanese author nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize; writing fellow * Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy * Vali Nasr, Iranian-American academic and scholar; Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California * Raymond S. Nickerson, psychologist and author * Diane Souvaine, chair of the National Science Board * Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA * Barry Trimmer, professor of biology; invented (with David L. Kaplan (biomedical engineer), David Kaplan) the world's first soft-bodied robot * Alexander Vilenkin, theoretical physicist * Jonathan Wilson (author), Jonathan Wilson, author * Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author known for his gardens in Southern Vermont


Honorary degree recipients

Tufts awards honorary degrees to outstanding people since 1858; among them: * 1858: Thomas Whittemore (Universalist), Thomas Whittemore (Divinity) * 1861: Alonzo Ames Miner (Arts) * 1863: Sylvanus Cobb (Divinity) * 1865: Thomas Thayer (Divinity) : ... * 1872: Israel Washburn (Laws) : ... * 1875: Alonzo Ames Miner (Laws) * 1876:
Seldon Connor Seldon Connor (January 25, 1839July 9, 1917) was an American soldier, banker, and politician who was the 35th Governor of the U.S. state of Maine. Biography Seldon Conner was born in Fairfield, Maine, and in 1859 graduated at Tufts College, as ...
(Laws) : ... * 1886: Henry B. Metcalf (Arts) : ... * 1890: Arthur Michael (Philosophy) * 1891: Joseph H. Walker (Laws) : ... * 1894: Elihu Thomson (Philosophy) * 1895: Otis Skinner (Arts) * 1896: Mary Livermore (Laws) * 1897: Samuel G. Hilborn (Laws) * 1898: William Leslie Hooper (Philosophy) * 1899: Minton Warren (Laws) * 1900:
Frederick Stark Pearson Frederick Stark Pearson (July 3, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Biography Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson was the son of Ambrose and Hannah (Edgerly) Pearson. He graduated from Tufts University in 1883 w ...
(Science), Charles Ernest Fay (Letters) * 1901: Charles L. Hutchinson (Arts) * 1902: George S. Boutwell (Laws), Amos Dolbear (Laws) * 1903: Carroll D. Wright (Laws) * 1904: William Henry Moody (Laws) * 1905: William Edwards Huntington (Laws) : ... * 1909:
Charles Neal Barney Charles Neal Barney (June 27, 1875 - April 24, 1949) was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member of the Common Council and as the 31st Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts. Biography Barney was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on June 27, 1875 to Wi ...
(Arts) * 1910: Frank Shipley Collins (Arts), Eben Draper (Laws), Morton Prince (Laws) * 1911: Marion LeRoy Burton (Laws), Albert Potter Wills (Science) * 1912: Frederic Aldin Hall (Humane Letters), John G. Sargent (Arts) * 1913: Alfred Church Lane (Science), Hosea Washington Parker (Laws) * 1914: Winston Churchill (novelist) (Letters) * 1915: William Leslie Hooper (Laws) : ... * 1918: Ralph D. Mershon (Science), Joseph Fort Newton (Divinity) * 1919: Calvin Coolidge (Laws), William Sims (Laws) * 1920: Herbert Hoover (Science), Charles L. Hutchinson (Laws) * 1921: Evangeline Cory Booth (Arts), Samuel Capen (Humane Letters), Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (Arts), Samuel Orace Dunn (Arts), Frank Pierrepont Graves (Humane Letters), William Henry Nichols (Science), John Wingate Weeks (Laws) * 1922: Henry K. Braley (Laws), Heloise Hersey (Arts), Louise Homer (Arts), Leo Rich Lewis (Letters), Edward Sylvester Morse (Humane Letters) * 1923: Edward Bok (Humane Letters), Channing H. Cox (Humane Letters), Cyrus Edwin Dallin (Arts), Anna Coleman Ladd (Arts), Angelo Patri (Humane Letters), Hugh Walpole (Letters) * 1924: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Fine Arts) * 1925: Henry Kimball Hadley (Music), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Humane Letters) * 1926: Frederick Law Olmsted (Fine Arts) * 1927: Richard E. Byrd (Science), A. Atwater Kent (Science), Frank Lahey (Science), Edith Nourse Rogers (Arts), John van Schaick Jr. (Letters) * 1928: William Beebe (Science), Charles Ernest Fay (Laws), Charles Lawrance (Science), Eva Le Gallienne (Arts), John Livingston Lowes (Humane Letters), Frank Burr Mallory (Science) * 1929: Asa White Kenney Billings (Electrical Engineering), Benjamin Newhall Johnson (Arts), Herbert Lord (Laws), Daniel Gregory Mason (Letters) * 1930: Frank Weston Benson (Arts), Arthur Dehon Little (Science) * 1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes (Arts), Marion Edwards Park (Humane Letters), Stanley Calef Wilson (Laws), Alfred Worcester (Science) * 1932: George Grey Barnard (Arts),
Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime ...
