List of Beta Theta Pi members
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This is a list of notable members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
Academia
| Thomas A. Bartlett | Willamette 1951 | Rhodes Scholar; Chancellor, University of Alabama System |
| Thomas P. Courtice | Ohio Wesleyan | Former President, Ohio Wesleyan |
| Stanley Coulter | Hanover 1870 | Former Dean, Purdue University |
| John Crecine | Carnegie Mellon 1961 | Former President, Georgia Tech |
| William H. Danforth | Westminster 1948 | Former President, Washington University |
| James J. Duderstadt | Yale 1964 | Former President, Washington University |
| Joseph Dupuy Eggleston | Hampden-Sydney 1886 | Former President, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University |
| Robert F. Engle | Williams 1964 | Nobel Prize winner, Economic Sciences |
| Robin Hugh Farquhar | British Columbia 1960 | Former President, Carleton |
| Carl Russell Fish | Harvard 1900 | Former Historian, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thomas P. Gerrity | MIT 1963 | Former Dean, Wharton School of Business |
| William Pratt Graham | Syracuse 1903 | Former Chancellor Syracuse University |
| Andrew Dousa Hepburn | Washington & Jefferson 1852 | Former President, Miami University |
| Alexander Q. Holladay | Virginia 1859[2] | Former President, North Carolina State University |
| John S. Hougham | Wabash 1846[3] | Former President, Purdue University |
| Alfred Hume | Vanderbilt[4] | Former Chancellor, University of Mississippi |
| Charles Keeler | California, Berkeley, 1893 | Director, California Academy of Sciences |
| Deane Waldo Malott | Kansas 1921 | Former Chancellor, University of Kansas; President, Cornell University |
| William Alexander Parsons Martin | Indiana 1846 | Former President, Tung Wen College of Peking and Imperial University of China |
| David T. McLaughlin | Dartmouth 1954 | Former President, Dartmouth College |
| John W. Moore | Rutgers 1961 | Former President, Indiana State University |
| Dale T. Mortensen | Willamette 1961 | Nobel Prize winner; Economics |
| Franklin David Murphy | Kansas 1936 | Former Chancellor, University of Kansas; Chancellor, UCLA |
| James Kennedy Patterson | Hanover 1856 | First President, University of Kentucky |
| Steven Sample | Illinois 1958 | President, University of Southern California |
| James M. Sellers | Chicago 1917 | Former President, Wentworth Military Academy |
| Charles N. Sims | DePauw 1859 | Former Chancellor Syracuse University |
| Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. | Washington and Lee 1939 | Former President, University of Virginia |
| David Stanton Tappan | Miami 1864 | Former President, Miami University |
| George H. Whipple | Yale 1905 | Nobel Prize winner in 1934, Physiology or Medicine |
| Timothy M. Wolfe | Missouri 1980 | President, University of Missouri System, 2012–2015[5] |
Community organizations
| Charles E. Bennison | Lawrence 1965 | Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania |
| Ernest Kent Coulter | Ohio State 1892 | Founder, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America |
| Gregory Parkes | Florida State University 1986 | Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee |
Government and politics
| Name | School, graduation | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Theodore Achilles | Stanford 1925 | Former US Ambassador to Peru |
| Joe Allbaugh | Oklahoma State 1974 | Former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
| John M. Allen | Cumberland 1869 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Abram Piatt Andrew, Jr. | Wabash 1892 | Former US Representative from Massachusetts |
| William Hepburn Armstrong | Princeton 1847 | Former US Representative from Pennsylvania |
| Owen Aspinall | Denison 1949 | Former Governor of American Samoa |
| Wayne N. Aspinall | Denver 1919 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles M. Bakewell | California 1889 | Former US Representative from Connecticut |
| George Thomas Barnes | Georgia 1853 | Former US Representative from Georgia |
| Lewis O. Barrows | Maine 1916 | Former Governor of Maine |
| John L. Bates | Boston 1882 | Former Governor of Massachusetts |
| Albert Beach | Kansas 1905 | Former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Jack Beall | Texas 1890 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| James A. Beaver | Washington and Jefferson 1856 | Former Governor of Pennsylvania |
| James T. Begg | Wooster 1903 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Michael Bennet | Wesleyan 1987 | US Senator from Colorado |
| Thomas Warren Bennett | DePauw 1855 | Former US Representative from Idaho; former Governor of Idaho Territory |
| Albert Seaton Berry | Miami 1856 | Former US Representative from Kentucky |
| Richard Whiting Blue | Washington and Jefferson 1864 | Former US Representative from Kansas |
| Thomas H. Boggs | Tulane 1935 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Newton Booth | DePauw 1846 | Former US Senator from California; former Governor of California |
| William Borah | Kansas 1884 | Former US Senator from Idaho; former Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| Henry S. Boutell | Iowa 1873 | Former US Representative from North Dakota; former Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Switzerland |
| Emmett Forest Branch | Indiana 1896 | Former Governor of Indiana |
| Louis Jefferson Brann | Maine 1898 | Former Governor of Maine |
| David Josiah Brewer | Wesleyan 1955 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Donald G. Brotzman | Colorado 1943 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles H. Brough | Johns Hopkins 1898 | Former Governor of Arkansas |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | Transylvania 1846 | Former US Senator from Kentucky |
| John Young Brown | Centre 1855 | Former US Representative from Kentucky; former Governor of Kentucky |
| Norris Brown | Iowa 1883 | Former US Senator from Nebraska |
| Webster E. Brown | Wisconsin 1874 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Henry A. Buchtel | DePauw 1872 | Former Governor of Colorado |
| Joseph Ralph Burton | Hanover 1873 | Former US Senator from Kansas |
| John Marshall Butler | Johns Hopkins 1921 | Former US Senator from Maryland |
| William D. Bynum | Indiana 1869 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. | Vanderbilt 1890 | Former US Representative from Tennessee; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives |
| Ezekial Samuel Candler, Jr. | Mississippi 1881 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Rush Clark | Washington and Jefferson 1853 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Frank G. Clarke | Dartmouth 1873 | Former US Representative from New Hampshire |
| Isaac Clements | DePauw 1859 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| John Coburn | Wabash 1846 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Schuyler Colfax | DePauw 1854 | Former Vice President of the United States |
| Chuck Colson | Brown 1953 | Former Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator |
| Daniel Webster Comstock | Ohio Wesleyan 1860 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| John Sherman Cooper | Centre/Yale 1923 | Former US Senator from Kentucky; former US Ambassador to India, Nepal and West Germany |
| Norris Henry Cotton | Wesleyan 1923 | Former US Senator from New Hampshire |
