List of Yale University people
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.
Notes:
- LL.B. (Legum Baccalaureum) is a graduate degree conferred by the Yale Law School
Alumni
Nobel laureates
- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001.[1]
- Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D. 1942).[2] Physics, 2002.
- John F. Enders (B.A. 1920).[3] Physiology or Medicine, 1954.
- John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940).[4][5] Chemistry, 2002.
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948).[6] Physics, 1969.
- Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962).[7] Physiology or Medicine, 1994.
- Ernest Lawrence (Ph.D. 1925).[8] Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him.[9]
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948).[10] Physiology or Medicine, 1958.
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959).[11] Physics, 1996.
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908).[12] Literature, 1930.
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935).[13] Chemistry, 1968.
- Edmund Phelps (Ph.D. 1959). Economics, 2006.
- Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. 1917).[14] Physiology or Medicine, 1956.
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935).[15] Economics, 1996.
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900).[16] Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D. 1974).[17] Physiology or Medicine, 1995.
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), won 2004 Pulitzer for non-fiction.[18]
- Stephen Vincent Benét (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), Pulitzer-winning author.
- Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978),[19] U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, received the Pulitzer in 1998.[20]
- John Hersey (B.A. 1936),[21] Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel A Bell for Adano, namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale.
- David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), Stanford University professor, won the 2000 Pulitzer in History[22] for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-45".
- David McCullough (B.A. 1955),[23] famous historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American Presidents Harry S. Truman and John Adams.[24]
- J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986),[25] Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for Feature Writing.[26]
- Mel Powell (B.A. 1952 ), [27], 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),[28] winner of the Pulitzer for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.[29]
- Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985),[30] reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for international reporting.[31]
- Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),[32] composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer in Music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version".[33]
- Wendy Wasserstein, (M.F.A. 1976),[34] playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of The Heidi Chronicles.
- Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920),[35] 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),[36] screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for drama, winner of a Tony Award.[37]
- Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),[38] composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006[39] for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis University.
- Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968),[40] wrote Pulitzer-winning "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power"; founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
Technology & 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Art Laffer (B.A. 1963), economist, best known for the "Laffer Curve".
- 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".
- 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, 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
- 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[41][42]
- Tim Collins (M.B.A.), founder and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
- Donna Dubinsky (B.A. 1977), former CEO of PDA company Palm Inc., co-founder of PDA company Handspring[43]
- Charles B. Finch, (B.A. 1941, LLB 1944), CEO and Chairman of the Board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political activist
- Ted Forstmann, co-founder & senior partner of Forstmann Little & Company, member of the Forbes 400
- Rob Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder & CEO, RealNetworks[44]
- Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts[45]
- Roberto Goizueta (B.E. 1953), former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of Emory University's business school)[46]
- Robert F. Greenhill (B.A. 1958), founder of M&A department at and former president of Morgan Stanley, forme chairman of Smith Barney, CEO of investment banking firm Greenhill & Co
- Briton Hadden (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine[47]
- 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 (Class of 1937), former CEO and Chairman, BorgWarner
- Curtis Jensen (M.B.A.), co-chief investment officer, Third Avenue Funds
- Charles B. Johnson, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
- Ellis Jones (M.B.A.), CEO, Wasserstein & Co.
- Henry Bourne Joy, president of Packard
- Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder & former CEO, Lotus Software[48]
- John C. Kebabian, Yale student, who in 1882 began America's first Oriental rug import company to pay his tuition.
- Herbert Kohler, chairman & president, Kohler Company
- Clarence King, founder of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Loring Knoblauch (B.A. 1964), ninth president and CEO of Underwriters Laboratories, former leader of nine different companies in high technology and manufacturing
- Edward Lampert, founder & chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), Chairman of Sears Holding Company[49]
- Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of Time magazine.[50]
- John Franklyn Mars, CEO, Mars, Incorporated (as in Mars & M&M candy)[51]
- W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The Boeing Company[52]
- 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[53]
- Eric Ober (B.A.), president, CBS News, Food Network
- John Pepper (B.A. 1960), former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble
- Norman R. Prouty (B.A. 1961), investor and founder of the India Capital Fund--first American venture capitalist (VC) in India
- Wilbur Ross, investor, steel magnate, member of the Forbes 400
- Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder & CEO of the Blackstone Group, member of the Forbes 400
- Robert Sargent Shriver III (Law), part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
- Timothy Perry Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics
- David Singer (B.A. 1984), founder, former CEO, chairman of the board of Genesoft Pharmaceuticals (now Oscient Pharmaceuticals); founding president of Affymetrix and Corcept Therapeutics; principal of Maverick Capital Ltd.
