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List of Brown University alumni

The following is a partial list of notable Brown University alumni, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni of Brown University and Pembroke College, Brown's former women's college. "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When solely the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree the individual earned.

MacArthur "Genius" Fellows
Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – novelist, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur FellowshipGreg Asbed (BSc 1985) – human rights strategist and labor organizer; recipient of the 2017 MacArthur FellowshipKelly Benoit-Bird (BSc 1998) – Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; recipient of the 2010 MacArthur FellowshipRichard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of the Yale School of Art (1996–2006); recipient of the 2010 MacArthur FellowshipJim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 12th President of the World Bank, President Emeritus of Dartmouth College, and public health physician; recipient of the 2003 MacArthur FellowshipBen Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet; recipient of the 2015 MacArthur FellowshipDavid Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Gloria and Richard Kushel Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University; recipient of the 2015 MacArthur FellowshipMonica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – public historian; recipient of the 2021 MacArthur FellowshipLynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice; recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship (1986) • Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – obstetrician and gynecologist, Kate Macy Ladd Professor at Harvard Medical School; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur FellowshipLauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer; recipient of the 2016 MacArthur FellowshipJennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; recipient of the 2006 MacArthur FellowshipSarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright; recipient of the 2006 MacArthur FellowshipSebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, recipient of the 2010 MacArthur FellowshipJoanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author; recipient of the 1992 MacArthur FellowshipWilliam Seeley (A.B. 1993) – professor of Neurology and Pathology, UC San Francisco, recipient of the 2011 Macarthur fellowship ==Academia==
Academia
Academic administrators Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – president, College of Charleston; 1st president, Hobart CollegeVernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – 15th president, Ohio UniversityCynthia Robinson Alexander (A.B. 1978) – interim president, Savannah State UniversityElisha Andrews (1870) – 6th president, Denison University; 8th president, Brown University; 7th chancellor, University of Nebraska–LincolnJames Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – 3rd president, University of Michigan (1849) • Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd president, Colby CollegeSilas Bailey (1834) – 2nd president, Franklin College; 3rd president, Denison UniversityWilliam Bakrow (1946) – 11th president, St. Ambrose University; interim president, Montserrat College of ArtClarence Barbour (1888) – 10th president, Brown UniversityJill M. Baren – 14th president of Lake Forest College (2022–2024) • John Barlow (A.M. 1896) – interim president, University of Rhode IslandSamuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – 2nd president, Yeshiva UniversityRavi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–) • Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – 2nd president and namesake, Berklee College of MusicSarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – 12th president, College of Wooster; former Dean of the College, Williams CollegeHermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B. 1884) – 5th president, Tufts UniversityWalter Burse (1920) – 2nd president, Suffolk UniversityDame Frances Cairncross (A.M. 1966) – rector, Exeter College, OxfordAlexis Caswell (1822) – 6th president, Brown UniversityGordon Keith Chalmers (A.B. 1925) – 13th president, Kenyon College; 9th President, Rockford CollegeJames Tift Champlin (1834) – 7th president, Colby CollegeLiu Chao-han (Ph.D. 1965) – president, National Central University; Vice President, Academia SinicaJeremiah Chaplin (1799) – founder and 1st president, Colby College (1799) • Oren B. Cheney (Class of 1840) – founder and 1st president, Bates CollegeBarbara Chernow (A.B. 1979) – executive vice president of Finance and Administration, Brown UniversityAram Chobanian (A.B. 1951) – 9th president, Boston UniversityJay Coogan (A.B. 1980) – 16th president, Minneapolis College of Art and DesignWilliam E. Cooper (A.B., A.M. 1973) – 8th president, University of RichmondRobert A. Corrigan (A.B. 1957) – 12th president, San Francisco State UniversityGlenn Cummings (M.A.T. 1984) – 13th president, University of Southern MaineMargaret Drugovich (A.M. 1988) – 10th president, Hartwick College; Interim President, Marietta CollegeWilliam Faunce (1880) – 9th president, Brown UniversityEliphaz Fay (A.B. 1821) – 4th president, Colby CollegeWilliam R. Ferrante (Sc.M. 1959) – acting president, University of