| William S. Cowherd | Missouri 1881 | Former Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1892–1893; Congressman from Missouri in 1897–1905 |
| William B. Cravens | Missouri 1893 | Former US Representative from Arkansas |
| Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr. | Missouri 1882 | Former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1908–1909 |
| George Washington Cromer | Indiana 1882 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Charles Crosby | Western Reserve 1897 | Former US Representative from Pennsylvania |
| Enoch Herbert Crowder | Missouri 1886 | Former US Ambassador to Cuba |
| Lee Cruce | Vanderbilt 1885 | Former Governor of Oklahoma |
| William Cumback | DePauw 1853 | Former US Representative from Indiana; former Lieutenant Governor of Indiana |
| John Anthony Danaher | Yale 1920 | Former US Senator from Connecticut |
| John E. Davis | North Dakota 1935 | Former Governor from North Dakota |
| Donald Dawson | Missouri 1932 | Former aide to President Harry S. Truman; former curator of the Truman Presidential Library |
| Mark Lindsey De Motte | DePauw 1853 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Willis Van Devanter | DePauw 1881 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| David Dewhurst | Arizona 1967 | 41st and current Lieutenant Governor of Texas |
| Robert Docking | Kansas 1946 | Former Governor of Kansas; former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Ozro J. Dodds | Miami 1861 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Robert J. Dold | Denison 1991 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| John E. Dolibois | Miami 1942 | Former US Ambassador to Luxembourg |
| Charles Douglas III | Wesleyan 1964 | Former US Representative from New Hampshire; New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice |
| William O. Douglas | Whitman 1920 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Adolph Dubs | Beloit 1942 | Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| Anthony S. Earl | Michigan State 1958 | Former Governor of Wisconsin |
| Alonzo Jay Edgerton | Wesleyan 1850 | Former US Senator from Minnesota |
| Paul Carrington Edmunds | Virginia 1856 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| Samuel Hitt Elbert | Ohio Wesleyan 1854 | Former Governor of the then-Colorado Territory |
| William Elliott | Virginia 1858 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Ezekiel John Ellis | Centenary 1859 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Robert Ellsworth | Kansas 1946 | Former US Representative from Kansas, former advisor to the President and former US Permanent Representative to NATO under President Richard M. Nixon; former Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford |
| Joseph S. Farland | West Virginia 1938 | Former US Ambassador to Dominican Republic, Panama, Iran and Pakistan |
| Joseph R. Farrington | Wisconsin 1919 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Wallace R. Farrington | Maine 1891 | Former Governor of the Territory of Hawaii |
| Charles James Faulkner | V.M.I./Virginia 1868 | Former US Senator from West Virginia |
| W. Mark Felt | Idaho 1935 | Former Associate Director of the FBI; exposed the Nixon administration's corruption as "Deep Throat" |
| Scott Field | Virginia 1868 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| David R. Francis | Washington, St. Louis 1870 | Former Mayor of St. Louis; former Governor of Missouri; former US Secretary of the Interior; former US Ambassador to Russia; President of Louisiana Purchase Exposition |
| Bob Franks | DePauw 1973 | Former US Representative from New Jersey |
| William E. Fuller | Iowa 1870 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Samuel Galloway | Miami 1855 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Richard Gephardt | Northwestern 1962 | Former US Representative from Missouri; former US House Minority Leader |
| John (Jack) V. Geraghty | Washington 1956 | Former Mayor of Spokane, Washington |
| John Milton Glover | Washington in St. Louis 1871 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Abe McGregor Goff | Idaho 1922 | Former US Representative from Idaho |
| Stephen Goldsmith | Wabash 1968 | Former Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana |
| John Brown Gordon | Georgia 1854 | Major General in CSA; former US Senator from Georgia; former Governor of Georgia |
| Miles Tobey Granger | Wesleyan 1842 | Former US Representative from Connecticut |
| Levi Thomas Griffin | Michigan 1857 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| George Blackmore Guild | Cumberland 1855 | Former Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee |
| Steven Gunderson | Wisconsin 1973 | Former US House Representative from Wisconsin |
| Charles H. Haden II | Oklahoma 1956 | Former US Federal Judge |
| William T. Haines | Maine 1876[6] | Former Governor of Maine |
| H. R. Haldeman | UCLA 1948 | Former White House Chief of Staff under President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator |
| Benton Jay Hall | Miami 1855 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Charles Abraham Halleck | Indiana 1922 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| John Hanna | DePauw 1858 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Michael F. Harcourt | British Columbia 1963 | Former Premier of British Columbia; former Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Charles Henry Hardin | Miami 1841 | Former Governor of Missouri |
| James Harlan | DePauw 1845 | Former US Senator from Iowa; former US Secretary of the Interior |
| John Marshall Harlan | Centre 1850 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Henry Richard Harris | Emory 1847 | Former US Representative from Georgia |
| Louis Powell Harvey | Western Reserve 1840 | Former Governor of Wisconsin |
| Mark O. Hatfield | Willamette 1943 | Former US Senator; former Governor of Oregon |
| Joe Heck | Penn State 1984 | US Representative from Nevada; Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| Patrick Henry | Mississippi 1882 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Robert Roberts Hitt | DePauw 1855 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| George Hoadly | Western Reserve 1844 | Former Governor of California; former US Representative from California |
| Henry William Hoffman | Washington and Jefferson 1846 | Former US Representative from Maryland |
| Frank Smithwick Hogan | Columbia 1924 | Former New York County District Attorney; New York's prosecuting attorney for 32 years |
| Edward Everett Holland | Richmond 1879 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| A. Linwood Holton | Washington and Lee 1945 | Former Governor of Virginia |
| Stanley K. Hornbeck | Colorado/Denver 1903 | Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands |
| Jonas George Howard | DePauw 1847 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Frank Neville Ikard | Texas 1932 | Former US House Representative from Texas |
| Clifford C. Ireland | Knox 1901 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| James Ferdinand Izlar | Emory 1855 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Craig T. James | Florida 1963 | Former US Representative from Florida |
| William Marion Jardine | Kansas State 1894 | Former US Secretary of Agriculture; former US Ambassador to Egypt |
| Leslie Jensen | South Dakota | Former Governor of South Dakota |
| Martin Nelson Johnson | Iowa 1873 | Former US Senator from North Dakota |
