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'''Yalies''' are persons affiliated with ], commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies. {{Dynamic list}} | |||
'''Yalies''' are persons affiliated with ], commonly including ], current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies. {{Dynamic list}} | |||
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* ] (Legum Baccalaureum) was a ] conferred by the ] until 1971. | |||
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===Nobel laureates=== | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001<ref> Campus News at the University of California, Berkeley 10/10/01</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1942).<ref> Brookhaven National Laboratory press release, June 1, 2006</ref> Physics, 2002 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960). Economics, 2010<ref> MIT press release, October 11, 2010</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1954/enders-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize biography of Enders |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=September 8, 1985 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1954 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1940)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/HistoricFenn.asp |title=Yale Engineering profile of Fenn |publisher=Eng.yale.edu |date= |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/od-09.htm |title=National Institutes of Health press release on Fenn |publisher=Nih.gov |date=October 9, 2002 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Chemistry, 2002 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1948)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1969/gell-mann-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Gell-Mann |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=September 15, 1929 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physics, 1969 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1962).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001529 |title=Encyclopedia Britannica article on Gilman |publisher=Britannica.com |date=July 1, 1941 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1994 | |||
* ] (B.A. Economics, 1974). Economics, 2008. Architect of "]", winner of the ], ] economics professor, '']'' columnist | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1925).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1939/lawrence-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Lawrence |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=August 27, 1958 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physics, 1939. ] & ] are named for him<ref> from the ]</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1948)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Lederberg |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date= |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1958 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1959)<ref> Press release from Cornell University October 10, 1996</ref> Physics, 1996 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1908).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048025 |title=Encyclopedia Britannica article on Lewis |publisher=Britannica.com |date=January 10, 1951 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Literature, 1930 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1935)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/onsager-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Onsager |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date= |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Chemistry, 1968 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1959). Economics, 2006 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1917)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1956/richards-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Richards |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=February 23, 1973 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1956 | |||
*] (B.S. 1935).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1996/vickrey-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Vickrey |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=October 11, 1996 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Economics, 1996. | |||
* ] (A.B. 1900)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/whipple-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Whipple |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=February 1, 1976 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1934 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1974).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002469 |title=Encyclopedia Britannica article on Wieschaus |publisher=Britannica.com |date=June 8, 1947 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1995 | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1986), won 2004 Pulitzer for non-fiction.<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1943), 1956 Pulitzer for National Reporting | |||
=== Nobel laureates === | |||
{{main|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Yale University}} | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1962), Economics, 2001<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2001 |title=George Akerlof Wins Nobel Prize in Economics |url=https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/features/2001/nobel/index.html |access-date=August 1, 2006 |website=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1942),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813171529/http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=06-69|date=August 13, 2006}} Brookhaven National Laboratory press release, June 1, 2006</ref> Physics, 2002 | |||
* ] (M.A. 1976, M.Phil. 1977, PhD 1980), Economics, 2022 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), Economics, 2010<ref> MIT press release, October 11, 2010</ref> | |||
* ] (M.A. 1978, M.Phil. 1978, PhD 1979), Economics, 2022 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1954/enders-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize biography of Enders |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=September 8, 1985 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1954 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1940),<ref>{{cite web |title=Yale Engineering profile of Fenn |url=http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/HistoricFenn.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215152937/http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/HistoricFenn.asp |archive-date=February 15, 2009 |access-date=January 24, 2011 |publisher=Eng.yale.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 9, 2002 |title=National Institutes of Health press release on Fenn |url=http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/od-09.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220194149/http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/od-09.htm |archive-date=December 20, 2010 |access-date=January 24, 2011 |publisher=Nih.gov}}</ref> Chemistry, 2002 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1948),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1969/gell-mann-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Gell-Mann |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=September 15, 1929 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physics, 1969 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1962),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001529 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722080249/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001529 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |title=Alfred G. Gilman |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Britannica.com |date=July 1, 1941 |access-date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1994 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1944),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/goodenough/facts/ |title= Nobel Prize Profile of John B. Goodenough| publisher=Nobelprize.org | date=2019|access-date=March 6, 2024}}</ref> Chemistry, 2019 | |||
* ] (M.D. 1981), Chemistry, 2012 | |||
* ] (B.A. Economics, 1974), Economics, 2008; architect of "]"; winner of the ]; ] economics professor; '']'' columnist | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1925),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1939/lawrence-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Lawrence |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=August 27, 1958 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physics, 1939; ], ], and the element ] are named for him<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010052646/http://www.llnl.gov/llnl/history/eolawrence.html|date=October 10, 2006}} from the ]</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1948),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Lederberg |publisher=Nobelprize.org |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1958 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1959),<ref> Press release from Cornell University October 10, 1996</ref> Physics, 1996 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1908),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Sinclair Lewis |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Britannica.com |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048025 |access-date=January 24, 2011 |date=January 10, 1951 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725162733/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048025 |archive-date=July 25, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Literature, 1930 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=William Nordhaus|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=britannica.com|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Nordhaus|access-date=March 7, 2024|date = May 27, 2023}}</ref> Economics, 2018 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1935),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1968/onsager-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Onsager |publisher=Nobelprize.org |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Chemistry, 1968 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1959), Economics, 2006 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1917),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1956/richards-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Richards |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=February 23, 1973 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1956 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1993),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://news.uchicago.edu/story/james-robinson-shares-nobel-prize-research-global-inequality |title=James A. Robinson shares 2024 Nobel Prize for research on global inequality |publisher=University of Chicago News| access-date=October 14, 2024| date=October 14, 2024}}</ref> Economics, 2024 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), Physiology or Medicine, 2013 | |||
* ] (B.S. 1935),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1996/vickrey-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Vickrey |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=October 11, 1996 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Economics, 1996 | |||
* ] (A.B. 1900),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/whipple-bio.html |title=Nobel Prize profile of Whipple |publisher=Nobelprize.org |date=February 1, 1976 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1934 | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1974),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Eric F. Wieschaus |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Britannica.com |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002469 |access-date=January 24, 2011 |date=June 8, 1947 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706193122/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002469 |archive-date=July 6, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Physiology or Medicine, 1995 | |||
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=== Pulitzer Prize winners === | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1986), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners – 2004 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2004 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting | |||
* ] (B.A. 1943), 1956 ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author | * ] (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author | ||
* ] (B.A. 1970), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for biography of George Washington. | |||
* Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007 for articles in the '']''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/business/media/17pulitzer.html?_r=1&ref=media&oref=slogin|publisher=New York Times|date=April 17, 2007|author=Katharine Q. Seelye and James Barron|title=Wall Street Journal Wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970), 1978 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dolan, Anthony "Tony" R.: Files, 1981-1989 |date=26 February 2024 |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/white-house-inventory/dolan-anthony-tony-r-files-1981-1989}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), 1984 Pulitzer for Distinguished Criticism | |||
* ] (B.A. 2002), co-author of articles for which '']'' won the ] in 2007<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/business/media/17pulitzer.html?_r=1&ref=media&oref=slogin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 17, 2007|author=Katharine Q. Seelye and James Barron|title=Wall Street Journal Wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.A. 1978),<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for ], received the Pulitzer in 1998.<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ], 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Cold War historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1936),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF1F3FF930A25756C0A965958260 |title=May 13, 1993 New York Times notice on Hersey's death |publisher=New York Times |date=May 13, 1993 |accessdate=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel '']'', namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1972), 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism | ||
* ] (B.A. 1964, M.Phil 1968, Ph.D. 1969), general editor of ''The Norton Shakespeare'', 2012 ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), ] professor, won the 2000 Pulitzer in History<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45" | |||
* ] (M.A. 1978),<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Price Winners – 1998 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1998 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for '']'', received the Pulitzer in 1998<ref name="auto" /> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1955),<ref></ref> famous historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American presidents ] and ]<ref>{{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1936),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF1F3FF930A25756C0A965958260 |title=May 13, 1993 New York Times notice on Hersey's death |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 13, 1993 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel '']'', namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale | ||
* ] (B.A. 1999), playwright, writer of '']'', 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama | |||
*] (B.A. 1915), 1951 Pulitzer, Music | |||
* ] (B.A. 1898), 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music | |||
*] (M.F.A.),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Drama |title=The Pulitzer Prizes | Drama |publisher=Pulitzer.org |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> playwright and Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1976), book critic for '']'', 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952 ),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30610FF3A5D0C778EDDAD0894D8494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fP%2fPulitzer%20Prizes|title=Mel Powell's Musical Journey to a Pulitzer Prize|author=Allan Kozinn|date=April 24, 1990|publisher='']''}}</ref> won the 1990 Pulitzer for Music for ''Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra''; founding dean and professor of music of the ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners – 2000 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2000 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45" | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992),<ref>] ]</ref> winner of the Pulitzer for the book ''A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide''.<ref>{{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), 2015 ] | |||
* Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985),<ref name="yale.edu">{{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for international reporting.<ref>{{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1955),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/98-05-25-01.all.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113163039/http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/98-05-25-01.all.html|url-status=dead|title=Yale Press Release|archive-date=November 13, 2007}}</ref> ], winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American presidents ] and ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners – 2002 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2002 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),<ref name="yale.edu"/> composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer in Music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version"<ref>{{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2000-Feature-Writing |title=Meohringer biography at Pulitzer Board |publisher=Pulitzer.org |date=July 16, 2008 |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref> '']'' reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing<ref name="auto1" /> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his comic strip ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1915), 1951 Pulitzer, Music | |||
* ], (M.F.A. 1976),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001719_pf.html |title=Washington Post obituary "'Heidi Chronicles' Playwright Wendy Wasserstein", January 31, 2006 by Joe Holley |publisher=Washingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997), critic-at-large for ], former film critic at '']'', 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920),<ref></ref> playwright, winner of two Pulitzers, the first in 1928 for '']'', and the second in 1938 for the play '']''; recipient of the ] in 1963 | |||
* ] (M.F.A.),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Drama |title=The Pulitzer Prizes | Drama |publisher=Pulitzer.org |access-date=February 1, 2011}}</ref> playwright and Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30610FF3A5D0C778EDDAD0894D8494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fP%2fPulitzer%20Prizes|title=Mel Powell's Musical Journey to a Pulitzer Prize|author=Allan Kozinn|date=April 24, 1990|work=]}}</ref> 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra''; founding dean and professor of music of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Power '92 wins nonfiction Pulitzer |url=http://yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=22473 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106060027/http://yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID%3D22473 |archive-date=November 6, 2007 |website=]}}</ref> Pulitzer Prize for the book ''A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners – 2003 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2003 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.M. 1996), 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), 2000 ] (on '']'' team); former reporter who writes on defense topics | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985),<ref name="yale.edu">{{Cite web |title=Yale Bulletin and Calendar, April 14, 2000 |url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n28/story1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805150537/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n28/story1.html |archive-date=August 5, 2013 |access-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref> reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting<ref name="auto1" /> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),<ref name="yale.edu" /> composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Music for ''Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version''<ref name="auto1" /> | |||
* ], Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for his biography of ], '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his comic strip '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1976), playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of '']''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001719_pf.html |title=Obituary "'Heidi Chronicles' Playwright Wendy Wasserstein", January 31, 2006 by Joe Holley |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia Encyclopedia entry on Wilder |url=http://www.bartleby.com/65/wi/Wilder-T.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825073521/http://www.bartleby.com/65/wi/Wilder-T.html |archive-date=August 25, 2006 |access-date=August 1, 2006}}</ref> playwright, winner of two Pulitzers, the first in 1928 for '']'', and the second in 1938 for the play '']''; recipient of the ] in 1963 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1965), journalist, co-author of the Pulitzer-winning book '']'', won a second Pulitzer in 2002 for ] | * ] (B.A. 1965), journalist, co-author of the Pulitzer-winning book '']'', won a second Pulitzer in 2002 for ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1985),<ref> |
* ] (B.A. 1985),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woodward Pu |first=Violet |date=April 6, 2004 |title=Two alumni honored with Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2004/04/06/two-alumni-honored-with-pulitzer-prizes/ |access-date=June 1, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for drama, winner of a ]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/media/06PRIZ.html |title=The New York Times overview of winners in 2004 |work=] |date= April 6, 2004|access-date=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),<ref> |
* ] (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yale Bulletin and Calendar article "McClatchy among alumni elected to Academy of Arts and Letters" April 26 – May 3, 1999 |url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n30/story2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029214343/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n30/story2.html |archive-date=October 29, 2014 |access-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref> composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners – 2006 |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2006 |website=pulitzer.org}}</ref> for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor ''emeritus'' of musical composition at ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1968),<ref>{{ |
* ] (B.A. 1968),<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311052556/http://www.yaleeconomicreview.com/issues/spring2005/danielyergin.php |date=March 11, 2007 }}</ref> wrote Pulitzer-winning '']''; founded ] | ||
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=== Abel laureates === | |||
===Technology and innovation=== | |||
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* ] (ca. 1776), inventor of the ], ], ], and ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1960), 2018<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 20, 2018|title=Robert P. Langlands Awarded 2018 Abel Prize|url=https://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2018/abel#:~:text=The%20Norwegian%20Academy%20of%20Science,representation%20theory%20to%20number%20theory.” |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=]}}</ref>}} | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), director, ]. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1955), 2008<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2008|title=Thompson and Tits Receive 2008 Abel Prize|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200806/tx080600707p.pdf |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.S. 1935, ]), aviation pioneer | |||
* ] (B.A.), pioneer of modern brain surgery and considered by many the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century | |||
* ] noted arachnologist of Virginia | |||
* ] (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of ] image sensor | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (]) guru | |||
* ] (M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine | |||
* ] (B.A. 1810), first commissioner ], founder, ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of ]" | |||
* ] (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor of ] programming language | |||
* ] (1947), "Engineer of the Century", won the ] for first human-powered flying machine (the '']''); pioneer in ]ed flight; founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of "]". | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), ] developer, created '']'' | |||
* ] (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of ] | |||
*] (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1975), creator of the ] programming language | |||
* ] (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the ] cryptography, 2002 ] recipient | |||
* ], Awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1925), ] guru | |||
* ] (1792), inventor of the ] | |||
== Architecture and visual arts == | |||
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* ] (M.F.A. 1955), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), art dealer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), artist | |||
* ] (M.F.A 1965), painter | |||
* ] (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1978), art historian | |||
* ] (M.Phil., Ph.D.), art historian | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1966), artist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953), art historian | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1941), painter | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1958, M.F.A. 1961), sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), art historian | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1964), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2004), cultural practitioner | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1988), photographer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1937), art historian | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1986), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), sculptor and novelist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1949), architect | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1979), photographer | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A.), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1963), painter | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1935), painter | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1961), architect | |||
* ], painter and printmaker | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1991), painter and educator | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2008), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1936), architecture critic | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1989), photographer | |||
* ] (1931), architect | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1962, M.F.A. 1964), sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1932, M.A. 1934, Ph.D. 1942), art historian | |||
* ] (M.A., Ph.D. 1995), art historian | |||
* ] (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1975), art historian | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1972), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1961), architect | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1952), artist and educator | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1987), graphic designer | |||
* ] (M.Arch. II 1995), architect and educator | |||
* ] (MFA 1970), painter and sculptor | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1975), art historian and educator | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981, M.Arch. 1986, honorary Ph.D. 1987), architect | |||
* ] (B.A. 1994), photographer | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2006), painter | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1961, M.F.A. 1963), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1963), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1998), photographer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956, M.Arch. 1958), architect | |||
* ] (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1977), art historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), painter | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1985), art historian | |||
* ] (M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1992), art historian | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1988), photographer | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2011), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), architect | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1971), sculptor | |||
* ] (M.A. 1994, M.Phil. 1995, Ph.D. 1999), art historian | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1962), architect | |||
* ] (B.A. 1924), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1976), photographer | |||
* ] (B.Arch. 1934), architect | |||
* ] (B.A. 1940), art historian | |||
* ] (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor | |||
* Daniel Sherer (BA, 1985), architectural and art historian | |||
* ] (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1953) | |||
* ] (Th.M. 1973), photographer | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1965), architect and educator | |||
* ] (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1978), art historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), sculptor | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1984), curator | |||
* ] (M.F.A 1988), photographer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), cartoonist | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1994), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2010), artist and curator | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2001), painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1968), artist | |||
* ] (B.A., M.Arch. 1952), architect | |||
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* ], ] of ] at ] | |||
* ] (B.A.), Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard | |||
* ] (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, professor at ] (1981–2002) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1995), professor of history at ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Edward J. Balleisen|url=https://history.duke.edu/people/edward-j-balleisen|website=History Department|publisher=Duke University|access-date=September 28, 2017}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.F.A.), visual artist, illustrator, and professor of illustration | |||
* ], historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–1979), U.S. Senator (1979–1994), president of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), philosopher at the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1967), University Professor, University of Southern California, literary and cultural critic | |||
* ] (M.A.), philosopher, intellectual historian, professor of political science at CUNY Graduate Center | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1980), actor on '']'' and '']'', and ] professor of history at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1984), author of '']'', philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar | |||
* ] (M.A. 1973, M.Phil. 1975, Ph.D. 1977), art historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1998), law professor at ] | |||
* ] (B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought, ] | |||
* ] (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1944), professor of Slavic and South East Asian Linguistics<ref>{{cite journal |date=September 1971 |title=William Stewart Cornyn |journal=Slavic Review |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=716–721}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1991), French novelist and author of ''Life of David Hockney: A Novel''. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), professor at ], 2005 ] finalist for ''Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius'' | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1962), law professor at ] | |||
* ], professor of English at ]<ref>{{cite news|title=Elite Educators|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/11/elite-educators.html|access-date=September 28, 2017|work=Harvard Magazine|date=November–December 2002}}</ref> | |||
* ], professor at the ], President of ], designer of ], member of ] expedition of 1820<ref>{{cite book |last=Hale |first=Benjamin, D. D. |title=A Sermon Occasioned By the Death of David Bates Douglass, LL. D. |year=1850 |publisher=I. & S.H. Parker |location=Geneva, New York |page=8 }}</ref> | |||
* ], literary theorist and French Department professor, 1961–1972 | |||
* ] (M.A. 1934), ] and first Director of the ] | |||
* ] (M.A., 1956, Ph.D. 1959), professor of English and Comparative Literature at ], poet, translator of classics | |||
* ] (M.F.A., 1993), professor, painter | |||
* ], theorist of the ] and former ] | |||
* ] (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department | |||
* ], writer and professor | |||
* ] (B.A., 1976), professor of theology, ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music, ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 2005), professor of English and Africana studies, provost of ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), art critic, writer, educator | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 2015), French creative writer and professor at ]<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.--> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1975), film historian and author | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1959), cultural theorist; author of ''Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism''; chair of Duke University's Literature Program | |||
* ] (B.A. 1942), painter and muralist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), novelist | |||
* ] (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1934), English teacher, ], ], 1937–1975 | |||
* ] (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lawrence Lessig |url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/llessig |access-date=February 1, 2011 |website=] |publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A., 1999), performance artist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993), associate professor of English and classics at ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csun.edu/humanities/english/robert-oscar-lopez |title=Robert Oscar Lopez |website=CSUN College of Humanities |publisher=California State University, Northridge |access-date=November 12, 2015 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1923), literary historian, professor at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970), ] for Religious Life at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), former ] philosophy professor, currently founding chairman of the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morrisinstitute.com/ |title=Morris Institute of Human Values |publisher=Morrisinstitute.com |access-date=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), photographer and writer; professor of media arts, sciences and studies at ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1971), former professor of ] at ] | |||
* ] (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1963), professor of philosophy, professor of religious studies and professor of theology at ]. | |||
* ] (] 1914), author, ], ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 2009), professor of ] and ] at the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1972), author of '']'', cultural critic and feminist scholar | |||
* ], philosopher at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at ] | |||
* ] (B.S.), professor of creative writing at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), visual artist | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1956), philosopher and professor of Humanities at ], 1982–1998 and ], 1998–2007 | |||
* ], professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida | |||
* ] (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of philosophy, government, and law at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A.), Director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs of ], former ]<ref name=ShearerDerek>"" (). ]. Retrieved on August 5, 2014.</ref> | |||
* ], professor of English, pioneering African-American studies scholar | |||
* ], professor of law at the ] and the ] | |||
* ] (born 1944) (B.A. & M.A.), professor of philosophy and religion at the ]; advisor to ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor of classic studies at Yale and ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1996), chair of the department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA<ref>{{cite web|title=Dominic Thomas – Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Thomas_Dominic/CV|website=]|access-date=November 15, 2017}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.), novelist and author of ] | |||
* ], librarian and bibliographer, of Yale University Library | |||
* ] (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1992), professor of English at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2000), journalist and author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), intensive mathematics and physics; (Ph.D. Harvard 1976), medieval philosophy. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies UCLA. | |||
* ] (M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1960), professor of English at ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1985), chess ], three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)<ref>{{cite web|title=Joel Benjamin|url=http://main.uschess.org/content/view/138/203|publisher=2007–2014 United States Chess Federation.|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), competitive sailor; silver medalist in ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Steve Benjamin|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/steve-benjamin-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418045037/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/steve-benjamin-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], silver medalist with the ] in the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Johnny Bent|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/olympics/athletes/johnny-bent-1|publisher=Hockey Reference.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (2004), Chief Baseball Officer for the ] | |||
* ], Major League Baseball pitcher and executive<ref>{{cite web|title=Craig Breslow|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/breslcr01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], professional basketball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/jordan-bruner/14257|title=Jordan Bruner – 2019-20 Men's Basketball Roster – Yale University|publisher=]|access-date=January 2, 2025}}</ref> | |||
* ], Major League Baseball player, ] champion<ref>{{cite web|title=Johnny Broaca|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/broacjo01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], Israeli-American baseball pitcher for the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1880), the "father of ]"<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Camp|url=http://www.collegesportsreport.com/college-football-walter-camp-father-of-american-football|publisher=collegesportsreport.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2024), 2-time Olympic champion (2022), 3-time world champion (2018, 2019 and 2021), 3-time Grand Prix final champion (2017-2019), and 6-time U.S. champion (2017–2022) in figure skating<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 17, 2023 |title=Nathan Chen's fire still burns thanks to his mother and others |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2023-01-24/helene-elliott-nathan-chen-olympics-figure-skating |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317205408/https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2023-01-24/helene-elliott-nathan-chen-olympics-figure-skating |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |access-date=March 17, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1964), swimmer, two-time Olympian | |||
* ], ] player, five-time winner of the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Alan L. Corey, Jr|url=http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/corey_alan.htm|publisher=2002–2006 Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame|access-date=May 15, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021219195409/http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/corey_alan.htm|archive-date=December 19, 2002}}</ref> | |||
* ], Major League Baseball ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ron Darling|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/darliro01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], Major League Baseball pitcher | |||
* ], tennis player ranked No. 15 in singles in the US in 1947, and No. 3 in doubles in the US in 1948<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dorfman, Irv |url=http://jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525234723/http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=5 |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |access-date=February 25, 2018 |website=Jews in Sports}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=1qJTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wYcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5091,3888113&dq=yale+irvin-dorfman&hl=en|title=The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com.au}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Brian Dowling|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DowlBr00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), former ] player<ref>{{cite web|title=Chris Dudley|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dudlech02.html|publisher=Pro-Basketball Reference . Com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921), AAU Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1919, Olympic gold medal in boxing 1920, Winter Olympics men's four-man bobsleigh gold medal 1932; only Olympian to win gold medals in Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports; New York State boxing commissioner<ref>{{cite magazine |date=October 8, 1951 |title=Sport: Eagan Out |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859396,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Edward Eagan Olympic Bobsleigh Boxing |url=https://www.olympic.org/edward-eagan |access-date=February 23, 2020 |website=olympic.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 25, 2010 |title=The Forgotten Story of those Magnificent Men... |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/feb/25/forgotten-story-magnificent-men-flying-machine |access-date=February 23, 2020 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1995), became ] general manager at age 28, youngest in ] history; currently President of Baseball Operations for the ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Front Office Directory Chicago Cubs |url=https://www.mlb.com/cubs/team/front-office |access-date=February 23, 2020 |website=mlb.com}}</ref> | |||
* ] (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer | |||
* ] (Ph.B., 1914), Major League Baseball player<ref>Yale University (1916). ''''. New Haven: Yale University. 1916. p. 395.</ref> | |||
* ] (Class of 1975, B.A. 1976), professional football player twice selected for the ] as a defensive back for the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Gary Fencik|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FencGa00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Class of 1912), two-time ] golf champion<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert A. Gardner|url=http://www.usgamuseum.com/about_museum/news_events/news_article.aspx?newsid=313|publisher=2010 United States Golf Association.|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), former NBA player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's men's basketball history (3rd Ivy)<ref>{{cite web|title=Earl G. Graves, Jr.|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gravebu01.html|publisher=Pro-Basketball Reference . Com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970), former minor league player, baseball executive and sports agent, served as Deputy Commissioner of Baseball from 1990 to 1993; son of Hall of Fame baseball player ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Greenberg: 2009 George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award Recipient |url=https://yalebulldogs.com/honors/george-h-w-bush-lifetime-of-leadership-award/stephen-greenberg/32 |website=Yale Bulldogs}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.A. '80, M.Phil. '82, Ph.D. '85), ] basketball player, and English Literature professor | |||
* ], was oldest living former ] player when he died aged 100 in 2006<ref>{{cite web|title=Howdy Groskloss|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/groskho01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], ] player, three-time winner of the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=George Haas, Jr.|url=http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/haas_george.htm|publisher=2002–2006 Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame|access-date=May 16, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019135609/http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/haas_george.htm|archive-date=October 19, 2013}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), NFL ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Chris Hetherington|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HethCh00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], forward for the ] ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Chris Higgins|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/h/higgich01.html|publisher=Hockey Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), football player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns<ref>{{cite web|title=Calvin Hill|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HillCa00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980), football player with the NFL's Raiders, Giants and Chiefs<ref>{{cite web|title=Kenny Hill|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HillKe20.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sarah Hughes|url=http://www.biography.com/people/sarah-hughes-16243201#life-after-olympics&awesm=~oErmHpRSK1Bosa|publisher=2014 Bio and the Bio logo are registered trademarks of A&E Television Networks, LLC|access-date=May 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003170759/http://www.biography.com/people/sarah-hughes-16243201#life-after-olympics&awesm=~oErmHpRSK1Bosa|archive-date=October 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* ], former ] player<ref>{{cite web|title=Bill Hutchison|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hutchbi01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref> | |||