Rhode IslandWillbur Fisk (A.B. 1815) – 1st president, Wesleyan UniversityHenry Simmons Frieze (A.B. 1841) – acting president, University of MichiganJoseph N. Gayles Jr. (Ph.D. 1963) – president, Talladega CollegeJohn Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – president, Miles CollegeRichard I. Gouse (A.B. 1968) – 1st president, New England Institute of TechnologyEdward Guiliano (1972) – 3rd president, New York Institute of TechnologyMarsha Hanen (A.B., A.M.) – 4th president, University of WinnipegThomas Hassan (1978) – 14th principal, Phillips Exeter Academy; first gentleman of New Hampshire • John Hope (1894) – 4th president, Morehouse College; 5th president, Atlanta University; the first African-American in both roles; co-founder of the Niagara Movement, which became the NAACPGeorge Rice Hovey – 2nd president, Virginia Union UniversityCharles W. Hunt – 3rd president, State University of New York at OneontaSuzanne Keen (A.B. 1984, A.M. 1986) – 10th president, Scripps CollegeJim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 17th president, Dartmouth College; 12th president of the World BankLarry Kramer (A.B. 1980) – president and vice chancellor, London School of Economics; Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and dean emeritus, Stanford Law School; president of the Hewlett FoundationAri Kuncoro (Ph.D. 1994) – rector, University of IndonesiaJoan Leitzel (M.A. 1961) – 17th president, University of New HampshireJoan Lescinski (Ph.D. 1981) – 13th president, St. Ambrose UniversityJack N. Lightstone (Ph.D. 1977) – president and vice chancellor, Brock UniversityLuther Luedtke (Ph.D. 1971) – 5th president, California Lutheran UniversityJames A. MacAlister (1856) – 1st president, Drexel UniversityHorace Mann (A.B. 1819) – 1st president, Antioch College; "father" of American public education; member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1819) • Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd president, Brown University; 1st president, University of South Carolina; 3rd president, Union CollegeDavid Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – 12th president, Drake UniversityAlexander Meiklejohn (A.B. 1893, A.M. 1895) – 8th president, Amherst College; Dean, Brown University; philosopher and free-speech advocate • Asa Messer (1790) – 3rd president, Brown UniversityAlicia D. Monroe (A.B. 1973) – provost, Baylor College of MedicineAlonzo G. Morón (B.A. 1932) – 8th president of Hampton University, sociologist, civil servant • Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – 8th president, University of Richmond; 18th President, Centre College; President, Salem CollegeRobert W. Morse (A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1949) – 1st president, Case Western Reserve UniversitySamuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – 2nd president, Texas Southern UniversityStephen W. Nease (A.B. 1946) – president, Mount Vernon Nazarene College; president, Southern Nazarene University; president, Nazarene Theological Seminary; president, Eastern Nazarene CollegeLouis E. Newman (Ph.D. 1983) – associate vice provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford UniversityDorothy L. Njeuma (Sc.B. 1966) – rector, University of Yaoundé; Vice-Chancellor, University of BueaMelissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – chancellor and professor of Political Science, MITEliphalet Nott (A.M. 1795) – 4th president, Union College; 3rd president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; the longest serving American college presidentInman E. Page (A.B. 1877, A.M. 1880) – president of the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams UniversityLynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) – 18th president, Mount Holyoke CollegeBill Pepicello – 6th president, University of PhoenixWilliam Carey Poland (A.B. 1868, A.M. 1868) – 5th president, Rhode Island School of DesignWillard Preston (A.B. 1806) – 4th president, University of VermontWendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden (2009–14); provost, University of Pennsylvania (2017–21); interim president, University of Pennsylvania (2022); first person of color to lead the University of Pennsylvania (1986) • Suzanne M. Rivera (A.B. 1991) – 17th president, Macalester CollegeChase F. Robinson (A.B. 1985) – president and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNYEzekiel Robinson (1838) – 7th president, Brown UniversityVincent Rougeau (A.B. 1985) – 33rd president, College of the Holy CrossLeonard Schlesinger (A.B. 1972) – 12th president, Babson CollegeBarnas Sears (1825) – 5th president, Brown UniversityKenneth Starr (A.M. 1969) – 14th president, Baylor UniversityArthur R. Taylor (A.B. 1957, A.M 1961) – 10th president, Muhlenberg College; president, CBS (1972–1976) • Brock Tessman (A.B. 1998) – 13th president, Montana State University; 17th president, Northern Michigan UniversitySir Richard Trainor (A.B. 1970) – principal, King's College London (2004–2014); rector, Exeter College, Oxford (2014–2024) (1970) • Jean Walton (Sc.M. 1940) – vice president of Student Affairs, Pomona CollegeCharles Henry Watts II (1947) – 11th president, Bucknell UniversityYang Wei (Ph.D. 1985) – president, Zhejiang UniversityNils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – 8th president, Tufts UniversityBenjamin Ide Wheeler (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – 8th president, University of CaliforniaCharles Lincoln White (A.B. 1887) – 13th president, Colby CollegeBeniah Longley Whitman (A.B. 1887, A.M. 1890) – 11th president, Colby College; 7th President, George Washington UniversityMary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – 10th president, Mount Holyoke College Applied sciences Lallit Anand (Sc.