| Brereton C. Jones | Virginia 1961 | Former Governor of Kentucky |
| Robert J. Kane | Cornell 1934 | Former President of the US Olympic Committee |
| David Karnes | Nebraska 1971 | Former US Senator from Nebraska |
| James P. Kem | Missouri 1910 | Former US Senator from Missouri |
| William E. Kemp | Missouri 1914 | Former Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Peter D. Kinder | Missouri 1976 | Lieutenant Governor of Missouri |
| William M. Kinsey | Monmouth 1869 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| William F. Kopp | Iowa Wesleyan 1892 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Edward H. Kruse | Indiana 1940 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Robert Marion Lafollette, Jr. | Wisconsin 1917 | Former US Senator from Wisconsin; former Governor of Wisconsin |
| Joseph Rucker Lamar | Bethany 1877 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Charles B. Landis | Wabash 1883 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Milton Slocum Latham | Jefferson 1843 | Former US Senator from California; former Governor of California |
| John J. Lentz | Wooster 1881 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Fred D. Letts | Iowa 1899 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. | Missouri 1951 | Judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri; former President of the Missouri Bar Association |
| Thomas G. Loeffler | Texas 1971 | Former US House Representative from Texas |
| Frank Orren Lowden | Iowa 1885 | Former US House Representative from Illinois; former Governor of Illinois |
| Richard Lugar | Denison 1954 | Former US Senator from Indiana; knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE); recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Horace Lurton | Cumberland 1867 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Ray Mabus | Mississippi 1969 | Former Governor of Mississippi 1988–92; former, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Secretary of the Navy, 2009–present; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Humphrey Marshall | Translyvania 1845 | Former US Representative from Kentucky; former US Minister to China |
| James G. Martin | Davidson 1957 | Former US House of Representatives; former Governor of North Carolina |
| Henry M. Mathews | West Virginia 1857 | Former Governor of West Virginia |
| Courtland Cushing Matson | DePauw 1862 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Thomas Stanley Matthews | Cincinnati 1842 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| John Jay McCloy | Amherst 1916 | Former Assistant Secretary of War; former Advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan; received Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction |
| James L. McConaughy | Yale 1909 | Former Governor of Connecticut |
| John Watts McCormick | Ohio 1855 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| James Wilson McDill | Miami 1853 | Former US Representative from Iowa |
| Joseph Ewing McDonald | DePauw/Indiana 1849 | Former US Senator from Indiana |
| William Pickney McLean | North Carolina 1857 | Former US Representative from Texas |
| William H. McMaster | Beloit 1899 | Former US Senator from South Dakota; former Governor of South Dakota |
| Paul Vories McNutt | Indiana 1913 | Former Governor of Indiana; first US Ambassador to the Philippines |
| Robert W. Miers | Indiana 1870 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Andrew Jackson Montague | Richmond 1882/Virginia 1885 | Former US Representative from Virginia; former Governor of Virginia |
| J. Waldo Monteith | Toronto 1927 | Former Member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Arch A. Moore, Jr. | West Virginia 1951 | Former Governor of West Virginia; former US Representative from West Virginia |
| Dwight Morrow | Amherst 1895 | Former Senator from New Jersey; US Ambassador to Mexico |
| Oliver P. Morton | Miami 1847 | Former Governor of Indiana; integral in the creation of the DePauw, Indiana and Wabash chapters of Beta Theta Pi |
| David C. Mulford | Lawrence 1959 | Former US Ambassador to India |
| John Mutz | Northwestern 1957 | Former Lieutenant Governor of Indiana; President of Lilly Endowment |
| Albinus Nance | Knox 1868 | Former Governor of Nebraska |
| Bill Nelson | Florida 1964, Yale 1965 | US Senator from Florida; former US Representative from Florida; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup (also see "Astronauts" section) |
| John Stoughton Newberry | Michigan 1847 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Richard D. Nichols | Kansas State 1951 | Former US Representative from Kansas |
| Don Nickles | Oklahoma State 1971 | Former US Senator from Oklahoma |
| John W. Noble | Miami 1850 | Former US Secretary of the Interior |
| Jeremiah E. O'Connell | Boston 1906 | Former US Representative from Rhode Island |
| Benjamin Baker Odell, Jr. | Bethany 1877 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Richard Buell Ogilivie | Yale 1945 | Former Governor of Illinois |
| Alvin M. Owsley | Texas 1912 | Former US Ambassador to Romania |
| Bob Packwood | Willamette 1954 | Former US Senator from Oregon |
| Halbert Eleazer Paine | Western Reserve 1845 | Former US Representative from Wisconsin |
| Guy B. Park | Missouri 1896 | Former Governor of Missouri |
| Richard C. Patterson, Jr. | Nebraska 1909/Columbia 1911 | Former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Guatemala and Switzerland |
| John M. Pattison | Ohio Wesleyan 1869 | Former US Representative from Ohio; former Governor of Ohio |
| Boies Penrose | Harvard/Pennsylvania 1881 | Former US Senator from Pennsylvania |
| William Perry | Carnegie Mellon 1949 | Former US Secretary of Defense |
| David Peterson | Western Ontario 1966 | Former Premier of Ontario |
| Walter R. Peterson | Dartmouth 1947 | Former Governor of New Hampshire |
| Bill Phelps | Missouri 1956 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Michael Pitfield | St. Lawrence 1956 | Former Canadian Senator |
| Henry Moses Pollard | Dartmouth 1857 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| John G. Pollard | Richmond 1891 | Former Governor of Virginia |
| Laurence Pope | Bowdoin 1967 | Former US Ambassador to Chad |
| Andrew J. Poppleton | Michigan 1851 | Former Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska |
| Albert Gallatin Porter | DePauw 1843 | Former Governor of Indiana; former US Representative from Indiana; former US Minister to Italy |
| George M. Pritchard | North Carolina 1907 | Former US Representative from North Carolina |
| Jacob Joseph Pugsley | Miami | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Matthew Stanley Quay | Jefferson 1850 | Former US Senator from Pennsylvania; first Beta to be awarded the Medal of Honor while a Colonel in the 134th Pennsylvania Infantry at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 |
| Saul F. Rae | Texas 1936 | Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Mexico, Guatemala and the Netherlands |
| Joseph Lafayette Rawlins | Indiana 1874 | Former US Senator from Utah |
| John Henry Ray | Minnesota 1908 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Henry Augustus Reeves | Michigan 1852 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Robert Rice Reynolds | North Carolina 1906 | Former US Senator from North Carolina |
| John J. Rhodes | Kansas State 1938 | Former US Representative from Arizona; former US House Minority Leader; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup |
