List of Tufts University people

The following is a partial, incomplete list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University, a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, US.

Notable alumni

Select Tufts alumni

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, class of 1970

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, class of 1981

U.S. Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, class of 1948, M.A. 1949, PhD 1961

Former Prime Minister of Greece Kostas Karamanlis, PhD Political Science

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, class of 1988

ex-DuPont CEO Ellen J. Kullman, class of 1978

Actor and voice actor Hank Azaria, class of 1987

Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, class of 1972

Today Show host Meredith Vieira, class of 1975

Alternative rock band Guster, composed of Tufts graduates

Government and politics

Heads of state

• Kostas Karamanlis (M.A. 1982, PhD 1984), prime minister of Greece

US governors

• General Seldon Connor (B.A. 1859), former governor of Maine
• Bill Richardson (B.A. 1970), governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
• John H. Sununu, (Dean of Engineering) governor of New Hampshire, chief of staff of the White House for G.H.W. Bush.

US Cabinet level positions

• Bill Richardson (B.A. 1970), governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
• John G. Sargent (B.A. 1887), former Attorney General of the United States

Other federal positions

• Tom Casey (B.A., M.A.L.D.), Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department beginning at the end of the George W. Bush's administration
• Leslie Gelb (B.A. 1959), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Pulitzer Prize winner in Explanatory Journalism
• Admiral Jonathan Howe (B.A. 1980), former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
• Richard N. Goodwin (B.A. 1953), former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, prominent political speechwriter, author, playwright, and husband of Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Matthew Levitt (M.A., PhD), former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Susan Livingstone (M.A.L.D. 1981), former acting U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment
• Winston Lord (M.A. 1960), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Gina McCarthy (M.S. 1981), Administrator of the EPA under President Obama
• Phyllis E. Oakley (M.A. 1957) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (1994–97) and Intelligence and Research (1997–99)
• Tara D. Sonenshine (B.A. 1981), United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs for Barack Obama's administration

US Senators and Congressmen

• Jeb Bradley (B.A. 1974), former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Scott Brown (B.A. 1981), former member of the United States Senate
• Joe Courtney (B.A. 1975), U.S. Representative from Connecticut
• Peter DeFazio (B.A. 1969), U.S. Representative from Oregon
• Cynthia McKinney (M.A. 1979), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, PhD 1961), U.S. Senator from New York (1977–2001) and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and India
• John Olver (M.S. 1956), Democratic United States Representative from Massachusetts
• Frank Pallone (M.A. 1974), U.S. Representative from New Jersey since 1988
• William Leon St. Onge (B.A. 1941), former U.S. Representative from Connecticut and mayor of Putnam
• John Philip Swasey, former U.S. Representative from Maine

Diplomats

• Jonathan Addleton (M.A. 1982, PhD 1991), U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia (2009–2012)
• Rafeeuddin Ahmed (M.A. 1956), former UN Under Secretary General and Pakistan foreign service officer
• Anthony Banbury (B.A. 1986, M.A. 1992), United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support
• C. Fred Bergsten (M.A. 1962, M.A.L.D. 1963, PhD 1969), former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Council on Foreign Relations
• Barbara Bodine (M.A. 1971), former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
• Richard Boucher (B.A. 1973), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and chief spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, ambassador to Cyprus, and Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong
• Anson Chan Fang On-sang (陳方安生), prominent Hong Kong politician; both the first woman and the first Chinese person to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong
• Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, current Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
• Musa Javed Chohan, former Pakistani Ambassador to France
• J. Adam Ereli (M.A. 1989), U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
• Jeffrey Feltman (M.A.L.D. 1983), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and former Ambassador to Lebanon
• Michael Hammer (M.A. 1987), ambassador from the United States to Chile
• John E. Herbst, U.S. State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan
• Wolfgang Ischinger (M.A. 1973), former German Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K.
• Ismat Jahan, Bangladeshi Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, former ambassador the Netherlands
• Roberta S. Jacobson (M.A.L.D 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–present)
• Zhang Junsai, Chinese Ambassador to Canada
• Edwin W. Martin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Consul General of the United States in Hong Kong]
• David McKean (M.A.L.D. 1986), U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg (2016–present); Director of Policy Planning (2013–2015)
• General William T. Monroe (M.A. 1974), U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
• Bernd Mützelburg, German special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former German ambassador to India
• Thomas R. Pickering (M.A. 1954), former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the United Nations, Israel, India, and Russia
• Mitchell Reiss (M.A.L.D. 1980), former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, current President of Washington College
• Bill Richardson (B.A. 1970), governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ambassador to the United Nations, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
• Iqbal Riza, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peacekeeping and Pakistani diplomat
• Alan Solomont (B.A. 1970), U.S. Ambassador to Spain (2009–2013)
• Klaus Scharioth (M.A., M.A.L.D., PhD 1978), German Ambassador to the United States
• Konrad Seitz (M.A. 1967), former German Ambassador to India, Italy, and China
• Shashi Tharoor (M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, PhD 1979), former UN Under-Secretary General and Indian Minister for External Affairs, current member of Indian Parliament
• Malcolm Toon (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1939), former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Israel, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia
• David Welch (M.A. 1977), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, former Ambassador to Egypt