* ], Chilean polo player<ref>{{cite web |title=Philip L. B. Iglehart |url=http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/iglehart_philip.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202032542/http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/iglehart_philip.htm |archive-date=December 2, 2011 |access-date=May 16, 2014 |publisher=2002–2006 Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2006), professional squash player, highest world ranking of no. 24<ref>{{cite web|title=Philip L. B. Iglehart|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/player/535-julian-illingworth|access-date=August 13, 2017}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1926–2000), first African-American elected by his teammates to captain an Ivy League football team<ref>{{cite web|title=Levi Jackson|url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_10/old_yale.html|publisher=1992–2012, Yale Alumni Publications, Inc.|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sada Jacobson|url=http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/JA/Sada-Jacobson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301085348/http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/JA/Sada-Jacobson|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 1, 2014|publisher=2014 United States Olympic Committee.|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004, and silver medalist in 2008, Olympic women's ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/blkfeatures.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201536/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/blkfeatures.asp|url-status=dead|title=Ivy League Sports<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2023), former basketball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ej-jarvis/18475|title=EJ Jarvis – 2022-23 Men's Basketball Roster – Yale University|publisher=]|access-date=January 2, 2025}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), head coach of the ]'s ] (2006–2009)<ref>{{cite web|title=Dick Jauron|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/JaurDi0.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2001), NFL ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Eric Johnson|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JohnEr00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (born 1948/1949), basketball player and investment banker | |||
* ], major league baseball catcher (]/]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 2004), NFL ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Nate Lawrie|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LawrNa00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), professional tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yale University Bulldogs, Official Athletic Site<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/famous_alums.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915131818/http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/famous_alums.html |archive-date=September 15, 2008 |access-date=January 9, 2008}}</ref> | |||
*] (B.A. 2005), head coach of the ]'s ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=McDaniel ’05 Named Head Coach of the Miami Dolphins |url=https://yalebulldogs.com/news/2022/2/7/football-mcdaniel-05-named-head-coach-of-the-dolphins.aspx |date=February 7, 2022 |access-date=December 17, 2024}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), ] ] champion, award-winning journalist with ], ] and ]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notable Yale University Alumni |url=http://www.yalebulldogs.com/information/alumni/notable_alumni |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118094154/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/information/alumni/notable_alumni |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |access-date=November 17, 2016}}</ref> | |||
* ], professional ice hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Meckler – Yale Bulldogs |url=http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/meckler_david00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515225713/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-hockey/mtt/meckler_david00.html |archive-date=May 15, 2013 |access-date=January 14, 2013}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), football player with the NFL's Giants, Packers, Redskins and Jets<ref>{{cite web|title=Chuck Mercein|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MercCh00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for Trinidad and Tobago<ref>{{cite web|title=Wendell Mottley|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/wendell-mottley-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171610/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/wendell-mottley-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2003), long distance runner, ] competitor ]{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} | |||
* ], NBA player for ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/onimi01.html|title=Miye Oni|publisher=Basketball-Reference.Com|access-date=November 9, 2019}}</ref> | |||
* ], silver medalist with the ] in the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Winthrop Palmer|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/winthrop-palmer-jr-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417062127/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/winthrop-palmer-jr-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), professional football player selected for the ] as a center for the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Mike Pyle|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/P/PyleMi00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], Major League Baseball infielder<ref>{{cite web|title=Barney Reilly|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reillba01.shtml|publisher=Pro-Baseball Reference.com|access-date=August 1, 2023}}</ref> | |||
* ], former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 3, 2022 |title=Renée Richards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,641868,00.html |access-date=May 14, 2018 |website=] |publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2006), former ] for the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Mike Richter|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/r/richtmi01.html|publisher=Hockey Reference.com|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], ] and two-time national champion on the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ryan Max Riley|url=http://www.universitiesnews.com/2014/08/08/harvard-university-one-of-the-most-prestigious-universities-in-the-world/|publisher=Universities News|access-date=August 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822104730/http://www.universitiesnews.com/2014/08/08/harvard-university-one-of-the-most-prestigious-universities-in-the-world/|archive-date=August 22, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* ], former ] quarterback<ref>{{cite web|title=John Rogan|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/john-rogan-1.html|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 19, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414073132/http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/john-rogan-1.html|archive-date=April 14, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), football player with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeff Rohrer|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RohrJe20.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968, 1 gold, 1 silver; one of the first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1983)<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Schollander|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/don-schollander-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045450/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/don-schollander-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], professional basketball player | |||
* ], polo player<ref>{{cite web|title=George C. Sherman, Jr.|url=http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/sherman_george.htm|publisher=2002–2006 Museum of Polo & Hall of Fame|access-date=May 19, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216195421/http://www.polomuseum.com/hof_inductees/sherman_george.htm|archive-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic marathon<ref>{{cite web|title=Frank Shorter|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/frank-shorter-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173717/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/frank-shorter-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], polo player, played varsity hockey and lacrosse at Yale against Harvard University<ref>Gwen Rizzo, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092617/http://www.poloplayersedition.com/feature0103.html|date=March 4, 2016}}, ''Polo Players' Edition''</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), football player with the NFL's Eagles, Seahawks and Packers<ref>{{cite web|title=John Spagnola|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SpagJo00.htm|publisher=Pro-Football Reference.com|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeff Van Gundy|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/vanguje99c.html|publisher=2000–2014 Sports Reference LLC.|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel | |||
* ] (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing)<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310143734/http://www.yale.edu/rowing/lt_history.html|date=March 10, 2006}}. The Official Yale Crew Website, ]. Retrieved December 22, 2009.</ref><ref>Rotella, Carlo. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012033335/http://yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_07/jacobson.html|date=October 12, 2012}}. '']'', July/August 2004. Retrieved December 22, 2009.</ref> | |||
* ] (born 1977), British-American Olympic medalist rower and Earth Sciences professor<ref>{{cite web|title=Josh West|date=August 2008 |url=http://forward.com/articles/13880/it-s-what-you-always-dream-about-as-a-kid-/|publisher=2014, The Forward Association, Inc.|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
*] (born 2004), American-Israeli college basketball player for Yale and then for the ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1956), former CEO and Chairman of ] | |||
* ] (1869–1939), heir, corporate director, philanthropist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfmem/AlexanderW.pdf |title=Stanford Historical Society: Wallace M. Alexander |access-date=2014-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517161206/http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfmem/AlexanderW.pdf |archive-date=2014-05-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Allen L. Chickering, 'Wallace M. Alexander, 1869–1939', ''California Historical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 18, No. 4 (Dec., 1939), pp. 379–381 </ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1965), former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability; former Chairman, President, and CEO of ]; former President and COO of ] | |||
* ] (1879), Standard Oil | * ] (1879), Standard Oil | ||
* ] (B.A. 1968), Texas heir and billionaire | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), president, ], Inc., member and former chair of the ] Board of Trustees | |||
* ] (BA 1971), Fort Worth, Texas billionaire and current board member of ] | |||
* ], investor, film producer ('']''), owner of ], lead owner in ] ] partnership | |||
* ] (1914–2006), investor and philanthropist<ref>Leslie Wayne, , '']'', June 2, 2006</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), ] President and COO<ref> from ]</ref><ref> from ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), former chairman, ], member and former chair of the ] Board of Trustees | |||
* ], billionaire investor | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1965), billionaire, founder of Bass Brothers Energy | ||
* ] (B.A. 1878), ] Vice President | |||
* ], (1929), a banker, partner of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), investor, film producer ('']''), owner of ], lead owner in ]'s ] partnership | |||
* ] (1997), Wife of ], ] chief strategist, MBA Board of Advisors<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mba.yale.edu/why/advisors/profiles/murdochw.shtml |title=Yale School of Management - Boards of Advisors |publisher=Mba.yale.edu |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), ] President and COO<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823192536/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/management/corp_executives/bio/bewkes_jeffrey.html |date=2006-08-23 }} from ]</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908203552/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1142865,00.html |date=2006-09-08 }} from ]</ref> | |||
*] (M.S. 1964, M.Ph. 1965, M.Eng. 1965, Ph.D. 1967), IT entrepreneur, founder of ]. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921), physician & financier; founder, Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein<ref name=HospitalNYTobit>{{cite news |title=Jules Blankfein, 89, A Hospital Founder |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/03/obituaries/jules-blankfein-89-a-hospital-founder.html|newspaper= The New York Times |date= 3 June 1989|access-date= 16 October 2017 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), former CEO of ] company ], co-founder of PDA company ]<ref>"" by Elisa Batista, November 13, 2001, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] |
* ] (1903), founder of the ] Company and ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1980), billionaire hedge fund investor, founder of Kynikos Associates | |||
* ], (B.A. 1961 (TC)), co-founder & senior partner of ], member of the ] | |||
* ] (M.B.A. 1982), founder and CEO, ] | |||
* ] (B.A., M.A.), founder & CEO, ]<ref> from '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (1914), banker, philanthropist, and chairman of the ] | |||
* ], co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of ]<ref> from the '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (1929), banker, partner of ] | |||
* ] (B.E. 1953), former CEO, ] (namesake of ]'s business school)<ref> from '']'' October 18, 1997</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1941, L.L.B. 1944), CEO and chairman of the board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political activist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1958), founder of M&A department at and former president of ], former chairman of ], CEO of investment banking firm ] | |||
* ] (1940), Chairman and CEO of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920), co-founder of ]<ref> from '']'' magazine media kit</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961 (TC)), co-founder and senior partner of ], member of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding region. Founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group | |||
* ] (B.A., 1953), CEO and Chairman of the Board, ] | |||
* ] (Ph. D.) – Professor in the Foundations of Economics at the ], Research Associate at the ], and Research Associate and Program Director at the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA). | |||
* ] (B.A. 1958), founder of M&A department at and former president of ], former chairman of ], CEO of investment banking firm ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1920), co-founder of '']'' magazine<ref>{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} from '']'' magazine media kit</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding region; founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group | |||
* ] (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm ], which would later merge with other companies to become ] | * ] (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm ], which would later merge with other companies to become ] | ||
* ], President and CEO of ] | |||
* ] (1937), former CEO and chairman, ] | * ] (1937), former CEO and chairman, ] | ||
* ] (1920), founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil), President of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research | * ] (1920), founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil), President of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research | ||
* ], chairman, ] Investments | * ] (B.A. 1954), chairman, ] Investments | ||
* ] (M.B.A.), CEO, ] | |||
* ], president of ] | * ], president of ] | ||
* ] (] 1862), first head of the ] | |||
* ], founder, ], investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder & former CEO, ]<ref> citation, ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), Henry Bower Professor Emeritus of Management at The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania | |||
*], CFO of ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1965), chairman |
* ] (B.S. 1965), billionaire, chairman and former president, ] | ||
* ] |
* ] (B. Phil. 1906), general manager of ] | ||
* ], founder |
* ] (B.A. 1984), founder and chairman, ] (hedge fund), chairman of ] Holding Company<ref>, By Yuval Rosenberg, November 17, 2004, ]</ref> | ||
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* ] (B.S. ] 1928), aviator, benefactor | ||
* ] (B.A. 1920), co-founder of ].<ref> from TIME media kit</ref> | * ] (B.A. 1920), co-founder of '']'' magazine<ref>{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} from ''TIME'' media kit</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1963), CEO of ], chairman of ], and largest individual ] in the U.S. | |||
* ], CEO, ]<ref>, in "The World's Richest People" of 2006, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), founder of ] (AM+A) in 1982 | |||
* ] (1903), owner, president, editor and publisher of the ]; co-founder of ] | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.S. 1957), CEO, ]<ref>, in "The World's Richest People" of 2006, '']'' magazine</ref> | ||
* ] (1903), owner, president, editor and publisher of the '']''; co-founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), CEO of The ] Company<ref> by Andrew Haeg, December 5, 2000, ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.S. 1936), developer of ] (acetaminophen) and chairman of ]<ref>Singer, Natasha. , '']'', June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 4, 2010.</ref> | |||
* ], mid-20th-century New York City construction czar | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), CEO of The ] Company<ref> by Andrew Haeg, December 5, 2000, ]</ref> | |||
* ] (M.P.P.M. ] 1980), CEO and president, ]<ref>, August 16, 2006, '']''</ref> | |||
* ], textiles magnate and promoter of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://politi.co/2PggstE|title=The Man Who Launched the GOP's Civil War|first=Jonathan M.|last=Katz|website=POLITICO Magazine|date=October 2015 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.), president, ], ] | |||
* ] (M.P.P.M. ] 1980), CEO and President, ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026192854/http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1898695.cms |date=2006-10-26 }}, August 16, 2006, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (1901), American media mogul, manager of the Chicago Tribune; founder and president, New York Daily News | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1966), president, ], ] | ||
* ] (1901), media mogul, manager of the ''Chicago Tribune''; founder and president, ''New York Daily News'' | |||
* ], president and chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924 | |||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1960), former chairman and CEO of ] | ||
* ], president and chairman, the First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924 | |||
* ], co-founder & CEO of the ], member of the ] | |||
* ] (1770–1847), ] on the sealing ship Huron, author of a journal of his voyage around the world on that ship | |||
* ], (B.A. 1966), founder & CEO, ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), real estate developer and military historian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1903), ] vice president, head of motion picture lending | |||
* ] (B.A. 1959), investor, steel magnate, ] in the ] presidential administration | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), former CEO and chairman of Samson Resources, philanthropist<ref>{{cite news|last1=Resnick-Ault|first1=Jessica|title=Schusterman Caps Israel-to-Tulsa Oil Career With KKR Sale|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-23/schusterman-caps-israel-to-tulsa-career-with-kkr-sale-correct-|access-date=February 14, 2016|work=Bloomberg Business|date=November 23, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), co-founder and CEO of the ], member of the Forbes 400 | |||
* ] (1950), heir, CEO of ], conservative philanthropist<ref>{{cite web | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1981), ] and ] of ] and member of ] | |||
* ], hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading | |||
* ] (B.A. 1966), founder and CEO, ] | |||
* ] (a.k.a. Chuck Spalding) (1919–2000), Vice President of ], political campaigner for ], television writer | |||
* ], founder, ] | * ], founder, ] | ||
* ] |
* ], billionaire, environmentalist and founder of ] | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (1846), industrialist and founder of the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1970), founder and CEO of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921), founder & CEO, ]<ref> by Mike Brewster, May 25, 2004, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (M.P.P.M. ] 1980), former president and co-COO, ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1921), founder and CEO, ]<ref> by Mike Brewster, May 25, 2004, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (] 1893), philanthropist, director of the ] | |||
* ], founded ] | * ], founded ] | ||
* ] (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, owner of thoroughbred racehorses | |||
* ] (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first U.S. ] firm | * ] (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first U.S. ] firm | ||
* ] (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of thoroughbred racehorses. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1898) | * ] (B.A. 1898) | ||
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* ] (B.S. 1994), businessman; ] of ] | ||
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* ] (B.A. 2005), founder of Justin.tv | |||
== College founders and presidents == | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1828),<ref> in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> the ]</ref><ref> at the ]</ref> mathematician, educator, president (1856–1858) and chancellor (1858–1861) of the ], president (1864–1889) of ], posthumous namesake of ], active in the founding of the ] and the ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1968),<ref> from the ]</ref> president of ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1735),<ref> from ''A Princeton Companion'' by Alexander Leitch</ref> second president of ], father of the third ], ] | |||
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* ] (LL.B. 1962; Honorary doctorate, 2000), ninth president of ], former provost at the ], member of the ]<ref> at the official website of the ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1828),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101133116/http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/BarnardF.html |date=2007-11-01 }} in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912015929/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/u_museum/Millington/barnardbio.htm |date=2006-09-12 }} the ]</ref><ref> at the ]</ref> mathematician, educator, president (1856–58) and chancellor (1858–61) of the ], president (1864–89) of ], posthumous namesake of ], active in the founding of the ] and the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1840) Chancellor of ] (1863–1869) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1943), president of ], 1950–80 | |||
* ], first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale, reformer, educator, President of ]. First Native American member of a Yale secret society (]) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1924), 16th president of ], 1960–79 | |||
*], President of ] from 1899 to 1902, and of Simmons College, now known as Hardin-Simmons University from 1902 to 1909. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811195310/http://www.carnegie.org/sub/news/3newtrustees.html |date=2006-08-11 }} from the ]</ref> president of ] | |||
* ], (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, which was later named ]<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> by Alexander Leitch (1978) : "Dickinson, Jonathan (1688–1747), Princeton's first President, died after only four and a half months in office and is chiefly remembered for having been the leader of the little group who, in his words, 'first concocted the plan and foundation of the College.' To him, 'more than to any other man, the College . . . owes its origin,' wrote Professor William A. Packard in The Princeton Book (1879)."</ref> | |||
* ], |
* ], President of ], 1902–31 | ||
* ] (B.A. 1735),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720205901/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/burr_aaron_sr.html |date=2019-07-20 }} from ''A Princeton Companion'' by Alexander Leitch</ref> second president of ], father of the third ], ] | |||
* ] ( B.E. 1964), President of the ]<ref>": | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993), Dean and President of ] | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1962; honorary doctorate, 2000), ninth president of ], former provost at the ], member of the ]<ref>{{dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the official website of the ]</ref> | |||
* ], biologist, author of '']'', and President of ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/management/president.aspx |access-date=27 June 2019 |title=Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - BGU President - Prof. Daniel Chamovitz |archive-date=13 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613231029/http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/management/president.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1840), Chancellor of ] (1863–69) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1970), first female chancellor of the ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Carol Christ named UC Berkeley chancellor-designate, pending regents' approval|url=http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/13/carol-christ-named-uc-berkeley-chancellor-designate-pending-regents-approval/|website=Berkeley News|publisher=UC Berkeley|access-date=8 June 2017|date=2017-03-13}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1894–1957), first President of ] | |||
* ], first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale, reformer, educator, President of ]; first Native American member of a Yale secret society (]) | |||
* ], ], 23rd President of ] (1993–2010)<ref name=bn>{{cite news |first=Dale |last=Anderson |title=The Rev. Vincent M. Cooke, 81, 'visionary' Canisius president |url=http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/23/rev-vincent-m-cooke-81-visionary-canisius-president/ |work=] |date=2017-06-23 |access-date=2017-07-19}}</ref> | |||
* ], President of ] 1899–1902, and of Simmons College, now known as ], 1902–09 | |||
* ], fourth president of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, later named ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009004600/http://bartleby.com/65/di/DicknsoJon.html |date=2006-10-09 }} at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901071826/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/dickinson_jonathan.html |date=2006-09-01 }} by Alexander Leitch (1978): "Dickinson, Jonathan (1688–1747), Princeton's first President, died after only four and a half months in office and is chiefly remembered for having been the leader of the little group who, in his words, 'first concocted the plan and foundation of the College.' To him, 'more than to any other man, the College . . . owes its origin,' wrote Professor William A. Packard in The Princeton Book (1879)."</ref> | |||
* ] (B.E. 1964), President of the ]<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060806141935/http://milproj.ummu.umich.edu/home/biography.html |date=2006-08-06 }}: | |||
James Johnson Duderstadt" at the ]'s "Millennium Project" website</ref> | James Johnson Duderstadt" at the ]'s "Millennium Project" website</ref> | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1827), first president of the ] (Berkeley) | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1951), geologist and former president of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A.), former president of the ] | * ] (B.A.), former president of the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810), educator for the deaf, co-founder and principal ( |
* ] (B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810), educator for the deaf, co-founder and principal (1817–30) of the ], namesake of ]<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810003020/http://pr.gallaudet.edu/gallaudethistory/ |date=2006-08-10 }}: The Legacy Begins (1787–1851)" at the official website of ]</ref> | ||
* ] |
* ] (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1970), chemist and current chancellor of the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.umsl.edu/chancellor/|title=Office of the Chancellor|website=umsl.edu}}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1852), second president of the ] (Berkeley); first president of ] (1876–1901); first president of the ]<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | * ] (B.A. 1852), second president of the ] (Berkeley); first president of ] (1876–1901); first president of the ]<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | ||
* ] |
* ] (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226134346/http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/Harper-W.html |date=2006-02-26 }} at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | ||
* ] |
* ] (1938–1994), President of ] | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1974), tenth president of ] | |||
* ], (B.A. 1840), first chancellor of ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chancellorsroom.wustl.edu/hoyt.htm |title=The Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis |publisher=Chancellorsroom.wustl.edu |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1983), eighth president of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925), president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> at the Encyclopedia Britannica</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1995), 21st President of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1714), first president of ] (known at the time as ''King's College''); father of U.S. Senator ]<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1840), first chancellor of ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chancellorsroom.wustl.edu/hoyt.htm |title=The Chancellors of Washington University in St. Louis |publisher=Chancellorsroom.wustl.edu |access-date=February 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724024009/http://chancellorsroom.wustl.edu/hoyt.htm |archive-date=July 24, 2008 }}</ref> | |||
* William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), son of Samuel Johnson, president (1787–1800) of ] (he was its first president under its new name of '']''; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as ''King's College''), U.S. senator (], 1789–1791) (''See also:'' ] for the many other roles he served)<ref> article at the ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925), president (1929–45) and chancellor (1945–51) of the University of Chicago<ref> at the Encyclopædia Britannica</ref> | |||
* ] (ca. 1876), founder of ]<ref> by Tasuku Takagi</ref> | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (1862), first president of the ]<ref name=Oregon>Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1714, M.A. 1717), first president of Columbia University (then known as King's College), father of William Samuel Johnson, signer of the US Constitution and third president of Columbia College (Columbia University) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1973), president (1997–present) of ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-bac.edu/x1014.xml |title=Boston Architectural College |publisher=The-bac.edu |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), signer of the U.S. Constitution, third president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and first US Senator from Connecticut | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981 magna cum laude),<ref> from Amherst College</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/new-york-public-library-will-name-anthony-w-marx-as-new-president/?scp=1&sq=Anthony%20W.%20MArx&st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Kate | last=Taylor | title=New York Public Library Will Name Anthony W. Marx as New President | date=October 5, 2010}}</ref> president (2003–2011) of ] | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (1986), Dean at ] | ||
* ] (ca. 1876), founder of ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101205644/http://www.vcci.or.jp/vcci_e/member/katsudo/publish/kiso/kiso_071.html |date=2007-01-01 }} by Tasuku Takagi</ref> | |||
* ] (M.A., 1948 and Ph.D. in French, 1950), English-American professor and fifth President of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=24&id=29473|title=Info Brooklyn History Real Estate :: Brooklyn Daily Eagle|website=50.56.218.160|access-date=2019-03-27|archive-date=2019-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101445/http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=24&id=29473|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.1952, M.A.1954), founder and first president (1971–79) of ], Istanbul<ref>Essays in Honour of Aptullah Kuran, page 12, C.Kafescioglu & L.Senocak eds., Yapi Kredi Publishing, Istanbul, 1999</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1973), president of ] (1997–2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-bac.edu/x1014.xml |title=Boston Architectural College |publisher=The-bac.edu |access-date=February 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720060136/http://www.the-bac.edu/x1014.xml |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005062343/http://www.amherst.edu/~president/bio.html |date=2006-10-05 }} from Amherst College</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/new-york-public-library-will-name-anthony-w-marx-as-new-president/?scp=1&sq=Anthony%20W.%20MArx&st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Kate | last=Taylor | title=New York Public Library Will Name Anthony W. Marx as New President | date=October 5, 2010}}</ref> president (2003–11) of ] | |||
* ] (M.Sc.), Rector and then President of ], ], Italy and Italian Prime Minister | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962), President of ] and ]; head of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952), former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester | * ] (B.A. 1952), former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester | ||
* ] (M.A. 1943), progressive educator, created the ], founder of ]<ref> |
* ] (M.A. 1943), progressive educator, created the ], founder of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Parkhurst|title=Helen Parkhurst {{!}} American educator|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> | ||
* ] (MPH 1977, MPhil 1978, Ph.D. 1980), 29th ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1903), first President of the ] (1905–1909); President of ] (1910–1914); first Professor of New Testament Literature at ]'s ] (1914–1939)<ref>University of Florida, Past Presidents, .</ref> | |||
* ] (M.Mus. 2000), 4th President of ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1905), president of ] (1916–43) | |||
* ] (JD), President of ] (2021–present) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1903), first President of the ] (1905–09); President of ] (1910–14); first Professor of New Testament Literature at ]'s ] (1914–39)<ref>University of Florida, Past Presidents, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528042950/http://www.president.ufl.edu/pastPres/sledd.htm |date=2009-05-28 }}.</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1897), third president of the ] and sixth chancellor of the ]<ref>'' Historical Register of Yale University, 1701–1937'' (New Haven: Yale University, 1939), pp. 125, 498.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1862), founding trustee and de facto first president of ]<ref name="1928 Yale bulletin">{{cite news|date=15 September 1928|title=Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1927–1928|pages=16–18|work=Bulletin of Yale University|url=https://docplayer.net/56861557-Obituary-record-of-yale-graduates.html|access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.), ninth president of ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Turner |first=Jonathan |date=2021-12-07 |title=Andrea Talentino named Augustana's next president, first woman in school's 161-year history |url=https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/andrea-talentino-named-augustanas-next-president-first-woman-in-schools-161-year-history/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=WHBF - OurQuadCities.com |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1879, M.A. 1891), co-founder of ]<ref>Frederick William Wells, "A History of the Class of '79, Yale College", 440.</ref> | * ] (B.A. 1879, M.A. 1891), co-founder of ]<ref>Frederick William Wells, "A History of the Class of '79, Yale College", 440.</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1980), art historian, former president of ]<ref name="WooElaine">{{Cite news |last=Woo |first=Elaine |date=2003-05-03 |title=Ella King Torrey, 45; Former S.F. Art Institute Leader, Fund-Raiser |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-ella-king-torrey/144664284/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=] |pages=109 |via=] |issn=0458-3035 |quote=Torrey, who lived in the Potrero Hill section of San Francisco, apparently took her own life Wednesday}}</ref><ref name="SmithRoberta">{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |author-link=Roberta Smith |date=2003-05-03 |title=Ella King Torrey, 45, Scholar, Arts Advocate and Administrator |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/ella-king-torrey-45-scholar-arts-advocate-and-administrator.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of ]<ref> at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> from the official Cornell University website: "Founded 1865 By Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White."</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1733), founder of ]<ref> from the official Dartmouth College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."</ref> | * ] (B.A. 1733), founder of ]<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928043724/http://www.dartmouth.edu/home/about/history.html |date=September 28, 2010 }} from the official Dartmouth College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829214524/http://bartleby.com/65/wh/White-An.html |date=2006-08-29 }} at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref><ref> from the official Cornell University website: "Founded 1865 By Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White."</ref> | |||
* ] (born 1935), Israeli economist, S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at ], President of the ] | |||
* ] (born 1953), Israeli electrical engineer, businesswoman, and President of ] | |||
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== Film and television == | ||
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* ] (B.A. 2011, American Studies), director of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), Academy Award-nominated actress | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987 American Literature), actress, best known for '']'' and '']'' | |||
* ], screenwriter/director '']'' | |||
* ], actress, plays Mia in '']'' | |||
* ] (studied stage lighting in the Department of Drama, 1925–26), animator and director | |||
* ] (MFA 1990), actor, debuted in '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 2014, MFA 2017), actress, appeared in '']'' and received a ] nomination for '']'' | |||
* ], ]-nominated director of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963), Academy Award-winning director of '']'' | |||
* ], film producer, won an ] for '']'' | |||
* ] (Class of 1992), Academy Award-winning actress | |||
* ], author, playwright and screenwriter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), television, film, and stage actor | |||
* ] (Class of 2002), actress | |||
* ] (MFA 2013), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985 in literature, ]), Academy Award-winning actress and director | |||
* ], actor, comedian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989, MFA 1994), actor, starred in '']'' | |||
* ], Academy Award-winning documentary-filmmaker ('']'', 2005; '']'', 2007) | |||
* ], actor, comedian | |||
* ] (MFA), actress | |||
* ] (MFA), actor | |||
* ], director, founder of Troma Studios | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), film director | |||
* ] (B.A. 1943), Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ] (MFA 2019), actress | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), director, actor, President of Troma Studios, IFTA Charman | |||
* ] (studied 1930–32), Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ] (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter | |||
* ] (B.A. 2004), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979 in literature), film and theater producer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), actor, best known for '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), ]-winning actor | |||
* ] (MFA), Academy Award-winning director, best known for '']'' | |||
* ] (MFA 1982), Academy Award-winning actress | |||
* ] (B.A. 1966), actor | |||
* ] (studied art in the School of Fine Arts 1913–14), production designer, art director, director | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), award-winning filmmaker and novelist | |||
* ], actor | |||
* ] (DRA 1954), Academy Award-winning actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977, M.M. 1978), film composer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1994), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), Academy Award-nominated actor ('']''), known for '']'' | |||
* ] (MFA 2012), Academy Award-winning actress ('']'') | |||
* ] (B.A. 1948), director | |||
* ] (B.A. 1998), actor | |||
* ] (B.A.), documentarian and director of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), actor | |||
* ] (B.A.), director | |||
* ] (B.A. 1933, History & English), actor | |||
* ] (MFA), actress | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2011), Academy Award-winning actress ('']'') | |||
* ] (B.A. 1988), director | |||
* ] (B.A. 2010), director | |||
* ] (MFA 1992), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985 in Philosophy, summa cum laude), film producer, best known for '']'', '']'', and '']''; also the founder and chairman of ] | |||
* ] (B.A.), screenwriter, best known for '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), movie critic | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), director, '']'' and '']'' | |||
* ] (Class of 1968), Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ] (MFA, 1975), Academy Award-winning actress | |||
* ] (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter | |||
* ] (MFA 1983), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961), actor | |||
* ] (MFA 1974), actress | |||
* ] (B.A. 1998), director/writer/producer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), creator and showrunner of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), director/producer/actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), actress, screenwriter ('']'') | |||
* ], actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1976), film producer | |||
* ] (B.A. 2010), actress ('']''), comedian, singer | |||
* ] (B.A.), producer/writer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), Academy Award-winning film director | |||
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== Inventors and innovators == | |||
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* ] (Ph.D. 1965), NASA astronaut with two STS missions experience | |||
* ] (1963–66), co-founder of ]; genetic engineering pioneer<ref>{{cite web| title=PIONEER IN GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECH WINS PARKER MEDAL| url=http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/autumn2011/people/alumni/109216/}}</ref> | |||
* ] (ca. 1776), inventor of the ], ], ], and ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), pediatric neurosurgeon, first surgeon to successfully separate ]<ref>{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE: BENJAMIN SOLOMON CARSON|url=http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/benjamin_carson.pdf|publisher=]|access-date=2014-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021074616/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cv/benjamin_carson.pdf|archive-date=2014-10-21|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1974), director, ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1935, ]), aviation pioneer | |||
* ] (B.A.), pioneer of modern brain surgery and considered by many the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century | |||
* ] (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the ] | |||
* ] (M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine | |||
* ] (B.A. 1810), first commissioner of ], founder of ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of ] image sensor | |||
* ] (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor of ] programming language | |||
* ] (B.Sc. 1949, M.Sc. 1950, Ph.D. 1952), developer of ] | |||
* ] (1831), apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, considered to be the father of American beekeeping; namesake and creator of the ] | |||
* ] (1947), "Engineer of the Century", won the ] for first human-powered flying machine (the '']''); pioneer in ]ed flight; founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), the first graphic designer in the world to work with ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1904), biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D | |||
* ] (B.A. 1921), cybernetics pioneer, created the first computational models for studying the brain | |||
* ] (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1975), creator of the ] programming language | |||
* ] (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the ] cryptography, 2002 ] recipient | |||
* ], awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895 | |||
* ] (1779–1864), early chemist and science educator; one of the first professors of science at Yale College; the first person to distill petroleum; a founder of the ''American Journal of Science'', the oldest scientific journal in the United States | |||
* ], professor of chemistry at Yale University, instrumental in developing the oil industry | |||
* ] (B.A. 1925), ] guru | |||
* ] (1792), inventor of the ] | |||
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== Life sciences and medicine == | |||
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* ] (Ph.D. 1926), professor of Zoology at ] | * ] (Ph.D. 1926), professor of Zoology at ] | ||
* ] (B.S. 2006), ] and Creative Director of ] | |||