| Ira E. Rider | St. Lawrence 1888 | Former US Representative from New York |
| William A. Robinson | Toronto 1925 | Former Member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Charlie Rose | Davidson 1961 | Former US Representative from North Carolina |
| Arthur Rouse | Hanover 1896 | Former US Representative from Kentucky |
| Thomas L. Rubey | Missouri 1885 | Former US Representative from Missouri |
| Eugene P. Ruehlmann | Cincinnati 1947 | Former Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Daniel Schaefer | South Dakota 1958 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Charles Frederick Scott | Kansas 1881 | Regent; former Kansas State Senator; former US Representative from Kansas |
| Harvey David Scott | DePauw 1850 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| Townsend Scudder | Columbia 1888 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Frederick Andrew Seaton | Kansas State 1931 | Former US Senator from Nebraska; former Assistant Secretary of Defense; former US Secretary of the Interior |
| Phillip R. Sharp | DePauw 1964 | Former US Representative from Indiana |
| David Sholtz | Yale 1914 | Former Governor of Florida |
| George G. Siebels, Jr. | Virginia 1937 | Former Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama |
| Arnold Cantwell Smith | Toronto 1935 | Former Canadian Ambassador to Egypt and the USSR |
| Dennis A. Smith | Willamette 1960 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| Frank E. Smith | Mississippi 1941 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| John M.C. Smith | Michigan 1881 | Former US Representative from Michigan |
| Bertrand Snell | Amherst 1894 | Former US Representative from New York |
| Earl W. Snell | Oregon 1907 | Former Governor of Oregon |
| C. Wilbert Snow | Bowdoin 1907 | Former Governor of Connecticut |
| John Sopinka | Toronto 1958 | Former Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada |
| Zack Space | Kenyon 1983 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| William Brainerd Spencer | Centenary 1855 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| John M. Spratt, Jr. | Davidson 1964 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| William McKendree Springer | Indiana 1857 | Former US Representative from Illinois |
| William Francis Stevenson | Davidson 1885 | Former US Representative from South Carolina |
| Edward C. Stokes | Brown 1883 | Former Governor of New Jersey |
| Kimbrough Stone | Missouri 1895 | Former Judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit |
| Reginald H. Sullivan | Wabash 1897 | Former Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Howard Sutherland | Westminster 1889 | Former US Senator from West Virginia |
| Robert Franklin Sutherland | Toronto 1911 | Former Member of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Mike Synar | Oklahoma 1972 | Former US House Representative from Oklahoma |
| Charles P. Taft | Yale 1918 | Former Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Leon Taylor | Denison 1907 | Former Governor of New Jersey |
| Dickran M. Tevrizian Jr. | Southern California 1962 | Former US Federal Judge; first Armenian-American Federal Judge |
| Ralph G. Thompson | Oklahoma 1956 | Former US Federal Judge |
| Hosea Townsend | Western Reserve 1864 | Former US Representative from Colorado |
| Henry St. George Tucker | Washington and Lee 1875 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| John Turner | British Columbia 1952 | Former Prime Minister of Canada |
| Albert Rollen Conrad Ullman | Whitman 1935 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| William Hanford Upson | Western Reserve 1842 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Willis Van Devanter | DePauw 1881 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Daniel Wosley Voorhees | DePauw 1849 | Former US Senator from Indiana |
| Durbin Ward | Miami 1843 | Former Kentucky Assemblyman; Brevetted Brigadier General during the Civil War; US attorney |
| George B. Ward | Cumberland 1887 | Former Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama |
| John Warner | Washington & Lee 1950 | Former Secretary of the Navy; former US Senator from Virginia; former Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC); namesake of the attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN-785) |
| Walter Allen Watson | Hampden-Sydney 1887 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| E.D. Claude Weaver | Texas 1887 | Former US Representative from Oklahoma |
| Edward F. Weber | Denison 1953 | Former US Representative from Ohio |
| Tom Wheeler | Ohio State 1968 | Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| Kenneth S. Wherry | Nebraska 1914 | Former US Senator and Senate Minority Leader |
| William F. Whiting | Amherst 1886 | Former US Secretary of Commerce |
| Jamie Whitten | Mississippi 1933 | Former US Representative from Mississippi |
| Benjamin Mitchell Williamson | Bethany 1886 | Former US Senator from Kentucky |
| Wendell Willkie | Indiana 1916 | 1940 Republican Party nominee for President of the US |
| Charles Erwin Wilson | Carnegie 1909 | Former US Secretary of Defense |
| Joseph Gardner Wilson | Miami 1846 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| Charles E. Winter | Iowa Wesleyan 1892 | Former US Representative from Wyoming; former acting governor of Puerto Rico |
| William W. Wirtz | Beloit 1933 | Former US Secretary of Labor |
| John Sergeant Wise | Virginia 1867 | Former US Representative from Virginia |
| Josiah Oliver Wolcott | Wesleyan 1901 | Former US Senator from Delaware |
| William B. Woods | Western Reserve 1841 | Former US Supreme Court Justice |
| Wendell Wyatt | Oregon 1939 | Former US Representative from Oregon |
| John Smith Young | Centenary 1855 | Former US Representative from Louisiana |
| Owen D. Young | St. Lawrence 1894 | Former US diplomat; representative to the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929 as a member of the German Reparations International Commission; "father" of the Young Plan for the fiscal rehabilitation of Germany after World War I |
| Philip Young | St. Lawrence 1931 | Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands |
| Eugene M. Zuckert | Yale 1933 | Former Secretary of the Air Force |
Arts, entertainment, and media
| Bert Andrews | Stanford 1925 | Washington, DC correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| James Arness | Beloit 1946 | Actor, played Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke |
| Bix Beiderbecke | Iowa (pledged 1925, not initiated) | Jazz musician |
| Steve Bellamy | Indiana University 1986 | Entrepreneur, The Ski Channel, The Tennis Channel, The Surf Channel |
| George Bellows | Ohio State 1905 | Artist |
| James O'Donnell Bennett | Michigan 1893 | World War I correspondent; wrote for The Chicago Tribune |
| Bernard Berenson | Boston/Harvard 1887 | Art critic |
| Barry Bishop | Cincinnati 1951 | National Geographic photographer |
| Main Bocher | Chicago 1911 | Fashion designer; editor of Vogue magazine in Paris |
| John Boles | Texas 1917 | Actor, appeared in 60 films and on Broadway |
| Kyle Brandt | Princeton 2001 | Reality TV star, actor, The Real World: Chicago, Days of Our Lives |
| Thom Brennaman | Ohio 1986 | Sports broadcaster |
| Phil Brown | Stanford 1937 | Actor who portrayed Uncle Owen in Star Wars |
| Jim Brunzell | Minnesota 1971 | Professional wrestler; author of Killerbees |