Foreign officials

• Shafi U Ahmed, Bangladeshi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Bolaji Akinyemi (M.A. 1965, M.A.L.D. 1966), Nigerian Minister of External Affairs from 1985 to 1987
• Kow Nkensen Arkaah (B.A. 1952), Vice President of Ghana from 1993 to 1997
• Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist
• Colette Flesch, Luxembourgian politician and Olympic fencing competitor
• Jean Francois-Poncet (M.A. 1948), French politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1981
• Shukri Ghanem (PhD 1975), former Prime Minister of Libya
• Olga Kefalogianni (M.A. 2006), Greek politician
• Shahryar Khan, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, author
• Jeffrey Lam, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and managing director of Forward Winsome Industries
• Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice
• Mbuyamu I. Matungulu (PhD 1986), senior economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), former DRC Minister of Finance
• Phạm Bình Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam
• Vardan Oskanyan, former Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Surakiart Sathirathai, former Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Finance Minister of Thailand
• Antoinette Sayeh (M.A. 1980, M.A.L.D. 1982, PhD 1985), Director of the African Department at the International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of Liberia
• Radmila Sekerinska (M.A. 2007), Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia
• Godfrey Smith (M.A. 2002), Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management
• Shashi Tharoor (M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, PhD 1979), Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, former U.N. Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information, and prolific author
• Hassan Wirajuda (M.A. 1984), Foreign Minister of Indonesia
• Edson Zvobgo (B.A. 1964), founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF and former Minister of Justice

Judges and attorneys

• Nancy Friedman Atlas (B.S. 1971), Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Francis X. Bellotti (B.A. 1947), former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General of Massachusetts
• André Birotte Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• John L. Carroll, former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama and Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law
• R. Guy Cole, Jr. (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Ralph Adam Fine, Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge
• Faith S. Hochberg (B.A. 1972), federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Treasury
• Timothy Lewis (B.A. 1976), former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• John G. Sargent (B.A. 1887), former Attorney General of the United States
• Warren Silver, Maine Supreme Court Judge
• Norman H. Stahl (B.A. 1952), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Laura Denvir Stith, Missouri Supreme Court Judge

State officials

• Phil Bartlett (B.A. 1998), Democratic State Senator in Maine, elected for the first time in 2004
• Francis X. Bellotti (B.A. 1947), former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General of Massachusetts
• Horace T. Cahill, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
• Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives while an undergraduate at Tufts College (now Tufts University) and third president of Tufts College
• Anthony Cortese, former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection; environmental activist and researcher
• Benjamin Downing, Democratic State Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2006 at age 24
• Steve Dyer, former member of Ohio House of Representatives from 2007–2010
• Michael E. Festa (B.A. 1976), former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs
• Dan Gelber, member of the Florida Senate
• Jack Hart (B.A. 1991), member of the Massachusetts State Senate
• Jon Hecht, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives]
• Frank Hornstein, Minnesota State Representative, member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party; elected for the first time in 2002
• Thomas Kean, Jr., member and Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate; unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate; son of former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean
• George Keverian, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 until 1991
• Kristina Roegner, member of Ohio House of Representatives
• Carl M. Sciortino, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2004–2014, Democratic Party
• Steve Simon (B.A. 1992), Minnesota Secretary of State 2015–present, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 2005–2015
• Keith L. T. Wright (B.A. 1977), member of the New York State Assembly (1992–present)

City officials

• Bill Thompson (B.A. 1974), New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate
• Charles Yancey (B.S. 1970), member of Boston City Council from 1983 until present