* ] (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, ] at ] (1981–2002) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961), academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, Editor and educator; professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, ]; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, ] | |||
* ] (BSc 1959, Ph.D. Geology 1964), American/Canadian geochemist | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1966 in ]), Israeli Professor of Structural Biochemistry at ] | |||
* ] (MSc 1911, Ph.D. Geology 1920), Canadian geologist and paleontologist | |||
* ] (M.A. 1909, Ph.D. 1914), biologist, official of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979–94), president of University of Oklahoma | |||
* ], Commissioner of Health of the City of New York | |||
* ] (B.A. 1874, Ph.D. Physics 1876), first African-American to graduate from Yale and the first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university | |||
* ] (M.D. 1946), "father of ]"; founder of the ] at the ]; winner of the ] | |||
* ], actor and professor of history | |||
* ], Class of 1921, physician and financier; founder of Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein<ref name="HospitalNYTobit" /> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences from Yale | * ] (Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences from Yale | ||
* ] (B.S. 2001 ), founding member and former director of ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1984), author of '']'', philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar | |||
* ] (M.D. 2005), physician, Secretary of the ], Director of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1935), ] professor at University of Pennsylvania | |||
* ] (1798–1869), personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, chair of medicine at University of Maryland and Jefferson Medical College | |||
* ] (B.A. 1957), Louisiana historian | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (M.D. 1976), cardiac surgeon, professor at Yale School of Medicine | ||
* ] (M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2006), entomologist and evolutionary biologist | |||
* ] (B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought, ] | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (MPH and PhD), Yale professor of psychiatry | ||
* ] (B.A. 1980), dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at ] | |||
* ] literary theorist and French Department professor from 1961 to 1972 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1925), polio researcher at ] | |||
* ] (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department | |||
* ] (M.D. 1839), prominent Connecticut physician, legislator and judge | |||
* ] (B.A.), professor of economics, ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1833), President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insane | |||
* ] (B.A.), political scientist at ], author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor, ] | * ] (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor, ] | ||
* ] (Ph.D 1977), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the ], President-Elect of the ] | |||
* ] (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D 1977), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the ], President-Elect of the ]. | |||
* ], B.A., developmental biologist at ] | * ], B.A., developmental biologist at ] | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1960), mathematician, emeritus professor, ], author of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1934), English teacher, ], ], 1937–1975 | |||
* ] (Master's degree in Forestry, 1909), pioneer in the field of ] at the ], author of '']'' | * ] (Master's degree in Forestry, 1909), pioneer in the field of ] at the ], author of '']'' | ||
* ] (1862), preeminent paleontologist, discovered numerous dinosaur species | |||
* ] (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/llessig |title=Lawrence Lessig | Berkman Center |publisher=Cyber.law.harvard.edu |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B. |
* ] (B.S. 1947, M.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1951), professor of biology and natural philosophy at ] | ||
* ] (MD 2003, MBA 2003), vice admiral in the ], 19th and 21st ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970), ] for Religious Life at ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1990, M.Phil 1993, Ph.D. 1995), author and professor of social medicine at the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), former ] philosophy professor, currently founding chairman of the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morrisinstitute.com/ |title=Morris Institute of Human Values |publisher=Morrisinstitute.com |date= |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.S. 1979), chair of orthopedic surgery at ]; director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at the ] | |||
* ] (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist, professor at ] | |||
* ] (] 1914), author, ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the ] | * ] (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the ] | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (Ph.D. 1938), microbiology professor at ], 1938–79 | ||
* ] (M.D.), psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Force on Life & the Law | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1972), author of '']'', cultural critic and feminist scholar | |||
* ], Dean of the ] (2023 – ) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1938), microbiology professor at ], 1938–1979 | |||
* ] (M.D), psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Forceon Life & the Law | |||
* ] (B.S. 1967), professor of biochemistry at ] | * ] (B.S. 1967), professor of biochemistry at ] | ||
* Marjorie S. Rosenthal (M.D. 1995; Fellow 2016), Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the ]; Co-Director of Yale's National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) and Director of the NCSP Community Research Initiative; former ] Clinical Scholar at both Yale and the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/marjorie-rosenthal/|title=Marjorie Rosenthal, M.D., MPH|website=medicine.yale.edu}}</ref> | |||
* ], economist, professor at ], former director, Research at the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D |
* ] (Ph.D. 1921), first to sequence an individual human genome; serial biotechnology entrepreneur; professor of genetics at ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 ] for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize") | * ] (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 ] for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize") | ||
* ] (B.S. 1983), structural biologist at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1923),<ref name=CHF>{{cite web|title=Esmond R. Long and Florence B. Seibert|url=http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/diagnosing-diseases/long-and-seibert.aspx|work=Chemical Heritage Foundation|accessdate=27 April 2011}}</ref> biochemist, winner of 1942 ] and member of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1877), bacteriologist, epidemiologist, founder of the ]-] School of Public Health | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1923),<ref name="CHF">{{cite web|title=Esmond R. Long and Florence B. Seibert|url=http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/diagnosing-diseases/long-and-seibert.aspx|work=Chemical Heritage Foundation|access-date=April 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113010259/http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/diagnosing-diseases/long-and-seibert.aspx|archive-date=January 13, 2012}}</ref> biochemist, winner of 1942 ] and member of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1796), "father of American scientific education" | |||
* ] (faculty 1965–95), ] and ]s expert | |||
*Amy Solomon, the first woman to register as an undergraduate at Yale, in 1971.<ref>{{dead link|date=February 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.S., 1964 and Ph.D., 1966), wrote doctoral dissertation on information processing in children;<ref name ="SRCD2">Stanovich, Keith (1993). . ]. Retrieved 28 May 2015.</ref><ref name="SRCD1">]. . Retrieved 28 May 2015</ref> worked as a ] and was holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education at the ] 1996–2010 | |||
* ], professor of English, pioneering African-American studies scholar | |||
* ], professor of |
* ] (Ph.D., 1931), professor of ], Yale University | ||
}} | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor of classic studies at Yale and ] | |||
== Mathematics and computer science == | |||
* ] (M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology), ] ] researcher and ], professor of Anthropology at ]<ref>{{cite web |author=Board of Regents, UC |year=2006 |title=Taube, Karl A |work=UC Riverside, Faculty Directory |url=http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=627 |publisher=Regents UC|accessdate=January 11, 2007}}</ref> | |||
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* ] (Ph.D. 1970), Wolf Prize medallist, mathematician known for ] and ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at ], Guggenheim Fellow known for his work on classifying hyperbolic 3-manifolds | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1979), University Professor, ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1980), Eugene Higgins Professor of ] at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980), ] of ] and ], ] and ], at ] and the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1960), ] of mathematics at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1942), Chair of Mathematics at ], World War II codebreaker, made fundamental contributions to Lie Groups, Quantum Mechanics and Combinatorics | |||
* ] (M.D., Ph.D. 1987), former director of the NYU ]; inventor of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1932), mathematician, who made significant contributions to the development of group theory and combinatorics | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), discovered ], instrumental to the solution of the ], winner of the ], ] and AMS ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), mathematician who made significant contributions to higher-dimensional arithmetic geometry and birational geometry, fellow of the ] | |||
* ], professor of computer science, co-creator of the programming language ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1980), Cognitive Scientist, Regents' Professor, ], ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1960), ] winner, emeritus professor, ], author of the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1975), bestselling co-author of ], inventor of ], professor of ] at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of ] | |||
* ] (B.Sc. 1974), expert on ]; professor at the ] | |||
* ], professor of computer science and first ever recipient of the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1993), Academy Award winner for the formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1987), ] winner, ] at ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1992), MacArthur Fellow, Godel, Polya and Nevanlinna Prize Winner, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science professor at Yale University | |||
* ] (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the ] in 1970 | * ] (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the ] in 1970 | ||
* ] (B.A., B.S. 1982), professor of ] at ]<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/selfstudy/cvs/weld.pdf |title=Daniel S. Weld |access-date=November 12, 2008 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), screenwriter and Chairman of the Department of Radio-TV-Film, ] | |||
* ], software engineer specializing in microprocessors | |||
* ] (B.A., B.S. 1982), professor of ] at ]<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/selfstudy/cvs/weld.pdf |format=PDF|title=Daniel S. Weld |accessdate=November 12, 2008 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), professor of mathematics at ] who specializes in ] and ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1928) (B.A. 1929), mathematician, founder of singularity theory, foundational work in manifolds and embedding, Wolf Prize medallist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1978), former chair of Computer Science at ], doctoral advisor of ] | |||
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== Physical sciences and engineering == | |||
{{See also|#Nobel laureates}} | |||
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* ] (BSc 1959, Ph.D. Geology 1964), American-Canadian geochemist | |||
* ] (MSc 1911, Ph.D. Geology 1920), Canadian geologist and paleontologist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1874, Ph.D. Physics 1876), first African-American to graduate from Yale and the first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university | |||
* ] (M.A. Forestry 1914), professor of forestry and noted consultant on California redwoods | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1929), chemist | |||
* ] (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951), Manhattan Project ] expert, Yale physics professor, ] dean, ] professor and provost | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1998), climatologist and geophysicist at ], originator of the "]" | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1929), Physicist and Philosopher of Science, expert on spectral analysis and microwave theory | |||
* ] (B.A. 1924), professor of ], noted researcher, administrator and advisor at ] | |||
* ] (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist, professor at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1796) (M.A. 1799), "father of American scientific education" | |||
* ] (B.S. 1935), theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science winner, namesake of NASA's ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1960), professor at ], known for research in biodegradable plastics | |||
* ] (B.A. 1839), geologist, chief of ], and geology professor at ] | * ] (B.A. 1839), geologist, chief of ], and geology professor at ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1942), founding father of modern mathematical physics, Poincare Prize Winner | |||
* ], librarian and bibliographer, of Yale University Library | |||
* ] (B |
* ] (Ph.B. 1881), pioneering Chinese railroad engineer, considered the "father of China's Railroad" | ||
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== Law and politics == | |||
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=== Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers === | |||
===Law and politics=== | |||
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====Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers==== | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of the Republic of ] (1980–83, 1998–2001), and Foreign Minister (1993–98)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clubmadrid.org/en/miembro/abdulkarim_al_eryani |title=Abdulkarim Al-Eryani | Club de Madrid |publisher=Clubmadrid.org |date=October 12, 1934 |access-date=February 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107194735/http://www.clubmadrid.org/en/miembro/abdulkarim_al_eryani |archive-date=2010-11-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1948), president of the United States (1989–1993), ] (1981–1989), member of the ] (]-Texas) (1967–1971)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> | |||
* ], consort of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/prince-jean-christophe-napoleon-bonaparte-20653588|title=Princess Beatrice leads famous guests at Napoleon's descendant's royal wedding|first=Emmeline|last=Saunders|date=October 19, 2019|website=mirror}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), president of the United States (2001–2009), ] (1995–2000)<ref> from the White House</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989–93), ] (1981–89), member of the ] (]-Texas) (1967–71), played baseball while attending and was on the ] and ] College World Series runner-up teams<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001–09), ] (1995–2000)<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917031843/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/president/gwbbio.html |date=2009-09-17 }} from the White House</ref> | |||
* ] (L.L.M. 1949), fifth ] (1979–1984)<ref> at the official Bundespraesident website.</ref> | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1804), seventh Vice President of the United States, for two different presidents, ] and ]; ]; Member of the ]; ] in the ] presidential administration<ref> from the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress</ref> | ||
* ] (L.L.M. 1949), fifth ] (1979–84)<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813075440/http://www.bundespraesident.de/-,11065/Karl-Carstens.htm |date=2006-08-13 }} at the official Bundespraesident website.</ref> | |||
* ] (Postdoctoral Fellow), prime minister of ] (1993–1996)<ref> from the ] (])</ref> | |||
* ] (Class of 1963), Vice President of the United States (2001–09)<ref> from the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress</ref> | |||
* ], president of the Philippines in World War II | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (Postdoctoral Fellow), Prime Minister of Turkey (1993–96)<ref> from the ] (])</ref> | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993–2001), ] (1979–81, 1983–92)<ref> from the White House</ref> | ||
* ] (M.A. 2016), ] (2024–present)<ref></ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th president of the United States (1909–1913), 10th ] (1921–1930)<ref> at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</ref> | |||
* ] (] 1941), President of the United States (1974–77), Vice President of the United States (1973–74), member of the ]<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> | |||
* ] of the ] (Class of 2000*, attended for two years)<ref> from the Royal Court of Sweden</ref> | |||
* ], ] ( |
* ], ] (2012–13) | ||
* ] (J.D. 1988), Vice President of the ] (2009–11), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1981), president of Mexico (1994–2000)<ref> at the ]</ref> | |||
* ], President of the Philippines in World War II | |||
* ] (LL.M 1953) (J.S.D.1960), Vice President of the ] (1986–92) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1968), ] (1994–95) | |||
* ] (M.Sc. 1968), ] (2011–13) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and Tobago minister | * ] (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and Tobago minister | ||
* ] (LL.M |
* ] (LL.M. 1966, J.S.D. 1969), 5th ] | ||
* ], prince, aristocrat, financier, grandson of Tsar ]<ref>, New York Times on Jan. 31, 2019.</ref> | |||
* ] (J.S.D.1949), Senator of the ] (1965–1972) (1987–1992) | |||
* ] (J.S.D.1949), Senator of the ] (1965–72) (1987–92) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of the Republic of ] (1980–1983, 1998–2001), and Foreign Minister (1993–1998).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clubmadrid.org/en/miembro/abdulkarim_al_eryani |title=Abdulkarim Al-Eryani | Club de Madrid |publisher=Clubmadrid.org |date=October 12, 1934 |accessdate=February 1, 2011}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th ] (1921–30)<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829075921/http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2331 |date=2006-08-29 }} at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</ref> | |||
* ] (J.D. 2013), ] (2025–present), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 2023–25)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/V000137|title=J.D. Vance|publisher=]|access-date=January 8, 2025}}</ref> | |||
====Supreme Court justices==== | |||
* ] of the ] (Class of 2000, attended for two years)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_03/special_students.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114042055/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_03/special_students.html|url-status=dead|title=Yale Alumni Magazine, March 2002, accessed August 13, 2011.|archive-date=November 14, 2012}}</ref> | |||
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.<ref></ref> | |||
* ], ] (2007–11) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994–2000)<ref> at the ]</ref> | |||
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=== Supreme Court justices === | |||
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Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://air.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf |title=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges |access-date=2006-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615193127/http://air.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf |archive-date=2006-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
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* ] (J.D. 1975), ] justice (2006–present) | * ] (J.D. 1975), ] justice (2006–present) | ||
* ] (1797), Supreme Court justice ( |
* ] (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830–44) | ||
* ] (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910) | * ] (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910) | ||
* ] (1856), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906) | * ] (1856, and law study, LL.D. 1891), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906) | ||
* ] (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice ( |
* ] (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862–77) | ||
* ] (Class of 1766 |
* ] (Class of 1766),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/ellsworth_oliver.html|title=Ellsworth, Oliver|website=etcweb.princeton.edu|access-date=2006-08-01|archive-date=2006-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901063817/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/ellsworth_oliver.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Supreme Court justice (1796–1800) | ||
* ] (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice ( |
* ] (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965–69) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (J.D 1990), ] Justice (2018–present) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949–56) | ||
*] ( |
* ] (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892–1903) | ||
* ], Supreme Court justice ( |
* ] (J.D. 1979), ] justice (2009–present) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (1937, Law 1941), Supreme Court justice (1958–81) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870–80) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30) | |||
* ] (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present) | * ] (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present) | ||
* ] (1837), |
* ] (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874–88) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (Law 1946), Supreme Court justice (1962–93) | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881–87) | ||
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* ] (1896), U.S. senator (]-Colorado, 1923–24, 1932–1941) | |||
* ] (1896), U.S. senator (]-Colorado, 1923–24, 1932–41)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Alva B. Adams|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=a000028|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964 cum laude) ] (2001–2005), U.S. senator (]-Missouri, 1993–2001), ] (1985–1993) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964 cum laude), ] (2001–05), U.S. senator (]-Missouri, 1995–2001), ] (1985–93)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Ashcroft|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=a000356|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–1799), U.S. senator (1799–1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the ] (1786–1801) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–99), U.S. senator (1799–1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the ] (1786–1801)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Abraham Baldwin|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000084|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1811), ] (1844–46), U.S. senator (]-Connecticut, 1847–51) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1811), ] (1844–46), U.S. senator (]-Connecticut, 1847–51)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Roger Sherman Baldwin|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000096|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator (R-Maryland, 1971–1976) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator (R-Maryland, 1971–76)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Glenn Beall, Jr|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000272|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1898), ] (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924–1933); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of ], ]; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional ] character | |||
* ] (J.D. 1993), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 2009–)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Michael Bennet|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001267|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), ] (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-], 1979–94), president of ] | |||
* ] (1898), ] (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924–33); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of ], ]; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional character ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hiram Bingham III|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000470|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952), U.S. senator (R-New Jersey, 1982) | |||
* ] (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-], 2011–)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Richard Blumenthal|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001277|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), U.S. representative (1993–2007), U.S. senator (D-], 2007–present) | |||
* ] (J.D. 1997), U.S. senator (D-New Jersey, 2013–), former ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001288|title=Cory Booker|publisher=]|access-date=January 8, 2025}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953–1963), father of ], grandfather to ]. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), ] (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-], 1979–94), president of ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=David Boren|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000639|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (]-New York, 1971–1977); president of ], 1982–1985; federal judge for the ] (] Circuit) (1985–1996) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778), U.S. senator (]), Vermont, 1801–13<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Stephen R. Bradley|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000745|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), ] (1962–69), ] (1969–72), U.S. senator (]-], 1976–99) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952), U.S. senator (R-New Jersey, 1982)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Nicholas F. Brady|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000756|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1815), ] in the ] administration, U.S. senator (]-], 1829–1836; ]-Delaware, 1845–1849; ]-Delaware 1853–1856) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), U.S. representative (1993–2007), U.S. senator (D-], 2007–2025)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sherrod Brown|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000944|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (J.D. 1973), current secretary of state, U.S. senator (D-New York, 2001–2009) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (]-New York, 1971–77); president of ], 1982–85; federal judge for the ] (] Circuit) (1985–96)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=James L. Buckley|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b001026|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913–1924) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953–63), father of ], grandfather to ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Prescott Bush|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b001167|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1783), U.S. senator (]-Connecticut, 1813–19) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), ] (1962–69), ] (1969–72), U.S. senator (]–], 1976–99)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Chafee|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000269|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the ] by ] (1862–1877); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877–1883) | |||
* ] (1815), ] in the ] administration, U.S. senator (]–], 1829–36; ]-Delaware, 1845–49; ]-Delaware 1853–56)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John M. Clayton|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000496|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1787–1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835–1841&1845–1853) | |||
* ] (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-] (2001–09)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C001041|title=Hillary Clinton|publisher=]|access-date=January 8, 2025}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875–93) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-], 1913–24)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=LeBaron Colt|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000651|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (J.D, DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-Missouri, 1976–95) | |||
* ] (J.D./M.A.), U.S. senator (D-], 2010–)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Chris Coons|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001088|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-], 2001 – 2007) | |||
* ] (1783), U.S. senator (]-Connecticut, 1813–19)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=David Daggett|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000002|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-],1891–1897; D-Idaho, 1901–1907) | |||
* ] (J.D. DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-], 1976–95)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Danforth|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000030|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1837), ] under ], U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91) | |||
* ] (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the ] by ] (1862–77); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877–83)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=David Davis|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000097|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (DIV 1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-], 1975–1987) | |||
* ] (1787–1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835–41 and 1845–53)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Davis|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000117|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), U.S. senator (R-Pennsylvania) | |||
* ] (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875–93)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Henry L. Dawes|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000148|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1773), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796–1810 ) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-], 2001–07)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Mark Dayton|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000596|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (I-], 1989–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-], 1891–97; D-Idaho, 1901–07)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Fred Dubois|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000509|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States ], member of the ] (1785–1787), delegate to the ] in 1787, president (1787–1800) of ] (he was its first president under its new name of '']''; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as ''King's College''), U.S. senator (], 1789–1791) | |||
* ] (1837), ] under ], U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=William M. Evarts|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000262|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ], (1852–1914), U.S. senator (R-]) | |||
* ] (DIV 1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-], 1975–87)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gary Hart|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=h000287|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1966), U.S. senator (D-], 1985–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), U.S. senator (R-])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Heinz|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000456|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator (D-], 2007–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1773), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796–1810)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=James Hillhouse|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=h000618|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1788), U.S. senator | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (I-], 1989–2007) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States ], member of the ] (1785–1787), delegate to the ] in 1787, president (1787–1800) of ] (he was its first president under its new name of '']''; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as ''King's College''), U.S. senator (], 1789–1791)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=William Samuel Johnson|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=j000182|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1900) – U.S. senate '19–'24, publisher, ] | |||
* ] (1852–1914), U.S. senator (R-])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Kean|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000028|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator (]-], 1808-181), 4th ] (1810–1814), 8th ] (1814–1823). ] is named in his honor. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator (D-], 2007–)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Amy Klobuchar|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=k000367|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 20, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1804), U.S. representative (]-New York, 1833–35) | |||
* ] (1788), U.S. senator (D-], 1819–25)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=James Lanman|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000083|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1929), U.S. senator (R-], 1957–68) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (I-], 1989–2013)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Joseph Lieberman|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=l000304|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-Florida, 1979–91), ] (], 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001–present) | |||
* ] (1900), U.S. Senate 1919–24, publisher, '']''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Joseph Medill McCormick|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000369|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] Republican United States senator from Michigan 1919–1922, secretary of the navy 1908–1909 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator (]–], 1808–10), 4th ] (1810–14), 8th ] (1814–23); namesake of ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Return J. Meigs, Jr.|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000633|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903–17) | |||
* ] (1804), U.S. representative (]-New York, 1833–35)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Henry Mitchell|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000813|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957–89) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1929), U.S. senator (R-], 1957–68)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Thurston Morton|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001022|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-], 1979–91), ] (], 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001–19)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Bill Nelson|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=n000032|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1923), ], U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953–1976) | |||
* ], U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1919–22), secretary of the navy 1908–09<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Truman Newberry|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=n000062|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1910), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1939–1953) | |||
* ] (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903–17)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Francis Newlands|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000069|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
*] (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963–64, 1967–70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971–76), | |||
* ] (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957–89)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=William Proxmire|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=p000553|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965–1970), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–1977). He was the inspiration for ]'s character in the film '']''. | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (Ph.D. 2004), U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska, 2014–) | ||
* ] (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981–2011)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Arlen Specter|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000709|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator (]-Delaware, 1849–1851); co-founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1923), ], U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953–76)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Stuart Symington|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s001136|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator (R-], 1977–95) | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1910), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1939–53)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Robert Taft|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=t000009|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963–64, 1967–70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971–76)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Robert Taft, Jr.|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=t000010|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965–70), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–77); inspiration for ]'s character in the film '']''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John V. Tunney|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000410|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983–1991), ] 1991–1999 | |||
* ] (1891), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1929–35)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Frederic Walcott|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000032|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator (]-Delaware, 1849–51); co-founder of ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Wales|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000043|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator (R-], 1977–95)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Malcolm Wallop|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000092|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (R-Connecticut, 1968–71), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1971–89), ] (1990–94)<ref>, '']''. Retrieved December 16, 2007.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006–)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sheldon Whitehouse|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000802|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983–91), ] 1991–99<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Pete Wilson|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000607|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref> | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1964 ) ] (1985–1993).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
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* Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), ] (1844–46).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (1836), ] (1846, 1854–1856), ] (1840–1844, 1865–1866) | |||
* Hiram Bingham III (1898), ] (1925).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* |
* ] (B.A. 1906), U.S. Representative, R-Rhode Island<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000084|title=ALDRICH, Richard Steere (1884–1941)|dictionary = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date= April 8, 2014}}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1942, J.D. 1947), executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949–53 | |||
* ] (J.D. 1964), ] (1975–1983) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), U.S. Representative, D-Georgia (2021–23) | |||
* George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), ] (1995–2000). ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ], Wisconsin State Assembly | |||
* John Chafee (B.A. 1947), ] (1962–69).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1942), ]<ref>{{cite news |date=February 1, 1964 |title=Brother of Albany Mayor Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/56253959/ |work=] |location=Troy, NY |page=5 |url-access=subscription |via=] |ref={{sfnRef|"Brother of Albany Mayor Dies"}}}}</ref> | |||
* William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), ] (1983–1992). ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1895), U.S. Representative, D-New York<ref>{{cite book |date=1944 |title=Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record, 1943–43 |url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1942-43.pdf |location=New Haven, CT |publisher=Yale University |pages=46–47}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.1885, Ph.D. 1889), ] (1931–1939), Yale professor of English<ref> at Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | |||
* ], Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1969–91 | |||
* ] (1787–1854), ] (1834–1835 & 1841–1843) | |||
* ] (J.D., 1980), New York State Assemblyman | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), ] (1991–2003)<ref> , Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A., 2001), Republican Representative from Florida (2013–18), governor of Florida | |||
* ] (B.A. 1844), ] (1867–1871) | |||
* ], Republican Representative from Illinois (1941–42) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1913), ] (1955–1958), United States ambassador to Russia (1943–1946), ambassador to ] (1946), ] (1946–1948)<ref>, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
* ] (Law 1894), U.S. Representative, D-New York (1918–21) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), ] (1994–2002), mayor of ] (1981–1987) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1857), Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1876; state district court judge in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Estilette&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1157&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=132675965&df=all&|title=Edmond Ducre Estilette|publisher=Gulf Publishing Company: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical Biographical Section|pages=35–36|author=William Henry Perrin|date=1891|access-date=March 7, 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1741), First ] (1776–1790) after the signing of the ]<ref> from the ]</ref> | |||
* ], U.S. Representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), ] (1997–2005) (thereby the first ] governor in the United States)<ref> from the Washington State Governor's office: "Gov. Gregoire Unveils Official State Portrait of Gov. Gary Locke; Praises Key Accomplishments", January 4, 2006</ref> | |||
* ] (M.S. 1986), Maine House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Graham |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Anne_Graham |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref> | |||
* Return Jonathan Meigs (B.A. 1785), 4th ] (1810–1814).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1904), Wisconsin State Assembly (1909–10, 1915) | |||
* Robert D. Orr (1940) – governor of Indiana | |||
* ] (J.D. 2001), U.S. Representative, D-California (2017–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), ] (1995–2007)<ref> from the state of New York government web site</ref> | |||
* ], member of ] | |||
* ] (Yale College graduate, 1889), ] (1923–1927, 1931–1935), first Chief of the ] (1905–1910), and founder of and professor in ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2012), Alaska House of Representatives (2013–) | |||
* ] (Class of 1935*), attended Yale from 1931 to 1934; ] (1967–1971) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), U.S. Representative, D-Texas | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1977–1985).<ref> Biographical information] from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1737), Delegate and signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York, state senator | |||
* ] (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), ] (1963–1967), ] (1976–1977), member of the United States House of Representatives<ref> at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</ref> Undergraduate picture at:<ref>http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/showzoom.php?imgNum=5565</ref> | |||
* ] (1847), U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1859–63) | |||
* ] (M.B.A. 2010), U.S. Representative, D-Rhode Island (2023–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1828), member of the ], namesake for ] "maverick" | |||
* ] (1838), sole delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980), U.S. Representative, R-Indiana (1994–2001) | |||
* ] (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for ] (1991–) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961), Democratic member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, 1963–65 and 1983–91; ], Texas, 1977–79 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), U.S. Representative, D-California (2019–present) | |||
* ], Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–13 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), U.S. Representative (Resident commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (1993–2000), ] (1977–85)<ref name="bioguide.congress.gov" /> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), Maine state representative<ref>{{Cite web |title=Representative Daniel Sayre |url=https://legislature.maine.gov/housedems/sayre/index.html |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=legislature.maine.gov}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.A. 2006, M.Phil. 2008), U.S. Representative, R-New York, 2022-23 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. Representative, D-Massachusetts, 1973–97 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), U.S. Representative, D-New Hampshire, 1991–95 | |||
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=== Governors, mayors, other city and state officials === | |||
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Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or ]. 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. | |||