| Percy Jewett Burrell | Boston 1897 | Dramatist and playwright |
| Robert Butler | UCLA 1950 | Emmy-winning director; worked on such shows as The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Twilight Zone |
| Byron Calame | Missouri 1961 | Career reporter and manager with The Wall Street Journal |
| Jay Chandrasekhar | Colgate 1990 | Actor and director, Super Troopers, Beerfest, Arrested Development |
| Lloyd Corrigan | UC Berkeley 1922 | Actor, appeared in more than 90 films including The Manchurian Candidate |
| Douglas Cramer | Cincinnati 1953 | Leading collector of contemporary art; founder of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art |
| Jay Norwood Darling | Beloit 1899 | Famous political cartoonist; created more than 12,000 cartoons |
| Dick Durrell | Minnesota 1950 | Founding publisher of People magazine |
| Bergen Evans | Miami 1924 | Rhodes Scholar; television personality; Peabody Award winner for his contributions to broadcasting |
| Neil Everett | Willamette/Oregon 1984 | ESPN Sportscenter anchor |
| John King Fairbank | Wisconsin 1929 | Modern Chinese historian |
| Howard Fineman | Colgate 1970 | Journalist; former senior editor and chief political correspondent for Newsweek; editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group |
| George Helgesen Fitch | Knox College 1897 | Author and journalist |
| Chet Forte | Columbia 1957 | Former TV director, ABC Monday Night Football |
| Sam Walter Foss | Brown 1882 | Poet |
| Pat Green | Texas Tech 1995 | Country music artist |
| Cary Guffey | Florida 1994 | Actor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Leigh Harline | Utah 1929 | Oscar-winning composer and conductor; best known for 1940's Best Song "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| Kevin Heffernan | Colgate | Actor, Super Troopers |
| Horace Heidt | UC Berkeley 1924 | Popular television orchestra leader; while on the radio was one of the first broadcasters to give money away to listeners |
| Foster Hewitt | Toronto 1925 | Known as "the voice of Canadian hockey"; staple of Hockey Night in Canada |
| David Hirshey | Dickinson 1971 | Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins Publishers |
| Richard Hooker | Bowdoin 1945 | Author of M*A*S*H |
| L. D. Hotchkiss | Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916 | Former Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Times |
| Griffin House | Miami 2002 | Singer-songwriter |
| Chuck Howard | Duke 1955 | Emmy-winning producer for ABC Sports; major role in the production of Wide World of Sports; member of Sportscasters Hall of Fame |
| Sidney Howard | UC Berkeley 1912 | 1925 Pulitzer Prize winner for They Knew What They Wanted |
| Kermit Hunter | Ohio 1931 | Author, playwright |
| Russell Janney | Yale 1906 | Author, The Miracle of the Bells; theatrical producer[7] |
| Jeffrey Jones | Lawrence 1968 | Actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Devil's Advocate and Beetlejuice |
| Richard Karn | Washington 1978 | Actor, Home Improvement |
| Ken Kesey | Oregon 1957 | Author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Laird Koenig | Washington 1949 | Novelist and playwright; had five plays produced on Broadway; wrote screenplay for The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane |
| Burt Kwouk | Bowdoin 1953 | Actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther movies |
| David Lamb | Maine 1962 | Los Angeles Times correspondent[8] |
| Charles Wesley Leffingwell | Knox | Editor of The Living Church magazine; Episcopal priest and educator |
| Steve Lemme | Colgate | Actor, Super Troopers |
| Daniel Lindsay | Missouri 2001 | Oscar-winning director of documentary Undefeated |
| David Lloyd | Colgate 1983 | ESPN SportsCenter anchor |
| Pare Lorentz | West Virginia 1926 | Considered to be the father of the modern documentary |
| Norman Fitzroy Maclean | Dartmouth 1924 | Author, A River Runs Through It, Young Men and Fire |
| Karl Marlantes | Yale 1967 | Author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War |
| David Martin | Yale 1965 | Emmy-winning Correspondent for CBS, Made frequent appearances on 60 Minutes |
| Walter Massey | MIT 1951 | Stage, television and film actor in US and Canada for five decades |
| Les Mayfield | Southern California 1982 | Director, Encino Man, Blue Streak, Miracle on 34th Street |
| Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard | Missouri 1888 | War correspondent for The New York Times |
| Max Morath | Colorado College 1947 | Ragtime pianist |
| Edward P. Morgan | Whitman 1932 | Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956 |
| William R. Moses | Wesleyan 1982 | Television actor |
| Kenyon Nicholson | Wabash 1917 | Playwright |
| Lance Norris | Whitman 1984 | Actor, writer |
| Harry Allen Overstreet | California 1899 | Author; received notoriety for book What We Must Know About Communism |
| Frank Pacelli | Illinois 1948 | Director, Multiple Emmy winner; directing team for The Young and the Restless |
| George Peppard | Purdue 1952 | Actor, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Blue Max, The Carpetbaggers, The A-Team |
| Robert Pine | Ohio Wesleyan 1963 | Actor, CHiPs |
| Robert Reed | Northwestern 1954 | Actor, The Brady Bunch |
| David Richmond-Peck | Western Ontario 1996 | Actor, She's The Man, Fantastic Four, Battlestar Galactica |
| Doug Russell | Wisconsin-Oshkosh 1995 | Sportswriter and Talk Show Host, WTMJ-AM and Yahoo! Sports Radio |
| Rivers Rutherford | Mississippi 1989 | Country music songwriter, composed several number one hits |
| Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. | Washington 1928 | Actor; had 120 motion picture roles including The New Adventures of Tarzan and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| Terry Schnuck | Tulane 1975 | 5-time Tony Award (c) winning producer of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including Spring Awakening, Hair, Clybourne Park, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Fun Home and others. |
| Albert Shaw | Johns Hopkins 1884 | Noted figure of American journalism; founder of American Review editor of Minneapolis Review |
| Steve Sholes | Rutgers 1933 | Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| Jeremy Slate | St. Lawrence 1952 | Actor, guest-starred on nearly 100 television shows including Gunsmoke and Bewitched |
| Stephen Sondheim | Williams 1950 | Composer and lyricist, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, West Side Story |
| Paul Soter | Colgate | Actor, Super Troopers |
| Erik Stolhanske | Colgate 1991 | Actor, Super Troopers |
| Bob Thomas | UCLA 1943 | Associated Press Hollywood reporter for 60 years |
| Jess Thomas | Nebraska 1948 | Operatic heldentenor internationally acclaimed for his Wagnerian roles |
| Erland Van Lidth De Jeude | M.I.T. 1976 | Actor, The Wanderers, Stir Crazy |
| Fred Ward | Florida 1957 | Photojournalist, contributor to Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc. |
| Doodles Weaver | Stanford 1937 | Actor and comedian |
| Ken Welch | Carnegie Mellon 1947 | Emmy-winning television writer, lyricist and composer |
| Robb Weller | Washington 1972 | Television personality, Entertainment Tonight, Win, Lose or Draw |
| Adam West | Whitman 1951 | Actor, Batman, Family Guy |
| Brian J. White | Dartmouth | Actor, Stomp the Yard |