Military

• Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (B.S. 1907), third Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
• General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., current Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, ex-commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Forces
• General Joseph P. Hoar (B.A. 1956), former commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command
• Admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of the U.S. European Command
• Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, former U.S. Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Blue Angels aviator

Other

• Doug Bailey, political strategist who founded The Hotline and Unity08
• Jay Byrne, political strategist and former White House spokesperson
• HRH Prince Cedza Dlamini of Swaziland; human rights activist; grandson of Nelson Mandela
• Michael Kerr, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management under Obama
• Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the U.S. Department of State
• Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network, former candidate for chairman of the DNC
• William L. Uanna, security officer, Manhattan Project and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
• Philip D. Zelikow (M.A. 1984, PhD 1995), Counselor of the U.S. State Department and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission

Business

• Yusuf Hassan Abdi (M.A.), former director of IRIN
• Peter Ackerman, managing director of Rockport Capital
• Vikram Akula (B.A. 1990), founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance
• John Bello (B.A. 1968), founder and former CEO of SoBe Beverages and former President of NFL Properties
• Seamus Blackley, game developer who helped create the Microsoft Xbox
• Neil Blumenthal (B.A. 2002), co-founder and CEO of Warby Parker
• Rob Burnett (B.A. 1984), President and CEO of Worldwide Pants, Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman
• Samuel T. Byrne, founder of CrossHarbor Capital Partners and owner of the Yellowstone Club
• Dov Charney (attended), CEO and founder of American Apparel
• Raj Chowdhury, entrepreneur, inventor, venture capitalist, and author
• Susan Decker (B.S. 1984), former President of Yahoo!, Inc.
• Lou DiBella, founder/CEO of Dibella Entertainment, owner of The Connecticut Defenders, former head of programming for HBO Sports, TV/film producer, and boxing promoter
• Dick Dietrich (B.A. 1968), co-founder and CEO of GED Integrated Glass Solutions
• Jamie Dimon (B.A. 1978), CEO of JP Morgan Chase Corporation
• Peter R. Dolan (B.A. 1978), former CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
• John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Technology Partners
• Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at Trinity College (Connecticut)
• Andrew Fastow (B.A. 1983), former CFO of Enron
• Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow
• Seth Godin (B.S. 1979), marketing expert and founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo
• Bernard Marshall Gordon, former President and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company; inventor who holds over thirty patents
• Michael Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Vinik Asset Management
• Cary Granat (B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
• Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of GOOD Magazine and co-founder of Ethos water
• Robert Hormats (B.A. 1965, M.A. 1966, M.A.L.D. 1967, PhD, 1970), Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
• Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, creator of Blogger
• Jeff Kindler (B.A. 1977), CEO of Pfizer Inc., former Vice President of General Electric Co. and Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations at McDonald's
• Ellen J. Kullman (B.A. 1978), ex-CEO of DuPont and an adviser on President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
• Jeffrey Lam, managing director of Forward Winsome Industries and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
• Laura Lang (B.A. 1977), CEO of Time Inc.
• Jim Manzi, former President, Chairman, and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation
• John T. McCarthy (B.A. 1968, M.A. 1973), Chairman of ING Group Turkey
• Harold McGraw III (B.A. 1972), President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies; Chairman of the Business Roundtable
• Richard McKenney, President and CEO of Unum Group
• Umberto Milletti, CEO and co-founder of InsideView and co-founder of DigitalThink
• Orin Morris, who somehow is STILL doinking Sylvie Durand after all these years - AMAZING, VP Engineering of Swirl Networks, Inc.
• Khaldoon Al Mubarak (B.S.), CEO of Mubadala Development Company and chairman of Manchester City F.C.
• John Martin Mugar, retired chairman and President of Star Market
• Andrew M. Murstein, founder, board member, President and largest shareholder of Medallion Financial
• Joseph Neubauer (B.S. 1963), former CEO and currently chairman of the board of ARAMARK Corporation
• Pierre Omidyar (B.S. 1988), billionaire founder of eBay
• Frederick Stark Pearson, electrical engineer and businessman
• Roy Raymond, founder of Victoria's Secret lingerie retail stores
• Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom Inc.
• Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of Warner Brothers Television
• Ali Sabancı, member of the Sabancı family, chairman of Pegasus Airlines, Desas, and Esaslı Gıda, former Head of Projects at Sabancı Holding
• Monty Sarhan, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Cracked Entertainment
• Anthony Scaramucci (B.A. 1986), founder of SkyBridge Capital
• Thomas Schmidheiny, billionaire and entrepreneur
• Wendy Selig-Prieb (B.A. 1982), CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers
• Neal Shapiro (B.A. 1980), Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station WNET/WLIW New York City, former president of NBC News
• Brian Shin, founder and CEO of Visible Measures; founder and Chairman of Mustbin
• David Sonenberg (B.A. 1968), Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd.
• Jeff Stibel (B.A. 1995), CEO of Web.com
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (B.A. 1974), publisher of The New York Times
• Ed Tapscott (B.A. 1975), former President and CEO of the Charlotte Bobcats, head coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards
• Jonathan Tisch (B.A. 1976), Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, co-owner of the New York Giants
• C. David Welch, Bechtel Regional President of Europe, Africa, Middle East, and South West Asia; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
• Janice Savin Williams, founder and Senior Principal at Williams Capital Group
• Walter B. Wriston (M.A. 1942), Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank from 1967 to 1984

