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* [[Donald Kagan]], historian of ancient Greece |
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* [[Shizuo Kakutani]], mathematician, [[Kakutani fixed-point theorem]] |
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* [[Deen Kemsley]], taught at Yale School of Management for a year in 2003, currently teaches at [[A.B. Freeman School of Business]] |
* [[Deen Kemsley]], taught at Yale School of Management for a year in 2003, currently teaches at [[A.B. Freeman School of Business]] |
Revision as of 17:45, 3 December 2011
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.
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Notes:
- LL.B. (Legum Baccalaureum) was a graduate degree conferred by the Yale Law School until 1971.
Alumni
Nobel laureates
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- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001[1]
- Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D. 1942).[2] Physics, 2002
- Peter A. Diamond (B.A. 1960). Economics, 2010[3]
- John F. Enders (B.A. 1920).[4] Physiology or Medicine, 1954
- John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940)[5][6] Chemistry, 2002
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948)[7] Physics, 1969
- Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962).[8] Physiology or Medicine, 1994
- 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).[9] Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him[10]
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948)[11] Physiology or Medicine, 1958
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959)[12] Physics, 1996
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908).[13] Literature, 1930
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935)[14] Chemistry, 1968
- Edmund Phelps (Ph.D. 1959). Economics, 2006
- Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. 1917)[15] Physiology or Medicine, 1956
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935).[16] Economics, 1996.
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900)[17] Physiology or Medicine, 1934
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D. 1974).[18] Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), won 2004 Pulitzer for non-fiction.[19]
- Charles Bartlett (B.A. 1943), 1956 Pulitzer for National Reporting
- Stephen Vincent Benét (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author
- Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007 for articles in the Wall Street Journal[20]
- Paul Goldberger (B.A. 1972), 1984 Pulitzer for Distinguished Criticism
- Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978),[21] U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, received the Pulitzer in 1998.[22]
- John Hersey (B.A. 1936),[23] Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel A Bell for Adano, namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), 1947 Pulitzer for Music
- David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), Stanford University professor, won the 2000 Pulitzer in History[24] for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45"
- David McCullough (B.A. 1955),[25] famous historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American presidents Harry S. Truman and John Adams[26]
- J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986),[27] Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for Feature Writing.[28]
- Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915), 1951 Pulitzer, Music
- Lynn Nottage (M.F.A.),[29] playwright and Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist of Ruined
- Mel Powell (B.A. 1952 ),[30] won the 1990 Pulitzer 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),[31] winner of the Pulitzer for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.[32]
- Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985),[33] reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for international reporting.[34]
- Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),[33] composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer in Music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version"[35]
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his comic strip Doonesbury
- Wendy Wasserstein, (M.F.A. 1976),[36] playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of The Heidi Chronicles
- Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920),[37] 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),[38] screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for drama, winner of a Tony Award.[39]
- Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),[40] composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006[41] for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis University
- Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968),[42] wrote Pulitzer-winning "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power"; founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Technology and innovation
- David Bushnell (ca. 1776), inventor of the screw propeller, submarine, naval mine, and time bomb
- Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), 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
- Arthur M. Chickering noted arachnologist of Virginia
- Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the triode
- Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of CMOS image sensor
- W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (TQM) guru
- Helen Flanders Dunbar (M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
- Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (B.A. 1810), first commissioner United States Patent Office, founder, United States Department of Agriculture
- Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
- 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
- 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
- Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of "category theory".
- Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), the first graphic designer in the world to work with computer graphics.
- Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
- 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 Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
- Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin
Business
- Wendi Deng Murdoch (1997), - Director, MySpace China; former VP, News Corporation; wife of Rupert Murdoch
- Hugh D. Auchincloss (1879), Standard Oil
- Robert M. Bass (B.A. 1971), president, Keystone, Inc., member and former chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees
- Roland W. Betts, 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[43][44]
- James Chanos, billionaire investor
- Tim Collins (M.B.A.), founder and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
- Granger Kent Costikyan (1929), a banker, partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
- 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[45]
- Charles B. Finch, (B.A. 1941, LLB 1944), CEO and chairman of the board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political activist
- Ted Forstmann, (B.A. 1961 (TC)), co-founder & senior partner of Forstmann Little & Company, member of the Forbes 400
- Timothy Shriver, Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics and member of Kennedy Family
- Rob Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder & CEO, RealNetworks[46]
- Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts[47]
- Roberto Goizueta (B.E. 1953), former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of Emory University's business school)[48]
- 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[49]
- Peter Halloran (B.A. 1984), investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding region. Founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group
- Daniel S. Hamermesh (Ph. D.) – Professor in the Foundations of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Associate and Program Director at the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA).
- Henry Holt (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm Henry Holt & Company, which would later merge with other companies to become Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- 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, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
- Ellis Jones (M.B.A.), CEO, Wasserstein Perella & Co.
- Henry Bourne Joy, president of Packard
- Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder & former CEO, Lotus Software[50]
- Herbert Kohler (B.S. 1965), chairman & president, Kohler Company
- Clarence King, (Sheffield School, 1862) first head of the U.S. Geological Survey
- Edward Lampert, founder & chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), chairman of Sears Holding Company[51]
- Colonel William K. Lanman, aviator, benefactor
- Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine.[52]
- Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), founder of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982.