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MITPanos Antsaklis (Sc.M., Ph.D. 1977) – H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre DameRavi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–) • Kenneth Breuer (Sc.B. 1982) – professor of Engineering and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University (1990) • Bernard Budiansky (Ph.D. 1950) – James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard University; recipient of the 1989 Timoshenko MedalHerman Chernoff (Ph.D. 1948) – professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics, MIT; known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff distribution and Chernoff faceKathleen E. Cullen (Sc.B. 1984) – Raj and Neera Singh Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins UniversityWilliam Curtin (Sc.B. 1981, Sc.M. 1981) – professor of Engineering, Brown UniversityTejal Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Brown University School of EngineeringKathleen M. Eisenhardt (Sc.B. 1969) – Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford UniversityPhilippe Fauchet (Sc.M. 1980) – Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of EngineeringRina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago; recipient of the 2023 MacArthur FellowshipAres J. Rosakis (Sc.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1982) – Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of TechnologyJohn Rudnicki (Sc.B. 1973, Sc.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1977) – professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern UniversityEd Scheinerman (Sc.B. 1980) – professor of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins UniversityPaul H. Steen (Sc.B. A.B., 1975) – Maxwell M. Upson Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell UniversityKatia Sycara (Sc.B. 1969) – Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon UniversityRobert Henry Thurston (1859) – professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of TechnologyGretar Tryggvason (Sc.M. 1982, Ph.D. 1985) – department head and Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins UniversityKrystyn Van Vliet (Sc.B. 1998) – Michael and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MITRichard W. Ziolkowski (Sc.B. 1974) – Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona Economics and management Mark Aguiar (A.B. 1988) – Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton UniversityIgor Ansoff (Ph.D. 1948) – economist and applied mathematician; Founding Dean, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt UniversityClarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912, M.A. 1914) – Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin; leading proponent of institutional economicsMalcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam A. Darity Jr. (A.B. 1974) – Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University (1974) • Steven J. Davis (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1986) – William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; senior fellow, Hoover InstitutionMihir A. Desai (A.B. 1989) – Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolDouglas Diamond (A.B. 1975) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2022) (1975) • Karen Dynan (A.B. 1985) – Professor of the Practice, Economics Department, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJames Feyrer (A.M., Ph.D. 2001) – Professor and Vice-Chair of Economics, Dartmouth CollegeMarvin Goodfriend (Ph.D. 1980) – Friends of Allan Meltzer Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDale L. Goodhue (A.B. 1969) – professor, Department of Management and Information Systems, Terry College of Business, University of GeorgiaJohn Haltiwanger (Sc.B. 1977) – Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College ParkJanice Hammond (Sc.B.) – Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Harvard Business SchoolJerry A. Hausman (A.B. 1968) – John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MITJudith K. Hellerstein (Sc.B. 1987) – Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College ParkGuido Imbens (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1991) – Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2021) (1989, 1991) • Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (A.M. 1997, Ph.D. 2000) – Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College ParkBruce J. Katz (A.B. 1981) – vice president, Brookings Institution; Visiting Professor, London School of EconomicsMichael Keane (Ph.D. 1989) – Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins UniversityRobert G. King (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) – professor of Economics, Boston UniversityRandall Kroszner (Sc.B. 1984) – Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessNeale Mahoney (Sc.B. 2005) – professor of Economics, Stanford UniversityEdwin Mills (A.B. 1951) – professor emeritus of Real Estate and Finance, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern UniversityRobert A. Moffitt (A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins UniversityJonathan Morduch (A.B. 1985) – professor of Public Policy and Economics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYUMichael William Morris (A.B. 1986) – Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, Columbia Business SchoolAnna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc.B. 1977, Sc.