Fulbright alumni have occupied key roles in government, academia, and industry. Of the more than 325,000 alumni: • 93 have received the
Pulitzer Prize. •
John Ashbery, poet •
Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas, Uruguayan American professor of Food Engineering; director of the Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food at Washington State University •
George Benneh, Ghanaian academic, university administrator and public servant •
Christopher Charles Benninger, recipient of the
Indian Institute of Architects Gold Medal for contribution to architecture in (2004) •
Victor Bianchini, U.S. federal judge, California State superior court judge, retired colonel of U.S. Marine Corps; former law school dean •
Amy Biehl, anti-Apartheid activist murdered in South Africa •
Harold Bloom, literary theorist and critic •
Josep Borrell, Spanish politician,
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and
Vice-President of the European Commission (2019-2024),
President of the European Parliament (2004-2007),
Spain's
Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2018-2019). •
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and secretary-general of the United Nations, 1992–1996 •
Michael Broyde (born 1964), law professor •
Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanaian academic and Prime Minister of Ghana (1969–1972) •
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president of Brazil, 1995–2002 •
Kyle Carey, Celtic American musician •
Bob Carr, Australian politician •
Ron Castan, Australian constitutional law barrister •
Lenora Champagne, playwright, performance artist and director •
Dante R. Chialvo, scientist •
Dale Chihuly, glass sculptor and entrepreneur •
Mark Choate, historian, soldier, and diplomat •
Eugenie Clark, ichthyologist and founder of
Mote Marine Laboratory •
George C. Clerk, Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist pioneer •
Nathan Collett, filmmaker •
Aaron Copland, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Music •
Leah Curtis, Australian composer •
Eugenia Del Pino, Ecuadorian developmental biologist •
Myanna Dellinger, Danish-American law professor •
Arthur Deshaies, artist, printmaker, professor and head of the graphic workshop, Florida State University •
Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate and recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry •
Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny, Egyptian materials scientist •
Alfredo E. Evangelista, Filipino archeologist and director of the Anthropology division of the
National Museum of the Philippines •
Glynnis Fawkes, archeological illustrator and graphic novelist •
Eric Foner, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for History •
John Hope Franklin, historian and
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient •
Maryellen Fullerton, lawyer and law professor and interim dean at
Brooklyn Law School •
Radhika Gajjala, communications and a cultural studies professor •
Philip A. Gale, British chemist and university administrator •
Vicente Blanco Gaspar, ambassador of Spain •
Ashraf Ghani, president of Afghanistan •
Gabby Giffords,
United States representative for
Arizona's 8th congressional district •
Walter Gonzalez Gonzalez (1924–1979), first Fulbright scholar to the United States from Bolivia, president of the Society of Bolivian Engineers ("Sociedad de Ingenieros de Bolivia") •
Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), law professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School •
Wendy Greengross (1925–2012), general practitioner and broadcaster •
Amanda Harberg, composer on the faculty at the
Berklee College of Music •
Nigel Healey, vice chancellor,
Fiji National University •
Joel Heinen, professor, author and environmentalist
Florida International University, Miami. •
Edward Herrmann, actor •
Robert Hess (1938–1994), president of
Brooklyn College •
John Honnold (1915–2011), law professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School •
Ross Horning, historian • Brad K. Hounkpati, founder of
Grain de Sel Togo, Inc •
Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt (1893–1980), economist, considered the inventor of the modern day
Consumer Price Index •
Julia Ioffe (born 1982), Russian-born American journalist •
Michael Janis, glass sculptor and educator •
Rahul M. Jindal, Indian-American transplant surgeon at
Uniformed Services University •
Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School, and first female
commissioner of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission •
Charles Kennedy, British politician •
Suzanne Klotz, painter and sculptor •
Koh Tsu Koon, Malaysian politician •
Cy Kuckenbaker, filmmaker •
Carrie Lam,
Chief Executive of Hong Kong 2017–2022 •
Karen LaMonte, sculptor •
Jeffrey W. Legro, political scientist and professor •
Ben Lerner, writer •
Bernadette Lim, physician and community organizer •
John Lithgow, actor •
Dolph Lundgren, actor •
Jamil Mahuad, president of Ecuador 1998–2000 •
John Atta Mills, legal scholar and president of Ghana (2009–2012) •
Baidyanath Misra, former vice-chancellor of the
Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology •
Anna Moffo, soprano •
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
United States Senator and diplomat •
Robert Nozick, political philosopher •
Joan Oates, archaeologist •
Lisa Orr, potter and teacher of ceramics •
Mikael Owunna, photographer •
Linus Pauling, awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the
Nobel Peace Prize •
Hugh V. Perkins, professor (UMCP), author, and education developer in Pakistan, 1958-1959 •
Sylvia Plath, poet, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982 •
Niharica Raizada, actress •
Ian Rankin, author •
Alec Rasizade, historian, author of
Rasizade's algorithm •
Anand Reddi, global health research, public health advocate and biotech executive •
Maria Ressa, awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize •
Alexis Ringwald, former CEO of LearnUp, a
Manpower Group company •
Berenice Robinson, author and composer •
Theodore Roethke, poet, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 and the
National Book Award for Poetry in 1959 and 1965 •
Margaret Vardell Sandresky, composer, organist and theorist •
Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia from 2010 and 2018; recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 •
Philip Schultz, poet •
E. Anne Schwerdtfeger, composer and choral conductor •
Heather J. Sharkey, historian of the Middle East and Africa at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Wallace Shawn, actor and playwright •
Mahi R. Singh, physics professor at
University of Western Ontario •
Jane Smiley, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction •
Javier Solana,
Foreign Affairs Minister (1992–1995),
Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999),
European Union's
High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy,
Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and
Secretary-General of the
Western European Union (held these post between October 1999 and December 2009). •
Williametta Spencer, composer •
Henry Steiner, Austrian graphic designer •
Tracey Vivien Steinrucken, Australian ecologist, molecular biologist •
Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Economics •
Herbert Storing, Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the
University of Virginia •
Robert S. Summers, law professor at
Cornell Law School •
Rishi Sunak,
prime minister of the United Kingdom •
Merze Tate, first black woman to attend the
University of Oxford, first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from
Harvard University •
Sergio Troncoso, author of
From This Wicked Patch of Dust,
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and
The Nature of Truth •
Sasha Velour, queen, artist, and winner of
season nine of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' •
Eudora Welty, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction •
Justin Wolfers, economist •
C. Vann Woodward, recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for History •
Charles Wright, poet •
Muhammad Yunus, awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize •
Sebastián Piñera, president of
Chile •
Siphokazi Magadla, South African political scientist, professor at
Rhodes University and author of
Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa == See also ==