Following is a list of Chi Psi members that includes notable initiates of

Chi Psi Chi Psi () is a fraternity consisting of active chapters (known as "Alphas") at 33 American colleges and universities. The mission of Chi Psi is to create and maintain an enduring society which encourages the sharing of traditions and values, res ...

Academics and museums

Stephen Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New O ...

, historian, author, and professor of history at the

University of New Orleans The University of New Orleans (UNO) is a public research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a member of the University of Louisiana System and the Urban 13 association. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High rese ...

* William Miller Collier, President of

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress, GWU is the largest Higher educat ...

United States Ambassador to Spain The incumbent ambassador is Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, she was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on January 7, 2022 and presented her credentials on February 2, 2022. This is a list of United States ambassadors to Spain from 1779 to th ...

United States Ambassador to Chile The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. The current title given by the United States State Department to this position is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. See also *Ambassadors o ...

Kirk Johnson Kirk Cyron Johnson (born June 29, 1972) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2010, and challenged once for the WBA heavyweight title in 2002. Amateur career Johnson represented Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Bar ...

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

, author, curator, museum administrator, and Sant Director of Smithsonian's

National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7 ...

Art and architecture

Temple Hoyne Buell Temple Hoyne Buell (September 9, 1895 – January 5, 1990) was an American architect, real estate developer and entrepreneur namesake of the Buell Theatre in Denver Center Complex, Buell & Company, and the Temple Buell Foundation. Buell was bor ...

, architect *

Charles Luckman Charles Luckman (May 16, 1909 – January 26, 1999) was an American businessman, property developer, and architect known for designing landmark buildings in the United States such as the Theme Building, Prudential Tower, Madison Square Garden, ...

, architect of Madison Square Garden, among other projects

Business

James Ford Bell James Ford Bell as a member of the Food Administration in 1918. James Ford Bell (August 16, 1879 – May 7, 1961) was an American business leader and philanthropist who served as president of General Mills from 1928 to 1934 and chairman from 1934 ...

, founder of General Mills
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Mark Bingham Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. ...

public relations Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. ...

executive and one of the members of Flight 93 credited with trying to thwart September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by overpowering the hijackers. *

Clarence Birdseye Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 – October 7, 1956) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He founded the frozen food company Birds Eye. Among his inventions during ...

, inventor of frozen food products
Daniel Burke
former President and Chairman of the RT French Company (i.e., " French's Mustard" * Steve Culbertson, President and CEO,

Youth Service America Youth Service America, or YSA, is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.< ...

* Robert Hugh Daniel, founder of Daniel International Corporation * David Gardner, founder of

The Motley Fool The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia. It was founded in July 1993 by co-chairmen and brothers David Gardner and Tom Gardner, and Erik Rydholm, who has since left the company. The compa ...

Richard Jenrette Richard Hampton Jenrette (April 5, 1929 – April 22, 2018) was an American businessman who co-founded the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Early life Jenrette was born on April 5, 1929, in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of ...

, founder of

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) was a U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette, and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; fina ...

* Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr. – Former President of S.C. Johnson & Son * Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr. – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son from 1967 – 1988. *

Herbert Fisk Johnson III Herbert Fisk Johnson III (born May 19, 1958), known as Fisk, is an American billionaire businessman. He is the fifth generation of his family to lead S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc of Racine, Wisconsin, as chairman and CEO. As of March 2022, his net ...

– Current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of S.C. Johnson & Son * Edmund C. Lynch, Edmund C. Lynch Jr., son to co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch * Paul Mellon, banker, philanthropist, and thoroughbred racehorse owner * Merrill Lynch, Charles Edward Merrill, co-founder of financial services firm Merrill Lynch * Hubertus van der Vaart, Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar, and co-founder/Chairman of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds) * Kemmons Wilson, founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels

Clergy

* Joshua Young, D.D. (1823–1904), Unitarian minister of national renown, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist

Entertainment

* Eddie Albert, actor known for his role on Green Acres * Buddy Ebsen, actor known for ''The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones'' * John Gavin, actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and United States Ambassador to Mexico
* Allan Jones, movie producer * Paul Lieberstein, actor best known for his role on the American version of ''The Office (U.S. TV series), The Office'' * Jerry Mathers, actor best known for his role on ''Leave It to Beaver''http://www.chipsi.org/resource/resmgr/png_stuff/pngfall7.pdf * Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller, musician known for the Steve Miller Band * Boz Scaggs, musician * Fred Weller, movie, television, and stage actor

Government

* Nicholas F. Brady, United States Secretary of the Treasury * Richard Helms, 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency * Stansfield Turner, 12th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and United States Navy Admiral * Julius Sterling Morton, 3rd Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture

Law

* Albert S. Bard, lawyer and civic activist, 4th president of Chi Psi * Melville Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States * William Henry Gates Sr., attorney, philanthropist, and father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates * Elbridge Thomas Gerry, lawyer, reformer, and second president of Chi Psi * Office of Legal Counsel, Randolph D. Moss, former United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; establishe
the legal justification for the targeted killing of terrorist leaders
in foreign lands. * Thomas Tongue, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

Military

* Morris Brown Jr., Captain Morris Brown Jr., Medal of Honor recipient * James Chatham Duane, United States Army Brigadier General, one of Chi Psi's national founders; US Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineers from October 1886, to June 1888 * Ross T. Dwyer, United States Marine Corps Major General * Daniel W. Hand, U.S. Army brigadier general * Robert E. Kelley, United States Air Force General and former Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy * Henry Martyn Porter, Colonel in the Vermont Infantry and Provost Marshal for the city of New Orleans * Philip Spencer (sailor), Philip Spencer, a Chi Psi's national founder and the center of the alleged incident of mutiny aboard the USS Somers (1842), USS ''Somers''; hanged at sea without a court-martial. * Stansfield Turner, United States Navy Admiral and director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Politics

* Albert II, Prince of Monaco * Horatio C. Burchard, United States House of Representatives, United States Congressman from Illinois, 13th Director of the United States Mint, and father of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). * Arne Carlson, 37th Governor of Minnesota * Sean Casten, United States Congressman from Illinois * William Miller Collier,

, and the president of

. * Roy A. Cooper, North Carolina Attorney General and later Governor of North Carolina * Jim Cooper, United States Congressman from Tennessee * Orville Freeman, 29th Governor of Minnesota * John Gavin, United States Ambassador to Mexico, actor, and president of the Screen Actors Guild * H. John Heinz III, United States Senator from Pennsylvania * John Newton Hungerford, United States Congressman from New York * Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado * John S. Pillsbury, 8th Governor of Minnesota * William Proxmire, United States Senator from Wisconsin * Thomas Brackett Reed, 36th and 38th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and 38th United States Ambassador to the United Nations * Edward S. Walker Jr., former Ambassadors of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Vic Seixas

Sports

* Bill Belichick, National Football League Head Coach, New England Patriots * Buzz Calkins, IRL driver
* Russ Francis, National Football League tight end, New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers, 3-time Pro Bowl, Pro-Bowler * Buckshot Jones, NASCAR driver * Eric Mangini, National Football League Head Coach, Cleveland Browns
/ref> * Waite Hoyt, New York Yankees pitcher, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer * Hugh McElhenny, NFL running back, Hall of Famer * Rob Oppenheim, PGA TOUR Professional Golfer * Augie Pabst III, race car driver * Vic Seixas, professional tennis player, Davis Cup winner * Jeff Torborg, Major League Baseball catcher and manager * Van Earl Wright, sportscaster * Riley Davis, college basketball writer * Paul Arthur Sorg, famous horseman of the early 1900s, multi-millionaire, banker, paper mfg. * Edwin W. Lee, college football player and coach, attorney, state court judge

Literature and journalism

, historian, author, and professor of history at the

* Taylor Branch, magazine editor and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King * Lee Hawkins (journalist), Lee Hawkins, author, journalist, musician * Kenneth Roberts (author), Kenneth Roberts, historical novelist * Clinton Scollard, poet and writer of fiction in the late 1800s and early 1900s. * Richard Wilbur, poet, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

References

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