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* ] (1831), ] (1854–56) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), ] (1985–93)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1811), ] (1844–46)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1898), governor of Connecticut (1925)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993, J.D. 1998), 34th ] (2021–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), ] (1975–79)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (J.D. 2011), ] (2020–22) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1757), Federalist supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island | |||
* ] (J.D. 1964), 34th and 39th ]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/current-governors/col2-content/main-content-list/edmund-gerald-brown.html|title= California Governor Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.|publisher= National Governors Association|access-date= October 9, 2012}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), ] (1995–2000) ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), ] (since 2019), Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999–2010) | |||
* ] (B.A. magna cum laude 1959), ] (1983–91) ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), ] (1962–69)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (J.D. 1973), ] (1983–92) ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1906), ]{{sfn|"Brother of Albany Mayor Dies"|page=5}} | |||
* ] (B.A. 1932), ] of ]{{sfn|"Brother of Albany Mayor Dies"|page=5}} | |||
* ] (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889), governor of Connecticut (1931–39), Yale professor of English<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509050623/http://www.bartleby.com/65/cr/Cross-Wi.html |date=2006-05-09 }} at Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1970), 32nd Governor of North Dakota (2010–16) | |||
* ] (1787–1854), ] (1834–35 and 1841–43) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), governor of Minnesota (2011–) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), ] (1991–2003)<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029182546/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761581540/Howard_Dean.html |date=2009-10-29 }}, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
* ] (M.E.M./M.B.A. 2010), mayor of ] | |||
* ] (1815–1898), first American mayor of Los Angeles, California | |||
* ] (B.A. 1844), ] (1867–71) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1913), ] (1955–58), U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1943–46), Ambassador to Britain (1946), ] (1946–48)<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029111801/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574838/Averell_Harriman.html |date=2009-10-29 }}, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), ] (1994–2002), mayor of ] (1981–87) | |||
* ] (M.B.A. 1980), ] (2019–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1741), first ] (1776–90) after the signing of the ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060315220354/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048602 |date=2006-03-15 }} from the ]</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), ] (1997–2005) (thereby the first ] governor in the United States)<ref>{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from the Washington State Governor's office: "Gov. Gregoire Unveils Official State Portrait of Gov. Gary Locke; Praises Key Accomplishments", January 4, 2006</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1785), 4th ] (1810–14)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ], 7th Governor of ]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/HistoryMakersDetail.aspx?Moore%2FMarshall%2F704|title= Marshall Frank Moore|publisher= Washington Secretary of State|access-date= October 9, 2012|archive-date= February 2, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150202140827/http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/HistoryMakersDetail.aspx?Moore%2FMarshall%2F704|url-status= dead}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1909), New York City ], Chairman of the ], head of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), ] (1995–2007)<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415010951/http://www.ny.gov/governor/firstfamily/patbio.html |date=2006-04-15 }} from the state of New York government web site</ref> | |||
* ] (Yale College graduate, 1889), ] (1923–27, 1931–35), first Chief of the ] (1905–10), and founder of and professor in ] | |||
* ] (Class of 1935), attended Yale 1931–34; ] (1967–71) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1977–85)<ref name="bioguide.congress.gov"> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), ] (1963–67), ] (1976–77), member of the United States House of Representatives<ref> at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</ref> | |||
* ] (Yale College graduate, 1781), ] (1807–08), member of the ] and member of the ]<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_vermont/col2-content/main-content-list/title_smith_israel.html|title=Vermont Governor Israel Smith|publisher= National Governors Association|access-date= October 22, 2012}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1999–2007) | * ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1999–2007) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1845), ] (1897–99)<ref name="Warner 1959 298–299">{{cite book |last=Warner |first=Ezra J. |date=1959 |title=Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders |url=https://archive.org/details/generalsingray0000warn |url-access=registration |location=New Orleans |publisher=] |pages=–299 |lccn=58-7551 |author-link=Ezra J. Warner (historian)}}</ref> | |||
* Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), ] (1990–1994).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1837, LL.D. 1875), ] (1875–76), ] nominee for President ]<ref>Yale University, , 1916, page 474</ref><ref>John Bigelow, , Volume 1, 1895, page 273</ref> | |||
* Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), ] (1991–1999).<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1990–94)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), ], 1999–2007 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1956), ] (1991–99)<ref> from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
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* ] (B.A, 1915), ] in the ] presidential administration | |||
* ] (B.A. 1915), ] (1949–1953)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> | |||
* ], (B.A. 1941), chief of ] Counterintelligence Staff (1954–1974) | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1941), chief of Counterintelligence Staff for the ] (1954–1974) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1960), ] (1993–1994)<ref> from the U.S. Department of Defense</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1940), former cabinet official | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), Commissioner of the ] (2007–2013) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962–69), secretary of the navy (1969–72), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976–99) (also listed under ] and ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1940), ] (1961–1966) | |||
* ] (1815), secretary of state in the ] administration, senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829–1836; W-Delaware, 1845–1849; O-Delaware 1853–1856) (also listed under ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), ] (2011–2014) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), chairman of the ] (2003–2005), co-founder of ], founder and former dean of the ], president of the ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1976), ] (2015–2017), professor at ]<ref> from the U.S. Department of Defense</ref> | |||
* ] (1837), secretary of state in the ] administration, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91) (also listed under ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), ] (1969–1972) (also listed under ] and ]) | |||
* ], ] (1989–1991), ] (1999) | |||
* ] (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962), ] of the Republic of China (1990–1996), Speaker of the ] (1996–1999), ] (1999–2005) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1928), ] (1961–1964), presiding partner, ] (1966–1977) | |||
* ] (1815), ] (1849–1850)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> (also listed under ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), ] director (2004–2006), Florida congressman | |||
* ] (J.D. 1973), ] (2009–2013)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> (also listed under ]) | |||
* ], (J.D. 1972), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), Chairman of the ] (2003–2005), Chair of the Board of Directors of the ] (1991–1995), founder and 1st dean of the ] (1975–1980), co-founder of ] | |||
* ] (1937), deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Japan under presidents Nixon and Ford | |||
* ] (1837), ] (1877–1881)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> (also listed under ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. ca. 1926), the ninth and longest-serving chairman of the ] | |||
* ], ] (1989–1991), presidential candidate (]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), first ] (2005–present), first ] to post-] ] (2004–2005) | |||
* ] (B.A. and M.A. 1982), ] speechwriter under President ], who coined the phrase "]" | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1964), ] (1995–1999) in the ] presidential administration | |||
* ] (B.A. 1928), ] (1961–1964), presiding partner of the ] (1966–1977)<ref> from the U.S. Department of Defense</ref> | |||
* ], (B.A. 1888), secretary of state in the ] presidential administration | |||
* ] (B.S. 1927), ] (1958–1961) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1833, Law), ] and ] in the ] presidential administration | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991, M.A. 1991), Chairman of the President's ] (2010–2011), professor of economics at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), deputy secretary of state (1994–2001) in the ] presidential administration, president of the ] | |||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1960), ] (2004–2006) | ||
* ] (J.D. 1972), ] (2005–2009), ] (2001–2005) | |||
* ] (1937), ] (1974–1976) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1966), ] (2013–2017)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> (also listed under ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President ], principal figure in the ] | |||
* ] (Economics, 1934), French ] implementer, ] (1958–1967) | |||
* ] (B.A. ca. 1926), ] (1951–1970)<ref> from the U.S. Federal Reserve</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), ] (1985–1988)<ref name="Edwards">Edwards, Lee. ''To Preserve and Protect'', The Heritage Foundation, 2005, {{ISBN|0-89195-116-4}}.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), ] (2017–2021)<ref> from the U.S. Department of the Treasury</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.), ] (1975–1976) and ] (1971–1975) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), ] (2007–2009) and ] (2005–2007) | |||
* ], ] (2016–2018) | |||
* ] (B.A.), ] (2017–2021)<ref> from the U.S. Department of Commerce</ref> | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1964), ] (1995–1999), Director of the ] (1993–1995)<ref> from the U.S. Department of the Treasury</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1888), ] (1911–1913; 1940–1945), ] (1929–1933), ] (1927–1929)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1998, J.D. 2003), ] (2021–present)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bertrand |first=Natasha |date=November 27, 2020 |title=The inexorable rise of Jake Sullivan |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/27/jake-sullivan-biden-national-security-440814 |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1833, Law), ] (1876–1877), ] (1876)<ref> from the U.S. Department of Justice</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), ] (1994–2001), president of the ] (2002–2017) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942), ] (1977–1980)<ref> from the U.S. Department of State</ref> | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1971), ] (2021–present), ] (2014–2018)<ref> from the U.S. Department of the Treasury</ref>}} | |||
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* ], U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (2001–09) | |||
* ], U.S. vice consul in ], France (1940–41) | |||
* ], former ] officer, indicted for murder, still at large | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), U.S. ambassador | * ] (B.A. 1963), U.S. ambassador | ||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. magna cum laude 1959), U.S. ambassador to India (1997–2001) | ||
* ], U.S. ambassador to China (2001–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), president emeritus of the ] | * ] (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), president emeritus of the ] | ||
* ] (BA, 1968), ] (1992–1993); ] (2001–2007) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), U.S. ambassador to Macedonia (2008–present) | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. magna cum laude 1965), U.N. Representative and ] President | ||
* ] (MBA), U.S. ambassador to South Africa (2009–13) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), U.S. ambassador to Tunisia (2009–12) | |||
* ] (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (2009–14) | |||
* ] (J.D.), U.S. special envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation | |||
* ] (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to France (2001–05) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), U.S. ambassador to China (2011–14) | |||
* ], U.S. ambassador to Australia (2006–09) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2001–04) and Deputy Secretary of State (2007–09) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), U.S. ambassador to ] (1998–2001) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2013–17) | |||
* ], U.S. ambassador to China (2001–09) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), U.S. ambassador to Macedonia (2008–11) | |||
* ], U.S. ambassador to Israel (1959–61) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco (2009–13) | |||
* ], U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic (2014-17) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1976–77) | |||
* ] (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to Finland (1994–97)<ref name=ShearerDerek /> | |||
* ] (J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to Norway (1994–89) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), U.S. ambassador to Denmark (1998–2001) | |||
* ] (B.A.), U.S. Trade Representative (2020–) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1966), U.S. ambassador to Italy (2009–13), U.S. ambassador to San Marino (2009–13) | |||
* ] (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to Hungary (1997–2001) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1999 in Economics), ] of the ] (2003–04), assistant secretary-general of United Nations (2007–) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1951), U.S. ambassador to Morocco (1992–93) | |||
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* ] (J.D. 1986), federal judge, first ] woman to be appointed as a ] in the United States | * ] (J.D. 1986), federal judge, first ] woman to be appointed as a ] in the United States | ||
* ] (B.A., 1958), federal judge on the ] | * ] (B.A., 1958), federal judge on the ] | ||
* ] (B.A., 1957), late judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in ] named in his honor | * ] (B.A., 1957), late judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in ] named in his honor | ||
* ] (B.A, 1970), voting rights advocate and ] | |||
* ] (J.D.), Connecticut attorney general | |||
* ] (B.A., 1924), Associate Justice of the ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Stone |first=Arthur F. |date=1929 |title=The Vermont of Today, with its Historic Background, Attractions and People |volume=III |url=https://archive.org/stream/vermontoftodaywi03ston#page/70/mode/2up |page=71 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |ref={{sfnRef|''The Vermont of Today''}}}}</ref> | |||
* ] (J.D.), Connecticut attorney general (1991–2011) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1793), ] judge and congressman | * ] (B.A. 1793), ] judge and congressman | ||
* ] (LL.B.. 1966), famous lawyer (] antitrust, '']'', ''] v. ]'') | * ] (LL.B.. 1966), famous lawyer (] antitrust, '']'', ''] v. ]'') | ||
* ] (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of ] and '']'' | |||
* ] (J.D. 1965), judge on the ] | * ] (J.D. 1965), judge on the ] | ||
* ] (born 1953), federal judge | |||
* ] (J.D., ca. 1890) New York district attorney | |||
* ] (J.D., ca. 1890), New York district attorney | |||
* Sir ] (L.L.M.), justice of the ] | |||
* ] (L.L.M.), justice of the ] | |||
* ], judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China 1952–73 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), lawyer and felon | * ] (B.A. 1972), lawyer and felon | ||
* ] (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1941), ] lawyer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1848), Massachusetts Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court<ref>{{cite book|last=Prescott|first=William|title=The Prescott memorial: or, A genealogical memoir of the Prescott families in America. In two parts|date=1870|publisher=H. W. Dutton & son|page=|url=https://archive.org/details/prescottmemorial00byupres|quote=Dwight Foster 1828.}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), Associate Justice of the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Gabriel|title=Richard Gabriel|website=Ballotpedia}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962), former federal judge for the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1951), Associate Justice of the ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Richard C. |date=1969 |title=Vermont Legislative Directory, 1969 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JJDAQAAIAAJ&q=%22western+high+school%2C+Washington%2C+D.C.+in+1945%22%22 |location=Montpelier, VT |publisher=Vermont Secretary of State |page=640 |ref={{sfnRef|''Vermont Legislative Directory, 1969''}}}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1804), Chief Justice of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), Chief Justice of the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://justicenathanhecht.com/|title=Home|website=Justice Nathan Hecht}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1781), father of American equity jurisprudence, ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1843), 25-year United States attorney for the district of New Jersey | |||
* ] (B.A. 1930), attorney in ], and national campaign manager for ] in ]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/22/us/denison-kitchel-94-chief-of-goldwater-campaign.html|title=Denison Kitchel, 94, Chief of Goldwater Campaign, October 20, 2002|work=]|access-date=June 2, 2013|date=October 22, 2002}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1941), ] lawyer | |||
* ], lawyer, legal counsel to ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), ] | * ] (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1953), former ] | * ] (B.A. 1953), former ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1964), former chief counsel to House Select Committee investigating ] | |||
* ] (J.D. 1979), ] | |||
* ] (B.A., 1977, J.D. and M.B.A., 1986), feminist attorney and Managing Partner, McAllister Olivarius | |||
* ] (B.A. 1965, J.D. 1969), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1890), Justice of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1962), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey | |||
* ] (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York Southern District | * ] (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York Southern District | ||
* ] (B.A. 1871), founder of prominent law firm ] and first president of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1904), ] and federal judge | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978), ] | |||
* ], Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court<ref name="Bar">"Bar Association Honors Memory of Judge Wilder and Senator Brown", '']'' (May 8, 1917), p. 8.</ref> | |||
}} | |||
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=== Activists === | ||
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* ] (B.A. 1820), ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1832), abolitionist. (Also the namesake of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., took the name ].)<ref> by Anna Rohlender, ], December 12, 2001: "Forbes Fact: Born in Louisville, Ky., Ali's parents named him Cassius Marcellus Clay after a white Kentucky abolitionist of the same name. The 19th-century Cassius Clay served as a diplomat to Russia during the Civil War. "</ref><ref> ] ] Online Encyclopedia 2006: "Ali was born in ]. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., named after famed Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay. ". 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
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* ] (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958–1975), senior minister of ] in New York, political and ] activist, author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1820), ] | |||
* ], attorney, writer and minority (Hindu) rights activist in the US | |||
* ] (B.A. 1832), abolitionist; namesake of ], whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., took the name ]<ref> by Anna Rohlender, '']'' magazine, December 12, 2001: "Forbes Fact: Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Ali's parents named him Cassius Marcellus Clay after a white Kentucky abolitionist of the same name. The 19th-century Cassius Clay served as a diplomat to Russia during the Civil War."</ref><ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009090842/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559538/Muhammad_Ali.html |date=2006-10-09 }} ] ] Online Encyclopedia 2006: "Ali was born in ]. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., named after famed Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay." 2009-10-31.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958–75), senior minister of ] in New York, ] activist, author | |||
* ] (B.S. 2002), ] activist, speaker, television host, and author; member of ]'s Special Advisory Council (United Nations) | * ] (B.S. 2002), ] activist, speaker, television host, and author; member of ]'s Special Advisory Council (United Nations) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1936), conscientious objector, member of the ] | * ] (B.A. 1936), conscientious objector, member of the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the ] of 1830 | * ] (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the ] of 1830 | ||
* ] (B.A. 1990), executive director of the ] | |||
* ], ] spokesman | |||
* ] (B.D. 1961), Presbyterian minister, civil rights activist with C.O.R.E., killed during protest against segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio | |||
* ] (B.S., 1971), co-founded the ] | * ] (B.S., 1971), co-founded the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941), main organizer and first director of the ] |
* ] (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941), main organizer and first director of the ]; California politician and businessman; husband of ]; father of ] (news journalist and former wife of Governor ]) and ] (Yale B.A. 1976) | ||
* ] (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969), theologian and activist; President of |
* ] (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969), theologian and activist; President of Evangelicals For Social Action and professor at ] | ||
* ] (B.A., 1973), author, editor, activist, founder of the ] | * ] (B.A., 1973), author, editor, activist, founder of the ] | ||
* ] (1948), economist, civil rights activist | |||
* ]. (B.A. 1918; M.A. (Honorary) 1928), founder of Chinese ] and ]. | |||
* ] (B.A., 2003), founder of I AM ALS | |||
* ] (B.A. 1918; M.A. (honorary) 1928), founder of Chinese Mass Education Movement and ] | |||
}} | |||
=== Political commentators === | |||
====Public intellectuals==== | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1975), political pundit, columnist, author of '']'' | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1950), political pundit, founder of the '']'', host of ] television show '']'' | |||
* | |||
* ] (B.A. 1963), political pundit, worked as an advisor for the ] and ] presidential administrations of ], ], ] and ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), author, political commentator, ] Senior Political Analyst and former Editor-in-Chief of '']''<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/style/margaret-hoover-john-avlon-post-partisan-marriage.html | title =Margaret Hoover and John Avlon on their Post-Partisan Marriage | last =Green | first =Penelope | date =July 11, 2018 | website =] | access-date =September 8, 2018 | quote =He avoided Washington after Yale, and went to work for Mr. Giuliani because he believed that he could be more effective in city politics. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2004/09/16/editor-bemoans-u-s-political-polarization/ | title =Editor bemoans U.S. political polarization | last =Callie | first =Siskel | date =September 16, 2004 | website =yaledailynews.com | publisher =Yale Daily News | access-date =November 30, 2021 | quote =With the imminent presidential election and the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks just four days past, newspaper editor and former speechwriter John Avlon ’96 gave a timely speech to about 25 students on centrism in politics at a Calhoun College Master’s Tea yesterday. }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A.), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times | |||
* ] (B.A. 1975), political pundit, columnist, author of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), editor-in-chief of ]. | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1950), political pundit, founder of the '']'', host of ] television show '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1963), political pundit, worked as an advisor for the ] and ] presidential administrations of ], ], ] and ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2012), political pundit, author of''Speechless'', host of political podcast on '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1988), editorial page editor of the ''Los Angeles Times'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), editor-in-chief of '']'' magazine | |||
* ] (B.A. 1988), Middle East expert, author, fellow of the Brookings Institution | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), author, editor-in-chief of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1995), Senior Elections Analyst for ], co-author of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show '']'' | |||
}} | |||
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=== Other === | ||
]]] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984 and J.D. 1991), law professor | |||
* ] (1847–1891), lawyer and law professor at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1777), founder of ] | * ] (B.A. 1777), founder of ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1765), co-author of the ] of 1787, member of the ] (the first non-Native American settlement in ]), |
* ] (B.A. 1765), co-author of the ] of 1787, member of the ] (the first non-Native American settlement in ]), ] congressman from Massachusetts (1801–1805) | ||
* ] (J.D. 1963), legal scholar | |||
* ] (B.A. 1806), namesake of the ], in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of ] and ] | * ] (B.A. 1806), namesake of the ], in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of ] and ] | ||
* ] (J.S.D. 1951), legal scholar | |||
* ] (1787), founder of ] and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the ] | |||
* ] (1787), founder of ], and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley | |||
* ] (B.S. 1975), ] Professor of Law at the ] | |||
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== Military == | ||
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* ] (B.A. 1771), accuser of ] | |||
* ] (1845), ] general in the ] | * ] (1845), ] general in the ] | ||
* ], first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945 | * ], first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945 | ||
* ], rear admiral of the United States Navy | |||
* ] (B.A. 1771), accuser of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to |
* ] (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, executed by the British for espionage in 1776;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hale.htm|title=The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776|website=eyewitnesstohistory.com|access-date=2017-07-02}}</ref> his last words are often quoted: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_hale_1.html|title=Patriot Nathan Hale Was Hanged|website=americaslibrary.gov|access-date=2017-07-02}}</ref> | ||
* ], ] general | |||
* ] (B.A. 1771), ] to ] | * ] (B.A. 1771), ] to ] | ||
* ], ] officer featured in '']'' | * ], ] officer featured in '']'' | ||
* ], Director of the ] | |||
* ] (1917), World War I aviator, namesake of ]. | |||
* ] (1917), World War I aviator, namesake of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1762), major general in the American Revolution and congressman from New York | |||
* ] (B.A. 1762), major general in the American Revolution and congressman from New York | |||
* ] (B.A. 1917), World War I aviator, namesake of ] | * ] (B.A. 1917), World War I aviator, namesake of ] | ||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1857), Union Army colonel killed at the ] during the American Civil War | ||
* ] (B.A. 1858), Union Army colonel and ] judge advocate general | |||
* ], (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the ] also the nephew of university president ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1916), army general during World War II | |||
* ] (B.A. 1773), head of General George Washington's ] on Long Island and New York | |||
* ] (B.A. 1845), ] general in the ]<ref name="Warner 1959 298–299" /> ''(See also: ])'' | |||
* ] (1785), Colonel U.S. Army ] and ] 1815–21 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the ]; nephew of university president ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1738), brigadier general in the ]; namesake of ], ], and the ] | * ] (B.A. 1738), brigadier general in the ]; namesake of ], ], and the ] | ||
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* ] (1785), Colonel U.S. Army ] and ] 1815–1821 | |||
== Religion == | |||
====Other legislators==== | |||
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* ] Republican representative from Pennsylvania 1969–1991 | |||
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* ] (J.D., 1980), former New York State Assemblyman | |||
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* Charles Schuveldt Dewey<ref>http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/csdewey.htm</ref> Republican representative from Illinois 1941–1942, as assistant secretary of the treasury in the 1920s, he was responsible for the redesign and downsizing of U.S. paper currency.<ref>http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html</ref> Father of ], the first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945. | |||
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* ] (Law 1894), U.S. representative, D-New York (1918–1921) | |||
* ] (U.S. representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of ]) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), U.S. representative, D-Texas | |||
* ] (1847), U.S. representative from Connecticut (1859–1863) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1828), member of the ], namesake for ] ''maverick'' | |||
* ], (1838), sole delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980), U.S. Representative, R-Indiana (1994–2001) | |||
* ] (1924–2002) (B.S. 1945), speaker of the ] (1979–1980) | |||
* ] (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for ] (1991–present) | |||
* ] Republican representative from Pennsylvania 1911–1913 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (Resident commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (1993-2000), ] (1977–1985).<ref> Biographical information] from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. representative, D-MA, 1973–1997 | |||
====Other==== | |||
* ], (B.A. 1757), Federalist supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island | |||
* ], (B.S. 1936), ], shipbuilder, oilman, and ] official | |||
* ], (B.A. 1983), Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut, 1999–2010 | |||
* ], (B.A. 1987), ] ] in the ], 2011–present | |||
* ], founder of the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948), ] | |||
* ] (J.D. 1997), ] | |||
* ], ] spokesman | |||
* ] (Economics, 1934), French ] implementor and ] | |||
* ], fugitive, indicted for murder | |||
* ], judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China 1952–1973 | |||
* ], lawyer, legal counsel to ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, principal figure in the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), ], 1999–2007 | |||
* ] (Ph.D 1999 in Economics) ] of the ] 2003–2004, assistant secretary-general of United Nations 2007– | |||
* ], an internet sensation due to his video resume sent to UBS titled ] | |||
===Religion=== | |||
* ], New England pastor; widely considered the greatest theologian in American history<ref></ref><ref>George Marsden, ''Jonathan Edwards: A Life'' (2003), pg. 498–505.</ref><ref></ref> | |||
* ] (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the ] | |||
* ] (1853), missionary to Hawaii and the ] | * ] (1853), missionary to Hawaii and the ] | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1968), ninth president of the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.lcms.org/2016/ralph-bohlmann-dies/|title=Former LCMS, seminary President Ralph Bohlmann dies|last=Ross|first=Paula Schleuter|date=25 July 2016|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref> | |||
* ] (born 1972), rabbi | |||
* ] (] 1940 Ph.D. 1942), professor and ] of the ] at ]; ] ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1845), Presbyterian clergy, missionary to Turkey, Oriental scholar, writer | |||
* ] (1853 & 1893), third Bishop of the ], 1889–1905 | |||
* ], New England pastor and theologian<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/edwards/|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|first=William|last=Wainwright|chapter=Jonathan Edwards |editor-first=Edward N.|editor-last=Zalta|date=December 19, 2016|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|via=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref><ref>George Marsden, ''Jonathan Edwards: A Life'' (2003), pg. 498–505.</ref><ref></ref> | |||
* ], ] | |||
* ] (B.A., 1975), Anglican bishop | |||
* ], Episcopal priest | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1973), former president of ], Apostle of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1900), minister of Harvard Congregational Church, ] | * ] (B.A. 1900), minister of Harvard Congregational Church, ] | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1949), ] author, ] and professor | |||
* ] (], 1940; PhD, 1942), professor and ] of the ] at ]; ] ] | |||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1980), notable ] in the ] | ||
* ] (M.Th. 1985), American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the ] | |||
* ] (1809–1870), an African American orator, minister, and abolitionist; born a slave, he escaped and audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839, becoming the first black man to attend classes at Yale. He was subsequently ordained | |||
* ] (1809), theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the ] | |||
* ], liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the ], editor of ] magazine. | |||
* ] (1809–1870), African American orator, minister, and abolitionist; the first black man to attend classes at Yale when he audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839 | |||
* ] (PhD, 1949), a ] author, ] and professor | |||
* ], liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the ], editor of '']'' magazine | |||
* ] (]), a ] ] | |||
* ] (]), ] ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1927), eleventh bishop of the ] | |||
* ] (1836), minister, author | |||
* ], ] | |||
* ] (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 2004), visiting professor of Liturgical Studies<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bulletin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/ism-2013-2014.pdf|title=Institute of Sacred Music, 2013–2014 |magazine=Bulletin Of Yale University |volume=109 |issue=14 |date=September 1, 2013}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1981), Ph.D. student, ] ] | |||
* ] (1824), missionary to the ] who helped translate the first ] ]<ref>{{Cite news |date=1879-07-15 |title=Thomas Smith Williamson Obituary (father-in-law of Helen Mar Ely) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-saint-paul-globe-thomas-smith-willia/99268815/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=The Saint Paul Globe |pages=2}}</ref> | |||
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== History, literature, and journalism == | ||
] by ]]] | |||
* ], painter | |||
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* ] (B.A. Economics 1972), prominent rare map and print dealer | |||
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* ], painter of the ] movement | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1989), video and installation artist | |||
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* ] (M.F.A), painter | |||
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* ] (Class of 2001) journalist, ] | |||
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* ] (B.A. 2002), host of the podcast '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997), novelist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993, J.D. 2000), journalist, '']'' | |||
* ] (Class of 2001), journalist, '']'' | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1956), literary critic | * ] (Ph.D. 1956), literary critic | ||
* ] (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of ] and '']'' | |||
* ], artist | |||
* ] (DRA 1951), founder of the ], critic, author | * ] (DRA 1951), founder of the ], critic, author | ||
* ], writer of ''The Piano Shop on the Left Bank'' and other books | |||
* ], sculptor, director of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the ] | * ] (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1990), author | * ] (B.A. 1990), author of '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1980), journalist ], founder Forbes.com | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1964), painter | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1978), journalist | ||
* ] (Class of 1805), author of '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1986), painter | |||
* ], author | |||
* ] (Class of 1805*), author of '']'' | |||
* ], novelist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), novelist and sculptor | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1992), Israeli journalist and anchorwoman | |||
* ], linguist, poet, critic and fencer | * ], linguist, poet, critic and fencer | ||
* ] (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter | |||
* ] (M.A. 1983), author | * ] (M.A. 1983), author | ||
*] ( |
* ] (B.A. 2002), novelist and critic | ||
* ] (1898), author and playwright | |||
* ] (B.F.A. 1935), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1936), architectural critic | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1961), architect | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), journalist, '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1991) painter; professor at the ] School of Art | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1998), journalist and poet | ||
* ] (M.S.L. Yale Law School, 1978), journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court for ''The New York Times'' | |||
* ], sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), president and editor-in-chief, '']'' magazine | |||
* ], journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court for the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), formerly editor, then president, now chairman emeritus at '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist | |||
* ], editor at large for '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), renowned ]i metal sculptor and jewellery designer; son of famed artist ] | |||
* ], scholar for American Studies and philosopher | |||
* ] (M.A.), senior political reporter for ] formally for '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1931), writer, journalist, editor | * ] (B.A. 1931), writer, journalist, editor | ||
* ] (M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 1982), Holocaust historian | |||
* ], sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A.), playwright, '']'', 2008 Tony for Best Musical | |||
* ], Yale music professor and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), psychologist, editor-in-chief of '']''<ref name=nippon>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Iwao Sumiko, 1935–2018 |url=https://www.nippon.com/en/nipponblog/m00135/ |work=Nippon.com |date=2018-01-13 |access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.F.A. and M.F.A. 1970–1972), painter | |||
* ] (attended Yale School of Art one year, early 1930s), ] ] and anthologist; novelist and children's writer | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1976), book critic for ''The New York Times'' | |||
* ] (BA), playwright, '']'' 2008 Tony for Best Musical | |||
* ] (B.A. 1994), editor-in-chief of ''POLITICO'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), novelist<ref></ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] ('']'', B.A. 2007), journalist for ] | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1980), critic for ''The New York Times'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1979), poet<ref name=twsOctBcsdde>{{cite web |title= Faculty 2010–2011 | publisher= Bryn Mawr |date= October 15, 2010 |url= http://www.brynmawr.edu/creativewriting/faculty.html#karlkirchwey | access-date= October 15, 2010 |archive-date= October 19, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161019014106/http://www.brynmawr.edu/creativewriting/faculty.html#karlkirchwey |url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name=twsOctBzxcxx>{{cite news |author= Karen Heller |title= Bryn Mawr shows creative side as it makes way for arts |newspaper= Chicago Tribune | date= May 1, 2003 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/2003/05/01/bryn-mawr-shows-creative-side-as-it-makes-way-for-arts/ |access-date= October 15, 2010}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), poet<ref name=twsOctBcsdde>{{cite web | |||
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|url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-01/features/0305010107_1_bryn-mawr-college-marianne-moore-samson-agonistes | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1949), author of '']'' | * ] (B.A. 1949), author of '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1957), playwright and ] | * ] (B.A. 1957), playwright and ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1963), drama critic for the ''New Yorker'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), author | * ] (B.A. 1983), author | ||
* ] (B.A. 1990), author of '']'' | |||
* ], author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works include ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1994), Washington bureau chief for '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981, M. Arch 1986, honorary Ph.D 1987), architect, best known for the ], subject of the 1995 ]-winning documentary '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), author of ''The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation'' | |||
*] (B.A. 1983), Founding Editor-in-Chief of ] magazine and former Deputy Managing Editor of ].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/business/media/25adco.html?_r=2&scp=6&sq=joanne%20lipman&st=cse | work=The New York Times | title=Condé Nast Plans Business Magazine and Web Site | first=Louise | last=Story | date=August 25, 2005 | accessdate=March 31, 2010}}</ref> | |||
* ], author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works include '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), author, producer, musician, co-founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984, J.D. 1988), Supreme Court correspondent for ''The New York Times'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), writer; won the ] | * ] (B.A. 1989), writer; won the ] | ||
* ] (B.A. 1972), poet, critic | * ] (B.A. 1972), poet, critic | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1996), journalist, memoirist, anthropologist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997) co-writer of the Broadway musical ]. Winner of 3 ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1950), ], author of historical fiction and nonfiction | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1979), photographer | |||
* ], experimental composer | |||
* ], painter | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1963), painter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1950), ], author of historical fiction and non-fiction | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1998), photographer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), journalist and author | * ] (B.A. 1977), journalist and author | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of ] | * ] (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of ] | ||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1942), radio pioneer, Top 40 radio format, co-founder of the Association for Intelligence Officers | ||
* ] (B.A. 1976), academic, writer on foreign affairs, and public intellectual | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), author of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993 and M.A. 1999), ] fellow in the Latin America studies department at the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1982), author | * ] (B.A. 1982), author | ||
* ] (B.A. 1981), author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1994), author | * ] (B.A. 1994), author | ||
* ] (B.A), popular music critic at '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A 1988), photographer | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, ] for ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), author | * ] (B.A. 1983), author | ||
* ] (B.A. 1985), technology columnist for ''The New York Times'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1971), sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1904, Law 1907), newspaper publisher, president of the '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1934), journalist; editor, president and chairman of the family-owned '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1998), author | * ] (B.A. 1998), author | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1979), historian and author<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan D. Sarna |url=http://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/biographyandcv/Sarna_Jonathan-D-CV-March2017.pdf |website=Brandeis University |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.Arch. 1962), architect, 2007 ] winner | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979), author | ||