- John Franklyn Mars, CEO, Mars, Incorporated[53]
- Robert McCormick (1903), owner, president, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; co-founder of Kirkland & Ellis
- Robert L. McNeil, Jr. (1936 B.S.), developer of Tylenol and chairman of McNeil Laboratories.[54]
- W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The Boeing Company[55]
- Robert Moses, mid-20th-century New York City construction czar
- Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (M.P.P.M. Yale School of Management 1980), CEO and president, Pepsi[56]
- Eric Ober (B.A.), president, CBS News, Food Network
- Joseph M. Patterson (1901), American 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
- Eric Ries (B.S. 2001), pioneer of the Lean Startup methodology
- James Stillman Rockefeller, president and chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924
- Wilbur Ross, (B.A. 1959) investor, steel magnate, member of the Forbes 400
- Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder & CEO of the Blackstone Group, member of the Forbes 400
- Forest Shely, (B.S. 1946), physician and bank director in Campbellsville, Kentucky; 56-year trustee of Campbellsville University[57]
- Frederick W. Smith, (B.A. 1966), founder & CEO, FedEx
- Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
- Richard Thalheimer (B.A. 1970), founder & 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 & CEO, Pan Am[58]
- Frederick William Vanderbilt (Sheffield School 1893), philanthropist, director of the New York Central Railroad
- Friedrich Weyerhäuser, founded Weyerhaeuser
- John (Jock) Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first U.S. venture capital firm
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of thoroughbred racehorses.
- Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)
- Anne Wojcicki (B.S. 1996), co-founder and CEO of 23andMe
- Justin Kan (B.A. 2005), founder of Justin.tv
Academics
College founders and presidents
- Frederick Barnard (B.A. 1828),[59][60][61] mathematician, educator, president (1856–1858) and chancellor (1858–1861) of the University of Mississippi, president (1864–1889) 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
- Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968),[62] president of Duke University
- Samuel Palmer Brooks, President of Baylor University from 1902 to 1931.
- Aaron Burr, Sr. (B.A. 1735),[63] second president of Princeton University, father of the third Vice-President of the United States, Aaron Burr
- 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[64]
- William Chauvenet (B.A. 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1863–1869)
- 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)
- Oscar Henry Cooper, President of Baylor University from 1899 to 1902, and of Simmons College, now known as Hardin-Simmons University from 1902 to 1909.
- Jonathan Dickinson, (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, which was later named Princeton University[65][66]
- Henry Durant, (B.A. 1827), first president of the University of California (Berkeley)
- James Johnson Duderstadt ( B.E. 1964), President of the University of Michigan[67]
- 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 (1817–1830) of the American School for the Deaf, namesake of Gallaudet University[68]
- Thomas F. George, (M.A. 1968, Ph.D 1970) chemist and current chancellor of the University of Missouri-St. Louis[69]
- 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[70]
- William Rainey Harper, (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the University of Chicago[71]
- Catharine Bond Hill, (Ph.D. 1974), tenth president of Vassar College
- Joseph Gibson Hoyt, (B.A. 1840), first chancellor of Washington University[72]
- Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925), president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago[73][74]
- Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714), first president of Columbia University (known at the time as King's College); father of U.S. Senator William Samuel Johnson[75]
- William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), son of Samuel Johnson, 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) (See also: Senators for the many other roles he served)[76]
- Yamakawa Kenjiro (ca. 1876), founder of Kyūshū Institute of Technology[77]
- Aptullah Kuran (B.A.1952, M.A.1954) founder and first president(1971–1979) of Bogazici University, Istanbul.[78]
- Theodore C. Landsmark (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1973), president (1997–present) of Boston Architectural College[79]
- Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981 magna cum laude),[80][81] president (2003–2011) of Amherst College
- Mario Monti (M.Sc.), Rector and then President of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Italian Prime Minister.
- 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[82]
- Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903), first President of the University of Florida (1905–1909); President of Southern University (1910–1914); first Professor of New Testament Literature at Emory University's Candler School of Theology (1914–1939)[83]
- Ambrose Tighe (B.A. 1879, M.A. 1891), co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law[84]
- Andrew Dickson White (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of Cornell University[85][86]
- Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733), founder of Dartmouth College[87]
Professors and scholars
- Frank Aarebrot, professor of comparative politics at University of Bergen
- A. Elizabeth Adams (Ph.D. 1926), professor of Zoology at Mount Holyoke College
- Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary (1981–2002)
- 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
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979–94), president of University of Oklahoma
- 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
- Michael Burns, actor and professor of history
- Katharine Jeanette Bush (Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences from Yale
- Judith Butler (Ph.D. 1984), author of Gender Trouble, philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar
- Schuyler V. Cammann (B.A. 1935), anthropologist professor at University of Pennsylvania
- Mark T. Carleton (B.A. 1957), Louisiana 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
- Alan Dershowitz (LL.B. 1962), law professor at Harvard University
- Jacques Ehrmann literary theorist and French Department professor from 1961 to 1972
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
- Austan Goolsbee (B.A.), professor of economics, University of Chicago
- Douglas Hodgkin (B.A.), political scientist at Bates College, author
- 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
- David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at Bates College
- 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
- Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960), mathematician, emeritus professor, Institute for Advanced Study, author of the Langlands Program
- Hart Day Leavitt (B.A. 1934), English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1937–1975
- 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
- Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Harvard University[88]
- George Marcus (B.A. 1968), anthropologist, professor at University of California, Irvine
- 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[89]
- E. R. Ward Neale (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist, professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian
- Johnathan Oberlander (M.A. 1990, M.Phil 1993, Ph.D. 1995), author and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- H.T. Odum (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the University of Florida
- Saul K. Padover (M.A., 1930), historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City
- Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972), author of Sexual Personae, cultural critic and feminist scholar
- Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at University of Notre Dame
- J. Roger Porter (Ph.D. 1938), microbiology professor at University of Iowa, 1938–1979
- Tia Powell (M.D), psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Forceon Life & the Law
- Christian R. H. Raetz (B.S. 1967), professor of biochemistry at Duke University
- Kenneth Rogoff, economist, professor at Harvard University, former director of research at the International Monetary Fund
- Richard Rorty (Ph.D 1956), philosopher and professor of Humanities at University of Virginia, 1982–1998 and Stanford University, 1998–2007
- James Rothman (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize")
- Chris William Sanchirico (J.D., Ph.D 1994), professor of law, business and public policy at University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Florence B. Seibert (Ph.D. 1923),[90] biochemist, winner of 1942 Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the National Women's Hall of Fame
- T. K. Seung (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of philosophy, government, and law at the University of Texas at Austin
- Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796), "father of American scientific education"
- Amy Solomon, the first woman to register as an undergraduate at Yale, in 1971.[91]
- Robert B. Stepto, professor of English, pioneering African-American studies scholar
- Matthias Storme, professor of law at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Antwerp University"
- David Swensen (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the Yale School of Management
- Frank Bigelow Tarbell (B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor of classic studies at Yale and University of Chicago
- Karl Taube (M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology), pre-Columbian Mesoamerica researcher and Mayanist, professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside[92]
- John Griggs Thompson (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- David E. Tolchinsky (B.A. 1985), screenwriter and Chairman of the Department of Radio-TV-Film, Northwestern University
- Daniel S. Weld (B.A., B.S. 1982), professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington[93]
- Josiah Whitney (B.A. 1839), geologist, chief of California Geological Survey, and geology professor at Harvard University
- Donald Goddard Wing, librarian and bibliographer, of Yale University Library
- Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
Law and politics
Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers
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- George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), president of the United States (1989–1993), vice president of the United States (1981–1989), member of the House of Representatives (R-Texas) (1967–1971)[94]
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), president of the United States (2001–2009), governor of Texas (1995–2000)[95]
- 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[96]
- Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), fifth president of Germany (1979–1984)[97]
- Dick Cheney (Class of 1963*), vice president of the United States (2001–2009)[98]
- Tansu Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), prime minister of Turkey (1993–1996)[99]
- Jose P. Laurel, president of the Philippines in World War II
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), president of the United States (1993–2001), Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981,1983–1992)[100]
- Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), president of the United States (1974–1977), Vice President of the United States (1973–1974), member of the House of Representatives[101]
- William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th president of the United States (1909–1913), 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930)[102]
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte (Class of 2000*, attended for two years)[103]
- Valdis Zatlers, president of Latvia (2007–)
- Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), president of Mexico (1994–2000)[104]
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and Tobago minister
- Salvador H. Laurel (LL.M 1953) (J.S.D.1960), vice-president of the Philippines (1986–1992)
- Jovito R. Salonga (J.S.D.1949), Senator of the Philippines (1965–1972) (1987–1992)
- Abd al-Karim al-Iryani (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen (1980–1983, 1998–2001), and Foreign Minister (1993–1998).[105]
Supreme Court justices
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.[106]
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- Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Supreme Court justice (2006–present)
- Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830–1844)
- David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910)
- Henry B. Brown (1856), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906)
- David Davis (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862–1877)
- Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766*),[107] Supreme Court justice (1796–1800)
- Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965–1969)
- Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949–1956)
- George Shiras, Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892–1903)
- Sonia Sotomayor (Law 1979), Supreme Court justice (2009–present)
- Potter Stewart, Supreme Court justice (1958–1981)
- William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870–1880)
- William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th president of the United States (1909–1913), 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930)
- Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present)
- Morrison R. Waite (1837), chief justice of the United States (1874–1888)
- William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881–1887)
- Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme Court justice (1962–1993)
U.S. senators
Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.[108]
- Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1923–24, 1932–1941)
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) U.S. attorney general (2001–2005), U.S. senator (R-Missouri, 1993–2001), governor of Missouri (1985–1993)
- Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–1799), 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, 1971–1976)
- Hiram Bingham III (1898), governor of Connecticut (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924–1933); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of Machu Picchu, Peru; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional Indiana Jones character
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979–94), president of University of Oklahoma
- 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–present)
- Prescott Bush (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953–1963), father of George H.W. Bush, grandfather to George W. Bush.
- James L. Buckley (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (C-New York, 1971–1977); president of Radio Free Europe, 1982–1985; federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) (1985–1996)
- 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, 1829–1836; W-Delaware, 1845–1849; O-Delaware 1853–1856)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (J.D. 1973), current secretary of state, U.S. senator (D-New York, 2001–2009)
- LeBaron Colt (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913–1924)
- David Daggett (1783), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1813–19)
- David Davis (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Lincoln (1862–1877); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877–1883)
- John Davis (1787–1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835–1841&1845–1853)
- Henry L. Dawes (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875–93)
- John Danforth (J.D, DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-Missouri, 1976–95)
- Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-Minnesota, 2001–2007)
- Fred Dubois (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-Idaho,1891–1897; D-Idaho, 1901–1907)
- 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, 1975–1987)
- 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–present)
- 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)
- John Kerry (B.A. 1966), U.S. senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985–present)
- Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator (D-Minnesota, 2007–present)
- James Lanman (1788), U.S. senator
- Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (I-Connecticut, 1989–present)
- Joseph Medill McCormick (1900) – U.S. senate '19–'24, publisher, Chicago Tribune
- Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator (DR–Ohio, 1808-181), 4th governor of Ohio (1810–1814), 8th U.S. postmaster general (1814–1823). Meigs County, Ohio is named in his honor.
- 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–present)
- Truman Newberry Republican United States senator from Michigan 1919–1922, secretary of the navy 1908–1909
- Francis Newlands (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903–17)
- William Proxmire (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957–89)
- Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981–present)
- Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923), United States Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953–1976)
- Robert Taft (B.A. 1910), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1939–1953)
- 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, 1965–1970), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–1977). He was the 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, 1849–1851); 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, 1968–1971), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1971–1989), governor of Connecticut (1990–1994).[109]
- Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006–present)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983–1991), governor of California 1991–1999
Governors
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.