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts AmherstGeorge Pennacchi (Sc.B. 1977) – Bailey Memorial Chair of Finance, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGeorgia Perakis (Sc.M. 1988, Ph.D. 1993) – William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementCarl C. Plehn (1889) – professor of Public Finance, UC BerkeleyEswar Prasad (A.M. 1986) – Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; senior fellow, Brookings Institution (1986) • Karthick Ramakrishnan (A.B. 1996) – professor of Public Policy, UC RiversideNancy Rothbard (A.B. 1990) – deputy dean and David Pottruck Professor of Management, Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaDavid Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – John C Head III Dean (2007-2024) and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of ManagementScott Shane (A.B. 1986) – A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve UniversityAnthony Shorrocks (A.M. 1970) – professor, London School of Economics; 5th Director of World Institute for Development Economics ResearchJulia Steinberger (Sc.B. 1996) – professor of Ecological Economics, University of LausanneEbonya Washington (A.B. 1995) – Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale UniversityDavid N. Weil (A.B. 1982) – James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown UniversityJohn Henry Williams (A.B. 1912) – Founding Dean, Harvard Kennedy School; economist of international trade theoryJanet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; 78th U.S. secretary of the treasury; 15th chair of the Federal Reserve; the first woman in both roles (1967) Formal sciences Clarence Raymond Adams (1918) – professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, Brown UniversityFrederick J. Almgren Jr. (Ph.D. 1962) – professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; recipient of a Guggenheim FellowshipDouglas N. Arnold (A.B. 1975) – McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics, University of MinnesotaGrace Bates (A.M. 1938) – professor emerita of Mathematics, Mount Holyoke CollegeDorothy Lewis Bernstein (Ph.D. 1939) – president, Mathematical Association of America; the first woman elected to position • David Blei (Sc.B. 1997) – professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Columbia UniversityDick Bulterman (Sc.M. 1977, Ph.D. 1982) – professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamMike Cafarella (A.B. 1996) – principal research scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryYingda Cheng (A.M. 2004) – professor of Mathematics, Virginia TechRuth F. Curtain (Ph.D. 1969) – professor of Mathematics, University of GroningenMahlon Marsh Day (1939) – professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignVanja Dukic (Ph.D. 2001) – professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado BoulderNelson Dunford (Ph.D. 1936) – James E. English Professor of Mathematics emeritus, Yale University; namesake of the Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theoremJoanne Elliott (1947) – professor of Mathematics, Rutgers UniversitySteven K. Feiner (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1985) – professor of Computer Science, Columbia UniversityGeorge Forsythe (Ph.D. 1941) – founder and chair of the Computer Science Department, Stanford University; creator of the term "computer science" (Ph.D. 1941) • William Fulton (A.B. 1961) – Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of MichiganJohn D. Gannon (A.B., A.M.) – professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College ParkPaul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – director, Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science, New York UniversityThomas A. Garrity (Ph.D. 1986) – Webster Atwell Class of 1921 Professor of Mathematics, Williams CollegeAnne Gelb (Sc.M. 1991, Ph.D. 1996) – John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth CollegeSharon Goldwater (Sc.B. 1998, Sc.M. 2005, Ph.D. 2007) – personal chair of Computational Language Learning, School of Informatics, University of EdinburghMark Goresky (Ph.D. 1976) – member, Institute for Advanced Study; co-inventor of intersection homologySamuel Stillman Greene (1837) – professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Brown University; superintendent of schools in Providence, Rhode Island and Springfield, MassachusettsJohn Guttag (A.B. 1971) – chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004), MITRobert Miller Hardt (Ph.D. 1971) – W.L. Moody Professor of Mathematics, Rice UniversityJames Hendler (MSc 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; one of the originators of the Semantic WebJohn George Herriot (Ph.D. 1941) – professor of Computer Science, Stanford UniversityMeyer Jerison (A.M. 1947) – chair of the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Purdue University (1969–1975) • Scott Klemmer (A.B. 1999) – professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San DiegoDavid Laidlaw (Sc.B. 1983, Sc.M. 1985) – professor