- 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[54]
- Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder, Weyerhaeuser
- John (Jock) Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first venture capital firm in U.S.
- Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)
Academics
College founders and presidents
- Frederick Barnard (B.A. 1828),[55][56][57] 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),[58] president of Duke University
- Aaron Burr, Sr. (B.A. 1735)[59] 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[60]
- 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[61][62]
- 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[63]
- James Duderstadt ( B.E. 1964), President of the University of Michigan[64]
- Peter Tyrrell Flawn (Ph.D 1951), geologist and former president of the University of Texas at Austin
- Daniel Coit Gilman (B.A. 1852), 2nd president of the University of California (1872-1875); first president of Johns Hopkins University (1876-1901); first president of the Carnegie Institution[65]
- William Rainey Harper, (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the University of Chicago[66]
- Joseph Gibson Hoyt, (B.A. 1840) First Chancellor of Washington University[67]
- Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925) President (1929-1945) and Chancellor (1945-1951) of the University of Chicago[68][69]
- 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[70]
- 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)[71]
- Yamakawa Kenjiro (ca. 1876), founder of Kyushu Institute of Technology[72]
- Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981 magna cum laude),[73] president (2003-present) of Amherst College
- Helen Parkhurst (M.A. 1943), progressive educator, created the Dalton Plan, founder of The Dalton School[74]
- Charles Summerlin (M.Phil 1971, Ph.D. 1973), president of Schreiner University
- Andrew Dickson White (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of Cornell University[75][76]
- Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733) Founder of Dartmouth College[77]
Professors and scholars
- 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
- 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
- Eugene Bouton (B.A. 1875), first Principal of the New York State Teachers College
- Michael Burns, actor and professor of history
- 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
- William Flesch (B.A. 1978) professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
- Barbara Hicks (B.A.), comparative politics scholar specializing in Central and Eastern Europe
- David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at Bates College.
- Howard Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor, Harvard School of Public Health
- Paul Krugman (B.A. Economics, 1974), architect of "New Trade Theory," winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, Princeton University economics professor, New York Times columnist
- Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960), mathematician, author of the Langlands Program
- Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Stanford 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[2]
- Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian
- 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
- Kenneth Rogoff, economist, professor at Harvard University, former Director, Research at the IMF
- James Rothman (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize")
- Matthias Storme, professor of law at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Antwerp University
- Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796), "father of American scientific education"
- Amy Solomon, the first woman to register as an undergraduate at Yale, in 1971.[3]
- 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 [78]
- John Griggs Thompson (B.A. 1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
- Paul Wolfowitz Political Science instructor at Yale, early 1970s?
Law & politics
Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state and prime ministers
- George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989-1993), Vice President of the United States (1981-1989), member of Congress (R-Texas) (1967-1971)[79]
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001-present), Governor of Texas (1995-2000)[80]
- John 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[81]
- Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), Fifth President of Germany (1979-1984)[82]
- Dick Cheney (Class of 1963*), Vice President of the United States (2001-present)[83]
- Tansu Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), Prime Minister of Turkey (1993-1996)[84]
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993-2001), Governor of Arkansas (1979-1981,1983-1992)[85]
- 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[86]
- 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)[87]
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte (Class of 2000*, attended for two years)[88]
- Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994-2000)[89]
Supreme Court justices
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.[90]
- 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*),[91] 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)
- 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.[92]
- 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
- 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)
- 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 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), U.S. senator (D-New York, 2001-present)
- 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)
- 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 (D-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 (D-Connecticut, 1989-present)
- 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.
- Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-Florida, 1979-91), astronaut (STS-61-C, 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001-present)
- 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 (R-Pennsylvania, 1981-present)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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).[93](See also: Senators)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), Governor of Connecticut (1844-46).[94](See also: Senators)
- Hiram Bingham III (1898), Governor of Connecticut (1925).[95](See also: Senators)
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), Governor of Oklahoma (1975-79).[96] (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).[97](See also: Senators)
- William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), Governor of Arkansas (1983-1992). (See also: Presidents & Vice Presidents)
- Wilbur Cross (B.A.1885, Ph.D. 1889), Governor of Connecticut (1931-1939), Yale professor of English[98]
- Howard Dean (B.A. 1971), Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)[99]
- Henry 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)[100]
- 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[101]
- Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), Governor of Washington (1997-2005) (thereby the first Chinese American governor in the United States)[102]
- Return Jonathan Meigs (B.A. 1785), 4th Governor of Ohio (1810-1814).[103](See also: Senators)
- George Pataki (B.A. 1967), Governor of New York (1995-2007)[104]
- Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935*), attended Yale from 1931 to 1934; Governor of Arkansas (1967-1971)
- 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[105]
- Robert Taft (B.A. 1953), Governor of Ohio (1999-2007)
- Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), Governor of Connecticut (1990-1994).[106](See also: Senators)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), Governor of California (1991-1999).[107](See also: Senators)
Executive council members
The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.
- Dean Acheson (B.A, 1915), United States 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, U.S. 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 Clayton (1815), Secretary of State in the Zachary Taylor administration, U.S. 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)
- Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004-2006), Florida congressman
- Stephen Hadley, (J.D. 1972), National Security Advisor
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), United States 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 U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2005-present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq (2004-2005)
- Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1995-1999) in the Clinton presidential administration
- Henry L. Stimson, (B.A. 1888), United States 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) United States 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), ambassador
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001-present)
- Linda Jewell (B.A. 1975), U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador
- Robert P. De Vecchi (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), President Emeritus of the International Rescue Committee
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
- David Boies (LL.B.. 1966), famous lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster v. RIAA)
- Geraldo Brindeiro (L.L.M, J.D.), Attorney General of Brazil (1995-2003)
- Benjamin Darrow (J.D., ca. 1890) New York District Attorney
- Sir Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the High Court of Australia
- William Kunstler (B.A. 1941), Civil liberties lawyer
- Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951), U.S. Assistant Attorney General
- Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former United States Attorney General
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.)[108][109]
- 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), activist, member of the Chicago Seven
- Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Alexandra Reeve (B.A. 2005), board member of the Christopher Reeve Foundation [110][111], daughter of actor Christopher Reeve[111][110]
- 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).
- Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969) Theologian and activist; President of Evagelicals For Social Action and Professor at Eastern University.
- John Wilhelm (B.A., 1967) Labor leader; President, Hospitality Division, UNITE HERE.
Commentators
- 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 Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton
- Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), conservative pundit
- Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show, Foreign Exchange
- Michael Lewittes (B.A. 1989) journalist, celebrity gossip columnist, entertainment industry pundit.
- Jay Carney TIME Magazine political team aka James F. Carney (B.A. 1987) Time Inc. Washington Bureau Chief.
- Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984)
- Andrés Martinez (B.A.), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
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), U.S. 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 Arizona and part of New Mexico.
Military
- 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.
- John Paterson (B.A. 1762), Maj. General in the American Revolution and US Congressman from New York.
- Nathan Whiting, (B.A. 1743), Colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War also the nephew of univ. 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
- Jarvis Offutt (1917), World War I aviator, namesake of Offutt Air Force Base.
- Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer featured in Band of Brothers
Other legislators
- Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A. 1972), U.S. representative, D-Texas.
- Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A. 1828), Member of the Texas State Senate, namesake for eponym maverick.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for District of Columbia (1991-present)
- Gerry Studds (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. Representative, D-MA, 1973-1997
- Porter J. Goss (U.S. Representative, R-FL, 1989-2004, and Director of CIA)
- Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1859-1863)
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
- 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.), Mayor of Newark
- 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
- Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972) Former White House Vice Presidential aide, principal figure in the Plame Affair
- Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979), Mayor of Washington, D.C., 1999-2007.
- Kori Udovički (Economics, PhD 1999) Governor of the National Bank of Serbia 2003-2004, Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations 2007-
Religion
- Hiram Bingham II, one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
- 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
- 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.
- John H. Leith (Ph.D., 1949), a Presbyterian author, theologian and professor.