* ] (B. |
* ] (B.A. 2000), White House correspondent for ] | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (Ph.D. 2020), journalist and crossword compiler | ||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1996), author | ||
* ] (B.A. 1982), journalist, ''New York Times'' bestselling author<ref>{{cite web|title=Journalism|url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/blue.html#journalism|website=Who's Been Blue|publisher=Yale Alumni Publications|access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1999), ''New York Times'' media columnist | |||
* ] (] 1965), architect, current dean of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1786), poet, playwright, physician, and man of letters | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), writer | * ] (B.A. 1985), writer | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1970), historian | |||
* ] (B.A.), sculptor and MacArthur Foundation fellow | |||
* ] (B |
* ] (B.F.A 1959), former Poet Laureate of the United States | ||
* ] (B.A. 1973) (1951–2017), publisher of '']'' and '']''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sandomir|first1=Richard|title=Diane Straus, Publisher of Liberal Policy Magazines, Dies at 66|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/obituaries/diane-straus-publisher-of-liberal-policy-magazines-dies-at-66.html|access-date=December 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> | |||
* ] A writer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1944) (1923–2012), owner of radio stations and newspapers<ref>{{cite news|title=In Remembrance: R. Peter Straus '44|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/obituaries/14-r-peter-straus-44|access-date=December 27, 2017|work=Yale Alumni Magazine|date=August 6, 2012}}</ref> | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1994) painter | |||
* ] (B.S., M.S. 2005), writer, journalist and TV presenter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1778, Ll.D. 1823), ], author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found ] | |||
* ], writer, poet, and journalist | |||
* ] (M.F.A 1968), artist, first African American included in the H.W. Janson History of Art | |||
* ] (B.A. 1993), writer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1778, LL.D. 1823), ], author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), political journalist and former editor-in-chief of ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 2000, MPhil 2000, Ph.D. 2003), author, editor, and ] scholar | |||
* ] (M.A. 1959), novelist | * ] (M.A. 1959), novelist | ||
* ] (B.A. 1999), novelist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984), ] writer | * ] (B.A. 1984), ] writer | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of '']'' and '']'' | * ] (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of '']'' and '']'' | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1988), broadcast journalist and writer | ||
*] |
* ] (B.A. 1975), journalist, author of a history of the ''New Yorker'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1972), poet and translator | |||
* ] (B.A. 2001), playwright | |||
}} | |||
== Musicians and composers == | |||
===Music=== | |||
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* ], (1973–1975, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the ] | |||
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* ] (1973–75, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1974), soprano | |||
* ] (B.A. 1990), composer | * ] (B.A. 1990), composer | ||
* ], soprano saxophonist | * ] (B.A. 1976, Yale Music School 1977), soprano saxophonist | ||
* ], professor of Oboe, Yale School of Music (1957–76) | |||
* ], principal cellist for the ] | * ], principal cellist for the ] | ||
* ], composer and chair of the Composition |
* ], composer and chair of the Composition Department at ] | ||
* ] (M.Mus. 2013), Hong Kong pianist | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), musician, internet celebrity, best known for his song ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), musician, internet celebrity | |||
* ] (M.M. 2008, D.M.A. 2012), conductor, composer, professor of choral conducting at the ], director of ] | |||
* ] (1972–76), classical guitar virtuoso | |||
* ] (B.A. 1960), concert violinist | * ] (B.A. 1960), concert violinist | ||
* ] (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning composer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist | * ] (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist | ||
* ], Yale music professor and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club | |||
* ] (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist and conductor | * ] (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist and conductor | ||
* ], |
* ] (M.Mus. 1976), bassist and composer | ||
* ] (B.A. 2001), opera singer and Tony Award winner | |||
* ] (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music | * ] (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music | ||
* ] (B.S. 1991), 2013 MacArthur Fellow, jazz pianist and composer | |||
* ] (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952), composer, producer ], "To Dream the Impossible Dream" | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 2005), Sinhalese R&B and hip-hop artist | ||
* ] (M.Mus. 1992), clarinetist, pedagogue, adjudicator, founder and artistic director of numerous international music festivals and competitions | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997) co-writer of the Broadway musical ] and winner of 3 ] | |||
* ] (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952), composer, producer '']'', "To Dream the Impossible Dream" | |||
* ], experimental composer | |||
* ] (M.A. 1972), conductor | |||
* ], ]-winning rapper, member of ] trio ] | |||
* ] (B.A |
* ] (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer | ||
* ], songwriter, singer, guitarist for the ]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/arts/music/07sisa.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | title=The Experimental, Led by the Obsessive | first=Ben | last=Sisario | date=June 7, 2009 | access-date=March 31, 2010}}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997), co-creator of the Broadway musicals '']'' and '']'' and winner of three ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1954), experimental composer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), conductor and scholar | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), concert pianist, music educator | |||
* ] (B.A. 1915, B.M 1917), composer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), of the band ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2011), beatboxer, cellist, singer, songwriter, Grammy-winning member of ] | |||
* ] (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist | * ] (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist | ||
* ] (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, ] for ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1913), composer | * ] (B.A. 1913), composer | ||
* ] (Michél), Grammy Award-winning rapper, member of ] trio ] | |||
* ] (M.Mus. 2000), musician, artist, college president | |||
* ], conductor of the ] | |||
* ], real name Foster MacKenzie III (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician | |||
* ] (B.A. 2010), ] sensation, music producer, and filmmaker | |||
* ] (M.Mus. 2007), composer, violinist, and singer | |||
* ] (M.A. 1997), operatic tenor | * ] (M.A. 1997), operatic tenor | ||
* ] (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation<ref>http:// |
* ] (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation, singer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dukesmen.com/index.php?id=3#16|title=Meet The Duke's Men|website=The Duke's Men|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329080032/http://dukesmen.com/index.php?id=3#16|archive-date=March 29, 2010|access-date=February 25, 2020}}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1927), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_11/old_yale.html | title = Rudy |
* ] (B.A. 1927), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_11/old_yale.html | title = Rudy Vallée, The First Crooner | access-date = July 12, 2010 | last = Schiff | first = Judith Ann | date = November 2002 | work = Yale Alumni Magazine | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110611202648/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_11/old_yale.html | archive-date = 2011-06-11 | url-status = dead }}</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 |
* ] (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974), composer, lyricist, musicologist, ] for '']'' and '']'' | ||
* ] (Course Certificate 2022),<ref>{{cite web |title=Course Certificate for Terence Yung |url=https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/YEHJ5VV4MHQP |website=Coursera |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Course Certificate for Terence Yung |url=https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/TYCNWVXAYDMT |website=Coursera |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref> concert pianist | |||
* Foster MacKenzie III, aka ] (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician | |||
}} | |||
* Dave Longstreth, songwriter, singer, guitarist of critically acclaimed indie rock band ]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/arts/music/07sisa.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | title=The Experimental, Led by the Obsessive | first=Ben | last=Sisario | date=June 7, 2009 | accessdate=March 31, 2010}}</ref> | |||
== |
== Faculty == | ||
{{main category|Yale University faculty}} | |||
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Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in ''italics''. | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1985), three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000) | |||
* ], Major League Baseball pitcher | |||
* ] (B.A. 1880), the "Father of ]" | |||
* ], 1952 Olympic gold medalist in yachting for the USA, bio-chemist and bio-physicist<ref>http://www.icasinc.org/bios/chance.html</ref> | |||
* ], ] ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1984) former NBA Player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's Mens Basketball history (3rd Ivy) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), former ] player | |||
* ] (B.A. 1995), became ] general manager at age 28, youngest in ] history | |||
* ] (Class of 1975, B.A. 1976), professional football player twice selected for the ] as a defensive back for the ] | |||
* ] (Class of 1912), two-time ] golf champion | |||
* ], the oldest living former ] player, aged 100 as of 2006 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1996), NFL ] | |||
* ], forward for the ] ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969), football player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns | |||
* ] (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic ] | |||
* ], former ] player | |||
* ] (1926–2000), elected by his teammates the First African American to captain an Ivy League football team | |||
* ] (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004 Olympic women's ]<ref></ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), head coach of the ]'s ] (2006–2009) | |||
* ] (B.A. 2001), NFL ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2004), NFL ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1983), professional tennis player<ref></ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for Trinidad and Tobago | |||
* ] (B.A. 2003), long distance runner ] competitor in ], Currently a competitive marathoner. | |||
* ], ] Yale member of Olympic Rowing Eight. Team did not compete due to ]. | |||
* ], former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind | |||
* ] (B.A. 2006), former ] ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968, 1 gold, 1 silver. One of first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1983) | |||
* ] (B.A. 1969) gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic Marathon | |||
* ] (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets | |||
* ] (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing)<ref>. The Official Yale Crew Website, ]. Retrieved 22 December 2009.</ref><ref>Rotella, Carlo. . '']'', July/August 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2009.</ref> | |||
== Nobel laureates == | |||
===Film=== | |||
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* ] (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), actress | |||
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* ], (B.A. 1987 American Literature) actress, best known for '']'' and '']'' | |||
* ]: Chemistry, 1989 | |||
* ], screenwriter/director '']'' | |||
* ]: Economics, 1983 | |||
* ], actress, plays Mia in '']'' | |||
* ]: Chemistry, 2002; received his PhD from Yale in 1940; member of the Yale faculty 1962–94 | |||
* ], film producer, won an ] for '']'' | |||
* ]: Economics, 1975 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963), Academy Award-winning director of '']'' | |||
* ]: Peace, 2004; visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=26644|title=yaledailynews.com - Peace Prize goes to former fellow|date=May 26, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526183810/http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=26644 |archive-date=2006-05-26 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (Class of 1992*), Academy Award-winning actress | |||
* ]: Physiology or Medicine, 1991; ] at the ] who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979), American television, film, and stage actor | |||
* ], professor at Yale Medical School 1973–90: Physiology or Medicine, 1974 | |||
* ] (Class of 2002*), actress | |||
* '']'': Physiology or Medicine, 2013 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1992), actor | |||
* ]: Economics, 2013 | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985 in literature, ]), Academy Award-winning actress ('']'', '']'') and director | |||
* ]: Chemistry, 2009 | |||
* ] (BA 1989, MFA 1994), actor, starred in "Sideways" | |||
* ]: ], 1958; at Yale 1945–48 | |||
* ], Academy Award-winning documentary-filmmaker ("]," 2005; "]," 2007) | |||
* ] |
* ]: Economics, 1981 | ||
}} | |||
* ], actress | |||
* ] director, founder of Troma Studios | |||
* ], film director | |||
* ], Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ], Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ] (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter | |||
* ] (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian | |||
* ] (B.A. 1979 in literature), Film and Theater Producer | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), Director, Actor, President of Troma Studios. IFTA Charman | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker | |||
* ], (B.A. 1989), actor, best known for '']'' | |||
* ] (MFA 1992), actress | |||
* ] actor | |||
* ], (DRA 1954) Academy Award-winning actor | |||
* ], (B.A. 1994), actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), Academy Award nominated actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), actor | |||
* ], actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1987), director | |||
* ], actor | |||
* ] (B.A. 1967), movie critic | |||
* ], (B.A. 1981), director '']'' & '']'' | |||
* ] (Class of 1968*), Academy Award-winning director | |||
* ] (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress | |||
* ] (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter | |||
* ] (MFA 1983), actor | |||
* ], (B.A. 1961), actor | |||
* ] (MFA), actress | |||
* ], (B.A. 1991), actress, screenwriter ('']'') | |||
* ], (B.A. 1976), film producer | |||
== Social sciences == | |||
===Television=== | |||
* ] (MFA 1977) ] who often appears on '']'' | |||
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* ] (Ph.D. 2000), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director. | |||
* ] (M.E.S. 1996), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader | |||
* ] (B.A. 1935), ] professor at University of Pennsylvania | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (]) guru | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1996), political scientist, distinguished professor at ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of ]" | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1918), economist and Provost of Yale University | |||
* ] (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1947), political scientist | |||
* ] (PhD, Economics), Pakistani Minister of Finance, Professor at ], creator of ] | |||
* ] (B.A.), political scientist at ], author | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), political scientist and provost of the ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1980), Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the ], Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering | |||
* ] (B.A. 1968), anthropologist, professor at ] | |||
* ] (M.A., 1930), historian and political scientist at ] in New York City | |||
* ], economist, professor at ], former director of research at the ] | |||
* ] (J.D., Ph.D. 1994), professor of law, business and public policy at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the ] | |||
* ] (M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology), ] ] researcher and ], professor of Anthropology at ]<ref>{{cite web |author=Board of Regents, UC |year=2006 |title=Taube, Karl A |work=UC Riverside, Faculty Directory |url=http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=627 |publisher=Regents UC |access-date=January 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101112856/http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=627 |archive-date=November 1, 2007 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1986), Dean of the ] at ], former professor at ] | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1917 Physiological Chemistry), home economist, ''professor emeritus'' at ] | |||
}} | |||
== Technologists == | |||
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* ] (M.S. 1964, M.Ph. 1965, M.Eng. 1965, Ph.D. 1967), IT entrepreneur, founder of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), former CEO of ] company ], co-founder of PDA company ]<ref>"" by Elisa Batista, November 13, 2001, '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A., M.A.), founder and CEO, ]<ref> from '']'' magazine</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1972), co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061115095123/http://texis.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/nw100/bio?mid=80778 |date=2006-11-15 }} from the '']''</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2005), founder of Justin.tv and ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1971), founder, ], investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder and former CEO, ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006224121/http://www.computerhistory.org/events/hall_of_fellows/kapor/ |date=2006-10-06 }} citation, ]</ref> | |||
* ], co-founder of ] website | |||
* ] (B.A. 1985), ] developer, created '']'' | |||
* ] (1997), director, ] China; former VP, ]; wife of ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2008), founder and CEO of ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 2001), Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author of ''The Lean Startup'', pioneer of the ] methodology | |||
* ], internet entrepreneur, founder of ], ], and ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 2005), CEO of ] and interim CEO of OpenAI<ref>""</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2003), co-founder and CEO of ] | |||
* ] (B.S. 1991), co-founder of ], ] and ]<ref>""</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986, J.D., 1990), businessman, co-founder, Vice President and CFO of ] | |||
* ] (B.S., 1996), co-founder and CEO of personal genomics company ] | |||
* ], founders of ] | |||
}} | |||
== Television == | |||
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* ] (M.F.A. 1977), ] who often appears on '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actor | * ] (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actor | ||
* ] (M.A.), producer |
* ] (M.A.), producer, '']'', '']'' | ||
* ], TV personality, nominated eleven times for the ], and won three times |
* ], TV personality, nominated eleven times for the ], and won three times<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031013100508/http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=11901 |date=2003-10-13 }} profile by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at '']''</ref> | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (M.F.A.), actor, '']'', '']'', and '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1989), CNN anchor of '']'' | * ] (B.A. 1989), CNN anchor of '']'' | ||
* ] (DRA 1989), actor, writer, played ] in '']'' | * ] (DRA 1989), actor, writer, played ] in '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A., M.F.A.), actress, ], ] | |||
* ] (M.A. English literature 1989*), actor in '']'', '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 2011), actor in '']'' | |||
* ] (did not graduate), actress in '']'' | |||
* ] (M.A. English literature 1989), actor in '']'', '']'' | |||
* ], president of ] sports division, helped launch '']'' | * ], president of ] sports division, helped launch '']'' | ||
* ] (MPH 2000), television correspondent '']'' | * ] (MPH 2000), television correspondent, '']'' | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (M.F.A.), actor, best known for as "Richard Karinsky" on '']'' | ||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1997), actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sitcom '']''<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031224020337/http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=26869 |date=2003-12-24 }} by Sandra Brennan, Allmovie at ''The New York Times''</ref> | ||
* ], Philippine television executive | * ], Philippine television executive, ] | ||
* ] (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of ]'s character) on '']''<ref> by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at |
* ] (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of ]'s character) on '']''<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030814111355/http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=92691 |date=2003-08-14 }} by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at ''The New York Times''</ref> | ||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1974), actor best known as attorney "Michael Kuzak" in ] TV ] '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1992), author and comedian who often appears on '']'' and in the ] ad campaigns, representing a humanized PC. | |||
* ], host of '']'' on ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 2014), 4th longest winstreak on '']'' | |||
* ]*, host of '']'' on ] | |||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 2006), winner of '']'' 2015 Tournament of Champions | ||
* ] (B.A. 2003<ref>, "Alumni insights: Host of AYA fundraiser talks about a decade in the entertainment industry" by Michael Morand, March 9, 2012</ref> Film Studies<ref>, Archived Current TV website</ref>), host of '']'' on ] | |||
* ], host of '']'' on ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1995), ] who often appears on '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A 2001) | * ] (B.A 2001) | ||
* ] (B.A. 1999), played "Becky Slater" in '']'' in her youth; now an attorney | |||
* ] (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress ('']'') | * ] (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress ('']'') | ||
* ] (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on '']'' | * ] (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on '']'' | ||
* ] (M.F.A.), ]-nominated television director | |||
* ] (CDR 1985), actor '']", '']'' | |||
* ] (CDR 1985), actor '']'', '']'' | |||
* ], (B.A. 1973) producer/writer, former head of ] | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1998), actor, '']'', '']'', '']'' | |||
* ], (B.A. 1977) television anchor for ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1973), producer/writer, former head of ] | |||
* ], (B.A. 1975) the ] on the television show '']''<ref> by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at the New York Times</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1977), television anchor for ] | |||
* ], (B.A. 1981) actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on '']''; winner of four ]s<ref>"The Junger Brother" in ] Magazine, March 31, 2001,by Nicholas Kralev; online version at </ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1975), the ] on the television show '']''<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030814120616/http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=56658 |date=2003-08-14 }} by Hal Erickson, Allmovie at ''The New York Times''</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1998) played Paul Pfeiffer on "]" | |||
* ] (B.A. 1981), actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on '']''; winner of four ]s<ref>"The Junger Brother" in ] Magazine, March 31, 2001, by Nicholas Kralev; online version at {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004191157/http://www.nicholaskralev.com/FT-pierce.html |date=2006-10-04 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (MFA 1980) actor, "]" | |||
* ] ( |
* ] (B.A. 1976), television director and producer | ||
* ] (B.A. |
* ] (B.A. 1998), played Paul Pfeiffer on '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. circa 1997), director, '']''<ref name="BA">{{cite web|title=BA #069: Matt Shakman|url=http://boxangeles.com/2015/03/23/ba-069-matt-shakman/|website=Box Angeles podcast|date=23 March 2015 }}</ref> | |||
* ] (LLD 1970), economist, host of '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1980), actor, '']'', '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1974), film critic, '']'' | |||
* Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of '']'' and '']'' | |||
* ] (LL.D. 1970), economist, speechwriter to ], host of '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 2000), actor on "]" | |||
* ] (B.A. 1986), chef on ''East Meets West with Ming Tsai'' on ] | * ] (B.A. 1986), chef on ''East Meets West with Ming Tsai'' on ] | ||
* ] ( |
* ] (M.F.A. 1986), actor, '']'' as "Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver" | ||
* ], co-anchor on '']'', ]' weekday news program | * ], co-anchor on '']'', ]' weekday news program | ||
* ] |
* ] (B.A. 1962), actor, played A.D.A. Jack McCoy on '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 1983), hostess of HGTV's '']'' and '']'' | * ] (B.A. 1983), hostess of HGTV's '']'' and '']'' | ||
* ] (B.A. 2010), actress, '']'' | |||
* ] (MFA 1970), actor, best known as "]" on '']'' | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1970), actor, best known as "]" on '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actress | * ] (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actress | ||
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== Theatre == | ||
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(In alphabetical order by last name, if available) | |||
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* "Paul Allen",<ref>From the film '']'': KIMBALL: And where did he go to school? BATEMAN: Don't you know this? KIMBALL: I just wanted to know if you know. BATEMAN: Before Yale? If I remember correctly, Saint Paul's...Listen, I just...I just want to help.</ref> victim of serial killer Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard alumnus) in the movie '']''. | |||
* ] (B.A. 2008), ] finalist for ''Dance Nation'' | |||
* "] ('']'') is straight out accepted to Yale for his lacrosse skills.<ref>'']'' by Cecily von Ziegesar</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for Best Lead Actress for ''The Light in The Piazza'' | |||
* Nell Bedworth, played by ] in '']'' | |||
* ] (B.A. in Psychology), first Asian-American Christine in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' on Broadway | |||
* "Amanda Bonner", Yale Law School graduate, played by Katharine Hepburn, in 1949 film '']''. | |||
* ] (B.A. 1997), Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for '']''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/939/|title=Mimi Lien – MacArthur Foundation|website=macfound.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/theater/tony-winners-list.html|title=2017 Tony Awards Winners|first=Compiled by Andrew R.|last=Chow|date=June 11, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> | |||
* "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of ]'s 1925 novel, '']''<ref>From '']'', Chapter 1: "...the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college."</ref> | |||
* ] (M.F.A. 1963), theatre producer and longest-serving artistic director in American theatre, Executive Director of Tony Award-winning ] | |||
* "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by ]) in 1990's television comedy series '']''<ref> Profile of the character at the show's official web site.</ref> | |||
* ] (B.A. 2005/06), Tony Award-winning producer of ''Hair'', 2009 | |||
*"Jay Burchell", J.D. 2007, one of the main characters on the short-lived ABC series ] | |||
* ] (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for orchestration | |||
* "]", B.S. 1914,<ref> '']'' December 1, 2005, by David M. Ewalt</ref> the owner of the ] in the hit cartoon television series '']'' | |||
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* "Nick Carraway", narrator of ]'s 1925 novel, '']''<ref>From '']'', in Chapter 1, "I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'" In Chapter 3, "I took dinner usually at the ]..." In Chapter 7, "Jordan smiled. 'He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale.'"</ref> | |||
* "Charlotte" (played by ]), main character of the 2003 movie '']''<ref> in ] (September 8, 2003) by Peter Travers: "Charlotte (]) is three decades younger than Bob, but she shares his sense of drift. A Yale philosophy grad, she's in Tokyo with her photographer husband (])..."</ref> | |||
* "Lane Coutell", Franny's boyfriend in ]'s ''Franny and Zooey'' published in 1962<ref> '']'', review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, March 8, 1962</ref> | |||
* "Dr. ]", Frasier's brother in the award-winning television comedy series '']''. The actor who plays him, ], is a real-life alumnus.<ref>"The Junger Brother" in '']'' Magazine, March 31, 2001, by Nicholas Kralev; online version at </ref> | |||
* "Dhrubo," character in Indian book '']''. | |||
* "Florence Farfaletti", protagonist of ]'s 2004 Novel '']''<ref>From '']'', Chapter 2: "Florence had grown up fascinated by her grandfather's tales of the Middle East. At college she majored in Arabic studies and was fluent by the time she graduated Yale."</ref> | |||
*"Tyler Fog", M.B.A. 2007, one of the main characters on the short-lived ABC series ''Traveler'' | |||
* "Gogol Ganguli", main character of Jhumpa Lahiri's '']'' | |||
* "]", Rory Gilmore's best friend on the television series ] | |||
* "]", father of Lorelai Gilmore on the television series '']''<ref>'']'', episode '"Let the Games Begin"' (Season 3, Episode 51)</ref> | |||
* "]", main character of the television series '']''<ref>'']'', episode '"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale"' (Season 4, Episode 67)</ref> | |||
* "]", internationally renowned polo player, Yale graduate, intrepid space explorer, Emperor Ming's relentless enemy, and savior of the Planet Mongo.<ref> of '']'s ] Volume 1'' in ], November 3, 2003: "The stories are swashbuckling adventures of Flash, 'Yale graduate and world-renowned Polo player,' and the lovely Dale Arden, who become stranded on the planet Mongo, a fierce place ruled with an iron fist by Ming the Merciless." Flash Gordon was introduced as a Yale alumnus in 1934 in the very first comic strip of the series.</ref> | |||
* "Anson Hunter" protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1926 short story 'The Rich Boy' | |||
* "],"*Rory Gilmore's boyfriend on the television series '']''. | |||
*"Linus Larrabee,"<ref>From the script for '']'', "Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him the man Most Likely to Leave his Alma Mater Fifty Million Dollars. "</ref> protagonist in the movie '']'', played by ] in 1954 and played by ] in the ]. | |||
* ], played by ], is a graduate of Yale Law School and serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the (fictional) President ] (]), in the television show '']''.<ref>'']'' episode "Celestial Navigation" (season 1, episode 15), in which Lyman says "I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of debate can rise to meet the ] wonder that is the ] press corps"</ref> | |||
* "],"<ref>The book ''Frank Merriwell at Yale''(1897) by ] (pseudonym of ]), ISBN 0-8373-9009-5</ref> the most popular dime-novel hero of the early 20th century. Protagonist of ]'s 200-odd Merriwell novels. | |||
* "Sherman McCoy", central character in ]'s ''].''<ref> edition of the ], by Susan Heller Anderson: "In the movie version of ''],'' ] will play Sherman McCoy, the philandering, self-absorbed bond trader whose 'Yale chin' and prep-school background figure prominently in the ] best seller. Mr. Hanks visited Yale yesterday, soaking up information and atmosphere."</ref> | |||
*Dr. R. Lars Porsena, a major character in ]'s sci-fi novel ]. Dr. Porsena is a graduate of Yale Medical School and was trained in psychiatry in the psychiatry department at Yale.<ref>P.J. Farmer. Red Orc"s Rage. NY, Tor, 1991. ISBN 0-312-85036-0</ref> | |||
* ] – character in "The LWord". Portrayed by real life Yale graduate ]. | |||
* "]", B.S.<ref> at ]: "Newer additions to the ER include ] (]), a British-Indian medical student who arrives in ] after finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular biology at Yale."</ref> doctor on the television series "]." | |||
* "Bud Stamper", played by ], in the ] winning 1961 film '']''<ref>From '']'', Bud Stamper's father Ace Stamper says "We got a future, boy. The first thing we're gonna do, we're gonna get you an education – the best. Four years at Yale."</ref> | |||
* "Dink Stover", hero of ]'s 1911 novel ''Stover at Yale''<ref>''Stover at Yale'', Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html</ref> | |||
* "]", who goes by the stage name of "]" in the television series '']''<ref> in the Harvard Alumni Magazine September–October 1997 issue</ref> | |||
<!--Removed pending verification: *"Clara Tillinghast", nickname "Clingfast", head of the '']'s'' Department of Factual Verification in ]'s '']'' --> | |||
* "Tim Travers", the love interest in 1988 movie '']''<ref> by ]: "Kat, meanwhile, is baby-sitting for a 30-year-old Yale graduate who is an architect rehabbing a local landmark. She's been accepted to Yale for the fall, and so they have that in common. Also reckless romanticism. His name is Tim (]), his wife is in Europe, and Kat falls head over heels in idealism with him. "</ref> | |||
* "Troy", the secondary janitor on the television comedy '']'', whose obtuse and violent approach to life become humorous when the unnamed major janitor character says to him, "You went to Yale..."<ref>] episode '"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu"' (aired May 9, 2006; Season 5, episode 115). See also </ref> | |||
* "]" ('']'') gets accepted straight away, much to best friend Blair's disdain<ref>''Gossip Girl'' by Cecily von Ziegesar</ref> | |||
* Senator ] (R-CA), Republican presidential nominee in '']''.<ref> of the show by ], which produced ]</ref> Played by ] | |||
* "]" ('']'') gets waitlisted then accepted<ref>]'' by Cecily von Ziegesar]</ref> | |||
* ], ]'s alter ego<ref> </ref> | |||
* Windy and Stewart, the two college students who come to the aid of the Tillerman children in the classic young adult novel, ] | |||
* James Tillerman, the second eldest of the Tillermans in Cynthia Voigt's ] | |||
* "Mr. Wilbarger", cowboy in ]'s novel '']''<ref>From '']'', Augustus says that Wilbarger is "probably the only man who ever went to Yale College who was buried under a buffalo skull." (p.567)</ref> | |||
* "Hector Willmot" (]) in the 1935 film ''''<ref> at ]</ref> | |||
* "Andrea Zuckerman", character of the television series '']''<ref>'']'' episode "Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills" (season 5, episode 30)</ref> | |||
(* attended but did not graduate from Yale) | |||
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=== Arts and humanities === | |||
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* ]: Chemistry, 1989 | |||
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* ]: Chemistry, 2002. Received his PhD from Yale 1940, and was a member of the Yale faculty from 1962 to 1994 | |||
* ], late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science | |||
* ]: Economics, 1975 | |||
* ]: Peace, 2004; visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002 | |||
* ], professor at Yale Medical School from 1973–1990: Physiology or Medicine, 1974. | |||
* ]: Economics, 1981 | |||
* ]: Economics, 1983 | |||
* ]: ], 1958; was at Yale from 1945 to 1948 | |||
* ]: Physiology or Medicine, 1991; ] at the ] who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale | |||
* ]: Chemistry, 2009 | |||
===Others=== | |||
* '']'', late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science | |||
* ], historian of religion in America | * ], historian of religion in America | ||
* |
* ], artist | ||
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* ] (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984), law professor | ||
* |
* ] (Ph.D. 1902), historian, first Japanese professor at U.S. university | ||
* |
* ] (Ph.D. 1955), writer and critic, author of '']'', '']'' and many other scholarly books | ||
* ], professor of political history | * ], professor of political history | ||
* ], Professor of English, world-renowned expert on writer ] | * ], Professor of English, world-renowned expert on writer ] | ||
* ], African American neurosurgeon | |||
* ], ] of the Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be ] | * ], ] of the Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be ] | ||
* ], philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man | * ], philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man | ||
* ], William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies | |||
* ], professor emeritus of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages | |||
* ], teacher of graphic design | |||
* ], Anglo-American physicist | |||
* ], photographer | |||
* ] (1877–1966) economist | |||
* ], professor of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages | |||
* '']'', economist | |||
* ], author of '']'', Francis Writer in Residence at Yale | |||
* ], scholar of Arabic language and literature | |||
* ], scholar of Arabic language and literature | |||
* ], dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration | |||
* ], graphic designer | |||
* ], ] historian | |||
* ], ] historian | |||
* ], ], ], and ] | |||
* ], ] historian | * ], ] historian | ||
* '']'' (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the ] programming language | |||
* ] (1839–1903) American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering | |||
* ], Pulitzer Prize winner, poet | * ], Pulitzer Prize winner, poet | ||
* ], sculptor | |||
* ], M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the ], known for the ] | |||
* ], composer, musician, conductor, music theorist | * ], composer, musician, conductor, music theorist | ||
* ], ] Major General | |||
* ], zoologist, considered to be the father of modern ] | |||
* ], historian of ancient Greece | * ], historian of ancient Greece | ||
* ], architect | |||
* ], mathematician, ] | |||
* ], historian |
* ], historian | ||
* ], dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration | |||
* ] (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology, and a professor at ], ], and ] | |||
* ], graphic designer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heller | first1=Steven |last2=Lustig Cohen | first2=Elaine |title=Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig |year=2010 |pages=185–187 | publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0-8118-6127-4}}</ref> | |||
* ], mathematician known for ] geometry | |||
* ] (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology; professor at ], ], and ] | |||
* ], philosopher, author of "History of Philosophy" | |||
* ], philosopher, author of ''History of Philosophy'' | |||
* ] (1924–2009), linguist, developed the ] system for transliterating Korean | |||
* ] (1924–2009), linguist, developed the ] system for transliterating Korean | |||
* ], actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on '']'' | * ], actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on '']'' | ||
* ], Professor of History |
* ], Professor of History | ||
* ], |
* ], Professor of History | ||
* ], historian, essayist, military biographer, was Professor of History and American Studies as well as the master of ] between 1966 and 1972 | |||
* '']'' (1963), economist | |||
* ], musician and cellist | |||
* ], director, ] | |||
* ], historian, author of ''The Christian Tradition'' | |||
* ], economist | |||
* ], mathematician | |||
* '']'', musician and cellist | |||
* ], historian, author of "The Christian Tradition" | |||
* ], historian of ] | * ], historian of ] | ||
* ], political theorist | |||
* ], professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of '']'' | * ], professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of '']'' | ||
* ], ] Professor of the History of Art in Architecture | |||
*], professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Yale University between 1985 and 1991. Author and editor of a main textbook in ] and discoverer of several entities such as ] and ] | |||
* ], historian, author of '']'' | |||
* ], cognitive scientist, CEO, ] | |||
* ], economist | |||
* ], theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale full professor. | |||
* '']'', political scientist | |||
* ], ] Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture | |||
* ], economist, author of "]", known for his work in investor psychology | |||
* ], historian, author of "The Search For Modern China" | |||
* ], biochemist, discoverer of ]s | |||
* ], historian of 17th-century England | * ], historian of 17th-century England | ||
* ], Broadway and |
* ], Broadway and opera lighting designer, author and ] professor | ||
* ] (Ph.D. 1936), Margaret Byrne Professor of United States History at the University of California, Berkeley<ref>{{cite web |title=DIXON WECTER |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/dixon-wecter/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=October 14, 2018}}</ref> | |||
* ], Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist | * ], Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist | ||
* ], political science instructor from 1970–72 | |||
* ], professor of history | * ], professor of history | ||
* ] (1917–1970), historian of China, and first woman to be appointed a full professor in the arts and sciences faculty, in 1964 | |||
* '']'', economics teacher and head of the ], (Ph.D. 1981), president of Mexico (1994–2000) | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1981), economics teacher and head of the ], president of Mexico (1994–2000) | |||
* ], taught at Yale School of Management for a year in 2003, currently teaches at ] | |||
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* ], expert in the neurobiology and treatment of ] and ]s.<ref></ref> | |||
=== Life sciences and medicine === | |||
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* ], molecular biologist | |||
* ], expert in the neurobiology and treatment of ] and ]s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/mfp/bios02/charney.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109170847/http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/mfp/bios02/charney.html|url-status=dead|title=National Institutes of Health|archive-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref> | |||
* ], president and CEO of ] in New York City | * ], president and CEO of ] in New York City | ||
* ], cardiac surgeon | |||
* ], William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies | |||
* ], biochemist and ] researcher | |||
* ], M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the ], known for the ] | |||
* ], biologist | |||
* ], discovered the action of ], awarded the ] in Life Science and Medicine | |||
* ], zoologist, considered to be the father of modern ] | |||
* ], physician | |||
* ], surgeon and author of ''How We Die'' | |||
* ], professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Yale University, 1985–91 | |||
* ], cognitive scientist, CEO, ] | |||
* ], formed the Department of Obstetrics at the School of Medicine in 1914 | |||
* ], biochemist, discoverer of ]s | |||
* ], physicist | |||
* ], cardiac surgeon and current editor-in-chief of '']'' | |||
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=== Mathematics === | |||
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* ], leading algebraist, awarded the ] for lifetime achievement | |||
* ], mathematician, ] | |||
* ], mathematician and activist | |||
* ], Wolf Prize and Knuth Prize recipient for work in ] | |||
* ], mathematician known for ] geometry | |||
* ], mathematician, Fields medallist and Wolf Prize winner | |||
* ], Wolf Prize winner for work on lie groups and geometry | |||
* ], mathematician | |||
* ], mathematician, Fields medallist | |||
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=== Physical sciences and engineering === | |||
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* ], ] of Swift Xi Inc. | |||
* ], ] and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/75/11/P147.full.pdf|title= Arthur Louis Day|publisher=The National Academies Press|access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref> | |||
* ] (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the ] programming language | |||
* ] (1839–1903), theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering | |||
* ], Sterling professor of Physics, recipient of the ] and groundbreaking particle physicist | |||
* ], founder of Yale's Department of Biomedical Engineering | |||
* ], professor of chemistry, son of ], founder of Yale Chemistry Department | |||
* ], theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale full professor | |||
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=== Social sciences === | |||
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* ], economist and industrial relations scholar; director of the ] | |||
* ], economist and industrial relations scholar; assistant director of the Yale Labor and Management Center | |||
* ] (1877–1966), economist | |||
* ], economist | |||
* ], ], ], and ] | |||
* ], economist, current James Tobin professor of economics | |||
* ], Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Management Emeritus | |||
* ], James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology | |||
* ] (1963), economist | |||
* ], economist | |||
* ] (Ph.D. 1956), dean of ]'s ], 1972–83<ref>{{cite news|title=Lyman Porter, former UCI business school dean, dies|url=https://www.latimes.com/tn-dpt-me-0801-lyman-porter-20150731-story.html|access-date=March 7, 2018|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> | |||
* ], economist | |||
* ], political scientist and anthropologist | |||
* ], Sterling Professor of international relations and co-founder of the ], 1933–57 | |||
* ], political science instructor 1970–72 | |||
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==Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University== | == Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University == | ||
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Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Alumni
Main category: Yale University alumniFor a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, see List of Yale Law School alumni.