of Computer Science, Brown UniversityJoseph J. LaViola Jr. (Ph.D. 2005) – Charles N. Millican Professor in Computer Science, University of Central FloridaRobert Lazarsfeld (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department, Stony Brook UniversityEdward D. Lazowska (A.B. 1972) – Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonDerrick Henry Lehmer (Ph.D. 1930) – professor emeritus of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley; "father of computational number theory" (1930) • Katrina Ligett (Sc.B. 2004) – associate professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of JerusalemMichael L. Littman (Ph.D. 1996) – University Professor of Computer Science, Brown UniversityMichelle Manes (Sc.M. 2004, Ph.D. 2007) – professor of Mathematics, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaDan Margalit (Sc.B. 1998) – Stevenson Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt UniversityKathleen McKeown (A.B. 1976) – Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director, Data Science Institute at Columbia UniversitySarah Meiklejohn (Sc.B 2008, Sc.M. 2009) – professor of Cryptography and Security, University College LondonTodd Millstein (A.B. 1996) – professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los AngelesMelanie Mitchell (A.B. 1980) – Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute; co-developer of CopycatClemency Montelle (Ph.D. 2005) – professor of Mathematics, University of CanterburyEdward F. Moore (Ph.D. 1950) – professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison; known for the Moore machineJohn Coleman Moore (Ph.D. 1952) – professor emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University; known for the Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequenceAnthony Morse (Ph.D. 1937) – professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Morse–Kelley set theory, Morse–Sard theorem and the Federer–Morse theoremJohn Mylopoulos (Sc.B. 1966) – professor emeritus of Computer Science, University of TorontoM. G. Nadkarni (Ph.D. 1964) – professor and head of the Department of Mathematics, University of MumbaiDavid Nadler (BSc 1996) – professor of Mathematics, UC BerkeleyDavid Notkin (Sc.B. 1977) – professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of WashingtonTony O'Farrell (Ph.D. 1973) – professor of Mathematics, Maynooth UniversityPeter J. Olver (Sc.B. 1973) – professor of Mathematics, University of MinnesotaWilliam Vann Parker (Ph.D. 1931) – head of the Mathematics Department, Auburn UniversityRandy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarl Pomerance (A.B. 1966) – professor emeritus of Mathematics, Dartmouth CollegeRachel Justine Pries (Sc.B. 1994) – professor in the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State UniversityMurray H. Protter (Ph.D. 1946) – professor and chair in the Department of Mathematics, UC BerkeleyKen Ribet (A.B., A.M. 1969) – professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem (1969) • Edwina Rissland (Sc.B. 1969) – professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts AmherstJason Rosenhouse (Sc.B. 1995) – professor of Mathematics, James Madison UniversityStefan Roth (Sc.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007) – professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität DarmstadtWilliam Ruggles (1820) – professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, George Washington UniversityErnst Ruh (Ph.D. 1964) – professor of Mathematics, University of FribourgBarbara G. Ryder (A.B. 1969) – head of the Department of Computer Science, Virginia TechJohn Sarli (A.B. 1974) – professor of Mathematics, California State University, San BernardinoRobert Schapire (Sc.B. 1986) – David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science, Princeton UniversityRobert Sedgewick (Sc.B. 1968, Sc.M. 1970) – department chair and William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science, Princeton UniversityChehrzad Shakiban (Ph.D. 1979) – professor of Mathematics, University of St. ThomasHagit Shatkay (Ph.D. 1999) – professor of Computer and Information Science, University of DelawareScott Shenker (Sc.B. 1978) – professor emeritus of Computer Science and chief scientist, UC BerkeleyAlan Sherman (1978) – professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyShu Shien-Siu (Ph.D. 1948) – chair emeritus, Purdue University School of Aeronautics and AstronauticsJoseph H. Silverman (Sc.B. 1977) – professor of Mathematics, Brown UniversityScott A. Smolka (Ph.D. 1984) – Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Stony Brook UniversityHalil Mete Soner (Sc.M. 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Norman John Sollenberger Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton UniversityGeorge Springer (Sc.M. 1946) – professor of Computer Science, Indiana University BloomingtonKatherine E. Stange (Ph.D. 2008) – professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado BoulderJohn A. Stankovic (BSc 1970, MSc 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – BP America Professor of Computer Science, University of VirginiaJohn Stasko (Sc.