History, literature, art & music
- Josef Albers, painter
- 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), American literary critic
- Jane Ira Bloom Soprano Saxophonist
- Jonathan Borofsky , artist
- Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author
- Norman Carlberg, sculptor, director of Rinehart School of Sculpture
- 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
- Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
- Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture writer
- Nancy Graves, sculptor
- Linda Greenhouse, journalist for the New York Times, covers the United States Supreme Court.
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Erwin Hauer, sculptor
- Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
- Paul Hindemith, composer, musician, conductor, music theorist
- Lisa Hopkins, opera singer and Tony Award winner
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music.
- Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class of 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborator with wife Lillith Stanwood on Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl. Authored the novel Famous All Over Town under the pseudonym Danny Santago. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on the film The Great Dictator. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. First cousin of Jesse James.
- John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of A Separate Peace
- Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), Playwright and gay activist
- George Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer
- 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
- 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 American experimental composer
- Robert Mangold, painter
- Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963), painter
- J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Douglas Moore (B.A 1915, B.M 1917) composer
- Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989) of the band The Nields
- Johann Sebastian Paetsch (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
- Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author.
- Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
- Mark Rothko (Class of 1924*), painter
- Eero Saarinen (B.Arch, 1934), architect, best known for the St. Louis Gateway Arch
- 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
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Doonesbury cartoonist
- Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, Ll.D. 1823), lexicographer, author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found Amherst College
- Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984), feminist writer
- Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 ), lyricist, composer, Tony Award for Titanic
Athletics
- Dick Jauron (B.A. 1973), head coach of the National Football League's Buffalo Bills (2006-present)
- Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "Father of American Football"
- Ron Darling, Mets pitcher
- Brian Dowling (B.A. 1969), quarterback
- Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1981), professional tennis player
- 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
- 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 Hutchison, former Major League Baseball player
- Sada Jacobson (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004 Olympic women's saber
- Eric Johnson (B.A. 2001), NFL tight end
- Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), NFL tight end
- 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 the Houston Rockets
- Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985), Three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)
- Mike Richter (B.A. 2006), former New York Rangers goaltender
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for, Trinidad and Tobago
- Renee Richards, former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind
Film
- 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, Academy Award-winning director
- Jennifer Connelly (Class of 1992*), Academy Award-winning actress
- Claire Danes (Class of 2002*), actress
- Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
- Jodie Foster (B.A. in literature, magna cum laude), Academy Award-winning actress and director
- Paul Giamatti (MFA, 1989), actor. Starred in Academy Award nominated "Sideways".
- David Alan Grier, actor, comedian
- Kathryn Hahn, actress
- George Roy Hill, Academy Award-winning director
- Holly Hunter, Academy Award-winning actress
- Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class of 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on the film The Great Dictator. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Collaborator with wife Lillith Stanwood on Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl. Authored the novel Famous All Over Town under the pseudonym Danny Santago. First cousin of Jesse James.
- Elia Kazan*, Academy Award-winning director
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian.
- Ron Livingston, actor. Best known for Office Space
- Frances McDormand (MFA), actress
- Paul Newman, Academy Award-winning actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), actor
- Mills Pierre (B.A. 1999), actor. UK Screen Awards, nominated best supporting actor for the Quiet Storm.
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
- Vincent Price, actor
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
- Todd Solondz, director Welcome to the Dollhouse & Happiness
- Oliver Stone*, Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy Award-winning actress
- Ted Tally (B.A.), Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- John Turturro (MFA), actor
- Sam Waterston, (B.A. 1961), actor
- Sigourney Weaver (MFA), actress
- Jennifer Westfeldt, actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)
- Liev Schreiber, actor
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.[112]
- Enrico Colantoni (MFA), actor, Just Shoot Me, Galaxy Quest, and Veronica Mars
- Akhil Conner (B.A. 2004), actor in The Uninvited and contestant on Off The Wall, a Vin Di Bona production.[113]
- 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), actor in The X-Files
- Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports division, helped launch Saturday Night Live
- Malcolm Gets (MFA), actor, best known for as "Richard Karinsky" on Caroline in the City
- John Gidding (B.A. 1999), architect, one of the designers on the ABC Family show Knock First
- Sara Gilbert, actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sit-com Roseanne[114]
- 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[115]
- 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.