(Science), Lou Henry Hoover (Arts), Archibald MacLeish (Arts), James Grover McDonald (Laws) * 1933: Mabel Wheeler Daniels (Arts), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Letters), Marie Danforth Page (Arts) * 1934: James Bryant Conant (Science), Harold L. Ickes (Laws) * 1935: Carter Glass (Laws), Francis Russell Hart (Arts), Harry M. Lydenberg (Letters), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Arts), Sarah Wambaugh (Humane Letter) * 1936: Dorothy Thompson (Letters) * 1937: Van Wyck Brooks (Laws), Leonard Carmichael (Science), Thomas Edmund Dewey (Laws), Helen Jerome Eddy (Arts), Sylvanus Morley (Letters) * 1938: Miller McClintock (Science), Henry Merritt Wriston (Laws) * 1939:
Leo Otis Colbert Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (31 December 1883 – 24 December 1968) was the third director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and a career officer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, predecessor of the National Oce ...
(Science), John Foster Dulles (Letters), George Horace Gallup (Science) * 1940: Francis Henry Taylor (Humane Letters) * 1941: Leason Heberling Adams (Science), Lillian Hellman (Arts), George Stewart Miller (Letters), Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Laws) * 1942: Walter Nash (Laws), Katharine Elizabeth McBride (Humane Letters), Leverett Saltonstall (Laws) * 1943: Karl Taylor Compton (Laws), Joseph Clark Grew (Laws), Sara Murray Jordan (Science) * 1944: Beardsley Ruml (Laws) * 1945: Arthur William Coolidge (Arts), John Sloan Dickey (Laws), Theresa Helburn (Arts), Eric Johnston (Laws), Charles Donagh Maginnis (Humane Letters) * 1946:
Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher i ...
(Science), Laurence Olivier (Fine Arts) * 1947: Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Laws) * 1948: Carl Stephens Ell (Laws) * 1949: Ralph Lowell (Laws) * 1950: Thomas Whittemore (Letters) * 1951: Thomas Dudley Cabot (Humane Letters) * 1952: Henry Chauncey (Science) * 1953: Robert Cutler (Laws) * 1954: John F. Kennedy (Letters) * 1955: Nathan M. Pusey (Letters) * 1956: John T. Blake (Science) * 1957: Earl Warren (Laws) * 1958: Robert F. Kennedy (Laws) * 1959: Robert Frost (Letters) * 1960: Hiram Fong (Laws) * 1961: F. Ray Keyser Jr. (Laws) * 1962: Walter Hallstein (Laws) * 1963: James William Fulbright (Letters), Lyndon B. Johnson (Letters) * 1964: Charles A. Dana (philanthropist), Charles A. Dana (Humane Letters) * 1965: Jeremy Ingalls (Letters) * 1966: William Scranton (Laws), Nils Wessell (Laws) * 1967: John F. Collins (Laws), Abigail Adams Eliot (Humane Letters) * 1968: Daniel Moynihan (Laws) * 1969: Kenneth Bancroft Clark (Humane Letters), Lee Alvin DuBridge (Science), Paul A. Freund (Laws), Howard Nemerov (Letters), Joseph Silverstein (Music) * 1970: Patricia Roberts Harris (Laws), Harris Wofford (Laws) * 1971: Arthur Fiedler (Music) * 1972:
Jester Hairston Jester Joseph Hairston (July 9, 1901 – January 18, 2000) was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor and actor. He was regarded as a leading expert on black spirituals and choral music. His notable compositions include " ...
(Music) : ... * 1974: Theodore Hesburgh (Laws), Shirley Hufstedler (Laws), Barbara Jordan (Laws),
Edson Zvobgo Eddison Jonasi Mudadirwa Zvobgo (2 October 1935 – 22 August 2004) was a founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU–PF, the Patriotic Front's spokesman at the Lancaster House in late 1979,
(Arts) : ... * 1976: John Brademas (Laws), Matina Horner (Humane Letters), Virginia Knauer (Laws) * 1977: Irving Selikoff (Science), B.F. Skinner (Letters),
Malcolm Toon Malcolm Toon (July 4, 1916 – February 12, 2009) was an American diplomat who served as a Foreign Service Officer in Moscow in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, during the Cold War, ultimately becoming the ambassador to the Soviet Union. Life Toon ...