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – Regents Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia TechDoris Stockton (Ph.D. 1958) – professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts AmherstFrank Tompa (Sc.B., Sc.M. 1970) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of WaterlooKonstantina Trivisa (Ph.D. 1996) – professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College ParkDouglas Ulmer (Ph.D. 1987) – professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics, University of ArizonaKari Vilonen (Ph.D. 1983) – professor in Pure Mathematics, University of MelbourneIsmar Volić (Ph.D. 2003) – professor of Mathematics, Wellesley CollegeMartin M. Wattenberg (A.B. 1991) – Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard UniversityAlbert Wilansky (Ph.D. 1947) – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Lehigh UniversityRaymond Louis Wilder (Ph.B. 1918, Sc.M. 1921) – professor of Mathematics, University of MichiganElizabeth Yakel (A.B. 1980) – C. Olivia Frost Collegiate Professor of Information, University of MichiganThaleia Zariphopoulou (Sc.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1989) – V.F. Neuhaus Centennial Professor and Presidential Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin Humanities Asger Aaboe (Ph.D. 1957) – professor emeritus of the History of Science, Mathematics and of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale UniversityRocío Quispe Agnoli (A.M. 1993, Ph.D. 2000) – professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Michigan State UniversityLinda Martín Alcoff (Ph.D. 1987) – professor of Philosophy, Hunter CollegeMark Amerika (M.F.A. 1997) – professor of Art and Art History, University of Colorado BoulderMargaret L. Anderson (Ph.D. 1971) – professor emerita of History, UC BerkeleyJaime Homero Arjona (A.M. 1929, Ph.D. 1932) – professor of Romance and Classical Languages, University of ConnecticutBrian Attebery (Ph.D. 1979) – professor emeritus of English, Idaho State UniversityLeora Auslander (Ph.D. 1988) – Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and History, University of ChicagoJacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at the University of Vermont; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer • Irving H. Bartlett (Ph.D. 1952) – John F. Kennedy Professor of American Civilization, University of Massachusetts BostonAnnette Kar Baxter (Ph.D. 1958) – Adolph and Effie Ochs Endowed Chair, Barnard CollegeCharles E. Bennett (1878) – Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, Cornell UniversityJanetta Rebold Benton (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Art History, Pace UniversityOlivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian • George Boas (A.B., A.M. 1913) – professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins UniversityEdgar S. Brightman (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1908) – philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr.'s advisor at Boston UniversityBerenice A. 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May (Ph.D. 1974) – professor of History, University of UtahBrendan McConville (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1992) – professor of History, Boston UniversityEdward McCrorie (Ph.D. 1970) – professor of English, Providence CollegeBrian McHale (A.B. 1974) – Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State UniversityJeffrey L. Meikle (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1971) – Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus, University of Texas at AustinAnne K. Mellor (A.B. 1963) – Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, UCLASonya Michel – professor of History, University of Maryland, College ParkNara Milanich (A.B. 1994) – professor of History, Barnard CollegeKeith N. 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Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown UniversitySuzanne Eaton (Sc.B. 1981) – professor of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and GeneticsBethany Ehlmann (M.S. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) – president of The Planetary Society; professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology; Rhodes ScholarAnne Fausto-Sterling (Ph.D. 1970) – major contributor to sexology and biology of gender; Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University (1970) • W. Tecumseh Fitch (A.B. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) – Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of ViennaRaymond Fuoss (Ph.D. 1932) – Sterling Professor Chair of Chemistry, Yale UniversityPaul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – director of the Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York UniversityMargaret Gardel (Sc.B. 1998) – Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics, University of ChicagoMartha Gilmore (Ph.D. 1998) – George I. Seney Professor of Geology and director of Graduate Studies, Wesleyan UniversityMiriam B. Goodman (B.Sc. 1986) – Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Stanford University; chair, Stanford Neuroscience Institute • Andrew V. Granato (Ph.D. 1955) – professor emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignDavid Grinspoon (A.B., Sc.B.) – astrobiologist; senior scientist, Planetary Science InstituteAlan Grossman (Sc.B. 1979) – Praecis Professor of Biology and Department Head of Biology, MITJames W. Head (Ph.D. 1969) – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences, Brown UniversityArthur Hoag (A.B. 1942) – astronomer; discoverer of Hoag's ObjectMichael R. Hoffmann (Ph.D. 1973) – John S. and Sherry Chen Professor of Environmental