Prize recipients
Nobel laureates
Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Yale University- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962), Economics, 2001
- Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D. 1942), Physics, 2002
- Douglas Diamond (M.A. 1976, M.Phil. 1977, PhD 1980), Economics, 2022
- Peter A. Diamond (B.A. 1960), Economics, 2010
- Philip H. Dybvig (M.A. 1978, M.Phil. 1978, PhD 1979), Economics, 2022
- John F. Enders (B.A. 1920), Physiology or Medicine, 1954
- John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940), Chemistry, 2002
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948), Physics, 1969
- Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962), Physiology or Medicine, 1994
- John B. Goodenough (B.S. 1944), Chemistry, 2019
- Brian Kobilka (M.D. 1981), Chemistry, 2012
- Paul Krugman (B.A. Economics, 1974), Economics, 2008; architect of "New Trade Theory"; winner of the John Bates Clark Medal; Princeton University economics professor; New York Times columnist
- Ernest Lawrence (Ph.D. 1925), Physics, 1939; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the element Lawrencium are named for him
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948), Physiology or Medicine, 1958
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959), Physics, 1996
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908), Literature, 1930
- William Nordhaus (B.A. 1963), Economics, 2018
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935), Chemistry, 1968
- Edmund Phelps (Ph.D. 1959), Economics, 2006
- Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. 1917), Physiology or Medicine, 1956
- James A. Robinson (Ph.D. 1993), Economics, 2024
- James Rothman (B.A. 1971), Physiology or Medicine, 2013
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935), Economics, 1996
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900), Physiology or Medicine, 1934
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D. 1974), Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction
- Ellen Barry (B.A. 1993), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
- Charles Bartlett (B.A. 1943), 1956 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
- Stephen Vincent Benét (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author
- Ron Chernow (B.A. 1970), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for biography of George Washington.
- Anthony R. Dolan (B.A. 1970), 1978 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
- Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-author of articles for which The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007
- John Lewis Gaddis, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Cold War historian
- Paul Goldberger (B.A. 1972), 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism
- Stephen Greenblatt (B.A. 1964, M.Phil 1968, Ph.D. 1969), general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978), U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, received the Pulitzer in 1998
- John Hersey (B.A. 1936), Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel A Bell for Adano, namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale
- Quiara Alegría Hudes (B.A. 1999), playwright, writer of In the Heights, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), book critic for The New York Times, 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45"
- Elizabeth Kolbert (B.A. 1983), 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- David McCullough (B.A. 1955), popular historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American presidents Harry S. Truman and John Adams
- J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986), Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
- Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915), 1951 Pulitzer, Music
- Wesley Morris (B.A. 1997), critic-at-large for New York Times, former film critic at The Boston Globe, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Lynn Nottage (M.F.A.), playwright and Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist of Ruined
- Mel Powell (B.A. 1952), 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; founding dean and professor of music of the California Institute of the Arts
- Samantha Power (B.A. 1992), Pulitzer Prize for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- Kevin Puts (M.M. 1996), 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Thomas E. Ricks (B.A. 1977), 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on The Wall Street Journal team); former reporter who writes on defense topics
- Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985), reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
- Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965), composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version
- Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for his biography of Alain LeRoy Locke, The New Negro
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his comic strip Doonesbury
- Wendy Wasserstein (M.F.A. 1976), playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of The Heidi Chronicles
- Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920), playwright, winner of two Pulitzers, the first in 1928 for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the second in 1938 for the play Our Town; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963
- Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965), journalist, co-author of the Pulitzer-winning book All the President's Men, won a second Pulitzer in 2002 for National Reporting
- Doug Wright (B.A. 1985), screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for drama, winner of a Tony Award
- Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953), composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006 for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis University
- Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968), wrote Pulitzer-winning The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power; founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Abel laureates
- Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960), 2018
Architecture and visual arts
- Richard Anuszkiewicz (M.F.A. 1955), painter
- Graham Arader (B.A. 1972), art dealer
- Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), artist
- Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A 1965), painter
- Eve Blau (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1978), art historian
- Barbara Bloemink (M.Phil., Ph.D.), art historian
- Jonathan Borofsky (M.F.A. 1966), artist
- Robert Branner (B.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953), art historian
- Theophilus Brown (B.F.A. 1941), painter
- Norman Carlberg (B.F.A. 1958, M.F.A. 1961), sculptor
- Kermit S. Champa (B.A. 1960), art historian
- Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964), painter
- William Cordova (M.F.A. 2004), cultural practitioner
- Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
- Sumner McKnight Crosby (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1937), art historian
- John Currin (M.F.A. 1986), painter
- Brian D'Amato (B.A. 1984), sculptor and novelist
- Edward D. Dart (B.A. 1949), architect
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia (M.F.A. 1979), photographer
- Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
- Leya Evelyn (M.F.A.), painter
- Janet Fish (M.F.A. 1963), painter
- Paul Fontaine (B.F.A. 1935), painter
- Norman Foster (M.Arch. 1961), architect
- Helen Frank, painter and printmaker
- Ann Gale (M.F.A. 1991), painter and educator
- Aaron Gilbert (M.F.A. 2008), painter
- Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture critic
- Steve Giovinco (M.F.A. 1989), photographer
- John Graham Jr. (1931), architect
- Nancy Graves (B.F.A. 1962, M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
- George Heard Hamilton (B.A. 1932, M.A. 1934, Ph.D. 1942), art historian
- Jodi Hauptman (M.A., Ph.D. 1995), art historian
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1975), art historian
- Barkley L. Hendricks (B.F.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1972), painter
- Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
- Muzharul Islam (M.Arch. 1961), architect
- Norman Ives (M.F.A. 1952), artist and educator
- Sujata Keshavan (M.F.A. 1987), graphic designer
- Johannes Knoops (M.Arch. II 1995), architect and educator
- Jack Lembeck (MFA 1970), painter and sculptor
- Neil Levine (Ph.D. 1975), art historian and educator
- Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M.Arch. 1986, honorary Ph.D. 1987), architect
- Holly Lynton (B.A. 1994), photographer
- Tala Madani (M.F.A. 2006), painter
- Robert Mangold (B.F.A. 1961, M.F.A. 1963), painter
- Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963), painter
- Malerie Marder (M.F.A. 1998), photographer
- Herbert P. McLaughlin (B.A. 1956, M.Arch. 1958), architect
- Patrick McNaughton (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1977), art historian
- Joshua Meyer (B.A. 1996), painter
- Amy Meyers (Ph.D. 1985), art historian
- Alexander Nemerov (M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1992), art historian
- Hally Pancer (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer
- Hayal Pozanti (M.F.A. 2011), painter
- Joshua Prince-Ramus (B.A. 1991), architect
- Martin Puryear (M.F.A. 1971), sculptor
- Romita Ray (M.A. 1994, M.Phil. 1995, Ph.D. 1999), art historian
- Richard Rogers (M.Arch. 1962), architect
- Mark Rothko (B.A. 1924), painter
- Leo Rubinfien (M.F.A. 1976), photographer
- Eero Saarinen (B.Arch. 1934), architect
- Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), art historian
- Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
- Daniel Sherer (BA, 1985), architectural and art historian
- Sewell Sillman (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1953)
- Rodney Smith (Th.M. 1973), photographer
- Robert A. M. Stern (M.Arch. 1965), architect and educator
- Peter C. Sutton (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1978), art historian
- Sarah Sze (B.A. 1991), sculptor
- Ann Temkin (Ph.D. 1984), curator
- Constance Thalken (M.F.A 1988), photographer
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), cartoonist
- Marc Trujillo (M.F.A. 1994), painter
- Katie Vida (M.F.A. 2010), artist and curator
- Kehinde Wiley (M.F.A. 2001), painter
- William T. Williams (M.F.A. 1968), artist
- Evans Woollen III (B.A., M.Arch. 1952), architect
Arts and humanities
- Frank Aarebrot, professor of comparative politics at University of Bergen
- James S. Ackerman (B.A.), Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
- Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary (1981–2002)
- Edward J. Balleisen (Ph.D. 1995), professor of history at Duke University
- Jean Blackburn (M.F.A.), visual artist, illustrator, and professor of illustration
- Christopher James Bonner, historian
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–1979), U.S. Senator (1979–1994), president of University of Oklahoma
- Robert Brandom (B.A. 1972), philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh
- Leo Braudy (Ph.D. 1967), University Professor, University of Southern California, literary and cultural critic
- Susan Buck-Morss (M.A.), philosopher, intellectual historian, professor of political science at CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Burns (Ph.D. 1980), actor on Wagon Train and It's a Man's World, and emeritus professor of history at Mount Holyoke College
- Judith Butler (Ph.D. 1984), author of Gender Trouble, philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar
- Susan Casteras (M.A. 1973, M.Phil. 1975, Ph.D. 1977), art historian
- Steve Charnovitz (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1998), law professor at George Washington University
- Janet Coleman (B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought, London School of Economics
- William Cornyn (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1944), professor of Slavic and South East Asian Linguistics
- Catherine Cusset (Ph.D. 1991), French novelist and author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel.
- Leo Damrosch (B.A. 1963), professor at Harvard University, 2005 National Book Award finalist for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
- Alan Dershowitz (LL.B. 1962), law professor at Harvard University
- Jeff Dolven, professor of English at Princeton University
- David Bates Douglass, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, President of Kenyon College, designer of Green-Wood Cemetery, member of Lewis Cass expedition of 1820
- Jacques Ehrmann, literary theorist and French Department professor, 1961–1972
- John C. Ewers (M.A. 1934), ethnologist and first Director of the National Museum of American History
- Robert Fagles (M.A., 1956, Ph.D. 1959), professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, poet, translator of classics
- Tommy Fitzpatrick (M.F.A., 1993), professor, painter
- Edward Foley, theorist of the blue shift and former Ohio Solicitor General
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
- Roxane Gay, writer and professor
- Roberto S. Goizueta (B.A., 1976), professor of theology, Boston College
- Daniel Harrison (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music, Yale University
- Lena Hill (Ph.D. 2005), professor of English and Africana studies, provost of Washington and Lee University
- Faye Hirsch (Ph.D.), art critic, writer, educator
- Benjamin Hoffmann (Ph.D. 2015), French creative writer and professor at Ohio State University
- Annette Insdorf (Ph.D. 1975), film historian and author
- Fredric Jameson (Ph.D. 1959), cultural theorist; author of Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; chair of Duke University's Literature Program
- Mimi Jennewein (B.A. 1942), painter and muralist
- Mitchell James Kaplan (B.A. 1979), novelist
- David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at Bates College
- Hart Day Leavitt (B.A. 1934), English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1937–1975
- Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Harvard University
- Anya Liftig (B.A., 1999), performance artist
- Robert Oscar Lopez (B.A. 1993), associate professor of English and classics at California State University, Northridge
- F. O. Matthiessen (B.A. 1923), literary historian, professor at Harvard University
- Christie McDonald (Ph.D.), Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature at Harvard University
- Scotty McLennan (B.A. 1970), dean for Religious Life at Stanford University
- Thomas V. Morris (Ph.D.), former University of Notre Dame philosophy professor, currently founding chairman of the Morris Institute of Human Values
- Nicholas Muellner (B.A. 1991), photographer and writer; professor of media arts, sciences and studies at Ithaca College
- Don Nakanishi (B.S. 1971), former professor of Asian American studies at University of California, Los Angeles
- Robert C. Neville (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1963), professor of philosophy, professor of religious studies and professor of theology at Boston University.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian, Serenity Prayer
- Bilal Orfali (Ph.D. 2009), professor of Arabic language and Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut
- Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972), author of Sexual Personae, cultural critic and feminist scholar
- Andrew Pessin, philosopher at Connecticut College
- Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at University of Notre Dame
- Eileen Pollack (B.S.), professor of creative writing at University of Michigan
- Stone Roberts (B.A. 1973), visual artist
- Richard Rorty (Ph.D. 1956), philosopher and professor of Humanities at University of Virginia, 1982–1998 and Stanford University, 1998–2007
- Ofelia Schutte, professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida
- T. K. Seung (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of philosophy, government, and law at the University of Texas at Austin
- Derek Shearer (B.A.), Director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs of Occidental College, former United States Ambassador to Finland
- Robert B. Stepto, professor of English, pioneering African-American studies scholar
- Matthias Storme, professor of law at the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Antwerp
- Richard Sugarman (born 1944) (B.A. & M.A.), professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Vermont; advisor to Bernie Sanders
- Frank Bigelow Tarbell (B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor of classic studies at Yale and University of Chicago
- Dominic Thomas (Ph.D. 1996), chair of the department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA
- Amor Towles (B.A.), novelist and author of A Gentleman in Moscow
- Donald Goddard Wing, librarian and bibliographer, of Yale University Library
- Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
- Sarah E. Winter (Ph.D. 1992), professor of English at the University of Connecticut
- Jada Yuan (B.A. 2000), journalist and author
- Hossein Ziai (B.A. 1967), intensive mathematics and physics; (Ph.D. Harvard 1976), medieval philosophy. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies UCLA.
- Rose Zimbardo (M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1960), professor of English at Stony Brook University
Athletics
- Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985), chess Grandmaster, three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)
- Steve Benjamin (B.A. 1978), competitive sailor; silver medalist in sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Johnny Bent, silver medalist with the American hockey team in the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Chaim Bloom (2004), Chief Baseball Officer for the Boston Red Sox
- Craig Breslow, Major League Baseball pitcher and executive
- Jordan Bruner, professional basketball player
- Johnny Broaca, Major League Baseball player, 1936 World Series champion
- Eric Brodkowitz, Israeli-American baseball pitcher for the Israel National Baseball Team
- Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "father of American football"
- Nathan Chen (B.A. 2024), 2-time Olympic champion (2022), 3-time world champion (2018, 2019 and 2021), 3-time Grand Prix final champion (2017-2019), and 6-time U.S. champion (2017–2022) in figure skating
- Steve Clark (1964), swimmer, two-time Olympian
- Alan Lyle Corey Jr., polo player, five-time winner of the Monty Waterbury Cup
- Ron Darling, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bob Davis, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Irvin Dorfman, tennis player ranked No. 15 in singles in the US in 1947, and No. 3 in doubles in the US in 1948
- Brian Dowling (B.A. 1969), quarterback
- Chris Dudley (B.A. 1987), former NBA player
- Eddie Eagan (B.A. 1921), AAU Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1919, Olympic gold medal in boxing 1920, Winter Olympics men's four-man bobsleigh gold medal 1932; only Olympian to win gold medals in Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports; New York State boxing commissioner
- Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest in Major League Baseball history; currently President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs
- Eva Fabian (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer
- Pete Falsey (Ph.B., 1914), Major League Baseball player
- Gary Fencik (Class of 1975, B.A. 1976), professional football player twice selected for the Pro Bowl as a defensive back for the Chicago Bears
- Robert A. Gardner (Class of 1912), two-time U.S. Amateur golf champion
- Earl G. Graves Jr. (B.A. 1984), former NBA player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's men's basketball history (3rd Ivy)
- Stephen Greenberg (B.A. 1970), former minor league player, baseball executive and sports agent, served as Deputy Commissioner of Baseball from 1990 to 1993; son of Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Greenberg.
- Bob Griffin (M.A. '80, M.Phil. '82, Ph.D. '85), American-Israeli basketball player, and English Literature professor
- Howdy Groskloss, was oldest living former Major League Baseball player when he died aged 100 in 2006
- George Haas Jr., polo player, three-time winner of the Monty Waterbury Cup
- Chris Hetherington (B.A. 1996), NFL running back
- Chris Higgins, forward for the National Hockey League Vancouver Canucks
- Calvin Hill (B.A. 1969), football player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns
- Kenny Hill (B.A. 1980), football player with the NFL's Raiders, Giants and Chiefs
- Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic figure skating
- Bill Hutchison, former Major League Baseball player
- Philip L. B. Iglehart, Chilean polo player
- Julian Illingworth (B.A. 2006), professional squash player, highest world ranking of no. 24
- Levi Jackson (1926–2000), first African-American elected by his teammates to captain an Ivy League football team
- Sada Jacobson (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004, and silver medalist in 2008, Olympic women's saber
- EJ Jarvis (B.A. 2023), former basketball player
- Dick Jauron (B.A. 1973), head coach of the National Football League's Buffalo Bills (2006–2009)
- Eric Johnson (B.A. 2001), NFL tight end
- Jack Langer (born 1948/1949), basketball player and investment banker
- Ryan Lavarnway, major league baseball catcher (Boston Red Sox/Los Angeles Dodgers)
- Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), NFL tight end
- Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1983), professional tennis player
- Mike McDaniel (B.A. 2005), head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins
- Bob McKeown (B.A. 1971), Canadian Football League Grey Cup champion, award-winning journalist with CBC News, NBC and CBS
- David Meckler, professional ice hockey player
- Chuck Mercein (B.A. 1964), football player with the NFL's Giants, Packers, Redskins and Jets
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for Trinidad and Tobago
- Kate O'Neill (B.A. 2003), long distance runner, 2004 Summer Olympics competitor in 10,000 m
- Miye Oni, NBA player for Utah Jazz
- Winthrop Palmer, silver medalist with the American hockey team in the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Mike Pyle (B.A. 1960), professional football player selected for the Pro Bowl as a center for the Chicago Bears
- Barney Reilly, Major League Baseball infielder
- Renée Richards, former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind
- Mike Richter (B.A. 2006), former goaltender for the New York Rangers
- Ryan Max Riley, World Cup ski racer and two-time national champion on the US Ski Team
- John Rogan, former CFL quarterback
- Jeff Rohrer (B.A. 1981), football player with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys
- Don Schollander (B.A. 1968), swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968, 1 gold, 1 silver; one of the first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1983)
- Justin Sears, professional basketball player
- George C. Sherman Jr., polo player
- Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969), gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic marathon
- Adam Snow, polo player, played varsity hockey and lacrosse at Yale against Harvard University
- John Spagnola (B.A. 1978), football player with the NFL's Eagles, Seahawks and Packers
- Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets
- Ben Wanger, American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel
- Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing)
- Josh West (born 1977), British-American Olympic medalist rower and Earth Sciences professor
- Danny Wolf (born 2004), American-Israeli college basketball player for Yale and then for the Michigan Wolverines
Business
- John Fellows Akers (B.A. 1956), former CEO and Chairman of IBM
- Wallace M. Alexander (1869–1939), heir, corporate director, philanthropist
- Herbert M. Allison (B.A. 1965), former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability; former Chairman, President, and CEO of TIAA-CREF; former President and COO of Merrill Lynch
- Hugh D. Auchincloss (1879), Standard Oil
- Edward P. Bass (B.A. 1968), Texas heir and billionaire
- Lee Bass (BA 1971), Fort Worth, Texas billionaire and current board member of Vanderbilt University
- Perry Richardson Bass (1914–2006), investor and philanthropist
- Robert M. Bass (B.A. 1971), former chairman, Aerion, member and former chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees
- Sid Bass (B.A. 1965), billionaire, founder of Bass Brothers Energy
- Morris Burke Belknap (B.A. 1878), Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company Vice President
- Roland W. Betts (B.A. 1968), investor, film producer (Gandhi), owner of Chelsea Piers, lead owner in George W. Bush's Texas Rangers partnership
- Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974), Time Warner President and COO
- Jules Blankfein (B.A. 1921), physician & financier; founder, Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein
- William Boeing (1903), founder of the Boeing Company and United Airlines
- James Chanos (B.A. 1980), billionaire hedge fund investor, founder of Kynikos Associates
- Tim Collins (M.B.A. 1982), founder and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
- S. Sloan Colt (1914), banker, philanthropist, and chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Granger Kent Costikyan (1929), banker, partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
- Charles B. Finch (B.A. 1941, L.L.B. 1944), CEO and chairman of the board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political activist
- Henry Ford II (1940), Chairman and CEO of the Ford Motor Company
- Ted Forstmann (B.A. 1961 (TC)), co-founder and senior partner of Forstmann Little & Company, member of the Forbes 400
- Roberto Goizueta (B.A., 1953), CEO and Chairman of the Board, The Coca-Cola Company
- Robert Greenhill (B.A. 1958), founder of M&A department at and former president of Morgan Stanley, former chairman of Smith Barney, CEO of investment banking firm Greenhill & Co.
- Briton Hadden (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine
- Peter Halloran (B.A. 1984), investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding region; founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group
- Henry Holt (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm Henry Holt & Company, which would later merge with other companies to become Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- George H. Hume, President and CEO of Basic American Foods
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), former CEO and chairman, BorgWarner
- Brewster Jennings (1920), founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil of New York, now ExxonMobil), President of Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
- Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954), chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
- Henry Bourne Joy, president of Packard
- Clarence King (Sheffield 1862), first head of the U.S. Geological Survey
- John R. Kimberly (B.A. 1964), Henry Bower Professor Emeritus of Management at The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
- Herbert Kohler (B.S. 1965), billionaire, chairman and former president, Kohler Company
- Julius Kruttschnitt II (B. Phil. 1906), general manager of Mount Isa Mines
- Edward Lampert (B.A. 1984), founder and chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), chairman of Sears Holding Company
- William K. Lanman (B.S. Sheffield 1928), aviator, benefactor
- Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine
- John C. Malone (B.A. 1963), CEO of TCI, chairman of Liberty Media, and largest individual landowner in the U.S.
- Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), founder of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982
- John Franklyn Mars (B.S. 1957), CEO, Mars, Incorporated
- Robert McCormick (1903), owner, president, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; co-founder of Kirkland & Ellis
- Robert L. McNeil Jr. (B.S. 1936), developer of paracetamol (acetaminophen) and chairman of McNeil Laboratories
- W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The Boeing Company
- Roger Milliken, textiles magnate and promoter of American conservatism
- Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (M.P.P.M. Yale School of Management 1980), CEO and President, Pepsi
- Eric Ober (B.A. 1966), president, CBS News, Food Network
- Joseph M. Patterson (1901), media mogul, manager of the Chicago Tribune; founder and president, New York Daily News
- John Pepper (B.A. 1960), former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble
- James Stillman Rockefeller, president and chairman, the First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924
- Joel Root (1770–1847), supercargo on the sealing ship Huron, author of a journal of his voyage around the world on that ship
- Elihu Rose (B.A. 1954), real estate developer and military historian
- Joseph Rosenberg (B.A. 1903), Bank of America vice president, head of motion picture lending
- Wilbur Ross (B.A. 1959), investor, steel magnate, secretary of commerce in the Trump presidential administration
- Stacy H. Schusterman (B.A. 1985), former CEO and chairman of Samson Resources, philanthropist
- Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969), co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, member of the Forbes 400
- Daniel C. Searle (1950), heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist
- Timothy Shriver (B.A. 1981), Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics and member of Kennedy Family
- Chip Skowron, hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading
- Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966), founder and CEO, FedEx
- Charles F. Spalding (a.k.a. Chuck Spalding) (1919–2000), Vice President of Lazard, political campaigner for John F. Kennedy, television writer
- Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
- Tom Steyer, billionaire, environmentalist and founder of Farallon Capital
- John Butler Talcott (1846), industrialist and founder of the New Britain Museum of American Art
- Richard Thalheimer (B.A. 1970), founder and CEO of The Sharper Image
- John L. Thornton (M.P.P.M. Yale School of Management 1980), former president and co-COO, Goldman Sachs
- Juan Trippe (B.A. 1921), founder and CEO, Pan Am
- Frederick William Vanderbilt (Sheffield 1893), philanthropist, director of the New York Central Railroad
- Friedrich Weyerhäuser, founded Weyerhaeuser
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, owner of thoroughbred racehorses
- John (Jock) Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first U.S. venture capital firm
- Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)
- Elisha Wiesel (B.S. 1994), businessman; chief information officer of Goldman Sachs
College founders and presidents
- Frederick Barnard (B.A. 1828), mathematician, educator, president (1856–58) and chancellor (1858–61) of the University of Mississippi, president (1864–89) of Columbia University, posthumous namesake of Barnard College, active in the founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences
- Isaac K. Beckes (Ph.D. 1943), president of Vincennes University, 1950–80
- J. Seelye Bixler (Ph.D. 1924), 16th president of Colby College, 1960–79
- Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968), president of Duke University
- Samuel Palmer Brooks, President of Baylor University, 1902–31
- Aaron Burr Sr. (B.A. 1735), second president of Princeton University, father of the third Vice-President of the United States, Aaron Burr
- Michael T. Cahill (B.A. 1993), Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
- Gerhard Casper (LL.B. 1962; honorary doctorate, 2000), ninth president of Stanford University, former provost at the University of Chicago, member of the Yale Corporation
- Daniel Chamovitz, biologist, author of What a Plant Knows, and President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- William Chauvenet (B.A. 1840), Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1863–69)
- Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. 1970), first female chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
- Pinkhos Churgin (1894–1957), first President of Bar-Ilan University
- Henry Roe Cloud, first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale, reformer, educator, President of Haskell Indian Nations University; first Native American member of a Yale secret society (Elihu)
- Vincent Cooke, S.J., 23rd President of Canisius College (1993–2010)
- Oscar Henry Cooper, President of Baylor University 1899–1902, and of Simmons College, now known as Hardin-Simmons University, 1902–09
- Raymond Culver, fourth president of Shimer College
- Jonathan Dickinson (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, later named Princeton University
- James Johnson Duderstadt (B.E. 1964), President of the University of Michigan
- Henry Durant (B.A. 1827), first president of the University of California (Berkeley)
- Peter Tyrrell Flawn (Ph.D. 1951), geologist and former president of the University of Texas at Austin
- Edward "Tad" Foote (B.A.), former president of the University of Miami
- Thomas H. Gallaudet (B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810), educator for the deaf, co-founder and principal (1817–30) of the American School for the Deaf, namesake of Gallaudet University
- Thomas F. George (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1970), chemist and current chancellor of the University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Daniel Coit Gilman (B.A. 1852), second president of the University of California (Berkeley); first president of Johns Hopkins University (1876–1901); first president of the Carnegie Institution
- William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the University of Chicago
- Robert Hess (1938–1994), President of Brooklyn College
- Catharine Bond Hill (Ph.D. 1974), tenth president of Vassar College
- Elliot Hirshman (1983), eighth president of San Diego State University
- Jonathan Scott Holloway (Ph.D. 1995), 21st President of Rutgers University
- Joseph Gibson Hoyt (B.A. 1840), first chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
- Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925), president (1929–45) and chancellor (1945–51) of the University of Chicago
- John Wesley Johnson (1862), first president of the University of Oregon
- Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714, M.A. 1717), first president of Columbia University (then known as King's College), father of William Samuel Johnson, signer of the US Constitution and third president of Columbia College (Columbia University)
- William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), signer of the U.S. Constitution, third president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and first US Senator from Connecticut
- Joseph D. Kearney (1986), Dean at Marquette University Law School
- Yamakawa Kenjirō (ca. 1876), founder of Kyūshū Institute of Technology
- John Kneller (M.A., 1948 and Ph.D. in French, 1950), English-American professor and fifth President of Brooklyn College
- Aptullah Kuran (B.A.1952, M.A.1954), founder and first president (1971–79) of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
- Ted Landsmark (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1973), president of Boston Architectural College (1997–2014)
- Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981), president (2003–11) of Amherst College
- Mario Monti (M.Sc.), Rector and then President of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Italian Prime Minister
- Douglas M. North (B.A. 1962), President of Prescott College and Alaska Pacific University; head of The Albany Academies
- G. Dennis O'Brien (B.A. 1952), former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester
- Helen Parkhurst (M.A. 1943), progressive educator, created the Dalton Plan, founder of The Dalton School
- Harris Pastides (MPH 1977, MPhil 1978, Ph.D. 1980), 29th President of the University of South Carolina
- Ravi Rajan (M.Mus. 2000), 4th President of California Institute of the Arts
- Aurelia Henry Reinhardt (Ph.D. 1905), president of Mills College (1916–43)
- L. Song Richardson (JD), President of Colorado College (2021–present)
- Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903), first President of the University of Florida (1905–09); President of Southern University (1910–14); first Professor of New Testament Literature at Emory University's Candler School of Theology (1914–39)
- Frank Strong (Ph.D. 1897), third president of the University of Oregon and sixth chancellor of the University of Kansas
- Charles Burt Sumner (B.A. 1862), founding trustee and de facto first president of Pomona College
- Andrea Talentino (B.A.), ninth president of Augustana College
- Ambrose Tighe (B.A. 1879, M.A. 1891), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law
- Ella King Torrey (B.A. 1980), art historian, former president of San Francisco Art Institute
- Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733), founder of Dartmouth College
- Andrew Dickson White (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of Cornell University
- Menahem Yaari (born 1935), Israeli economist, S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, President of the Open University of Israel