Arts and media

Film and television

• Hank Azaria (B.A. 1988), actor and voice actor most famous for his work on The Simpsons and various films
• Jessica Biel (attended), film actress
• Rob Burnett (B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning executive producer and former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman, President and CEO of Worldwide Pants
• David Costabile (B.A. 1989), actor, known for his recurring roles on The Wire, Flight of the Conchords, and Breaking Bad
• Chiara de Luca (B.A. 2001), French-Italian actress
• Dom DeLuise (attended), actor, most famous for his work in Blazing Saddles and Space Balls and as host of the television show Candid Camera
• Nicole Fiscella, Gossip Girl actress and model
• Peter Gallagher (B.A. 1977), Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning actor, best known for his roles in The O.C., American Beauty, and Mr. Deeds
• Joshua Gates, host of Syfy channel's Destination Truth
• Jeff Greenstein (B.A. 1984), Emmy Award-winning TV writer and executive producer of Will & Grace
• Jester Hairston (B.A. 1929), composer, conductor, and actor
• Susan Haskell (B.S. 1985), Emmy Award-winning Canadian actress, One Life to Live
• Dan Hedaya (B.A. 1962), film actor, best known for Clueless and Blood Simple
• William Hurt (B.A. 1972), Academy Award-winning actor, well known for roles in films such as Kiss of the Spider Woman, Broadcast News, A History of Violence, and The Incredible Hulk
• Brian Koppelman (B.A. 1988), screenwriter (Runaway Jury, Ocean's Thirteen, and The Girlfriend Experience) and producer
• Stephen Macht (M.A. 1967), TV and film actor
• Niels Mueller, filmmaker (The Assassination of Richard Nixon)
• Ameesha Patel, Bollywood actress
• Oliver Platt (B.A. 1983), Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG-nominated actor (Huff, Frost/Nixon, 2012)
• Sendhil Ramamurthy (B.A. 1996), actor on Heroes
• Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of Warner Brothers Television
• Joshua Seftel (B.A. 1990), filmmaker (War Inc.)
• Justine Shapiro, movie and TV actress; co-host of Globe Trekker
• Ben Silverman (B.A. 1992), co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio
• Laura Silverman, actress on The Sarah Silverman Program and sister of comedian Sarah Silverman
• David Sonenberg (B.A. 1968), Academy Award-winning movie producer; founder and head of the music management company DAS Communications Ltd
• Will Tiao, TV actor
• Steve Tisch (B.A. 1971), Academy Award-winning producer and co-owner of the New York Giants with his brother Jonathan Tisch
• Meredith Vieira (B.A. 1975), TV host of The Today Show, formerly of The View
• Aury Wallington (B.A. 1991), screenwriter and novelist
• Rainn Wilson (attended), actor and co-star of The Office
• Gary Winick (B.A. 1984), film director (Tadpole, Charlotte's Web) and producer