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 ) governor of Missouri (1985–1993).[110] (See also: Senators)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), governor of Connecticut (1844–46).[111] (See also: Senators)
- Hiram Bingham III (1898), governor of Connecticut (1925).[112] (See also: Senators)
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975–79).[113] (See also: Senators)
- Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (J.D. 1964), governor of California (1975–1983)
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), governor of Texas (1995–2000). (See also: Presidents & Vice Presidents)
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962–69).[114] (See also: Senators)
- William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), governor of Arkansas (1983–1992). (See also: Presidents & Vice Presidents)
- Wilbur L. Cross (B.A.1885, Ph.D. 1889), governor of Connecticut (1931–1939), Yale professor of English[115]
- John Davis (1787–1854), governor of Massachusetts (1834–1835 & 1841–1843)
- Howard Dean (B.A. 1971), governor of Vermont (1991–2003)[116]
- Henry Huntly Haight (B.A. 1844), governor of California (1867–1871)
- W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913), governor of New York (1955–1958), United States ambassador to Russia (1943–1946), ambassador to Britain (1946), Secretary of Commerce (1946–1948)[117]
- Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968), governor of Alaska (1994–2002), mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1981–1987)
- William Livingston (B.A. 1741), First governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) after the signing of the Declaration of Independence[118]
- Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), governor of Washington (1997–2005) (thereby the first Chinese American governor in the United States)[119]
- Return Jonathan Meigs (B.A. 1785), 4th governor of Ohio (1810–1814).[120] (See also: Senators)
- Robert D. Orr (1940) – governor of Indiana
- George Pataki (B.A. 1967), governor of New York (1995–2007)[121]
- Gifford Pinchot (Yale College graduate, 1889), governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935), first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910), and founder of and professor in Yale School of Forestry
- Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935*), attended Yale from 1931 to 1934; governor of Arkansas (1967–1971)
- Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953), governor of Puerto Rico (1977–1985).[122] (See also: Other Legislators)
- William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), governor of Pennsylvania (1963–1967), United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–1977), member of the United States House of Representatives[123] Undergraduate picture at:[124]
- Robert Taft (B.A. 1953), governor of Ohio (1999–2007)
- Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), governor of Connecticut (1990–1994).[125] (See also: Senators)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), governor of California (1991–1999).[126] (See also: Senators)
Executive council members
The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.
- Dean Acheson (B.A, 1915), secretary of state in the Truman presidential administration
- James Jesus Angleton, (B.A. 1941), chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954–1974)
- Les Aspin (B.A. 1960), Secretary of Defense, congressman (D–Wisconsin) (1971–1993)
- McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940), former cabinet official
- 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) (also listed under Senators and Governors)
- John M. Clayton (1815), secretary of state in the Zachary Taylor administration, senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829–1836; W-Delaware, 1845–1849; O-Delaware 1853–1856) (also listed under Senators)
- William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003–2005), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, founder and former dean of the Yale School of Management, president of the New York Stock Exchange
- William M. Evarts (1837), secretary of state in the Rutherford B. Hayes administration, U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91) (also listed under Senators)
- Olu Falae, Finance Minister of Nigeria (1989–1991), Presidential Candidate (1999)
- Roswell Gilpatric (B.A. 1928), Deputy Secretary of Defense (1961–1964), presiding partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1966–1977)
- Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004–2006), Florida congressman
- Stephen Hadley, (J.D. 1972), national security advisor
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Japan under presidents Nixon and Ford
- William McChesney Martin, Jr. (B.A. ca. 1926), the ninth and longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
- John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), first director of national intelligence (2005–present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq (2004–2005)
- Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), secretary of the treasury (1995–1999) in the Clinton presidential administration
- Henry L. Stimson, (B.A. 1888), secretary of state in the Hoover presidential administration
- Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law), attorney general and secretary of war in the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration
- Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968), deputy secretary of state (1994–2001) in the Clinton presidential administration, president of the Brookings Institution
- Cyrus Vance, (B.A. 1939, Law 1942), secretary of state in the Carter presidential administration
Diplomats
- Hiram Bingham IV, U.S. vice consul in Marseilles, France, 1940–1941
- L. Paul Bremer (B.A. 1963), U.S. ambassador
- Carl Gershman (B.A. Magna Cum Laude 1965), U.N. Representative and National Endowment for Democracy President
- John O'Leary (B.A. 1969), U. S. ambassador to Chile
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001–present)
- Robert P. De Vecchi (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), president emeritus of the International Rescue Committee
- Philip T. Reeker (B.A. 1986), U.S. ambassador to Macedonia (2008–present)
- Charles Rivkin (B.A. 1984), U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco (2009–present)
Justices and attorneys
See also: Supreme Court Justices
- 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
- Richard Blumenthal (J.D.), Connecticut attorney general
- 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)
- José A. Cabranes (J.D. 1965), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Benjamin Darrow (J.D., ca. 1890) New York district attorney
- Sir Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the High Court of Australia
- Marc Stuart Dreier (B.A. 1972), lawyer and felon
- William Kunstler (B.A. 1941), Civil liberties lawyer
- Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), assistant attorney general
- Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former United States Attorney General
- Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979), Supreme Court Justice
- Robert W. Sweet (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York Southern District
- Cyrus Vance, Jr. (B.A. 1978), New York County District Attorney
Activists
- Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820), abolitionist
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832), abolitionist. (Also the namesake of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., took the name Muhammad Ali.)[127][128]
- Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958–1975), senior minister of Riverside Church in New York, political and civil 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
- 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. Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Bobby Shriver, (Yale B.A. 1976) California politician and businessman
- Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969), theologian and activist; President of Evagelicals For Social Action and professor at Palmer Theological Seminary.
- Jared Taylor (B.A., 1973), author, editor, activist, founder of the New Century Foundation
- Y.C. James Yen. (B.A. 1918; M.A. (Honorary) 1928), founder of Chinese Mass Education Movement and Rural Reconstruction Movement.
Public intellectuals
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- 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
- Andrés Martinez (B.A.), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
- Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), editor-in-chief of WORLD.
- Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show, Foreign Exchange
Frontiersmen
- 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), congressman (F-Massachusetts) (1801–1805)
- 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
- James Wadsworth (1787), founder of Geneseo, New York and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley
Military
- 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
- John Brown of Pittsfield (B.A. 1771), accuser of Benedict Arnold
- Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
- David Humphreys (B.A. 1771), aide-de-camp to George Washington
- Lewis Nixon, army officer featured in Band of Brothers
- 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
- Richard K. Sutherland, (B.A. 1916) army general during World War II
- Nathan Whiting, (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War also the 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
- Decius Wadsworth (1785), Colonel U.S. Army War of 1812 and Chief of Ordnance 1815–1821
Other legislators
- Lawrence Coughlin Republican representative from Pennsylvania 1969–1991
- Nelson Antonio Denis (J.D., 1980), former New York State Assemblyman
- Charles Schuveldt Dewey[129] 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.[130] Father of A. Peter Dewey, the first American to be killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945.
- Jerome F. Donovan (Law 1894), U.S. representative, D-New York (1918–1921)
- Porter J. Goss (U.S. representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of CIA)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A. 1972), U.S. representative, D-Texas
- Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. representative from Connecticut (1859–1863)
- 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)
- Warren A. Morton (1924–2002) (B.S. 1945), speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1979–1980)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for District of Columbia (1991–present)
- Hugh Q. Parmer (B.A.), Democratic member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, 1963-1965 and 1983-1991; mayor of Fort Worth, Texas from 1977 to 1979
- William S. Reyburn Republican representative from Pennsylvania 1911–1913
- Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (Resident commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (1993–2000), governor of Puerto Rico (1977–1985).[122]
- Gerry Studds (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. representative, D-MA, 1973–1997
Other
- Jabez Bowen, (B.A. 1757), Federalist supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island
- Albert Bel Fay, (B.S. 1936), Houston, Texas, shipbuilder, oilman, and Republican Party official
- Susan Bysiewicz, (B.A. 1983), Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut, 1999–2010
- Jay Carney, (B.A. 1987), White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration, 2011–present
- Gifford Pinchot, founder of the United States Forest Service
- Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey
- John Lindsay (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948), mayor of New York
- Cory Booker (J.D. 1997), mayor of Newark, New Jersey
- Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, Taliban spokesman
- Robert Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French Marshall Plan implementor and European Commissioner
- Bradford Bishop, fugitive, indicted for murder
- John T. Downey, judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China 1952–1973
- Arthur Mag, lawyer, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
- Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, principal figure in the Plame Affair
- Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979), mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999–2007
- Kori Udovički (Ph.D 1999 in Economics) Governor of the National Bank of Serbia 2003–2004, assistant secretary-general of United Nations 2007–
- Aleksey Vayner, an internet sensation due to his video resume sent to UBS titled Impossible is Nothing
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Religion
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- Jonathan Edwards, New England pastor; widely considered the greatest theologian in American history[131][132][133]
- Asa Thurston (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- Hiram Bingham II (1853), missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert Islands
- Ashley Day Leavitt (B.A. 1900), minister of Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
- William Ragsdale Cannon (B.D., 1940; PhD, 1942), professor and dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University; United Methodist Church bishop
- Aaron L. Mackler (B.A. 1980), notable rabbi in the Conservative movement
- James W.C. Pennington (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
- Harry Boone Porter, liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the Episcopal Church, editor of The Living Church magazine.
- John H. Leith (PhD, 1949), a Presbyterian author, theologian and professor
- Yasir Qadhi (Ph.D. candidate), a Muslim theologian
- Leroy Gilbert, Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard
- Roy M. Terry, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
History, literature, art, and architecture
- Josef Albers, painter
- Graham Arader (B.A. Economics 1972), rare map and print dealer
- Richard Anuszkiewicz, painter of the Op-Art movement
- Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), video and installation artist
- Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A), painter
- Carl Bialik (Class of 2001) journalist, Wall Street Journal
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), literary critic
- Jonathan Borofsky, artist
- Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author
- Norman Carlberg, sculptor, director of Rinehart School of Sculpture
- Lan Samantha Chang (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Susan Choi (B.A. 1990), author
- Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964), painter
- Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
- John Currin (M.F.A. 1986), painter
- James Fenimore Cooper (Class of 1805*), author of The Last of the Mohicans
- Charles DeKay, linguist, poet, critic and fencer
- Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
- Randy Charles Epping (M.A. 1983), author
- Janet Fish (M.F.A. 1963), painter
- Paul Fontaine (B.F.A. 1935), painter
- Norman Foster (M.Arch. 1961), architect
- Ann Gale (M.F.A. 1991) painter; professor at the University of Washington School of Art
- Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture writer
- Nancy Graves, sculptor
- Linda Greenhouse, journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court for the New York Times
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Amin Gulgee (B.A. 1987), renowned Pakistani metal sculptor and jewellery designer; son of famed artist Gulgee
- William Harlan Hale (B.A. 1931), writer, journalist, editor
- Erwin Hauer, sculptor
- Fenno Heath, Yale music professor and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club
- Barkley L. Hendricks (B.F.A. and M.F.A. 1970–1972), painter
- Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
- Quiara Alegria Hudes (BA), playwright, In the Heights 2008 Tony for Best Musical
- Muzharul Islam (M.Arch. 1961), Bangladeshi architect.