- Leo Laporte*, host of The Screen Savers on TechTV
- Demetri Martin (1995) stand-up comedian who often appears on The Daily Show
- 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 (MFA), actor Law & Order: Criminal Intent", Sex and the City
- Stone Phillips, television anchor for NBC
- Robert Picardo, the holographic doctor on the television show Star Trek: Voyager[116]
- David Hyde Pierce, actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier; winner of four Emmy Awards[117]
- Tony Shalhoub (MFA 1980) actor, "Monk"
- Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and An Unreasonable Man
- Ben Stein (J.D.), 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, best known for his portrayal of A.D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order
- Henry Winkler (MFA 1970), actor, best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
Fictional
(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)
- "Paul Allen,"[118] victim of serial killer Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard alumnus) in the movie American Psycho.
- "Tom Buchanan," antagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby[119]
- "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by Helen Hunt) in 1990's television comedy series Mad About You[120]
- "Charles Montgomery Burns," B.S. 1914,[121] the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Powerplant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
- "Nick Carraway," narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby[122]
- "Charlotte" (played by Scarlett Johansson), main character of the 2003 movie Lost in Translation[123]
- "Lane Coutell," Franny's boyfriend in J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey published in 1962[124]
- "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.[125]
- "Richard Gilmore," father of Lorelai Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls[126]
- "Rory Gilmore,"* main character of the television series Gilmore Girls[127]
- "Logan Huntzberger,"*Rory Gilmore's boyfriend on the television series "Gilmore Girls.
- "Flash Gordon", internationally renowned polo player, Yale graduate, intrepid space explorer, Emperor Ming's relentless enemy, and savior of the Planet Mongo.[128]
- "Linus Larrabee,"[129] 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.[130]
- "Frank Merriwell,"[131] the most popular dime-novel hero of the early twentieth century. Protagonist of Gilbert Patten's 200-odd Merriwell novels.
- "Sherman McCoy," central character in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.[132]
Bette Porter- character in "The LWord". Yale Graduate.
- "Neela Rasgotra," B.S.[133] doctor on the television series "ER."
- "Bud Stamper", played by Warren Beatty, in the Oscar winning 1961 film Splendor in the Grass[134]
- "Dink Stover," hero of Owen Johnson's 1911 novel Stover at Yale[135]
- "Robert Underdunk Terwilliger," who goes by the stage name of "Sideshow Bob" in the television series The Simpsons[136]
- "Tim Travers", the love interest in 1988 movie Mystic Pizza[137]
- "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..."[138]
- "Hector Willmot" (Buster Crabbe) in the 1935 film Hold'em Yale[139]
- "Andrea Zuckerman," character of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210[140]
- Senator Arnold Vinick (R-CA), Republican Presidential Nominee in The West Wing.[141] Played by Alan Alda
Nell Bedworth, played by Samaire Armstrong in IT'S A BOY/GIRL THING.
(* 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
- Edward Tatum
- Erwin Neher
Others
- Robert P. Abelson, late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Political Science
- Josef Albers, Artist
- Akhil Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984), law professor
- 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.
- Yung-Chi (Tommy) Cheng, pharmacology, inventor of AIDS drug 3TC, known as Epivir.
- 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
- 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
- Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
- David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language
- Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
- Orvan Hess, M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, known for the Fetal heart monitor
- Paul Hudak, computer scientist, known for his work on the Haskell programming language, author of "The Haskell School of Expression"
- Donald Kagan, historian of ancient Greece
- Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician, Kakutani fixed-point theorem
- Paul Kennedy, historian, coiner of the term "imperial overstretch" and author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician known for fractal geometry
- Julián Marías, philosopher, author of "History of Philosophy"
- Samuel E. Martin, linguist, developed the Yale Romanization#Korean system for transliterating Korean
- James Mitchell, actor, most known for his role as Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
- David Montgomery, Professor of History Emeritus
- William Nordhaus (1963), economist
- William Odom, director, National Security Agency
- Arthur Okun, economist
- Oystein Ore, mathematician
- Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of "The Christian Tradition"
- William Prusoff, pharmacologist, inventor of AIDS drug d4T, known as Zerit.
- 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
- Robert Shiller, economist, author of "Irrational Exuberance", well known for his work in investor psychology
- Jonathan Spence, historian, author of "The Search For Modern China."