Music

• Matt Ballinger, actor and boy band singer (Dream Street)
• Tracy Chapman (B.A. 1987), multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
• Slaid Cleaves, folk musician
• Paul DeGeorge, member of the band Harry and the Potters
• Ezra Furman, front man of the band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons
• Adam Gardner (B.A. 1995), guitarist and vocalist for the band Guster
• Matt Glaser, jazz and bluegrass violinist, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music
• Don Grolnick (B.A. 1968), jazz pianist and composer
• Guster, alternative rock band
• Jester Hairston (B.A. 1929), composer, conductor, and actor
• Alan Hovhaness, composer
• Erik Lindgren (B.A. 1976), composer and musician
• Ryan Miller (B.A. 1995), lead singer and guitarist for rock band Guster
• Jim Nollman, composer, musician, and author involved with animal communications
• Charles North (B.A. 1962), poet
• Daniel Pritzker (B.A. 1981), billionaire guitarist and songwriter for Sonia Dada, member of the Pritzker family
• Pete Robbins, jazz saxophonist
• Brian Rosenworcel, drummer for the band Guster
• Eric Schwartz, folk singer/songwriter
• Darrell Scott (B.A. 1988), country singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• Deke Sharon, a cappella singer, composer, and teacher
• Phil Surks, former member of band Angry Salad
• Timeflies, pop/hip hop duo
• Dan Avidan, singer of comedy rock duo Ninja Sex Party

Writing and literature

• Fawzia Afzal-Khan (M.A., PhD), author and professor
• Jessica Anderson (B.A. 1994), Australian author
• Ian C. Ballon, author of several Internet law books, including a four-volume treatise
• Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual
• Ruben Bolling, aka Ken Fisher, nationally syndicated cartoonist
• Christopher Castellani, author of Maddalena trilogy and 2014 Guggenheim Fellow
• John Ciardi (B.A. 1938), poet and translator
• Cid Corman, poet, translator, and poetry journal editor
• George Michael Cuomo (B.A. 1952), author
• Barbara Delinsky (B.A. 1967), New York Times bestselling author
• Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party and political thriller novelist
• Christopher Golden, horror, fantasy, and suspense novelist
• Cary Granat (B.A. 1990), co-founder and CEO of Walden Media, former president of Miramax's Dimension Division
• Christopher Lawford, actor and New York Times bestselling author, nephew of former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Bette Bao Lord (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1960), Chinese-American author and civic activist
• William MacDonald, prolific Christian author
• Gregory Maguire (PhD 1990), author of the novels Wicked (later adapted into a musical) and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
• Maliha Masood, author
• Anita Shreve (B.A. 1968), author
• Darin Strauss (B.A. 1992), novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Wylie Sypher (M.A. 1929), writer
• Nathanael West (did not finish), author and screenwriter
• Ellen Emerson White, writer whose first book was published while she was a senior at Tufts
• Tiphanie Yanique, fiction writer, poet, and essayist

Non-fiction writing and journalism

• Kara Kennedy Allen (B.A. 1983), VSA producer and daughter of Ted Kennedy
• Erin Arvedlund, author and financial journalist
• Matt Bai (B.A. 1990), author and political reporter for the New York Times Magazine
• Dick Berggren, motorsports announcer, magazine editor, and racecar driver
• Anthony Everett, news anchor for WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate of Boston, Mass
• David Faber (B.A. 1985), CNBC market analyst and host of Squawk on the Street
• Adam Felber, political satirist, radio personality, and humorist
• Leslie Gelb (B.A. 1959), Pulitzer Prize-winner in Explanatory Journalism (1985); former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Michelle Gielan (B.S. 2000), anchor of CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute
• Lilia Luciano, Puerto Rican actress and TV reporter working in Spanish-language television in the United States
• Tony Massarotti, sportswriter for The Boston Globe and author
• Jay Newton-Small, Washington Correspondent for TIME
• Melissa Russo, TV news anchor for WNBC-TV News in New York City
• Neal Shapiro (B.A. 1980), Emmy Award-winning President and CEO of the PBS station WNET/WLIW in New York City; former president of NBC News
• Atika Shubert, Jerusalem bureau chief for CNN
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (B.A. 1974), publisher of The New York Times
• Gordon S. Wood (B.A. 1955), Pulitzer Prize–winning professor of American history

Other

• Dan Barber (B.A. 1992), chef and co-owner of Blue Hill Restaurant
• Garnett Bruce (B.A. 1989), opera director
• Seamus Blackley, video game developer
• Taylor Davis, plywood sculptor
• Nancy Holt (B.A. 1960), artist and sculptor
• Kara Kennedy (B.A. 1983), filmmaker, social activist, daughter of Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy
• Staś Kmieć, theater and dance choreographer, dancer, and the foremost U.S. authority on Polish folk dance and culture
• Mark Krikorian, executive director of Center for Immigration Studies and conservative pundit
• Jim McNitt, mixed-media painter and photographer
• Susan Morse (B.A. 1969), first female president of the Olympic Club in San Francisco
• Shari Redstone, Vice Chairman of Viacom
• Monty Sarhan, Vice President of Viacom