- Yolanda Joe (B.A. 1983), novelist[134]
- Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), book critic for the New York Times
- Sujata Keshavan (M.F.A. 1987) graphic designer
- Karl Kirchwey (B.A. 1979), poet[135][136]
- John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of A Separate Peace
- Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), playwright and gay activist
- David Leavitt (B.A. 1983), author
- Jack Lembeck (MFA 1970), painter and scultpor
- Jeremy Leven, author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works include Don Juan DeMarco
- Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M. Arch 1986, honorary Ph.D 1987), architect, best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, subject of the 1995 Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
- Joanne Lipman (B.A. 1983), Founding Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Portfolio magazine and former Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal.[137]
- Jonathan Littell (B.A. 1989), writer; won the Prix Goncourt
- William Logan (B.A. 1972), poet, critic
- Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer of the Broadway musical Avenue Q. Winner of 3 Tony Awards
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia (M.F.A. 1979), photographer
- Alvin Lucier, experimental composer
- Robert Mangold, painter
- Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963), painter
- Peter Matthiessen (B.A. 1950), naturalist, author of historical fiction and non-fiction
- Malerie Marder (M.F.A. 1998), photographer
- Jane Mayer (B.A. 1977), journalist and author
- J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989), of the band The Nields
- George Packer (B.A. 1982), author
- Ann Packer (B.A. 1981), author
- ZZ Packer (B.A. 1994), author
- Hally Pancer (M.F.A 1988), photographer
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
- Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author
- Martin Puryear (M.F.A. 1971), sculptor
- Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998), author
- Richard Rogers (M.Arch. 1962), architect, 2007 Pritzker Prize winner
- Mark Rothko (Class of 1924*), painter
- Eero Saarinen (B.Arch, 1934), architect, best known for the St. Louis Gateway Arch
- Sam Savage (B.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1979), author
- Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), art historian
- Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
- Robert A. M. Stern (M. Arch. 1965), architect, current dean of Yale School of Architecture
- Andrew Solomon (B.A. 1985), writer
- Sarah Sze (B.A.), sculptor and MacArthur Foundation fellow
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Doonesbury cartoonist
- Erica Simone Turnipseed A writer
- Marc Trujillo (M.F.A. 1994) painter
- Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, Ll.D. 1823), lexicographer, author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found Amherst College
- William T. Williams (M.F.A 1968), artist, first African American included in the H.W. Janson History of Art
- Dick Wimmer (M.A. 1959), 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
- Ilana Dayan (Ph.D 1992), Israeli journalist and anchorwoman.
- Gordon McLendon, (B.A. 1942), Radio Pioneer, Top 40 Radio Format, Co-Founder of the Association for Intelligence Officers
Music
- Marin Alsop (1973–1975, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Eric Banks (B.A. 1990), composer
- Jane Ira Bloom, soprano saxophonist
- Carter Brey, principal cellist for the New York Philharmonic
- Robert Carl, composer and chair of the Composition department at the Hartt School
- Jonathan Coulton (B.A. 1992), musician, internet celebrity, best known for his song Code Monkey
- Jack Glatzer (B.A. 1960), concert violinist
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Fenno Heath, Yale music professor and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club
- Walter Hekster (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist and conductor
- Lisa Hopkins, opera singer and Tony Award winner
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music
- Mitch Leigh (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952), composer, producer Man of La Mancha, "To Dream the Impossible Dream"
- George Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer
- Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer of the Broadway musical Avenue Q and winner of 3 Tony Awards
- Alvin Lucier, experimental composer
- Pras Michel, Grammy Award-winning rapper, member of hip-hop trio The Fugees
- Douglas Moore (B.A 1915, B.M 1917), composer
- Johann Sebastian Paetsch (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
- Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
- Chad Shelton (M.A. 1997), operatic tenor
- Kurt Hugo Schneider (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation, music producer, and filmmaker
- Sam Tsui (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation[138]
- Rudy Vallée (B.A. 1927), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer[139]
- Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 ), lyricist, composer, Tony Awards for Nine and Titanic
- Foster MacKenzie III, aka Root Boy Slim (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician
- Dave Longstreth, songwriter, singer, guitarist of critically acclaimed indie rock band Dirty Projectors[140]
Athletics
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- Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985), three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)
- Craig Breslow, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "Father of American Football"
- Britton Chance, 1952 Olympic gold medalist in yachting for the USA, bio-chemist and bio-physicist[141]
- Ron Darling, Mets pitcher
- Brian Dowling (B.A. 1969), quarterback
- Earl G. Graves, Jr. (B.A. 1984) former NBA Player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's Mens Basketball history (3rd Ivy)
- Chris Dudley (B.A. 1987), former NBA player
- Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest in Major League Baseball history
- 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
- Howard (Howdy) Groskloss, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, aged 100 as of 2006
- Chris Hetherington (B.A. 1996), NFL running back
- Chris Higgins, forward for the National Hockey League Montreal Canadiens
- Calvin Hill (B.A. 1969), football player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns
- Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic figure skating
- Bill Hutchinson, former Major League Baseball player
- Levi Jackson (1926–2000), elected by his teammates the First African American to captain an Ivy League football team
- Sada Jacobson (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004 Olympic women's saber[142]
- 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
- Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), NFL tight end
- Ryan Lavarnway, major league baseball catcher (Boston Red Sox)
- Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1983), professional tennis player[143]
- 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, Currently a competitive marathoner.
- Mary O'Connor, 1980 Summer Olympics Yale member of Olympic Rowing Eight. Team did not compete due to U.S. boycott.
- Renée Richards, former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind
- Mike Richter (B.A. 2006), former New York Rangers goaltender
- Don Schollander (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)
- Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969) gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic Marathon
- Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets
- Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing)[144][145]
- Josh West, Olympic medalist rower
Film
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- Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), 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
- Bruce Cohen, film producer, won an Academy Award for American Beauty
- Michael Cimino (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963), Academy Award-winning director of The Deer Hunter
- Jennifer Connelly (Class of 1992*), Academy Award-winning actress
- Robert Curtis Brown (B.A. 1979), American television, film, and stage actor
- Claire Danes (Class of 2002*), actress
- Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
- Jodie Foster (B.A. 1985 in literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning actress (The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs) and director
- Paul Giamatti (BA 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, actress
- Michael Herz director, founder of Troma Studios
- George Hickenlooper, film director
- George Roy Hill, Academy Award-winning director
- Elia Kazan, Academy Award-winning director
- Zoe Kazan (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian
- Adam Leipzig (B.A. 1979 in literature), Film and Theater Producer
- Lloyd Kaufman (B.A. 1968), Director, Actor, President of Troma Studios. IFTA Charman
- Thomas F. Lennon (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
- Ron Livingston, (B.A. 1989), actor, best known for Office Space
- Frances McDormand (MFA 1982), actress
- Bill Moseley actor
- Paul Newman, (DRA 1954) Academy Award-winning actor
- Alessandro Nivola, (B.A. 1994), actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), Academy Award nominated actor
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
- Vincent Price, actor
- Ira Sachs (B.A. 1987), director
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
- Todd Solondz, (B.A. 1981), director Welcome to the Dollhouse & Happiness
- Oliver Stone (Class of 1968*), Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA), 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), actress
- Jennifer Westfeldt, (B.A. 1991), actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)
- Douglas Wick, (B.A. 1976), film producer
Television
- Lewis Black (MFA 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 of shows such as: Cheers and Will & Grace
- Dick Cavett, TV personality, nominated eleven times for the Emmy Award, and won three times.[146]
- Enrico Colantoni (MFA), 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
- 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 (MFA), 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 sit-com Roseanne[147]
- Felipe Gozon, Philippine television executive
- Michael Gross (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of Michael J. Fox's character) on Family Ties[148]
- John Hodgman (B.A. 1992), author and comedian who often appears in The Daily Show and in the Get a Mac ad campaigns, representing a humanized PC.