Science, CaltechAlbrecht Hofmann (Ph.D. 1969) – director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, ForMemRS (1969) • John Edwards Holbrook (A.B. 1815) – zoologist, herpetologist, and naturalist • Donald C. Hood (Ph.D. 1969) – James F. Bender Professor in Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science, Columbia UniversityArthur L. Horwich (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975) – Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; winner of the Lasker Award, Albany Medical Center Prize, Shaw Prize, and Breakthrough Prize; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone-mediated protein folding (1972, 1975) • Richard Ivry (A.B. 1981) – Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC BerkeleyBor-ming Jahn (M.Sc. 1967) – Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Geosciences, National Taiwan UniversityLucy Jones (A.B. 1976) – seismologist • Richard Kaner (A.B. 1980) – Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, UCLASuzanne Mahlburg Kay (Ph.D. 1975) – William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus, Cornell UniversityBrian Keating (M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 2000) – Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC San DiegoFrederick G. Keyes (Sc.B. 1906, Sc.M. 1907, Ph.D. 1909) – Professor of Physics and Chemistry, MITKim Sung-hoon (Ph.D. 1991) – Distinguished University Professor and director Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center, Seoul National UniversitySteven Kliewer (B.Sc. 1985) – Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterPhilip Kocienski (Ph.D. 1971) – professor emeritus of Organic Chemistry, University of LeedsClifford Kubiak (Sc.B 1975) – Distinguished Professor and Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry, UC San DiegoKrishna Kumar (Ph.D.1996) – Robinson Professor in Chemistry, Tufts UniversityKa Yee Christina Lee (Sc.B. 1986) – 14th provost (2020–23) and David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of ChicagoWen-Hsiung Li (Ph.D. 1972) – James Watson Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of ChicagoRobert Bruce Lindsay (A.B., Sc.M. 1920) – chair of the Physics Department and dean of the Graduate School, Brown University; recipient of the ASA Gold MedalLorraine Lisiecki (Sc.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2005) – Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, UC Santa BarbaraDavid Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Gloria and Richard Kushel Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor in the Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University; recipient of a MacArthur FellowshipMarcus Ward Lyon Jr. (Ph.B. 1897) – president, American Society of MammalogistsRobert H. MacArthur (A.M. 1953) – founding figure in evolutionary ecology; professor, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton UniversityRoberta Marinelli (A.B. 1982) – professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State UniversityNick McCave (Ph.D. 1967) – Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge; fellow, St John's College, CambridgeAmy McCune (A.B. 1976) – professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell UniversityWarren Meck (Ph.D. 1982) – professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke UniversityKenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) – professor of Biology, Brown University (1970) • David Moore (A.B. 1974) – professor and chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley; discoverer of constitutive androstane receptor, farnesoid X receptor, and small heterodimer partnerSharon Mosher (Sc.M. 1975) – William Stamps Farish Chair, University of Texas at AustinCynthia F. Moss (Ph.D. 1986) – professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins UniversityJohn F. Mustard (M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1990) – professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown UniversityMyung Kyungjae (Ph.D. 1999) – biologist, Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologySamuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – first African-American to receive doctorate degree from Brown University; first African-American trustee at Brown University; first African-American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; second president of Texas Southern UniversityWinthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (A.M. 1894) – head of the Division of General Physiology, Rockefeller University; professor of Biology, Harvard UniversityJonathan Overpeck (Sc.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1985) – Samuel A. Graham Dean; William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education; professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering; professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of MichiganLiam Paninski (Sc.B. 1999) – professor in the Departments of Statistics and Neuroscience, Columbia UniversityMichael Paradiso (Ph.D. 1984) – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and professor of Neuroscience, Brown UniversityRobert L. Park (Ph.D. 1964) – professor emeritus of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park; former director of Public Information at the American Physical SocietyRobert Parr (A.B. 1942) – professor emeritus of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill; co-founder of quantum chemistryDragana Popović (Sc.