Academia

College and university presidents

• Lisa Anderson (M.A.), Provost of the American University in Cairo and Middle East political scholar
• Elmer Hewitt Capen (B.A. 1860), third president of Tufts College (later Tufts University) and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives while an undergraduate at Tufts College
• Leonard Carmichael (B.S. 1921), ninth president of Tufts University, former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Vice President for Research and Exploration at the National Geographic Society
• John Albert Cousens (B.A. 1903), sixth president of Tufts College
• John E. Endicott, co-president of Woosong University and American foreign policy analyst specializing in security issues
• Hollis Godfrey (B.S. 1895), second president of Drexel University
• Frederick W. Hamilton (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1886), fourth president of Tufts College
• William Leslie Hooper, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents
• Kathleen McCartney (B.S. 1977), President of Smith College and former Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and developmental psychologist
• George Stewart Miller, acting president of Tufts College between the terms of the sixth and seventh elected presidents
• Joseph W. Polisi (M.A. 1970), president of The Juilliard School
• Albert J. Simone, former President of Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii system
• Katherine Haley Will (B.A. 1978), thirteenth president of Gettysburg College and former chair of the Annapolis Group

Professors and scholars

• Hady Amr (B.A. 1988), policy analyst and author specializing in U.S.-Arab relations
• Arnaud Blin, French historian and political scientist
• John L. Carroll, Dean of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law and former Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Alabama
• Ram Dass (B.A. 1952), aka Richard Alpert, former Harvard psychology professor involved with the Harvard Psilocybin Project
• Robert Daum, director of the Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre at the Vancouver School of Theology
• Dan Ehrenkrantz (B.A. 1983), president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and influential rabbi
• Jay Famiglietti (B. S.,1982), professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
• Eugene Fama (B.A. 1960), 2013 Nobel Prize–winning economist particularly known for his work on portfolio theory and asset pricing
• Rolf Faste (M.S. 1971), industrial designer and professor at Stanford University
• Lewis M. Feldstein, co-chairman of the Saguaro Seminar and President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
• Matt Glaser, former chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music, jazz and bluegrass violinist
• Bartholomew W. Hogan (M.D. 1925), former Surgeon General of the United States Navy and Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association
• Thomas L. Hopkins, progressive education professor and theorist
• Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Executive Director of MIT Media Lab
• Robert Kayen (B.S. 1981), professor of civil and environmental engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
• David W. Kennedy (M.A.L.D. 1979), Vice President of International Affairs at Brown University and legal scholar
• Matthew Levitt (M.A., PhD), director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, frequent terrorism pundit, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Julie Livingston, one of thirty-four "genius" MacArthur Fellows in 2013, for her research at Rutgers University
• Mahmood Mamdani (M.A. 1968, M.A.L.D. 1969), African political expert and professor
• Colette Mazzucelli (M.A.L.D. 1987), professor of international affairs
• Frederick Nelson (B.S. 1954), mechanical engineer and professor
• Padraig O'Malley, professor of international studies specializing in the problems of divided societies
• Martin Theodore Orne, psychiatry and psychology professor and researcher
• Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, Puerto Rican policy analyst and author
• Mitchell Reiss (M.A.L.D. 1980), Vice-Provost of International Affairs at The College of William and Mary, former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State and United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
• Lew Rockwell, libertarian political activist and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Herbert Charles Sanborn (1873–1967), received a master's degree from Tufts College in 1897; served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942.
• Richard J. Smith (M.D./M.S., 1973), Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, influential anthropologist and dentist
• Fred Tanner, Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP); professor and theorist of international affairs
• Gordon S. Wood (B.A. 1955), Pulitzer Prize–winning professor of American history