- Hagit Messer Yaron (born 1953), Israeli electrical engineer, businesswoman, and President of Open University of Israel
Film and television
- Max Barbakow (B.A. 2011, American Studies), director of Palm Springs
- Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), Academy Award-nominated actress
- Jennifer Beals (B.A. 1987 American Literature), actress, best known for Flashdance and The L Word
- Henry Bean, screenwriter/director The Believer
- Jordana Brewster, actress, plays Mia in The Fast and the Furious
- Mary Ellen Bute (studied stage lighting in the Department of Drama, 1925–26), animator and director
- Rob Campbell (MFA 1990), actor, debuted in Unforgiven
- Juliana Canfield (B.A. 2014, MFA 2017), actress, appeared in Succession and received a Tony nomination for Stereophonic
- Lee Isaac Chung, Academy Award-nominated director of Minari
- Michael Cimino (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963), Academy Award-winning director of The Deer Hunter
- Bruce Cohen, film producer, won an Academy Award for American Beauty
- Jennifer Connelly (Class of 1992), Academy Award-winning actress
- Whitfield Cook, author, playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Curtis Brown (B.A. 1979), television, film, and stage actor
- Claire Danes (Class of 2002), actress
- Winston Duke (MFA 2013), actor
- Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
- Jodie Foster (B.A. 1985 in literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning actress and director
- James Franco, actor, comedian
- Paul Giamatti (B.A. 1989, MFA 1994), actor, starred in Sideways
- Alex Gibney, Academy Award-winning documentary-filmmaker (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2005; Taxi to the Dark Side, 2007)
- David Alan Grier, actor, comedian
- Kathryn Hahn (MFA), actress
- Brian Tyree Henry (MFA), actor
- Michael Herz, director, founder of Troma Studios
- George Hickenlooper (B.A. 1985), film director
- George Roy Hill (B.A. 1943), Academy Award-winning director
- Moses Ingram (MFA 2019), actress
- Lloyd Kaufman (B.A. 1968), director, actor, President of Troma Studios, IFTA Charman
- Elia Kazan (studied 1930–32), Academy Award-winning director
- Zoe Kazan (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter
- Fran Kranz (B.A. 2004), actor
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian
- Adam Leipzig (B.A. 1979 in literature), film and theater producer
- Thomas F. Lennon (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
- Ron Livingston (B.A. 1989), actor, best known for Office Space
- Jefferson Mays (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning actor
- Tom McCarthy (MFA), Academy Award-winning director, best known for Spotlight
- Frances McDormand (MFA 1982), Academy Award-winning actress
- Peter McRobbie (B.A. 1966), actor
- William Cameron Menzies (studied art in the School of Fine Arts 1913–14), production designer, art director, director
- Rebecca Miller (B.A. 1984), award-winning filmmaker and novelist
- Bill Moseley, actor
- Paul Newman (DRA 1954), Academy Award-winning actor
- Thomas Newman (B.A. 1977, M.M. 1978), film composer
- Alessandro Nivola (B.A. 1994), actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), Academy Award-nominated actor (American History X), known for Fight Club
- Lupita Nyong'o (MFA 2012), Academy Award-winning actress (12 Years A Slave)
- Alan J. Pakula (B.A. 1948), director
- Kip Pardue (B.A. 1998), actor
- D.A. Pennebaker (B.A.), documentarian and director of Dont Look Back
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
- James Ponsoldt (B.A.), director
- Vincent Price (B.A. 1933, History & English), actor
- Sarah Rafferty (MFA), actress
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph (M.F.A. 2011), Academy Award-winning actress (The Holdovers)
- Ira Sachs (B.A. 1988), director
- Michael Sarnoski (B.A. 2010), director
- Liev Schreiber (MFA 1992), actor
- Robert Simonds (B.A. 1985 in Philosophy, summa cum laude), film producer, best known for Happy Gilmore, Cheaper by the Dozen, and The Wedding Singer; also the founder and chairman of STX Entertainment
- Josh Singer (B.A.), screenwriter, best known for Spotlight
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
- Todd Solondz (B.A. 1981), director, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness
- Oliver Stone (Class of 1968), Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA, 1975), Academy Award-winning actress
- Ted Tally (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- John Turturro (MFA 1983), actor
- Sam Waterston (B.A. 1961), actor
- Sigourney Weaver (MFA 1974), actress
- Jon Weinbach (B.A. 1998), director/writer/producer
- Joe Weisberg (B.A. 1987), creator and showrunner of The Americans
- Sam Weisman (B.A. 1969), director/producer/actor
- Jennifer Westfeldt (B.A. 1991), actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)
- James Whitmore, actor
- Douglas Wick (B.A. 1976), film producer
- Allison Williams (B.A. 2010), actress (Get Out), comedian, singer
- Rob Wright (B.A.), producer/writer
- Jessica Yu (B.A. 1987), Academy Award-winning film director
Inventors and innovators
- Joseph P. Allen (Ph.D. 1965), NASA astronaut with two STS missions experience
- Herbert Boyer (1963–66), co-founder of Genentech; genetic engineering pioneer
- David Bushnell (ca. 1776), inventor of the screw propeller, submarine, naval mine, and time bomb
- Ben Carson (B.A. 1973), pediatric neurosurgeon, first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the back of the head
- Francis S. Collins (Ph.D. 1974), director, Human Genome Project
- Harry B. Combs (B.S. 1935, Sheffield Scientific School), aviation pioneer
- Harvey Williams Cushing (B.A.), pioneer of modern brain surgery and considered by many the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century
- Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the triode
- Helen Flanders Dunbar (M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
- Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (B.A. 1810), first commissioner of United States Patent Office, founder of United States Department of Agriculture
- Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of CMOS image sensor
- J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for Gibbs' Phenomenon
- Grace Hopper (M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor of COBOL programming language
- Maurice Karnaugh (B.Sc. 1949, M.Sc. 1950, Ph.D. 1952), developer of Karnaugh map
- L. L. Langstroth (1831), apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, considered to be the father of American beekeeping; namesake and creator of the Langstroth hive
- Paul B. MacCready (1947), "Engineer of the Century", won the Kremer prize for first human-powered flying machine (the Gossamer Condor); pioneer in solar powered flight; founder of AeroVironment
- Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), the first graphic designer in the world to work with computer graphics
- Elmer McCollum (Ph.D. 1904), biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D
- Warren Sturgis McCulloch (B.A. 1921), cybernetics pioneer, created the first computational models for studying the brain
- Samuel F. B. Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of Morse code
- Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the Nyquist theorem
- John Ousterhout (B.S. 1975), creator of the Tcl programming language
- Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award recipient
- George B. Selden, awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895
- Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), early chemist and science educator; one of the first professors of science at Yale College; the first person to distill petroleum; a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest scientific journal in the United States
- Benjamin Silliman Jr., professor of chemistry at Yale University, instrumental in developing the oil industry
- Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
- Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin
Life sciences and medicine
- A. Elizabeth Adams (Ph.D. 1926), professor of Zoology at Mount Holyoke College
- Christina Agapakis (B.S. 2006), synthetic biologist and Creative Director of Ginkgo Bioworks
- Michael L.J. Apuzzo (B.A. 1961), academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, Editor and educator; professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, University of Southern California; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, Yale
- Shy Arkin (Ph.D. 1966 in Cell Biology), Israeli Professor of Structural Biochemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- George Alfred Baitsell (M.A. 1909, Ph.D. 1914), biologist, official of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Oxiris Barbot, Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
- Aaron Beck (M.D. 1946), "father of cognitive behavioral therapy"; founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award
- Jules Blankfein, Class of 1921, physician and financier; founder of Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein
- Katharine Jeanette Bush (Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences from Yale
- Alice Chen (B.S. 2001 ), founding member and former director of Doctors for America
- Mandy Cohen (M.D. 2005), physician, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, chair of medicine at University of Maryland and Jefferson Medical College
- John Elefteriades (M.D. 1976), cardiac surgeon, professor at Yale School of Medicine
- Nathan Havill (M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2006), entomologist and evolutionary biologist
- Rani Hoff (MPH and PhD), Yale professor of psychiatry
- Peter Hotez (B.A. 1980), dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine
- Howard A. Howe (B.A. 1925), polio researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Allyn Merriam Hungerford (M.D. 1839), prominent Connecticut physician, legislator and judge
- Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (B.A. 1833), President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insane
- Howard Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor, Harvard School of Public Health
- Jeffrey Laitman (Ph.D 1977), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, President-Elect of the American Association of Anatomists
- Arthur Lander, B.A., developmental biologist at University of California, Irvine
- Aldo Leopold (Master's degree in Forestry, 1909), pioneer in the field of wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of A Sand County Almanac
- Othniel Charles Marsh (1862), preeminent paleontologist, discovered numerous dinosaur species
- Harold J. Morowitz (B.S. 1947, M.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1951), professor of biology and natural philosophy at George Mason University
- Vivek Murthy (MD 2003, MBA 2003), vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States
- Johnathan Oberlander (M.A. 1990, M.Phil 1993, Ph.D. 1995), author and professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Mary I. O'Connor (B.S. 1979), chair of orthopedic surgery at Mayo Clinic; director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at the Yale School of Medicine
- H.T. Odum (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the University of Florida
- J. Roger Porter (Ph.D. 1938), microbiology professor at University of Iowa, 1938–79
- Tia Powell (M.D.), psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Force on Life & the Law
- Megan Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health (2023 – )
- Christian R. H. Raetz (B.S. 1967), professor of biochemistry at Duke University
- Marjorie S. Rosenthal (M.D. 1995; Fellow 2016), Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine; Co-Director of Yale's National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) and Director of the NCSP Community Research Initiative; former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at both Yale and the University of North Carolina
- Jonathan Rothberg (Ph.D. 1921), first to sequence an individual human genome; serial biotechnology entrepreneur; professor of genetics at Yale
- James Rothman (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize")
- David Sanders (B.S. 1983), structural biologist at Purdue University
- William Thompson Sedgwick (B.A. 1877), bacteriologist, epidemiologist, founder of the MIT-Harvard School of Public Health
- Florence B. Seibert (Ph.D. 1923), biochemist, winner of 1942 Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the National Women's Hall of Fame
- Robert Shope (faculty 1965–95), arbovirologist and emerging infectious diseases expert
- Linda Siegel (M.S., 1964 and Ph.D., 1966), wrote doctoral dissertation on information processing in children; worked as a cognitive psychologist and was holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education at the University of British Columbia 1996–2010
- Julian M. Sturtevant (Ph.D., 1931), professor of biochemistry, Yale University
Mathematics and computer science
- James Arthur (Ph.D. 1970), Wolf Prize medallist, mathematician known for Arthur-Selberg trace formula and Arthur conjectures
- Jeffrey Brock (B.A. 1992), Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Yale University, Guggenheim Fellow known for his work on classifying hyperbolic 3-manifolds
- Jaime Carbonell (Ph.D. 1979), University Professor, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
- Bernard Chazelle (Ph.D. 1980), Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University
- Bruce Donald (B.A. 1980), James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, at Duke University and the Duke University Medical Center
- Theodore Gamelin (B.S. 1960), professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles
- Andrew M. Gleason (B.A. 1942), Chair of Mathematics at Harvard, World War II codebreaker, made fundamental contributions to Lie Groups, Quantum Mechanics and Combinatorics
- Leslie Greengard (M.D., Ph.D. 1987), former director of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; inventor of the fast multipole method
- Marshall Hall (B.A. 1932), mathematician, who made significant contributions to the development of group theory and combinatorics
- Richard S. Hamilton (B.A. 1963), discovered Ricci flow, instrumental to the solution of the Poincaré conjecture, winner of the Shaw Prize, Clay Research Award and AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize
- Brendan Hassett (B.A. 1992), mathematician who made significant contributions to higher-dimensional arithmetic geometry and birational geometry, fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- Paul Hudak, professor of computer science, co-creator of the programming language Haskell
- Janet Kolodner (Ph.D. 1980), Cognitive Scientist, Regents' Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960), Abel Prize winner, emeritus professor, Institute for Advanced Study, author of the Langlands Program
- Charles E. Leiserson (B.S. 1975), bestselling co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, inventor of Cilk, professor of Computer Science at MIT
- Saunders Mac Lane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of category theory
- Andreas Mandelis (B.Sc. 1974), expert on photonics; professor at the University of Toronto
- Alan Perlis, professor of computer science and first ever recipient of the Turing Award
- Matt Pharr (B.S. 1993), Academy Award winner for the formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering
- Yoav Shoham (Ph.D. 1987), Allan Newell Award winner, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
- Daniel Spielman (B.S. 1992), MacArthur Fellow, Godel, Polya and Nevanlinna Prize Winner, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science professor at Yale University
- John Griggs Thompson (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Daniel S. Weld (B.A., B.S. 1982), professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
- John H. Wharton, software engineer specializing in microprocessors
- Brian White (B.A. 1977), professor of mathematics at Stanford University who specializes in differential geometry and geometric measure theory
- Hassler Whitney (B.S. 1928) (B.A. 1929), mathematician, founder of singularity theory, foundational work in manifolds and embedding, Wolf Prize medallist
- Robert Wilensky (B.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1978), former chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, doctoral advisor of Peter Norvig
Physical sciences and engineering
- Richard Lee Armstrong (BSc 1959, Ph.D. Geology 1964), American-Canadian geochemist
- Walter A. Bell (MSc 1911, Ph.D. Geology 1920), Canadian geologist and paleontologist
- Edward Bouchet (B.A. 1874, Ph.D. Physics 1876), first African-American to graduate from Yale and the first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university
- Emanuel Fritz (M.A. Forestry 1914), professor of forestry and noted consultant on California redwoods
- Milton Harris (Ph.D. 1929), chemist
- McAllister Hull (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951), Manhattan Project explosive lens expert, Yale physics professor, SUNY Buffalo dean, University of New Mexico professor and provost
- Michael E. Mann (Ph.D. 1998), climatologist and geophysicist at Penn State University, originator of the "hockey stick graph"
- Henry Margenau (Ph.D. 1929), Physicist and Philosopher of Science, expert on spectral analysis and microwave theory
- Clark Blanchard Millikan (B.A. 1924), professor of aeronautics, noted researcher, administrator and advisor at California Institute of Technology
- E. R. Ward Neale (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist, professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) (M.A. 1799), "father of American scientific education"
- Lyman Spitzer (B.S. 1935), theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science winner, namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- Eugene Stevens (B.S. 1960), professor at Binghamton University, known for research in biodegradable plastics
- Josiah Whitney (B.A. 1839), geologist, chief of California Geological Survey, and geology professor at Harvard University
- Arthur Wightman (B.A. 1942), founding father of modern mathematical physics, Poincare Prize Winner
- Zhan Tianyou (Ph.B. 1881), pioneering Chinese railroad engineer, considered the "father of China's Railroad"
Law and politics
Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers
- Abd al-Karim al-Iryani (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen (1980–83, 1998–2001), and Foreign Minister (1993–98)
- Olympia Bonaparte, Princess Napoléon, consort of Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
- George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989–93), Vice President of the United States (1981–89), member of the House of Representatives (R-Texas) (1967–71), played baseball while attending and was on the 1947 and 1948 College World Series runner-up teams
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001–09), Governor of Texas (1995–2000)
- John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804), seventh Vice President of the United States, for two different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; Senator; Member of the House of Representatives; Secretary of State in the Tyler presidential administration
- Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), fifth President of Germany (1979–84)
- Dick Cheney (Class of 1963), Vice President of the United States (2001–09)
- Tansu Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), Prime Minister of Turkey (1993–96)
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993–2001), Governor of Arkansas (1979–81, 1983–92)
- Kristrún Frostadóttir (M.A. 2016), Prime Minister of Iceland (2024–present)
- Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), President of the United States (1974–77), Vice President of the United States (1973–74), member of the House of Representatives
- Jiang Yi-huah, Premier of the Republic of China (2012–13)
- Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), Vice President of the European Parliament (2009–11), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011)
- José P. Laurel, President of the Philippines in World War II
- Salvador H. Laurel (LL.M 1953) (J.S.D.1960), Vice President of the Philippines (1986–92)
- Lee Hong-koo (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of South Korea (1994–95)
- Mario Monti (M.Sc. 1968), Prime Minister of Italy (2011–13)
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and Tobago minister
- Peter Mutharika (LL.M. 1966, J.S.D. 1969), 5th President of Malawi
- Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky, prince, aristocrat, financier, grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia
- Jovito R. Salonga (J.S.D.1949), Senator of the Philippines (1965–72) (1987–92)
- William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–30)
- JD Vance (J.D. 2013), Vice President of the United States (2025–present), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 2023–25)
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte (Class of 2000, attended for two years)
- Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia (2007–11)
- Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994–2000)
Supreme Court justices
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.
- Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Supreme Court justice (2006–present)
- Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830–44)
- David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910)
- Henry Billings Brown (1856, and law study, LL.D. 1891), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906)
- David Davis (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862–77)
- Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766), Supreme Court justice (1796–1800)
- Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965–69)
- Brett Kavanaugh (J.D 1990), Supreme Court Justice (2018–present)
- Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949–56)
- George Shiras Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892–1903)
- Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979), Supreme Court justice (2009–present)
- Potter Stewart (1937, Law 1941), Supreme Court justice (1958–81)
- William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870–80)
- William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30)
- Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present)
- Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874–88)
- Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme Court justice (1962–93)
- William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881–87)
U.S. Senators
Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
- Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1923–24, 1932–41)
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude), U.S. attorney general (2001–05), U.S. senator (R-Missouri, 1995–2001), governor of Missouri (1985–93)
- Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–99), U.S. senator (1799–1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the University of Georgia (1786–1801)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), governor of Connecticut (1844–46), U.S. senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1847–51)
- John Beall (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator (R-Maryland, 1971–76)
- Michael Bennet (J.D. 1993), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 2009–)
- Hiram Bingham III (1898), governor of Connecticut (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924–33); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of Machu Picchu, Peru; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional character Indiana Jones
- Richard Blumenthal (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-Connecticut, 2011–)
- Cory Booker (J.D. 1997), U.S. senator (D-New Jersey, 2013–), former mayor of Newark
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979–94), president of University of Oklahoma
- Stephen R. Bradley (B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778), U.S. senator (Democratic-Republican Party), Vermont, 1801–13
- Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952), U.S. senator (R-New Jersey, 1982)
- Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974), U.S. representative (1993–2007), U.S. senator (D-Ohio, 2007–2025)
- James L. Buckley (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (C-New York, 1971–77); president of Radio Free Europe, 1982–85; federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) (1985–96)
- Prescott Bush (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953–63), father of George H. W. Bush, grandfather to George W. Bush
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962–69), secretary of the navy (1969–72), U.S. senator (R–Rhode Island, 1976–99)
- John M. Clayton (1815), secretary of state in the Taylor administration, U.S. senator (AJ–Delaware, 1829–36; W-Delaware, 1845–49; O-Delaware 1853–56)
- Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-New York (2001–09)
- LeBaron Colt (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913–24)
- Chris Coons (J.D./M.A.), U.S. senator (D-Delaware, 2010–)
- David Daggett (1783), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1813–19)
- John Danforth (J.D. DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-Missouri, 1976–95)
- David Davis (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Lincoln (1862–77); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877–83)
- John Davis (1787–1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835–41 and 1845–53)
- Henry L. Dawes (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875–93)
- Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-Minnesota, 2001–07)
- Fred Dubois (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-Idaho, 1891–97; D-Idaho, 1901–07)
- William M. Evarts (1837), secretary of state under Hayes, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91)
- Gary Hart (DIV 1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1975–87)
- John Heinz (B.A. 1960), U.S. senator (R-Pennsylvania)
- James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796–1810)
- James Jeffords (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (I-Vermont, 1989–2007)
- William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress (1785–1787), delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, president (1787–1800) of Columbia University (he was its first president under its new name of Columbia College; his father was the first president of the institution when it was known as King's College), U.S. senator (Connecticut, 1789–1791)
- John Kean (1852–1914), U.S. senator (R-New Jersey)
- Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator (D-Minnesota, 2007–)
- James Lanman (1788), U.S. senator (D-Connecticut, 1819–25)
- Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (I-Connecticut, 1989–2013)
- Joseph Medill McCormick (1900), U.S. Senate 1919–24, publisher, Chicago Tribune
- Return J. Meigs Jr. (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator (DR–Ohio, 1808–10), 4th governor of Ohio (1810–14), 8th U.S. postmaster general (1814–23); namesake of Meigs County, Ohio
- Henry Mitchell (1804), U.S. representative (Jacksonian-New York, 1833–35)
- Thurston Morton (B.A. 1929), U.S. senator (R-Kentucky, 1957–68)
- Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-Florida, 1979–91), astronaut (STS-61-C, 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001–19)
- Truman Newberry, U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1919–22), secretary of the navy 1908–09
- Francis Newlands (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903–17)
- William Proxmire (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957–89)
- Ben Sasse (Ph.D. 2004), U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska, 2014–)
- Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981–2011)
- Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923), United States Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953–76)
- Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1939–53)
- Robert Taft Jr. (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963–64, 1967–70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971–76)
- John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965–70), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–77); inspiration for Robert Redford's character in the film The Candidate
- Frederic Walcott (1891), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1929–35)
- John Wales (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator (W-Delaware, 1849–51); co-founder of Delaware College
- Malcolm Wallop (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator (R-Wyoming, 1977–95)
- Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (R-Connecticut, 1968–71), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1971–89), governor of Connecticut (1990–94)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006–)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983–91), governor of California 1991–99
Other legislators
- Joel M. Acker (1836), Mississippi State Senator (1846, 1854–1856), Mississippi State House (1840–1844, 1865–1866)
- Richard S. Aldrich (B.A. 1906), U.S. Representative, R-Rhode Island
- William L. Borden (B.A. 1942, J.D. 1947), executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949–53
- Carolyn Bourdeaux (B.A. 1992), U.S. Representative, D-Georgia (2021–23)
- Winfield S. Braddock, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Edwin Corning Jr. (B.A. 1942), New York State Assembly
- Parker Corning (B.A. 1895), U.S. Representative, D-New York
- Lawrence Coughlin, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1969–91
- Nelson Antonio Denis (J.D., 1980), New York State Assemblyman
- Ron DeSantis (B.A., 2001), Republican Representative from Florida (2013–18), governor of Florida
- Charles S. Dewey, Republican Representative from Illinois (1941–42)
- Jerome F. Donovan (Law 1894), U.S. Representative, D-New York (1918–21)
- E. D. Estilette (B.A. 1857), Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1876; state district court judge in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
- Porter J. Goss, U.S. Representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of CIA
- Anne P. Graham (M.S. 1986), Maine House of Representatives
- George Hambrecht (LL.B. 1904), Wisconsin State Assembly (1909–10, 1915)
- Ro Khanna (J.D. 2001), U.S. Representative, D-California (2017–present)
- Roland Kotani, member of Hawaii State House of Representatives
- Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (B.A. 2012), Alaska House of Representatives (2013–)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A. 1972), U.S. Representative, D-Texas
- Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737), Delegate and signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York, state senator
- Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1859–63)
- Seth Magaziner (M.B.A. 2010), U.S. Representative, D-Rhode Island (2023–present)
- Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A. 1828), member of the Texas State Senate, namesake for eponym "maverick"
- Edward Ralph May (1838), sole delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to support African American suffrage
- David M. McIntosh (B.A. 1980), U.S. Representative, R-Indiana (1994–2001)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for District of Columbia (1991–)
- Hugh Q. Parmer (B.A. 1961), Democratic member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, 1963–65 and 1983–91; mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, 1977–79
- Katie Porter (B.A. 1996), U.S. Representative, D-California (2019–present)
- William S. Reyburn, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–13
- Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953), U.S. Representative (Resident commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (1993–2000), governor of Puerto Rico (1977–85)
- Daniel Sayre (B.A. 1985), Maine state representative
- Joe Sempolinski (M.A. 2006, M.Phil. 2008), U.S. Representative, R-New York, 2022-23
- Gerry Studds (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. Representative, D-Massachusetts, 1973–97
- Richard Swett (B.A. 1979), U.S. Representative, D-New Hampshire, 1991–95
Governors, mayors, other city and state officials
Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.
- James Hopkins Adams (1831), governor of South Carolina (1854–56)
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964), governor of Missouri (1985–93) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), governor of Connecticut (1844–46) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898), governor of Connecticut (1925) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Rob Bonta (B.A. 1993, J.D. 1998), 34th Attorney General of California (2021–present)
- David L. Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Chesa Boudin (J.D. 2011), District Attorney of San Francisco (2020–22)
- Jabez Bowen (B.A. 1757), Federalist supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island
- Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (J.D. 1964), 34th and 39th governor of California
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), governor of Texas (1995–2000) (See also: #Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers)
- Susan Bysiewicz (B.A. 1983), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (since 2019), Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999–2010)
- Dick Celeste (B.A. magna cum laude 1959), governor of Ohio (1983–91) (See also: #Diplomats)
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962–69) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), governor of Arkansas (1983–92) (See also: #Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers)
- Edwin Corning (B.A. 1906), Lieutenant Governor of New York
- Erastus Corning 2nd (B.A. 1932), mayor of Albany, New York
- Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889), governor of Connecticut (1931–39), Yale professor of English
- Jack Dalrymple (B.A. 1970), 32nd Governor of North Dakota (2010–16)
- John Davis (1787–1854), governor of Massachusetts (1834–35 and 1841–43)
- Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), governor of Minnesota (2011–)
- Howard Dean (B.A. 1971), governor of Vermont (1991–2003)
- Justin Elicker (M.E.M./M.B.A. 2010), mayor of New Haven, Connecticut
- Stephen Clark Foster (1815–1898), first American mayor of Los Angeles, California
- Henry Huntly Haight (B.A. 1844), governor of California (1867–71)
- W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913), governor of New York (1955–58), U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1943–46), Ambassador to Britain (1946), Secretary of Commerce (1946–48)
- Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968), governor of Alaska (1994–2002), mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1981–87)
- Ned Lamont (M.B.A. 1980), governor of Connecticut (2019–present)
- John Lindsay (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948), mayor of New York City
- William Livingston (B.A. 1741), first governor of New Jersey (1776–90) after the signing of the Declaration of Independence
- Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), governor of Washington (1997–2005) (thereby the first Chinese American governor in the United States)
- Return J. Meigs Jr. (B.A. 1785), 4th governor of Ohio (1810–14) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Marshall F. Moore, 7th Governor of Washington Territory
- Robert Moses (B.A. 1909), New York City Parks Commissioner, Chairman of the New York State Council of Parks, head of the Triborough Bridge Authority
- George Pataki (B.A. 1967), governor of New York (1995–2007)
- Gifford Pinchot (Yale College graduate, 1889), governor of Pennsylvania (1923–27, 1931–35), first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–10), and founder of and professor in Yale School of Forestry
- Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935), attended Yale 1931–34; governor of Arkansas (1967–71)
- Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953), governor of Puerto Rico (1977–85) (See also: #Other legislators)
- William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), governor of Pennsylvania (1963–67), United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–77), member of the United States House of Representatives
- Israel Smith (Yale College graduate, 1781), governor of Vermont (1807–08), member of the United States House of Representatives and member of the United States Senate
- Robert Taft (B.A. 1953), governor of Ohio (1999–2007)
- James Camp Tappan (B.A. 1845), Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1897–99)
- Samuel J. Tilden (B.A. 1837, LL.D. 1875), governor of New York (1875–76), Democratic nominee for President in 1876
- Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), governor of Connecticut (1990–94) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
- Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979), mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999–2007
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), governor of California (1991–99) (See also: #U.S. Senators)
Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers
The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.