- John Szwed, John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies, believed to be the first person at Yale to win a Grammy Award (2006 Grammy Award, "Best Album Notes").
- David Underdown, historian of 17th-century England
- Jay Winter , Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist
- Silvio Inzucchi, Yale medical staff- Endocrinology, professor- alumni of Harvard, author of "Diabetes Facts and Guidelines"
- 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
| 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– ) |
References
- ^ "George Akerlof Wins Nobel Prize in Economics" Campus News at the University of California, Berkeley 10/10/01
- ^ "Nobel Laureate Raymond Davis Dies" Brookhaven National Laboratory press release, June 1, 2006
- ^ Nobel Prize biography of Enders
- ^ Yale Engineering profile of Fenn
- ^ National Institutes of Health press release on Fenn
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Gell-Mann
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica article on Gilman
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Lawrence
- ^ Who Was Ernest O. Lawrence? from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Lederberg
- ^ "Robert Richardson and David Lee win Nobel Prize in physics" Press release from Cornell University October 10, 1996
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica article on Lewis
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Onsager
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Richards
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Vickrey
- ^ Nobel Prize profile of Whipple
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica article on Wieschaus
- ^ Applebaum biography at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Greenhouse biography Pulitzer Board
- ^ Putlizer Board citation for Greenhouse
- ^ May 13 1993 New York Times notice on Hersey's death
- ^ Pulitzer Board citation for kennedy
- ^ Yale Press Release
- ^ McCullough biography at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Meohringer biography at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Citation for Moehringer at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Allan Kozinn (1990-04-24). "Mel Powell's Musical Journey to a Pulitzer Prize". New York Times.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Power '92 wins nonfiction Pulitzer" from the Yale Daily News
- ^ Citation from Pulitzer Board for Power
- ^ Yale Bulletin and Calendar, April 14, 2000
- ^ Schoofs biography at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Yale Bulletin and Calendar, April 14, 2000
- ^ Spratlan biography at Pulitzer Board
- ^ Washington Post obituary "'Heidi Chronicles' Playwright Wendy Wasserstein" , January 31, 2006 by Joe Holley
- ^ Columbia Encyclopedia entry on Wilder
- ^ " Two alumni honored with Pulitzer Prizes" in April 6, 2004, article in the Yale Daily News
- ^ New York Times overview of winners in 2004
- ^ Yale Bulletin and Calendar article "McClatchy among alumni elected to Academy of Arts and Letters" April 26-May 3, 1999
- ^ Citation for Wyner from Pulitzer Board
- ^ Yale Economic Review "Alumni Profile: Daniel Yergin '68"
- ^ Profile from Time Warner
- ^ Press release from Time Warner
- ^ "How Handspring CEO Vaults Ahead" by Elisa Batista, November 13, 2001, Wired Magazine
- ^ Profile from Forbes Magazine
- ^ Profile from the Seattle Times
- ^ Obituary from CNN October 18, 1997
- ^ Biography from TIME magazine media kit
- ^ 1996 Fellow Award Recipient citation, Computer History Museum
- ^ The man behind the deal, By Yuval Rosenberg, November 17, 2004, CNN
- ^ Profile from TIME media kit
- ^ #44 John Mars, in "The World's Richest People" of 2006, Forbes Magazine
- ^ McNerney's Challenge in the "Culture of Innovation" by Andrew Haeg, December 5, 2000, Minnesota Public Radio
- ^ Indra Nooyi flying high, August 16, 2006, The Times of India
- ^ Juan Trippe - Air Travel for All by Mike Brewster, May 25, 2004, Businessweek
- ^ Barnard entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ Profile from the [[University of Mississippi
- ^ Barnard entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Profile from the Carnegie Corporation
- ^ Biography from A Princeton Companion by Alexander Leitch
- ^ Profile at the official website of the World Economic Forum
- ^ Dickinson entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ A Princeton Companion 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)."