Sciences

• Stephen Moulton Babcock, agricultural chemist who pioneered the development of nutrition as a science
• Frank N. Blanchard (B.S. 1913), influential herpetologist and zoologist
• Vannevar Bush (B.S., M.S. 1913), engineer and scientist noted for his work on the atom bomb and early computing
• Sean B. Carroll (PhD 1983), influential researcher and professor of evolutionary developmental biology
• Anthony Cortese, environmental activist/researcher and former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
• Bernard Marshall Gordon, inventor who holds over thirty patents; former President and CEO of Analogic Corporation, Neurologica Corporation, and Gordon Engineering Company
• Frederick Grinnell (PhD 1970), cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
• Rick Hauck (B.S. 1962), astronaut
• Leonard George Horowitz, radical health theorist and author
• Hassan Jawahery (PhD 1981), American-Iranian physicist and former spokesperon for the BaBar experiment
• Sara Murray Jordan (M.D. 1921), gastroenterologist
• Victor A. McKusick, founding editor of the database Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Roderick MacKinnon (M.D. 1982), winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels
• Helen Abbott Michael, organic chemist
• Mark Plotkin (PhD 1989), ethnobotanist and expert on rainforest ecosystems
• Joanne Pransky, robotics expert
• Victor Prather (M.D. 1952), US Navy surgeon, set the current altitude record for manned balloon flight with Malcolm Ross in 1961
• John Reif (B.S. 1973), computer science, nanotechnology, and DNA researcher and professor
• Keith Ross, NYU computer science professor; dean of engineering NYU Shanghai; ACM and IEEE Fellow
• Ellery Schempp (B.S. 1962), physicist and political activist
• Phillip Hagar Smith (B.S. 1928), inventor of the Smith chart, a graphical aid to assist in solving problems with transmission lines and matching circuits
• John Q. Trojanowski (M.D./PhD 1976), neurological researcher and professor specializing in degenerative diseases
• Frankie Trull, lobbyist and science advocate focusing on laboratory animal testing; president of the National Association for Biomedical Research, Foundation for Biomedical Research, and Policy Directions Inc.
• Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
• Norbert Wiener (B.A. 1909), mathematician known as the founder of cybernetics

Athletics

• Michael Aresco (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1973), Commissioner of the American Athletic Conference
• Bob Backus (B.A. 1951), Olympic track and field athlete who set world records in the hammer throw
• John Bello (B.A. 1968), former President of NFL Properties
• Dick Berggren (M.S. 1967, PhD 1970), motorsports announcer, racecar driver, and magazine editor
• Wally Clement, professional baseball player
• Harrie Dadmun, professional football player
• Lou DiBella, boxing promoter; founder and CEO of Dibella Entertainment; former head of programming for HBO Sports; TV/film producer; owner of the minor league baseball team the Connecticut Defenders
• Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport and former head men's basketball coach at Trinity College (Connecticut)
• Frederick M. Ellis, athlete, coach, professor, head football coach at Tufts from 1946 to 1952
• Colette Flesch, Luxembourgian politician and three-time Olympic fencing competitor
• Chuck Greenberg (B.A. 1982), sports attorney; chairman and founder of the Greenberg Sports Group
• William Grinnell, football player and former head football coach at Northeastern University
• Doc Haggerty, professional football player
• Doc Hazleton, professional baseball player
• Zander Kirkland, Olympic sailor
• Michelle Kwan (M.A.L.D. 2011), Olympic figure skater
• Jim Lonborg (D.M.D. 1983), Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• Tony Massarotti (B.A. 1989), sportswriter for The Boston Globe; author
• David Mendelblatt, yachtsman and ophthalmologist
• Mark Mendelblatt, yachtsman, three-time college All-American, silver medalist at 1999 Pan American Games and 2004 Laser World Championships
• Khaldoon Al Mubarak (B.S.), chairman of Manchester City F.C. and CEO of Mubadala Development Company
• Percy S. Prince, former Louisiana Tech head football and baseball coach and Major in the United States Army during World War I
• Harry Orman Robinson, former head coach of American football at UT-Austin and UMissouri-Columbia
• Wendy Selig-Prieb (B.A. 1982), former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers and daughter of Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Heinie Stafford, professional baseball player
• Gevvie Stone, Olympic rower
• Ed Tapscott (B.A. 1975), former head coach of the Washington Wizards
• Jonathan Tisch (B.A. 1976), co-owner of the New York Giants and chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels
• Shane Waldron, tight ends coach for the New England Patriots
• Art Williams, Major League Baseball player
• Peter Wylde, (B.A. 1989) Olympic gold medalist in team horse jumping

Criminal activity

• Elaine Brown, tax protester involved in a five-month armed standoff
• Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
• Lea Fastow née Weingarten, former Enron assistant treasurer and wife of Andrew Fastow
• Gina Grant, committer of matricide
• Jonathan Pollard (did not graduate), Israeli-American spy
• Harry Sagansky, member of the Jewish Mafia, oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison term
• Jon Schillaci (did not graduate), convicted sex offender previously listed as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