- Conor Knighton, host of Infomania (TV series) 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)
- Crystal McKellar (B.A. 1999), played "Becky Slater" in The Wonder Years in her youth; now an attorney
- Anne Meacham (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress (Another World)
- Ari Meyers (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on Kate & Allie
- Chris Noth (CDR 1985), actor Law & Order: Criminal Intent", Sex and the City
- 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[149]
- David Hyde Pierce, (B.A. 1981) actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier; winner of four Emmy Awards[150]
- Josh Saviano (B.A. 1998) played Paul Pfeiffer on "The Wonder Years"
- Tony Shalhoub (MFA 1980) actor, "Monk"
- Gene Siskel (MFA 1974) film critic At the Movies
- Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and An Unreasonable Man
- Ben Stein (LLD 1970), economist, host of Win Ben Stein's Money
- Ming Tsai (B.A. 1986), chef on East Meets West with Ming Tsai on PBS
- Courtney B. Vance (MFA 1986), actor, current on 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) best known for his portrayal of A.D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order
- Suzanne Whang (B.A. 1983), hostess of HGTV's House Hunters and House Hunters International
- Henry Winkler (MFA 1970), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
- Bellamy Young (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actress
Fictional
(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)
- "Paul Allen",[151] victim of serial killer Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard alumnus) in the movie American Psycho.
- "Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl) is straight out accepted to Yale for his lacrosse skills.[152]
- Nell Bedworth, played by Samaire Armstrong in It's a Boy/Girl Thing
- "Amanda Bonner", Yale Law School graduate, played by Katharine Hepburn, in 1949 film Adam's Rib.
- "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby[153]
- "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by Helen Hunt) in 1990's television comedy series Mad About You[154]
- "Jay Burchell", J.D. 2007, one of the main characters on the short-lived ABC series Traveler
- "Charles Montgomery Burns", B.S. 1914,[155] the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
- "Nick Carraway", narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby[156]
- "Charlotte" (played by Scarlett Johansson), main character of the 2003 movie Lost in Translation[157]
- "Lane Coutell", Franny's boyfriend in J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey published in 1962[158]
- "Dr. Niles Crane", Frasier's brother in the award-winning television comedy series Frasier. The actor who plays him, David Hyde Pierce, is a real-life alumnus.[159]
- "Dhrubo", character in Indian book English, August.
- "Florence Farfaletti", protagonist of Christopher Buckley's 2004 Novel Florence of Arabia[160]
- "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 The Namesake
- "Paris Geller", Rory Gilmore's best friend on the television series Gilmore Girls
- "Richard Gilmore", father of Lorelai Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls[161]
- "Rory Gilmore", main character of the television series Gilmore Girls[162]
- "Flash Gordon", internationally renowned polo player, Yale graduate, intrepid space explorer, Emperor Ming's relentless enemy, and savior of the Planet Mongo.[163]
- "Anson Hunter" protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1926 short story 'The Rich Boy'
- "Logan Huntzberger,"*Rory Gilmore's boyfriend on the television series Gilmore Girls.
- "Linus Larrabee,"[164] protagonist in the movie Sabrina, played by Humphrey Bogart in 1954 and played by Harrison Ford in the 1995 remake.
- Josh Lyman, played by Bradley Whitford, is a graduate of Yale Law School and serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the (fictional) President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), in the television show The West Wing.[165]
- "Frank Merriwell,"[166] the most popular dime-novel hero of the early 20th century. Protagonist of Gilbert Patten's 200-odd Merriwell novels.
- "Sherman McCoy", central character in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.[167]
- Dr. R. Lars Porsena, a major character in Philip José Farmer's sci-fi novel Red Orc's Rage. Dr. Porsena is a graduate of Yale Medical School and was trained in psychiatry in the psychiatry department at Yale.[168]
- Bette Porter – character in "The LWord". Portrayed by real life Yale graduate Jennifer Beals.
- "Neela Rasgotra", B.S.[169] doctor on the television series "ER."
- "Bud Stamper", played by Warren Beatty, in the Oscar winning 1961 film Splendor in the Grass[170]
- "Dink Stover", hero of Owen Johnson's 1911 novel Stover at Yale[171]
- "Robert Underdunk Terwilliger", who goes by the stage name of "Sideshow Bob" in the television series The Simpsons[172]
- "Tim Travers", the love interest in 1988 movie Mystic Pizza[173]
- "Troy", the secondary janitor on the television comedy Scrubs, whose obtuse and violent approach to life become humorous when the unnamed major janitor character says to him, "You went to Yale..."[174]
- "Serena van der Woodsen" (Gossip Girl) gets accepted straight away, much to best friend Blair's disdain[175]
- Senator Arnold Vinick (R-CA), Republican presidential nominee in The West Wing.[176] Played by Alan Alda
- "Blair Waldorf" (Gossip Girl) gets waitlisted then accepted[177]
- Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego[178]
- Windy and Stewart, the two college students who come to the aid of the Tillerman children in the classic young adult novel, Homecoming
- James Tillerman, the second eldest of the Tillermans in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Cycle
- "Mr. Wilbarger", cowboy in Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove[179]
- "Hector Willmot" (Buster Crabbe) in the 1935 film 'Em Yale[180]
- "Andrea Zuckerman", character of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210[181]
(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)
Faculty
Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.