| Robert Wilson | Texas 1963 | New York City playwright; received Obie Award winner for direction; nominated for Pulitzer Prize; National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement |
| John Sergeant Wise | Virginia 1867 | Author, The End of an Era, considered to be best book of reflections on the Civil War |
| Christopher Woodrow | Alabama | Movie producer |
| Paul Worley | Vanderbilt 1972 | Record producer; produced Own the Night 2012 Grammy-winning album of Lady Antebellum |
Sports
| Fred Ahern | Bowdoin 1974 | NHL player, California Seals, Cleveland Barons, Colorado Rockies |
| Ethan Allen | Cincinnati 1926 | Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University |
| Michael Antonovich | Minnesota 1973 | NHL player, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils |
| Frankie Baumholtz | Ohio 1941 | Professional basketball player; Major League Baseball player |
| Jim Benepe | Northwestern 1986 | Professional golfer |
| Earl Blaik | Miami 1918 | Head football coach, Army |
| Carl Blaurock | Colorado Mines 1916 | First American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US |
| Joe Bottom | Southern California 1977 | 1976 Olympic silver medalist in 100m butterfly |
| Don Bragg | UCLA 1959 | 1960 Olympic gold medalist in pole vault |
| Mike Brown | Dartmouth 1957 | President and general manager, Cincinnati Bengals |
| Dave Brundage | Oregon State 1986 | Minor League Baseball player and coach |
| George Buehler | Stanford 1969 | NFL player for the Los Angeles Raiders |
| John Bunn | Kansas 1920 | Key contributor to the game of basketball |
| Guy Chamberlin | Nebraska 1916 | College and pro football Hall of Famer |
| Peter Cipollone | California 1994 | 2004 Olympic gold medalist, rowing |
| Bob Clotworthy | Ohio State 1954 | 1952 Olympic silver medalist and 1956 gold medalist in springboard diving |
| Roy Cochran | Indiana 1941 | 1948 Olympic gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay |
| Ron Coder | Penn State 1976 | NFL player for Seattle Seahawks |
| Don Cohan | Amherst 1951 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing |
| Eddie Collins | Columbia 1907 | Major League Baseball Hall of Famer |
| Don Coryell | Washington 1947 | Former coach of the San Diego Chargers |
| Mel Counts | Oregon State 1964 | Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964; 7th overall pick in 1964 NBA draft; played in NBA 1964-1976; won two NBA titles with Boston Celtics |
| Edgar Diddle | Centre 1919 | Legendary basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school |
| DeLoss Dodds | Kansas State 1959 | Athletic Director of the University of Texas at Austin |
| Charles Doe | Stanford 1920 | 1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rugby |
| Bobby Douglass | Kansas 1969 | NFL quarterback, Chicago Bears |
| Eddie Eagan | Denver/Yale 1920 | Olympic gold medalist, boxing 178-lb in 1920 and bobsledding in 1932 |
| Keith Fahnhorst | Minnesota 1974 | NFL player, San Francisco 49ers |
| Max Falkenstien | Kansas 1947 | Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer |
| John Ferris | Stanford 1971 | 1968 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly |
| Jay Fiedler | Dartmouth 1994 | NFL quarterback |
| Dow Finsterwald | Ohio 1952 | Professional golfer |
| Jeff Float | Southern California 1983 | 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay |
| Travis Ford | Missouri 1991 | Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University |
| Ken Forsch | Oregon State 1969 | Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979 |
| Bruce Furniss | Southern California 1979 | 1976 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle |
| Steve Furniss | Southern California 1975 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, 200 IM |
| David Gagnon | Colgate 1991 | NHL player, Detroit Red Wings |
| George Glamack | North Carolina early 1940s | All American basketball |
| Iñaki Gomez | British Columbia 2010 | 2012 Canadian Summer Olympic team member |
| Gail Goodrich | UCLA 1965 | NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers |
| Dan Greenbaum | Southern California 1992 | 1992 Olympic bronze medalist, volleyball |
| Dan Guerrero | UCLA 1974 | UCLA athletic director |
| Ed Hamm | Georgia Tech 1928 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, long jump |
| George Harrison | Stanford 1961 | 1960 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay |
| Dick Harter | North Carolina 1952 | NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets |
| Alan Helffrich | Penn State 1925 | 1924 Olympic gold medalist, 4x400m relay |
| Mark Jerue | Washington 1982 | NFL player, New York Jets |
| Brian Job | Stanford | 1968 Olympic bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke |
| Brandt Jobe | UCLA 1989 | Professional golfer |
| Grier Jones | Oklahoma State 1968 | Professional golfer |
| Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice | North Carolina | Three-time All-American; Heisman Trophy runner-up; Washington Redskins football |
| Jeff Kemp | Dartmouth 1981 | NFL quarterback |
| William Koch | MIT 1962 | America's Cup winner |
| George Kojac | Rutgers 1931 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay |
| Cawood Ledford | Centre College | University of Kentucky basketball commentator |
| Jerry Lucas | Ohio State 1962 | NBA player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist |
| Larry MacPhail | Beloit 1910 | Brooklyn Dodgers owner and general manager, introduced night games |
| Jim Mandich | Michigan 1970 | NFL player, Miami Dolphins |
| Steve Marino | UVA 2002 | Professional golfer |
| Scott McCarron | UCLA 1989 | Professional golfer |
| Charles McGinnis | Wisconsin 1927 | 1928 Olympic bronze medalist, pole vault |
| John L. Miller | Yale 1924 | 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rowing |
| Lowell North | California Berkeley 1971 | Olympic medalist, yachting; bronze in 1964 and gold in 1968 |
| Gus Otto | Missouri 1965 | NFL player, Oakland Raiders |
| John Parker | Stanford 1970 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo |
| Bob Pearce | Oklahoma 1931 | 1932 Olympic gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb |
| Pete Pihos | Indiana 1945 | College Football Hall of Fame, NFL player Philadelphia Eagles, six-time Pro Bowl selection |
| Pat Powers | Southern California 1980 | 1984 Olympic gold medalist, volleyball |
| Chip Reese | Dartmouth 1973 | Professional poker player |
| Ed Rimkus | St. Lawrence 1937 | 1948 Olympic gold medalist, bobsledding |
| Jamey Rootes | Clemson 1988 | Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew, Houston Texans |
| I. Murray Rose | Southern California 1961 | Multiple Olympic medalist, three gold medals in 1956 (400 freestyle, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle), two medals in 1960 (silver for 1500 freestyle, and bronze for 4x200 relay) |
| Edward P. Roski | Southern California 1968 | Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team |
| Richard Roth | Stanford 1969 | 1964 Olympic gold medalist, 400 IM |
| Harlow Rothert | Stanford 1930 | 1932 Olympic silver medalist, shot put |
| Mike Schmidt | Ohio 1971 | Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Hall of Fame |
| John Shadden | Southern California 1987 | 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, yachting |
| Gary Sheerer | Stanford 1968 | 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo |
| Dave Shula | Texas 1973 | Former head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Jerry Sichting | Purdue 1979 | NBA coach |