Fictional alumni

• Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan book series
• Hannah, the heroine in Curtis Sittenfeld's second novel, The Man of My Dreams
• Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, from the television show Seinfeld
• Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, played by Jill Hennessy, from the television show Crossing Jordan
• Jennifer Melfi, played by Lorraine Bracco, from the television show The Sopranos
• Zachary Vaughn, a character in one episode of The Simpsons
• Berg, Pete, and Sharon, the three principal characters of the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl
• Mamie-Claire, played by Heather Lind, from the film Mistress America

Notable faculty

• Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972–1986), Japanese politician and activist
• Nalini Ambady, social psychologist, famous for pioneering and coining thin-slicing
• Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
• Lawrence S. Bacow, economist
• Nancy Bauer, philosopher
• Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
• Jamshed Bharucha, Provost & Senior Vice President, Professor of Psychology, Music and Neuroscience (2002-2011)
• Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School, currently serving as Secretary of State Clinton's Special Representative for North Korea Policy
• Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
• Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University
• Antonia Chayes, Professor of International Politics and Law, former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
• Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
• Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained
• John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (1973–1983)
• Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics; regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy magazine
• Lee Edelman, English professor, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
• Mohamed Elbaradei, winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize; former Vice-President of Egypt
• David Elkind, Professor Emeritus of Child Development, author of "The Hurried Child," and "Giants in the Nursery," and "The Power of Play" and other bestsellers
• Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor
• John Galvin (1995–2000), General and former Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Frank Pierrepont Graves, historian of education
• Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history
• Joseph Igersheimer (1879–1965), German ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey
• Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
• Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
• Sheldon Krimsky
• Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981–1982
• Alfred Church Lane, geologist
• Louis Lasagna, former Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine, known for introducing the modern Hippocratic Oath
• Philip Levine, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and National Book Award recipient
• Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
• William C. Martel, Associate Professor of International Security Studies
• William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
• William Green Miller, Professor and Associate Dean, United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998
• Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
• Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
• Vali Nasr, Iranian-American academic and scholar; Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
• Raymond S. Nickerson, psychologist and author
• Paul Samuelson, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics; part time professor of international economic relations at Fletcher (1945)
• Juan Manuel Santos, winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize; former Defense Minister of Colombia and the current President of Colombia; Visiting fellow at Fletcher (1981)
• Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
• John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
• Barry Trimmer, professor of biology; invented (with David Kaplan) the world's first soft-bodied robot
• Alexander Vilenkin, theoretical physicist
• Jonathan Wilson, author
• Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author known for his gardens in Southern Vermont

Presidents of Tufts

Main article: List of Presidents of Tufts University

Notable honorary degree recipients

Tufts awards honorary degrees to outstanding people since 1858; among them:

• 1858: Thomas Whittemore (Divinity)

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• 1865: Thomas Thayer (Divinity)

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• 1926: Frederick Law Olmsted (A.M.)

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• 1933: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Letters)
• 1934: James Bryant Conant (Science)

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• 1946: Norbert Wiener (Science)

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• 1950: Thomas Whittemore (Letters)

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• 1954: John F. Kennedy (Letters)
• 1955: Nathan M. Pusey (Letters)

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• 1958: Robert F. Kennedy (Laws)

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• 1986: Jane Goodall (Science)

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• 1989: Stephen Hawking (Science)

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• 1991: Yo-Yo Ma (Music)
• 1992: Bernard Marshall Gordon (Science)
• 1993: Carlos Fuentes (Letters)
• 1994: Ted Koppel (Humane Letters)
• 1995: Murray Gell-Mann (Science)

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• 1998: Garry Trudeau (Humane Letters)

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• 2001: David McCullough (Humane Letters)

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• 2004: Neil Armstrong (English), Tracey Chapman (Fine Arts)
• 2005: Kostas Karamanlis (Letters)

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• 2007: Michael Bloomberg (Public Service)
• 2008: Meredith Vieira (Humane Letters)

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• 2011: Charles M. Vest (Science), Geoffrey Canada (Humane Letters), Jamaica Kincaid (Humane Letters), Pierre Omidyar (Public Service), Robert Solow (Science)
• 2012: Eric Greitens (Humane Letters), Lawrence S. Bacow (Humane Letters), Bonnie Bassler (Science), Farooq Kathwari (Public Service)
• 2013: Claude Steele (Humane Letters), Lois Gibbs (Public Service), Raymond Sackler (Humane Letters)
• 2014: Anne-Marie Slaughter (Laws), James Lawson (Public Service), Jill Lepore (Humane Letters), Haruki Murakami (Letters)
• 2015: Madeleine Albright (Laws)