Nobel laureates
- Sidney Altman: Chemistry, 1989
- John Fenn: Chemistry, 2002. Received his PhD from Yale 1940, and was a member of the Yale faculty from 1962 to 1994
- Tjalling Koopmans: Economics, 1975
- Wangari Maathai: Peace, 2004; visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002 YDN article
- George Palade, professor at Yale Medical School from 1973–1990: Physiology or Medicine, 1974.
- James Tobin: Economics, 1981
- Gerard Debreu: Economics, 1983
- Edward Tatum: Physiology or Medicine, 1958; was at Yale from 1945 to 1948
- Erwin Neher: Physiology or Medicine, 1991; biophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale
- Thomas A. Steitz: Chemistry, 2009
Others
- 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
- Benjamin Carson, African American neurosurgeon
- Dennis S. Charney, expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.[182]
- Kenneth L. Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
- 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
- Isidore Dyen, professor emeritus of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages
- William Francis Gray Swann, Anglo-American physicist
- Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966) economist
- Irving Fisher, economist
- Bassam Frangieh, scholar of Arabic language and literature
- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
- Jacques Armand Gauthier, comparative morphologist, paleontologist, and systematist
- Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
- David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering
- Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
- Samuel C. Harvey (1886–1953), M.D. (1911), Assistant Professor of Surgery (1920–1921), Associate Professor and acting Chairman of the Surgical Department (1921–1924), Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Chief Surgeon of Yale-New Haven Hospital (1924–1947), Full Professor (1924–1950), Editor of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (1950–1953).[183]
- Orvan Hess, M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, known for the fetal heart monitor
- Paul Hindemith, composer, musician, conductor, music theorist
- Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle, U.S. Army Major General
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson, zoologist, considered to be the father of modern limnology
- Donald Kagan, historian of ancient Greece
- Louis I. Kahn, architect
- Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician, Kakutani fixed-point theorem
- Deen Kemsley, taught at Yale School of Management for a year in 2003, currently teaches at A.B. Freeman School of Business
- Paul Kennedy, historian, coiner of the term "imperial overstretch" and author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology, and a professor at Cornell University, Yale University, and Harvard University
- Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician known for fractal geometry
- Julián Marías, philosopher, author of "History of Philosophy"
- Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009), linguist, developed the Yale Romanization system for transliterating Korean
- Neal E. Miller, James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology
- James Mitchell, actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
- David Montgomery, Professor of History Emeritus
- Edmund S. Morgan, Emeritus Professor of History
- William Nordhaus (1963), economist
- William Odom, director, National Security Agency
- Arthur Okun, economist
- Oystein Ore, mathematician
- Aldo Parisot, musician and cellist
- Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of "The Christian Tradition"
- Peter C. Perdue, historian of Modern China
- Emir Rodríguez Monegal, professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of Mundo Nuevo
- Juan Rosai, 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 surgical pathology and discoverer of several entities such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
- Philip Rubin, cognitive scientist, CEO, Haskins Laboratories
- Herbert Scarf, economist
- Oktay Sinanoğlu, theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale full professor.
- James C. Scott, political scientist
- Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture
- Robert Shiller, economist, author of "Irrational Exuberance", known for his work in investor psychology
- Jonathan Spence, historian, author of "The Search For Modern China"
- Joan Steitz, biochemist, discoverer of snRNPs
- David Underdown, historian of 17th-century England
- Lee Watson, Broadway and Opera Lighting Designer, Author and Purdue University professor.
- Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist
- Paul Wolfowitz, political science instructor from 1970–72
- C. Vann Woodward, professor of history
- Ernesto Zedillo, economics teacher and head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, (Ph.D. 1981), president of Mexico (1994–2000)
Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University
- Also see Ivy League Presidents.
Rectors of Yale College | birth–death | years as rector | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rev. Abraham Pierson | (1641–1707) | (1701–1707) Collegiate School |
2 | Rev. Samuel Andrew | (1656–1738) | (1707–1719) (pro tempore) |
3 | Rev. Timothy Cutler | (1684–1765) | (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College |
4 | Rev. Elisha William(s) | (1694–1755) | (1726–1739) |
5 | Rev. Thomas Clap | (1703–1767) | (1740–1745) |
Presidents of Yale College | birth–death | years as president | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rev. Thomas Clap | (1703–1767) | (1745–1766) |
2 | Rev. Naphtali Daggett | (1727–1780) | (1766–1777) (pro tempore) |
3 | Rev. Ezra Stiles | (1727–1795) | (1778–1795) |
4 | Timothy Dwight IV | (1752–1817) | (1795–1817) |
5 | Jeremiah Day | (1773–1867) | (1817–1846) |
6 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | (1801–1899) | (1846–1871) |
7 | Noah Porter III | (1811–1892) | (1871–1886) |
8 | Timothy Dwight V | (1828–1916) | (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University |
9 | Arthur Twining Hadley | (1856–1930) | (1899–1921) |
10 | James Rowland Angell | (1869–1949) | (1921–1937) |
11 | Charles Seymour | (1885–1963) | (1937–1951) |
12 | Alfred Whitney Griswold | (1906–1963) | (1951–1963) |
13 | Kingman Brewster, Jr. | (1919–1988) | (1963–1977) |
14 | Hanna Holborn Gray | (1930– ) | (1977–1977) (acting) |
15 | A. Bartlett Giamatti | (1938–1989) | (1977–1986) |
16 | Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. | (1942– ) | (1986–1992) |
17 | Howard R. Lamar | (1923– ) | (1992–1993) (acting) |
18 | Richard C. Levin | (1947– ) | (1993– ) |
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