| John T. Smith | Professional wrestler | |
| Stan Smith | Southern California 1969 | Professional tennis player; winner of two major singles titles (US Open 1971, Wimbledon 1972) |
| Bob Stein | Minnesota 1969 | NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs |
| Kevin Still | UCLA 1982 | 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs |
| Bill Stoneman | Idaho 1966 | General manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1999–2007; Major League Baseball player |
| William G. Thompson | California, Berkeley 1929 | 1928 Olympic gold medalist, rowing eight oars |
| Bill Tindall | Washington 1965 | Professional golfer |
| Bill Veeck | Kenyon 1936 | Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member |
| Rick Volk | Michigan 1967 | NFL player with the Miami Dolphins |
| Webb Wilder | Oklahoma 1931 | Professional golfer |
| John Wooden | Purdue 1932 | UCLA basketball coach |
Military
| Jerry M. Blesch | Centre 1960 (1956–58) / US Naval Academy 1962 (1958–62) |
Captain, US Navy (Ret.); Surface Warfare Officer; Commanding Officer of guided missile frigate USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5); Commanding Officer of destroyer tender USS Puget Sound (AD-38); Commander of Destroyer Squadron 25; (e.g., Commodore of COMDESRON 25), to include acting as on scene commander of US military forces following the Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007; Commanding Officer of battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64);[9] following retirement from the Navy, served as General Secretary of Beta Theta Pi;[10] namesake of the fraternity's Jerry M. Blesch General Secretary Leadership Award |
| George M. Browning, Jr.[11] | UCLA 1952 | Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); Commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force |
| Omar Bundy | DePauw 1881 | Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152) |
| Kenneth D. Cameron | MIT 1971 | Colonel, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Naval Aviator-Astronaut; currently a NASA Management Astronaut; pilot for STS-37 mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis; Commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently Deputy Director for Safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia (also see "Astronauts" section) |
| John Coburn | Wabash 1846 | Brigadier General, Union Army; during the Civil War, led the first Union Army troops into the city of Atlanta during the Battle of Atlanta; founder of the Wabash College Chapter |
| Donald L. Cromer | Washington State 1958 (1954–55) / US Naval Academy 1959 (1955–59) |
Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.), Master Missile Operations Officer; Master Space Operations Officer; Commander of Space Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command; 2010 recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup[12][13] |
| Mark Divine | Colgate 1985 | Commander, US Navy (Ret.), Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer; founder of NavySEALs.com and SEAL FIT |
| John Perry Edwards | Kansas 1939 | Ensign, US Naval Reserve, Naval Aviator during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, signaling the United States' entry into World War II. While assigned to Utility Squadron ONE (VJ-1) at NAS Ford Island, was awarded the Navy Cross for piloting a JRS-1 amphibian plane, equipped only with Springfield rifles, in search for and to obtain information on Japanese naval forces following the attack on Pearl Harbor and other US military installations on Oahu[14] |
| Eric Erickson | Cornell 1921 | Technically not a member of the US armed forces, but as a Swedish national served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; provided key information that led to the aerial bombing of Nazi oil fields by USAAF and RAF aircraft |
| Gerald E. Gneckow | Idaho 1960 | Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); Surface Warfare Officer; Commanding Officer of guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-36); Commanding Officer of guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20); Commanding Officer of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61); Commander of US Naval Forces South[15] |
| John Brown Gordon | Georgia 1854 | Major General, Confederate States Army; US Senator; Governor of Georgia |
| Terrence C. Graves | Miami 1967 | 2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War |
| Dudley Jackson Hard | Wooster 1893 | Major General, US Army (Ohio Army National Guard); left private business to enlist as a private during the Spanish–American War; was later commissioned as an officer, commanded the 135th Field Artillery as a Colonel during World War I; retired in 1936 as a Major General commanding the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard; became the first county commander of the American Legion in Ohio[16] |
| James Wallace Haverfield | Ohio State 1939 | Ensign, US Naval Reserve; Surface Line officer (predecessor of modern day Surface Warfare Officer); killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, signaling the United States' entry into World War II; namesake of Edsall class destroyer escort, later radar picket ship, USS Haverfield (DE-393) / (DER-393) |
| Joe W. Kelly | DePauw 1931 (1927–1928) / US Military Academy 1932 (1928–32) |
General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later flew as a B-29 Superfortress, B-50 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker pilot and commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units in the late 1940s and 1950s; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis[17] |
| Jonathan Letterman | Washington & Jefferson 1845 | Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the former Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco[18] |
| Frank S. Lomax | Nebraska 1939 (1935–36) / US Naval Academy 1940 (1936–40) |
Ensign, US Navy; Surface Line officer (predecessor of modern day Surface Warfare Officer); killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, signaling the United States' entry into World War II[19] |
| Daniel McCleary | Miami 1844 | Lieutenant, US Army; killed in 1847 during the Mexican-American War; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to die in combat[20] |
| James Rogers McConnell | Virginia 1910 | Sergeant and fighter pilot, Lafayette Escadrille; French Croix de guerre recipient; one of the first Americans to die in World War I. Today, brothers of McConnell's fraternity, the Omicron of Beta Theta Pi, remember his exploits in song and memorialize the fallen aviator every year on March 19 with an all-day color guard and a memorial ceremony. |
| Thomas McGuire | Georgia Tech 1944 | Major, US Army Air Forces; Pilot; P-38 Lightning fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and three awards of the Silver Star; killed in action during a fighter sweep of the central Philippines, 7 Jan 1945; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey |
| Marvin L. McNickle[21] | South Dakota 1936 | Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; Commander, 314th Troop Carrier Wing; Commander, 9th Air Force; Commander, 13th Air Force |
| Wayne Stuart Nelson | Oregon 1943 (1939–42) / US Naval Academy 1945 (1942–45) |
Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); Naval Aviator |
| Emory Jenison Pike | Iowa Wesleyan 1899 (1895–97) / US Military Academy 1901 (1897–1901) |