- Dean Acheson (B.A. 1915), U.S. Secretary of State (1949–1953)
- James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941), chief of Counterintelligence Staff for the Central Intelligence Agency (1954–1974)
- Les Aspin (B.A. 1960), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1993–1994)
- Michael J. Astrue (B.A. 1978), Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2007–2013)
- McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940), National Security Advisor (1961–1966)
- Jay Carney (B.A. 1987), White House Press Secretary (2011–2014)
- Ash Carter (B.S. 1976), U.S. Secretary of Defense (2015–2017), professor at Harvard Kennedy School
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1969–1972) (also listed under Senators and Governors)
- Fredrick Chien (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (1990–1996), Speaker of the National Assembly (1996–1999), President of the Control Yuan (1999–2005)
- John M. Clayton (1815), U.S. Secretary of State (1849–1850) (also listed under Senators)
- Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. Secretary of State (2009–2013) (also listed under Senators)
- William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003–2005), Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange (1991–1995), founder and 1st dean of the Yale School of Management (1975–1980), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
- William M. Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State (1877–1881) (also listed under Senators)
- Olu Falae, Finance Minister of Nigeria (1989–1991), presidential candidate (1999)
- David Frum (B.A. and M.A. 1982), White House speechwriter under President George W. Bush, who coined the phrase "Axis of Evil"
- Roswell Gilpatric (B.A. 1928), U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (1961–1964), presiding partner of the Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1966–1977)
- T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927), Administrator of NASA (1958–1961)
- Austan Goolsbee (B.A. 1991, M.A. 1991), Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (2010–2011), professor of economics at University of Chicago
- Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2004–2006)
- Stephen Hadley (J.D. 1972), National Security Advisor (2005–2009), Deputy National Security Advisor (2001–2005)
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1974–1976)
- John Kerry (B.A. 1966), U.S. Secretary of State (2013–2017) (also listed under Senators)
- Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, principal figure in the Plame Affair
- Robert Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French Marshall Plan implementer, European Commissioner (1958–1967)
- William McChesney Martin (B.A. ca. 1926), Chair of the Federal Reserve (1951–1970)
- Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), U.S. Attorney General (1985–1988)
- Steven Mnuchin (B.A. 1985), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2017–2021)
- Rogers Morton (B.A.), U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1975–1976) and U.S. Secretary of Interior (1971–1975)
- John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009) and Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007)
- Urjit Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2016–2018)
- Wilbur Ross (B.A.), Secretary of Commerce (2017–2021)
- Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995–1999), Director of the National Economic Council (1993–1995)
- Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888), U.S. Secretary of War (1911–1913; 1940–1945), U.S. Secretary of State (1929–1933), Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–1929)
- Jake Sullivan (B.A. 1998, J.D. 2003), National Security Advisor (2021–present)
- Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law), U.S. Attorney General (1876–1877), U.S. Secretary of War (1876)
- Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001), president of the Brookings Institution (2002–2017)
- Cyrus Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942), U.S. Secretary of State (1977–1980)
- Janet Yellen (Ph.D. 1971), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2021–present), Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014–2018)
Diplomats
- Roy L. Austin, U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (2001–09)
- Hiram Bingham IV, U.S. vice consul in Marseilles, France (1940–41)
- Bradford Bishop, former Foreign Service officer, indicted for murder, still at large
- L. Paul Bremer (B.A. 1963), U.S. ambassador
- Dick Celeste (B.A. magna cum laude 1959), U.S. ambassador to India (1997–2001)
- Robert P. De Vecchi (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), president emeritus of the International Rescue Committee
- Donald Burnham Ensenat (BA, 1968), US ambassador to Brunei (1992–1993); US Chief of Protocol (2001–2007)
- Carl Gershman (B.A. magna cum laude 1965), U.N. Representative and National Endowment for Democracy President
- Donald Gips (MBA), U.S. ambassador to South Africa (2009–13)
- Gordon Gray III (B.A. 1978), U.S. ambassador to Tunisia (2009–12)
- David Huebner (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (2009–14)
- Rashad Hussain (J.D.), U.S. special envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
- Howard Leach (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to France (2001–05)
- Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), U.S. ambassador to China (2011–14)
- Robert D. McCallum Jr., U.S. ambassador to Australia (2006–09)
- John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2001–04) and Deputy Secretary of State (2007–09)
- John O'Leary (B.A. 1969), U.S. ambassador to Chile (1998–2001)
- Samantha Power (B.A. 1992), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2013–17)
- Clark T. Randt Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001–09)
- Philip T. Reeker (B.A. 1986), U.S. ambassador to Macedonia (2008–11)
- Ogden Reid, U.S. ambassador to Israel (1959–61)
- Charles Rivkin (B.A. 1984), U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco (2009–13)
- Herbert Salzman, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Andrew Schapiro (B.A. 1985), U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic (2014-17)
- William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1976–77)
- Derek Shearer (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to Finland (1994–97)
- R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to Norway (1994–89)
- Richard Swett (B.A. 1979), U.S. ambassador to Denmark (1998–2001)
- Katherine Tai (B.A.), U.S. Trade Representative (2020–)
- David Thorne (B.A. 1966), U.S. ambassador to Italy (2009–13), U.S. ambassador to San Marino (2009–13)
- Peter Tufo (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to Hungary (1997–2001)
- Kori Udovički (Ph.D. 1999 in Economics), Governor of the National Bank of Serbia (2003–04), assistant secretary-general of United Nations (2007–)
- Frederick Vreeland (B.A. 1951), U.S. ambassador to Morocco (1992–93)
Judges and attorneys
- Cecilia Altonaga (J.D. 1986), federal judge, first Cuban American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States
- R. Lanier Anderson III (B.A., 1958), federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Richard S. Arnold (B.A., 1957), late judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in Little Rock named in his honor
- Joaquin Avila (B.A, 1970), voting rights advocate and MacArthur Fellow
- Samuel H. Blackmer (B.A., 1924), Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Richard Blumenthal (J.D.), Connecticut attorney general (1991–2011)
- David Sherman Boardman (B.A. 1793), Connecticut judge and congressman
- David Boies (LL.B.. 1966), famous lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster v. RIAA)
- Steven Brill (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer
- José A. Cabranes (J.D. 1965), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- George B. Daniels (born 1953), federal judge
- Benjamin Darrow (J.D., ca. 1890), New York district attorney
- Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the High Court of Australia
- John T. Downey, judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China 1952–73
- Marc Stuart Dreier (B.A. 1972), lawyer and felon
- Tali Farhadian (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
- Dwight Foster (B.A. 1848), Massachusetts Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Richard L. Gabriel (B.A. 1984), Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
- James Knoll Gardner (B.A. 1962), former federal judge for the U.S. District of Eastern Pennsylvania
- Ernest W. Gibson III (B.A. 1951), Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- John P. Hampton (1804), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
- Nathan L. Hecht (B.A. 1971), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
- James Kent (B.A. 1781), father of American equity jurisprudence, Chancellor of New York
- Anthony Quinton Keasbey (B.A. 1843), 25-year United States attorney for the district of New Jersey
- Denison Kitchel (B.A. 1930), attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, and national campaign manager for Barry M. Goldwater in 1964
- William Kunstler (B.A. 1941), civil liberties lawyer
- Arthur Mag, lawyer, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
- Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), assistant attorney general
- Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former United States Attorney General
- John W. Nields Jr. (B.A. 1964), former chief counsel to House Select Committee investigating Iran–Contra affair
- Ann Olivarius (B.A., 1977, J.D. and M.B.A., 1986), feminist attorney and Managing Partner, McAllister Olivarius
- Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, J.D. 1969), United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Myrna Perez (B.A. 1996), United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Henry L. Sherman (B.A. 1890), Justice of the New York Supreme Court
- Jerry Edwin Smith (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972), United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Stephen Susman (B.A. 1962), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey
- Robert W. Sweet (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York Southern District
- Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871), founder of prominent law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and first president of the Yale Club
- Thomas Day Thacher (B.A. 1904), United States Solicitor General and federal judge
- Cyrus Vance Jr. (B.A. 1978), New York County District Attorney
- Arthur A. Wilder, Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
Activists
- Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820), abolitionist
- Aditi Banerjee, attorney, writer and minority (Hindu) rights activist in the US
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832), abolitionist; namesake of Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., took the name Muhammad Ali
- Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958–75), senior minister of Riverside Church in New York, civil and political rights activist, author
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki (B.S. 2002), environmental activist, speaker, television host, and author; member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Council (United Nations)
- David Dellinger (B.A. 1936), conscientious objector, member of the Chicago Seven
- Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Jodi Grant (B.A. 1990), executive director of the Afterschool Alliance
- Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, Taliban spokesman
- Bruce W. Klunder (B.D. 1961), Presbyterian minister, civil rights activist with C.O.R.E., killed during protest against segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio
- Barry Scheck (B.S., 1971), co-founded the Innocence Project
- Sargent Shriver (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941), main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps; California politician and businessman; husband of Eunice Kennedy; father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and former wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Bobby Shriver (Yale B.A. 1976)
- Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969), theologian and activist; President of Evangelicals For Social Action and professor at Palmer Theological Seminary
- Jared Taylor (B.A., 1973), author, editor, activist, founder of the New Century Foundation
- Phyllis Ann Wallace (1948), economist, civil rights activist
- Brian Wallach (B.A., 2003), founder of I AM ALS
- Y.C. James Yen (B.A. 1918; M.A. (honorary) 1928), founder of Chinese Mass Education Movement and Rural Reconstruction Movement
Political commentators
- John P. Avlon (B.A. 1996), author, political commentator, CNN Senior Political Analyst and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast
- Christopher Buckley (B.A. 1975), political pundit, columnist, author of Thank You for Smoking
- William F. Buckley (B.A. 1950), political pundit, founder of the National Review, host of public affairs television show Firing Line
- David Gergen (B.A. 1963), political pundit, worked as an advisor for the Republican and Democratic presidential administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton
- Michael J. Knowles (B.A. 2012), political pundit, author ofSpeechless, host of political podcast on The Daily Wire
- Andrés Martinez (B.A. 1988), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
- Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), editor-in-chief of WORLD magazine
- Kenneth M. Pollack (B.A. 1988), Middle East expert, author, fellow of the Brookings Institution
- Gideon Rose (B.A. 1985), author, editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs
- Sean Trende (B.A. 1995), Senior Elections Analyst for RealClearPolitics, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics
- Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show Foreign Exchange
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
- Moses Cleaveland (B.A. 1777), founder of Cleveland, Ohio
- Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765), co-author of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, member of the Ohio Company of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in Ohio), Federalist congressman from Massachusetts (1801–1805)
- John Hart Ely (J.D. 1963), legal scholar
- James Gadsden (B.A. 1806), namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of Arizona and New Mexico
- Quintin Johnstone (J.S.D. 1951), legal scholar
- Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey
- James Wadsworth (1787), founder of Geneseo, New York, and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley
- Amy Wax (B.S. 1975), Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Military
- John Brown (B.A. 1771), accuser of Benedict Arnold
- Henry B. Carrington (1845), Union army general in the American Civil War
- A. Peter Dewey, first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945
- William B. Goggins, rear admiral of the United States Navy
- Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, executed by the British for espionage in 1776; his last words are often quoted: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle, army general
- David Humphreys (B.A. 1771), aide-de-camp to George Washington
- Lewis Nixon, army officer featured in Band of Brothers
- William Odom, Director of the National Security Agency
- Jarvis Offutt (1917), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base
- John Paterson (B.A. 1762), major general in the American Revolution and congressman from New York
- John Francisco Richards II (B.A. 1917), World War I aviator, namesake of Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base
- George W. Roberts (B.A. 1857), Union Army colonel killed at the Battle of Stones River during the American Civil War
- George Fairlamb Smith (B.A. 1858), Union Army colonel and Pennsylvania National Guard judge advocate general
- Richard K. Sutherland (B.A. 1916), army general during World War II
- Benjamin Tallmadge (B.A. 1773), head of General George Washington's Culper spy ring on Long Island and New York
- James Camp Tappan (B.A. 1845), Confederate army general in the American Civil War (See also: #Governors, other state officials and mayors)
- Decius Wadsworth (1785), Colonel U.S. Army War of 1812 and Chief of Ordnance 1815–21
- Nathan Whiting (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War; nephew of university president Thomas Clap
- David Wooster (B.A. 1738), brigadier general in the American Revolutionary War; namesake of Wooster, Ohio, The College of Wooster, and the Wooster School
Religion
- Hiram Bingham II (1853), missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert Islands
- Ralph Arthur Bohlmann (Ph.D. 1968), ninth president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
- Angela Warnick Buchdahl (born 1972), rabbi
- William Ragsdale Cannon (B.D. 1940 Ph.D. 1942), professor and dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University; United Methodist Church bishop
- Oliver Crane (B.A. 1845), Presbyterian clergy, missionary to Turkey, Oriental scholar, writer
- Thomas Frederick Davies Sr. (1853 & 1893), third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1889–1905
- Jonathan Edwards, New England pastor and theologian
- Leroy Gilbert, Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard
- John Guernsey (B.A., 1975), Anglican bishop
- Matthew Heyd, Episcopal priest
- Jeffrey R. Holland (Ph.D. 1973), former president of Brigham Young University, Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Ashley Day Leavitt (B.A. 1900), minister of Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
- John H. Leith (Ph.D. 1949), Presbyterian author, theologian and professor
- Aaron L. Mackler (B.A. 1980), notable rabbi in the Conservative movement
- James Massa (M.Th. 1985), American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn
- Asahel Nettleton (1809), theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening
- James W.C. Pennington (1809–1870), African American orator, minister, and abolitionist; the first black man to attend classes at Yale when he audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839
- Harry Boone Porter, liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the Episcopal Church, editor of The Living Church magazine
- Yasir Qadhi (Ph.D. candidate), Muslim theologian
- Anson Phelps Stokes, III (B.A. 1927), eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
- Andrew Leete Stone (1836), minister, author
- Roy M. Terry, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
- Asa Thurston (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- Baby Varghese (Ph.D. 2004), visiting professor of Liturgical Studies
- Stephen N. Williams (1981), Ph.D. student, Presbyterian theologian
- Thomas Smith Williamson (1824), missionary to the Dakota who helped translate the first Dakota-language Bible
History, literature, and journalism
- Michael Barbaro (B.A. 2002), host of the podcast The Daily
- Leigh Bardugo (B.A. 1997), novelist
- Emily Bazelon (B.A. 1993, J.D. 2000), journalist, New York Times
- Carl Bialik (Class of 2001), journalist, The Wall Street Journal
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), literary critic
- Steven Brill (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer
- Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author
- Thad Carhart, writer of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and other books
- Lan Samantha Chang (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Susan Choi (B.A. 1990), author of Trust Exercise
- David Churbuck (B.A. 1980), journalist Forbes Magazine, founder Forbes.com
- Marie Colvin (B.A. 1978), journalist
- James Fenimore Cooper (Class of 1805), author of The Last of the Mohicans
- Wilbur Cross, author
- Catherine Cusset, novelist
- Brian D'Amato (B.A. 1984), novelist and sculptor
- Ilana Dayan (Ph.D. 1992), Israeli journalist and anchorwoman
- Charles DeKay, linguist, poet, critic and fencer
- Randy Charles Epping (M.A. 1983), author
- Charles Finch (B.A. 2002), novelist and critic
- Justus Miles Forman (1898), author and playwright
- Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architectural critic
- David Gonzalez (B.A. 1979), journalist, The New York Times
- Dana Goodyear (B.A. 1998), journalist and poet
- Linda Greenhouse (M.S.L. Yale Law School, 1978), journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times
- Edwin S. Grosvenor (B.A. 1974), president and editor-in-chief, American Heritage magazine
- Gilbert M. Grosvenor (B.A. 1954), formerly editor, then president, now chairman emeritus at National Geographic
- Lloyd Grove, editor at large for The Daily Beast
- Roland Hagenbüchle, scholar for American Studies and philosopher
- Nia-Malika Henderson (M.A.), senior political reporter for CNN formally for The Washington Post
- William Harlan Hale (B.A. 1931), writer, journalist, editor
- Peter Hayes (M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 1982), Holocaust historian
- Quiara Alegría Hudes (B.A.), playwright, In the Heights, 2008 Tony for Best Musical
- Sumiko Iwao (Ph.D.), psychologist, editor-in-chief of Japan Echo
- Joan Kahn (attended Yale School of Art one year, early 1930s), mystery editor and anthologist; novelist and children's writer
- Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), book critic for The New York Times
- Matthew Kaminski (B.A. 1994), editor-in-chief of POLITICO
- Mina Kimes (Summa cum laude, B.A. 2007), journalist for ESPN
- Michael Kimmelman (B.A. 1980), critic for The New York Times
- Karl Kirchwey (B.A. 1979), poet
- John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of A Separate Peace
- Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), playwright and gay activist
- John Lahr (B.A. 1963), drama critic for the New Yorker
- David Leavitt (B.A. 1983), author
- Min Jin Lee (B.A. 1990), author of Pachinko
- David Leonhardt (B.A. 1994), Washington bureau chief for The New York Times
- Elizabeth Letts (B.A. 1983), author of The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation
- Jeremy Leven, author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works include Don Juan DeMarco
- Jonathan Levi (B.A. 1977), author, producer, musician, co-founder of Granta
- Adam Liptak (B.A. 1984, J.D. 1988), Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
- Jonathan Littell (B.A. 1989), writer; won the Prix Goncourt
- William Logan (B.A. 1972), poet, critic
- Wednesday Martin (Ph.D. 1996), journalist, memoirist, anthropologist
- Peter Matthiessen (B.A. 1950), naturalist, author of historical fiction and nonfiction
- Jane Mayer (B.A. 1977), journalist and author
- J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Gordon McLendon (B.A. 1942), radio pioneer, Top 40 radio format, co-founder of the Association for Intelligence Officers
- Walter Russell Mead (B.A. 1976), academic, writer on foreign affairs, and public intellectual
- Claire Messud (B.A. 1987), author of The Emperor's Children
- Shannon K. O'Neil (B.A. 1993 and M.A. 1999), Douglas Dillon fellow in the Latin America studies department at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Julie Otsuka (B.A. 1984), author
- Ann Packer (B.A. 1981), author
- George Packer (B.A. 1982), author
- ZZ Packer (B.A. 1994), author
- Jon Pareles (B.A), popular music critic at The New York Times
- Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author
- David Pogue (B.A. 1985), technology columnist for The New York Times
- Ogden Mills Reid (B.A. 1904, Law 1907), newspaper publisher, president of the New York Herald Tribune
- Whitelaw Reid (B.A. 1934), journalist; editor, president and chairman of the family-owned New York Herald Tribune
- Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998), author
- Jonathan Sarna (Ph.D. 1979), historian and author
- Sam Savage (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979), author
- Ari Shapiro (B.A. 2000), White House correspondent for National Public Radio
- Anna Shechtman (Ph.D. 2020), journalist and crossword compiler
- Alex Sheshunoff (B.A. 1996), author
- Amity Shlaes (B.A. 1982), journalist, New York Times bestselling author
- Ben Smith (B.A. 1999), New York Times media columnist
- Elihu Hubbard Smith (B.A. 1786), poet, playwright, physician, and man of letters
- Andrew Solomon (B.A. 1985), writer
- Stephen J. Stein (Ph.D. 1970), historian
- Mark Strand (B.F.A 1959), former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Diane Straus (B.A. 1973) (1951–2017), publisher of The American Prospect and Washington Monthly
- R. Peter Straus (B.A. 1944) (1923–2012), owner of radio stations and newspapers
- Anjan Sundaram (B.S., M.S. 2005), writer, journalist and TV presenter
- Calvin Trillin, writer, poet, and journalist
- Erica Simone Turnipseed (B.A. 1993), writer
- Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, LL.D. 1823), lexicographer, author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found Amherst College
- Jacob Weisberg (B.A. 1986), political journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Slate Group
- Juliette Wells (M.A. 2000, MPhil 2000, Ph.D. 2003), author, editor, and Jane Austen scholar
- Dick Wimmer (M.A. 1959), novelist
- Lauren Willig (B.A. 1999), novelist
- Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984), feminist writer
- Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Janet Wu (B.A. 1988), broadcast journalist and writer
- Ben Yagoda (B.A. 1975), journalist, author of a history of the New Yorker
- Jonas Zdanys (B.A. 1972), poet and translator
- Anna Ziegler (B.A. 2001), playwright
Musicians and composers
- Marin Alsop (1973–75, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- June Anderson (B.A. 1974), soprano
- Eric Banks (B.A. 1990), composer
- Jane Ira Bloom (B.A. 1976, Yale Music School 1977), soprano saxophonist
- Robert Bloom, professor of Oboe, Yale School of Music (1957–76)
- Carter Brey, principal cellist for the New York Philharmonic
- Robert Carl, composer and chair of the Composition Department at the Hartt School
- Rachel Cheung (M.Mus. 2013), Hong Kong pianist
- Jonathan Coulton (B.A. 1992), musician, internet celebrity
- Dominick DiOrio (M.M. 2008, D.M.A. 2012), conductor, composer, professor of choral conducting at the Jacobs School of Music, director of NOTUS
- Eliot Fisk (1972–76), classical guitar virtuoso
- Jack Glatzer (B.A. 1960), concert violinist
- Michael Gore (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning composer
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Walter Hekster (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist and conductor
- Mark Helias (M.Mus. 1976), bassist and composer
- Lisa Hopkins (B.A. 2001), opera singer and Tony Award winner
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music
- Vijay Iyer (B.S. 1991), 2013 MacArthur Fellow, jazz pianist and composer
- Ranidu Lankage (B.A. 2005), Sinhalese R&B and hip-hop artist
- Fan Lei (M.Mus. 1992), clarinetist, pedagogue, adjudicator, founder and artistic director of numerous international music festivals and competitions
- Mitch Leigh (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952), composer, producer Man of La Mancha, "To Dream the Impossible Dream"
- Gilbert Levine (M.A. 1972), conductor
- George E. Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer
- David Longstreth, songwriter, singer, guitarist for the Dirty Projectors
- Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997), co-creator of the Broadway musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon and winner of three Tony Awards
- Alvin Lucier (B.A. 1954), experimental composer
- John Mauceri (B.A. 1967), conductor and scholar
- Susan Merdinger (B.A. 1983), concert pianist, music educator
- Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915, B.M 1917), composer
- Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989), of the band The Nields
- Kevin Olusola (B.A. 2011), beatboxer, cellist, singer, songwriter, Grammy-winning member of Pentatonix
- Johann Sebastian Paetsch (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist
- Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
- Pras (Michél), Grammy Award-winning rapper, member of hip-hop trio The Fugees
- Ravi Rajan (M.Mus. 2000), musician, artist, college president
- André Raphel, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
- Root Boy Slim, real name Foster MacKenzie III (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician
- Kurt Hugo Schneider (B.A. 2010), YouTube sensation, music producer, and filmmaker
- Caroline Shaw (M.Mus. 2007), composer, violinist, and singer
- Chad Shelton (M.A. 1997), operatic tenor
- Sam Tsui (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation, singer
- Rudy Vallée (B.A. 1927), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer
- Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974), composer, lyricist, musicologist, Tony Awards for Nine and Titanic
- Terence Yung (Course Certificate 2022), concert pianist
Faculty
Main category: Yale University facultyProfessors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.
Nobel laureates
- Sidney Altman: Chemistry, 1989
- Gérard Debreu: Economics, 1983
- John Fenn: Chemistry, 2002; received his PhD from Yale in 1940; member of the Yale faculty 1962–94
- Tjalling Koopmans: Economics, 1975
- Wangari Maathai: Peace, 2004; visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002
- Erwin Neher: Physiology or Medicine, 1991; biophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale
- George Palade, professor at Yale Medical School 1973–90: Physiology or Medicine, 1974
- James Rothman: Physiology or Medicine, 2013
- Robert Shiller: Economics, 2013
- Thomas A. Steitz: Chemistry, 2009
- Edward Tatum: Physiology or Medicine, 1958; at Yale 1945–48
- James Tobin: Economics, 1981
Social sciences
- Rabab Abdulhadi (Ph.D. 2000), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director.
- Saleem Ali (M.E.S. 1996), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
- Schuyler V. Cammann (B.A. 1935), anthropologist professor at University of Pennsylvania
- W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (TQM) guru
- Joel S. Fetzer (Ph.D. 1996), political scientist, distinguished professor at Pepperdine University
- Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
- Edgar S. Furniss (Ph.D. 1918), economist and Provost of Yale University
- Edgar S. Furniss Jr. (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1947), political scientist
- Mahbub ul Haq (PhD, Economics), Pakistani Minister of Finance, Professor at University of Karachi, creator of Human Development Index
- Douglas Hodgkin (B.A.), political scientist at Bates College, author
- Robert C. Lieberman (B.A. 1986), political scientist and provost of the Johns Hopkins University
- Andrew Lo (B.A. 1980), Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering
- George Marcus (B.A. 1968), anthropologist, professor at University of California, Irvine
- Saul K. Padover (M.A., 1930), historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City
- Kenneth Rogoff, economist, professor at Harvard University, former director of research at the International Monetary Fund
- Chris William Sanchirico (J.D., Ph.D. 1994), professor of law, business and public policy at University of Pennsylvania Law School
- David Swensen (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the Yale School of Management
- Karl Taube (M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology), pre-Columbian Mesoamerica researcher and Mayanist, professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside
- David A. Thomas (B.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1986), Dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, former professor at Harvard Business School
- Helen B. Thompson (Ph.D. 1917 Physiological Chemistry), home economist, professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles
Technologists
- John J. Donovan (M.S. 1964, M.Ph. 1965, M.Eng. 1965, Ph.D. 1967), IT entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Technology Partners
- Donna Dubinsky (B.A. 1977), former CEO of PDA company Palm Inc., co-founder of PDA company Handspring
- Rob Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder and CEO, RealNetworks
- Bing Gordon (B.A. 1972), co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts
- Justin Kan (B.A. 2005), founder of Justin.tv and Twitch
- Mitch Kapor (B.A. 1971), founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder and former CEO, Lotus Software
- Tom Lehman, co-founder of Genius website
- Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), video game developer, created Prince of Persia
- Wendi Deng Murdoch (1997), director, MySpace China; former VP, News Corporation; wife of Rupert Murdoch
- Tiffany Pham (B.A. 2008), founder and CEO of Mogul
- Eric Ries (B.S. 2001), Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author of The Lean Startup, pioneer of the Lean Startup methodology
- Kevin P. Ryan, internet entrepreneur, founder of Gilt Groupe, MongoDB, and Business Insider
- Emmett Shear (B.S. 2005), CEO of Twitch and interim CEO of OpenAI
- Ben Silbermann (B.A. 2003), co-founder and CEO of Pinterest
- Joel Spolsky (B.S. 1991), co-founder of Fog Creek Software, Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange Network
- Joseph Tsai (B.A. 1986, J.D., 1990), businessman, co-founder, Vice President and CFO of Alibaba
- Anne Wojcicki (B.S., 1996), co-founder and CEO of personal genomics company 23andMe
- Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of Zagat
Television
- Lewis Black (M.F.A. 1977), stand-up comedian who often appears on The Daily Show
- James Bohanek (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actor
- James Burrows (M.A.), producer, Cheers, Will & Grace
- Dick Cavett, TV personality, nominated eleven times for the Emmy Award, and won three times
- Enrico Colantoni (M.F.A.), actor, Just Shoot Me, Galaxy Quest, and Veronica Mars
- Anderson Cooper (B.A. 1989), CNN anchor of Anderson Cooper 360°
- Bill Corbett (DRA 1989), actor, writer, played Crow T. Robot in Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Suzanne Cryer (B.A., M.F.A.), actress, Silicon Valley, Two Guys and a Girl
- Brett Dalton (M.F.A. 2011), actor in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Claire Danes (did not graduate), actress in Homeland
- David Duchovny (M.A. English literature 1989), actor in The X-Files, Californication
- Dick Ebersol, president of NBC sports division, helped launch Saturday Night Live
- Kathryn Finney (MPH 2000), television correspondent, Today Show
- Malcolm Gets (M.F.A.), actor, best known for as "Richard Karinsky" on Caroline in the City
- Sara Gilbert (B.A. 1997), actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sitcom Roseanne
- Felipe Gozon, Philippine television executive, GMA Network
- Michael Gross (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of Michael J. Fox's character) on Family Ties
- Harry Hamlin (B.A. 1974), actor best known as attorney "Michael Kuzak" in NBC TV drama L.A. Law
- John Hodgman (B.A. 1992), author and comedian who often appears on The Daily Show and in the Get a Mac ad campaigns, representing a humanized PC.
- Matt Jackson (B.A. 2014), 4th longest winstreak on Jeopardy!
- Alex Jacob (B.A. 2006), winner of Jeopardy! 2015 Tournament of Champions
- Conor Knighton (B.A. 2003 Film Studies), host of InfoMania on Current TV
- Leo Laporte, host of The Screen Savers on TechTV
- Demetri Martin (B.A. 1995), stand-up comedian who often appears on The Daily Show
- Kellie Martin (B.A 2001)
- Anne Meacham (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress (Another World)
- Ari Meyers (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on Kate & Allie
- Robert Myhrum (M.F.A.), Emmy-nominated television director
- Chris Noth (CDR 1985), actor Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Sex and the City
- Maulik Pancholy (M.F.A. 1998), actor, 30 Rock, Phineas and Ferb, Whitney
- Walter F. Parkes (B.A. 1973), producer/writer, former head of Dreamworks
- Stone Phillips (B.A. 1977), television anchor for NBC
- Robert Picardo (B.A. 1975), the holographic doctor on the television show Star Trek: Voyager
- David Hyde Pierce (B.A. 1981), actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier; winner of four Emmy Awards
- Alan Poul (B.A. 1976), television director and producer
- Josh Saviano (B.A. 1998), played Paul Pfeiffer on The Wonder Years
- Matt Shakman (B.A. circa 1997), director, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Tony Shalhoub (M.F.A. 1980), actor, Monk, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Gene Siskel (M.F.A. 1974), film critic, At the Movies
- Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and An Unreasonable Man
- Ben Stein (LL.D. 1970), economist, speechwriter to Nixon, host of Win Ben Stein's Money
- Jeremy Strong (B.A. 2000), actor on "Succession"
- Ming Tsai (B.A. 1986), chef on East Meets West with Ming Tsai on PBS
- Courtney B. Vance (M.F.A. 1986), actor, Law & Order: Criminal Intent as "Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver"
- Margaret Warner, co-anchor on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS' weekday news program
- Sam Waterston (B.A. 1962), actor, played A.D.A. Jack McCoy on Law & Order
- Suzanne Whang (B.A. 1983), hostess of HGTV's House Hunters and House Hunters International
- Allison Williams (B.A. 2010), actress, Girls
- Henry Winkler (M.F.A. 1970), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
- Bellamy Young (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actress
Theatre
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- Clare Barron (B.A. 2008), Pulitzer Prize finalist for Dance Nation
- Victoria Clark (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for Best Lead Actress for The Light in The Piazza
- Ali Ewoldt (B.A. in Psychology), first Asian-American Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
- Mimi Lien (B.A. 1997), Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812
- Michael P. Price (M.F.A. 1963), theatre producer and longest-serving artistic director in American theatre, Executive Director of Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals
- Andy Sandberg (B.A. 2005/06), Tony Award-winning producer of Hair, 2009
- Ted Sperling (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for orchestration
Others
Arts and humanities
- Robert P. Abelson, late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science
- Sydney E. Ahlstrom, historian of religion in America
- Josef Albers, artist
- Akhil Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984), law professor
- Kanichi Asakawa (Ph.D. 1902), historian, first Japanese professor at U.S. university
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1955), writer and critic, author of The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and many other scholarly books
- John Morton Blum, professor of political history
- Cleanth Brooks, Professor of English, world-renowned expert on writer William Faulkner
- Paul de Man, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be antisemitic
- Jacques Derrida, philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man
- Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
- Inge Druckrey, teacher of graphic design
- Steve Dunwell, photographer
- Isidore Dyen, professor of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages
- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Francis Writer in Residence at Yale
- Bassam Frangieh, scholar of Arabic language and literature
- Dan Friedman, graphic designer
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
- Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
- Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
- Erwin Hauer, sculptor
- Paul Hindemith, composer, musician, conductor, music theorist
- Donald Kagan, historian of ancient Greece
- Louis I. Kahn, architect
- Paul Kennedy, historian
- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration
- Alvin Lustig, graphic designer
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology; professor at Cornell University, Yale University, and Harvard University
- Julián Marías, philosopher, author of History of Philosophy
- Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009), linguist, developed the Yale Romanization system for transliterating Korean
- James Mitchell, actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
- David Montgomery, Professor of History
- Edmund S. Morgan, Professor of History
- Elting E. Morison, historian, essayist, military biographer, was Professor of History and American Studies as well as the master of Timothy Dwight College between 1966 and 1972
- Aldo Parisot, musician and cellist
- Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of The Christian Tradition
- Peter C. Perdue, historian of Modern China
- Douglas W. Rae, political theorist
- Emir Rodríguez Monegal, professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of Mundo Nuevo
- Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Professor of the History of Art in Architecture
- Jonathan Spence, historian, author of The Search For Modern China
- David Underdown, historian of 17th-century England
- Lee Watson, Broadway and opera lighting designer, author and Purdue University professor
- Dixon Wecter (Ph.D. 1936), Margaret Byrne Professor of United States History at the University of California, Berkeley
- Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist
- C. Vann Woodward, professor of history
- Mary C. Wright (1917–1970), historian of China, and first woman to be appointed a full professor in the arts and sciences faculty, in 1964
- Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), economics teacher and head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, president of Mexico (1994–2000)
Life sciences and medicine
- John Carlson, molecular biologist
- Dennis S. Charney, expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders
- Kenneth L. Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
- John Elefteriades, cardiac surgeon
- Donald Engelman, biochemist and cancer researcher
- Orvan Hess, M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, known for the fetal heart monitor
- Valerie Horsley, biologist
- Arthur Horwich, discovered the action of chaperonins, awarded the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson, zoologist, considered to be the father of modern limnology
- John S. Meyer, physician
- Sherwin B. Nuland, surgeon and author of How We Die
- Juan Rosai, professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Yale University, 1985–91
- Philip Rubin, cognitive scientist, CEO, Haskins Laboratories
- J. Morris Slemons, formed the Department of Obstetrics at the School of Medicine in 1914
- Joan Steitz, biochemist, discoverer of snRNPs
- William Francis Gray Swann, physicist
- Richard D. Weisel, cardiac surgeon and current editor-in-chief of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Mathematics
- Nathan Jacobson, leading algebraist, awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement
- Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician, Kakutani fixed-point theorem
- Serge Lang, mathematician and activist
- László Lovász, Wolf Prize and Knuth Prize recipient for work in combinatorics
- Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician known for fractal geometry
- Grigory Margulis, mathematician, Fields medallist and Wolf Prize winner
- George Mostow, Wolf Prize winner for work on lie groups and geometry
- Øystein Ore, mathematician
- Efim Zelmanov, mathematician, Fields medallist
Physical sciences and engineering
- Nick Barua, COO of Swift Xi Inc.
- Arthur Louis Day, geophysicist and volcanologist
- David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering
- Vernon W. Hughes, Sterling professor of Physics, recipient of the Rumford Prize and groundbreaking particle physicist
- W. Mark Saltzman, founder of Yale's Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Benjamin Silliman Jr., professor of chemistry, son of Benjamin Silliman, founder of Yale Chemistry Department
- Oktay Sinanoğlu, theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale full professor
Social sciences
- E. Wight Bakke, economist and industrial relations scholar; director of the Yale Labor and Management Center
- Neil W. Chamberlain, economist and industrial relations scholar; assistant director of the Yale Labor and Management Center
- Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966), economist
- Irving Fisher, economist
- Jacques Armand Gauthier, comparative morphologist, paleontologist, and systematist
- John Geanakoplos, economist, current James Tobin professor of economics
- Joseph LaPalombara, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Management Emeritus
- Neal E. Miller, James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology
- William Nordhaus (1963), economist
- Arthur Okun, economist
- Lyman W. Porter (Ph.D. 1956), dean of University of California, Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, 1972–83
- Herbert Scarf, economist
- James C. Scott, political scientist and anthropologist
- Arnold Wolfers, Sterling Professor of international relations and co-founder of the Yale Institute of International Studies, 1933–57
- Paul Wolfowitz, political science instructor 1970–72
Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University
Rectors of Yale College | Birth–death | Years as rector | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rev. Abraham Pierson | 1641–1707 | 1701–07 Collegiate School |
2 | Rev. Samuel Andrew | 1656–1738 | 1707–19 (pro tempore) |
3 | Rev. Timothy Cutler | 1684–1765 | 1719–26; 1718/9: renamed Yale College |
4 | Rev. Elisha Williams | 1694–1755 | 1726–39 |
5 | Rev. Thomas Clap | 1703–1767 | 1740–45 |
Presidents of Yale College | Birth–death | Years as president | |
---|---|---|---|
5 | Rev. Thomas Clap | 1703–1767 | 1745–66 |
6 | Rev. Naphtali Daggett | 1727–1780 | 1766–77 (pro tempore) |
7 | Rev. Ezra Stiles | 1727–1795 | 1778–95 |
8 | Timothy Dwight IV | 1752–181 | 1795–1817 |
9 | Jeremiah Day | 1773–1867 | 1817–46 |
10 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | 1801–1899 | 1846–71 |
11 | Noah Porter III | 1811–1892 | 1871–86 |
12 | Timothy Dwight V | 1828–1916 | 1886–99; 1887: renamed Yale University |
13 | Arthur Twining Hadley | 1856–1930 | 1899–1921 |
14 | James Rowland Angell | 1869–1949 | 1921–37 |
15 | Charles Seymour | 1885–1963 | 1937–51 |
16 | Alfred Whitney Griswold | 1906–1963 | 1951–63 |
17 | Kingman Brewster Jr. | 1919–1988 | 1963–77 |
18 | Hanna Holborn Gray | 1930– | 1977–78 (acting) |
19 | A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1938–1989 | 1978–86 |
20 | Benno C. Schmidt Jr. | 1942– | 1986–92 |
21 | Howard R. Lamar | 1923– | 1992–93 (acting) |
22 | Richard C. Levin | 1947– | 1993–2013 |
23 | Peter Salovey | 1958– | 2013– |
See also
- Yale Corporation – including a list of corporation members
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