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Yalies are persons affiliated with
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the worl ...
, commonly including
alumni Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...
, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.


Alumni

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


Prize recipients


Nobel laureates


Pulitzer Prize winners


Architecture and visual arts


Arts and humanities


Athletics


Business


College founders and presidents


Film


Inventors and innovators


Life sciences and medicine


Mathematics and computer science


Physical sciences and engineering


Law and politics


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


Supreme Court justices

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


U.S. Senators

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


Other legislators


Governors, other state officials and mayors

Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or
senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the ...
. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "''See also:''" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.


Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers

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


Diplomats


Judges and attorneys


Activists


Political commentators


Other

* Matthew Adler (B.A. 1984 and J.D. 1991), law professor * Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), lawyer and law professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...
*
Moses Cleaveland Moses Cleaveland (January 29, 1754 – November 16, 1806) was an American lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded the city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the Am ...
(B.A. 1777), founder of
Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
*
Manasseh Cutler Manasseh Cutler (May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823) was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. He was influential in the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and wrote the section prohibiting slavery in the Nort ...
(B.A. 1765), co-author of the
Northwest Ordinance The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Con ...
of 1787, member of the
Ohio Company The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americ ...
of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in
Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
), congressman ( F-Massachusetts) (1801–05) * James Gadsden (B.A. 1806), namesake of the
Gadsden Purchase The Gadsden Purchase ( es, region=MX, la Venta de La Mesilla "The Sale of La Mesilla") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effe ...
, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of Arizona and
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex , Offi ...
*
Clarence King Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer and author. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. Nominated by Republican President Rutherford B. Hay ...
(Ph.D. 1862), founder of the
U.S. Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, a ...
* James Wadsworth (1787), founder of
Geneseo, New York Geneseo is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. It is at the south end of the five-county Rochester Metropolitan Area. The population of the town was 10,483 at the 2010 census. The English name ...
, and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley *
Amy Wax Amy Laura Wax (born January 19, 1953) is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as we ...
(B.S. 1975), Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...


Military


Religion


History, literature, and journalism


Musicians and composers


Faculty

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


Nobel laureates


Social sciences


Technologists


Television


Theatre


Others


Arts and humanities


Life sciences and medicine


Mathematics


Physical sciences and engineering


Social sciences


Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University


See also

*
Yale Corporation The Yale Corporation, officially The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Assembly of corporation The Corporation comprises 19 members: * Three ex officio members: the Presiden ...
– including a list of corporation members


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yale University People Lists of people by university or college in Connecticut
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