(Laws) * 1978: Victor McKusick (Science), David Nachmansohn (Science) * 1979: Salvador E. Luria (Science) * 1980: Allan M. Cormack (Science) * 1981: Leo Gross (Laws) * 1982: Alexander R. Todd (Science) * 1983: Sandra Day O'Connor (Letters), Edward Kennedy (Letters) * 1984: Arthur M. Sackler (Humane Letters), John Williams (Music) * 1985: Lester R. Brown (Humane Letters), Finn Brudevold (Science) * 1986: Jane Goodall (Science), Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Laws) * 1987: Claude Shannon (Science), Gloria Steinem (Humane Letters) * 1988: Paul Samuelson (Science) * 1989: Stephen Hawking (Science) * 1990: Robert Ballard (Science), Juan Carlos I of Spain (Laws) * 1991: Yo-Yo Ma (Music), Moonis Raza (Humane Letters) * 1992:
Bernard Marshall Gordon Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion". Early life, education, and career ...
(Science) * 1993: Carlos Fuentes (Letters) * 1994: Ted Koppel (Humane Letters) * 1995: Murray Gell-Mann (Science) * 1996: Anson Chan (Humane Letters) * 1997: Richard Holbrooke (Laws) * 1998: Garry Trudeau (Humane Letters) * 1999:
Thomas Schmidheiny Thomas Schmidheiny (born 17 December 1945) is a Swiss billionaire businessman, and the former chairman of cement manufacturer Holcim. Early life Thomas Schmidheiny was born in 1945, the son of Max Schmidheiny (1908-1991). The family's construc ...
(Business Administration) * 2000: Issam Fares (International Public Affairs) * 2001: David McCullough (Humane Letters) * 2002: John DiBiaggio (Letters),
Eugene F. Fama Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is currently Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Servi ...
(Science),
Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon (born February 19, 1956) is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter ...
(Science) * 2003: Mario Molina (Science) * 2004: Neil Armstrong (English), Tracey Chapman (Fine Arts) * 2005:
Kostas Karamanlis Konstantinos A. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αλεξάνδρου Καραμανλής; born 14 September 1956), commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis ( el, Κώστας Καραμανλής, ), is a Greek politician who served as the ...
(Letters) * 2006: Lynn Margulis (Science) * 2007: Michael Bloomberg (Public Service) * 2008:
Meredith Vieira Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as the original moderator of the daytime talk show '' The View'' (1997–2006), the original host of the syndicated ...
(Humane Letters) * 2009:
Leslie Gelb Leslie Howard "Les" Gelb (March 4, 1937 – August 31, 2019) was an American academic, correspondent and columnist for ''The New York Times'' who served as a senior Defense and State Department official and later the President Emeritus of the Cou ...
(Laws), Deval Patrick (Laws) Patricia Q. Stonesifer (Public Service) * 2010: Kristina M. Johnson (Science), Ann Hobson Pilot (Music), Gordon S. Wood, Gordon Wood (Humane Letters) * 2011: Charles M. Vest (Science), Geoffrey Canada (Humane Letters), Jamaica Kincaid (Humane Letters),
Pierre Omidyar Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 199 ...
(Public Service), Robert Solow (Science) * 2012: Eric Greitens (Humane Letters), Lawrence S. Bacow (Humane Letters), Bonnie Bassler (Science), Farooq Kathwari (Public Service) * 2013: Claude Steele (Humane Letters), Lois Gibbs (Public Service), Raymond Sackler (Humane Letters) * 2014: Anne-Marie Slaughter (Laws), James Lawson (American activist), James Lawson (Public Service), Jill Lepore (Humane Letters), Haruki Murakami (Letters), James D. Stern (Business Administration) * 2015: Madeleine Albright (Laws), Joichi Ito (Humane Letters) * 2016:
Hank Azaria Henry Albert Azaria ( ; born April 25, 1964) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present), most notably Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Sna ...
(Humane Letters), Janet Echelman (Fine Arts), H. Jack Geiger (Public Service), Sonia Manzano (Fine Arts) * 2017: Kenya Barris (Humane Letters),
Sean B. Carroll Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American Evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Marylan ...
(Science), Maria Contreras-Sweet (Public Service), Joseph W. Polisi (Fine Arts) * 2018: José Andrés (Public Service), Ash Carter (Laws), Ellen Kullman (Science), Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (Humane Letters), Arturo O'Farrill (Music),
Farah Pandith Farah Pandith (born January 13, 1968) is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.