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I |
| Everett P. Pope | Bowdoin 1941 | Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II[22] |
| Matthew Stanley Quay | Washington & Jefferson 1850 | Colonel, Union Army; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to be awarded the Medal of Honor; MOH awarded for heroic actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 (also see "Government and politics" section) |
| William B. Rosson | Oregon 1940 | General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; Deputy Commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; Commander in Chief, US Southern Command |
| Thomas E. Schaefer | Lehigh 1953 | Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; highest ranking US military officer (Colonel, USAF) held captive during the 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis at the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 1979–1981[23] |
| Andrew K. Stern | Tennessee 2001 | 1st Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, armor officer, Bravo Company, 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Regimental Combat Team, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force; posthumous recipient of the Bronze Star with Combat "V" and Purple Heart for actions in Al Anbar Province, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom; killed in action 16 Sep 2004[24] |
| John Taliaferro Thompson | Indiana 1881 (1877–1878) / US Military Academy 1882 (1878–1882) |
Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (aka "Tommy Gun") |
| David C. Waybur | UC Berkeley 1942 | 1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart |
| Paul J. Weitz | Penn State 1954 | Captain, US Navy (Ret.), Naval Aviator-Astronaut; pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); Commander for space shuttle STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; retired from NASA as Deputy Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (also see "Astronauts" section) |
Business
| Joe M. Allbaugh | Oklahoma State 1974 | Founder of the Allbaugh Company; Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when in Federal government service |
| John Edward Anderson | UCLA 1940 | Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management |
| Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. | California 1923 | Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group |
| Bill Bowerman | Oregon 1933 | Founder of Nike, Inc. |
| Donald Bren | Washington 1955 | Billionaire; owner of The Irvine Company |
| Douglas Clayton | Cornell 1982 | CEO of Leopard Capital |
| Arthur D. Collins, Jr. | Miami 1969 | CEO of Medtronic 2002–2008 |
| William Cook | Northwestern 1953 | Billionaire; founder of the Cook Group |
| David Coulter | Carnegie Mellon 1971 | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BankAmerica Corporation |
| Justin Dart | Northwestern 1929 | Founder of Dart Industries |
| Chris DeWolfe | Washington 1988 | CEO of Myspace.com |
| David Duffield | Cornell 1962 | President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc. |
| Dick Durrell | Minnesota 1950 | Former publisher of People magazine |
| C. Christopher Epting | Florida 1969 | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa |
| William Esrey | Denison 1961 | President and CEO, United Telecom/CEO Sprint Corp. |
| John Gainor | Ohio 1978 | CEO of Dairy Queen |
| Weldon B. Gibson | Washington State University 1938 | Executive at SRI International |
| Joel Hyatt | Dartmouth 1972 | Founder of Hyatt Legal Services |
| Edgar Kaiser | Stanford 1965 | Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia |
| Shahid Khan | Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1971 | Owner of Illinois auto parts company Flex-N-Gate; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| Charles G. Koch | MIT 1957 | Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries |
| Alan Ladd, Jr. | Southern California | Former President of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment |
| Samuel Laws | Miami University 1848 | Inventor of the ticker tape machine |
| Kenneth Lay | Missouri 1967 | Former chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse |
| Alexander F. Mathews | Virginia 1856 | Early West Virginia banker[25] |
| Hugh McColl | "North Carolina 1957" | CEO of Bank of America |
| Steve Miller | Southern California 1966 | President of Dean Witter Reynolds |
| J. C. Nichols | Kansas 1902 | Real estate |
| Bruce Nordstrom | Washington 1955 | Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom |
| John Opel | Westminster 1948 | Former President of IBM |
| Sam Palmisano | Johns Hopkins 1973 | CEO of IBM |
| John H. Patterson | Miami University 1867 | Founder of National Cash Register |
| William Pennington | California, Berkeley 1945 | Co-founder of Circus Circus Casino |
| Donald Petersen | Washington 1946 | Former CEO of the Ford Motor Company |
| Marvin Pierce | Miami University 1916 | President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush |
| Mitchell Rales | Miami University 1978 | Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher Corporation |
| Steven M. Rales | DePauw 1973 | Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher Corporation |
| Steven Rogel | Washington 1965 | CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company |
| Frank Shrontz | Idaho 1954 | Past Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company |
| Jeffrey Skilling | Southern Methodist 1975 | Former CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse |
| Kenneth A. Spencer | Kansas 1921 | Founder, President, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company |
| Warren Staley | Kansas State 1965 | Chairman and CEO of Cargill |
| Robert K. Steel | Duke 1973 | Former President and CEO of Wachovia |
| G. Kennedy Thompson | North Carolina 1973 | CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard |
| Sam Walton | Missouri 1940 | Founder of Wal-Mart |
| Fred Wilson | MIT 1983 | Venture capitalist and prominent blogger |
| Thornton Wilson | Iowa State 1942 | Chairman Emeritus of the Boeing Co. |
| John D. Zeglis | University of Illinois 1969 | Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless[26] |
Astronauts
| Joseph P. Allen | DePauw 1959 | Former astronaut; Space Flight Executive; Senior Scientist Astronaut; Mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery |
| Kenneth D. Cameron | MIT 1971 | Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); pilot for STS-37 mission aboard Atlantis (STS-37); Commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently Deputy Director for Safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia |
| Bill Nelson | Florida 1964 (1961-63)/Yale 1965 (1963–65) | Former US Congressman (D-FL), currently the senior US Senator from Florida (D-FL); not a professional career astronaut, but while a US congressman representing the congressional district including Kennedy Space Center, flew as a payload specialist on Columbia (STS-61C);[27] the second sitting member of the US Congress to fly in space as part of a NASA initiative prior to the Challenger (STS-51L) disaster (also see "Government and politics" section) |
| Paul J. Weitz | Penn State 1954 | Former astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); Commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; former Deputy Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
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