- ^ "[http://pr.gallaudet.edu/GallaudetHistory Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet ]: The Legacy Begins (1787-1851)" at the official website of Gallaudet University
- ^ "Biographical Profile: James Johnson Duderstadt" at the University of Michigan's "Millennium Project" website
- ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
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- ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ Entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_connecticut.html "America's Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: William Samuel Johnson, Connecticut"] article at the National Archives
- ^ "Contribution Kenjiro Yamanaka and Meisenkai" by Tasuku Takagi
- ^ Biographical profile from Amherst College
- ^ Entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Entry at the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ "Facts about Cornell" from the official Cornell University website: "Founded 1865 By Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White."
- ^ "A Brief History" from the official Dartmouth College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."
- ^ Board of Regents, UC (2006). "Taube, Karl A". UC Riverside, Faculty Directory. Regents UC. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
- ^ Biographical entry from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical profile from the White House
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical entry at the official Bundespraesident website.
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical entry from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- ^ Biographical profile from the White House
- ^ Biographical entry from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical entry at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- ^ Biographical profile from the Royal Court of Sweden
- ^ Biographical entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- ^ Princeton Companion
- ^ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical entry at Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- ^ Biographical entry "Howard Dean," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006; http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
- ^ Biographical entry"W. Averell Harriman," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
- ^ Biographical profile from the Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Press release from the Washington State Governor's office: "Gov. Gregoire Unveils Official State Portrait of Gov. Gary Locke; Praises Key Accomplishments", January 4, 2006
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Profile from the state of New York government web site
- ^ Biographical entry at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Biographical information from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- ^ Muhammad Ali's Boxing Day Gloves by Anna Rohlender, Forbes Magazine, 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. "
- ^ "Muhammad Ali" Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006: "Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., named after famed Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay. "
- ^ a b "Christopher Reeve's Daughter Engaged". People Magazine. 2007-01-29.
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- ^ "Dick Cavett" profile by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
- ^ "Vin Di Bona"
- ^ Sara Gilbert by Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
- ^ Michael Gross by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
- ^ Robert Picardo by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide at the New York Times
- ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001,by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
- ^ From the film American Psycho: 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.
- ^ From The Great Gatsby, 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."
- ^ "Jamie Buchman" Profile of the character at the show's official web site.
- ^ "Forbes Fictional 15: #5 Burns, Charles Montgomery Forbes Magazine December 1, 2005, by David M. Ewalt
- ^ From The Great Gatsby, 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 Yale Club..." In Chapter 7, "Jordan smiled. 'He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale.'"
- ^ "Lost in Translation" review in Rolling Stone (September 8, 2003) by Peter Travers: "Charlotte (Johansson) 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 (Giovanni Ribisi)..."
- ^ 'Voice on Literature' The Village Voice, review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, March 8, 1962
- ^ "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March 31, 2001,by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
- ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"Let the Games Begin"' (Season 3, Episode 51)
- ^ Gilmore Girls, episode '"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale"' (Season 4, Episode 67)
- ^ Book review of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Volume 1 in Publisher's Weekly, 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.
- ^ From the script for Sabrina, "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. "
- ^ The West Wing 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 Socratic wonder that is the White House press corps"
- ^ The book Frank Merriwell at Yale(1897) by Burt Standish (pseudonym of Gilbert Patten), ISBN 0837390095
- ^ Chronicle section the March 2, 1990 edition of the New York Times, by Susan Heller Anderson: "In the movie version of The Bonfire of the Vanities, TOM HANKS will play Sherman McCoy, the philandering, self-absorbed bond trader whose 'Yale chin' and prep-school background figure prominently in the TOM WOLFE best seller. Mr. Hanks visited Yale yesterday, soaking up information and atmosphere."
- ^ Official ER site at NBC: "Newer additions to the ER include Neela Rasgotra (Nagra), a British-Indian medical student who arrives in Chicago after finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular biology at Yale."
- ^ From Splendor in the Grass, 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."
- ^ Stover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap, 1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
- ^ "Reading Homer" in the Harvard Alumni Magazine September-October 1997 issue
- ^ Movie review by Roger Ebert: "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 (William R. Moses), his wife is in Europe, and Kat falls head over heels in idealism with him. "
- ^ Scrubs episode '"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu"' (aired May 9, 2006; Season 5, episode 115). See also Quotes at TV.com
- ^ Movie Review at TV Guide
- ^ Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills" (season 5, episode 30)
- ^ Profile from the offical web site of the show by NBC, which produced the West Wing