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – research professor in the Department of Physics, Florida State UniversityAinissa Ramirez (Sc.B. 1990) – material scientist and science communicator • Maureen Raymo (Sc.B 1982) – paleoclimatologist; Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor and director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory; Co-Founding Dean, Columbia Climate SchoolCollin Roesler (Sc.B. 1985) – William R. Kenan Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin CollegePeter A. Rona (1956) – professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers UniversityRachel Rosen (Sc.B.) – associate professor of Theoretical Physics, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDaniel Rothman (A.B. 1979) – professor of Geophysics, MITTatiana Rynearson (Sc.B. 1994) – professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode IslandDavid M. Sabatini (Sc.B. 1990) – professor of Biology, MIT (2002–2021); Member, Whitehead Institute; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; discoverer of mTOR (1990) • Ellery Schempp (Ph.D. 1967) – physicist, primary student involved in the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. SchemppGabriela Schlau-Cohen (BSc 2003) – associate professor of Chemistry, MITStephanie Schorge (Ph.D. 1999) – professor of Neuroscience, University College LondonMichael Shadlen (A.B. 1981, M.D. 1988) – professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator • Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of ScienceJanine Shertzer (Sc.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Distinguished Professor of Science, College of the Holy CrossBarbara Shinn-Cunningham (Sc.B. 1986) – director, Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor, Carnegie Mellon UniversityBrian R. Silliman (Ph.D. 2004) – Rachel Carson Distinguished Professor of Marine Conservation Biology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke UniversitySteven H. Simon (Sc.B. 1989) – professor of Physics, University of OxfordFrederick Slocum (A.B. 1895, Ph.D. 1898) – professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan UniversityMaud Slye (1899) – professor of Pathology, University of ChicagoDaniel L. Stein (Sc.B. 1975) – professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York UniversityEliot Stellar (Sc.M. 1942) – University of Pennsylvania provost; one of the founders of behavioral neuroscienceHarlan True Stetson (Sc.B. 1912 • Charles Arthur Stuart (Sc.B. 1919, Sc.M. 1921, Ph.D. 1923) – professor of Bacteriology, Brown UniversityShouheng Sun (Ph.D. 1996) – Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Engineering, Brown UniversityKyriakos Tamvakis (Ph.D. 1978) – professor of Physics, University of IoanninaJesse Thaler (Sc.B. 2002) – professor of Physics, MIT; director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions • Jessica Tierney (A.B. 2005, M.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) – associate professor of Geosciences and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science, University of ArizonaEvelyn Butler Tilden (A.B. 1913) – professor, Department of Microbiology, Northwestern University Dental SchoolJan Peter Toennies (Ph.D. 1957) – director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization; professor emeritus of Physics, University of GöttingenMargaret Tolbert (Ph.D. 1974) – professor of Chemistry and director of the Carver Research Foundation, Tuskegee UniversityStefanie Tompkins (M.Sc. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) – director, DARPA; former vice president of Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of MinesMark Trodden (M.Sc., Ph.D. 1995) – Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor and Department Chair of Physics, Co-Director of the Penn Center for Particle Cosmology, University of PennsylvaniaHerbert H. Uhlig (Sc.B. 1929) – professor of Metallurgy, MITFyodor Urnov (Ph.D. 1996) – professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, BerkeleyOriol Valls (Ph.D. 1976) – professor of Physics, University of MinnesotaGeorge Veronis (Ph.D. 1954) – Henry Barnard Davis Professor of Geophysics and Applied Science, Yale UniversityWilliam G. Vinal (Ph.D. 1922) – professor of Nature Education, Nature Guide School, University of Massachusetts AmherstF. Ann Walker (Ph.D. 1966) – Regents Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of ArizonaHerbert E. Walter (A.M. 1893) – professor of Biology, Brown UniversityJohn S. Werner (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC DavisFrank Perkins Whitman (1874) – professor of Physics, Western Reserve UniversityPatricia Wiberg (A.B. 1976) – professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of VirginiaInez Whipple Wilder (Ph.B. 1900) – professor and chair in the Department of Zoology, Smith CollegeMichael E. Wysession (Sc.B. 1984) – professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. LouisXi-Cheng Zhang (Ph.D. 1986) – Parker Givens Chair of Optics, University of Rochester; director of Institute of OpticsMaria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and vice president of Research, MIT; NASA planning advisor; co-chair of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (1986) Social sciences Daniel R. Anderson (A.M. 1968, Ph.D. 1971) – professor emeritus of Psychology, University of Massachusetts AmherstRyan S. Baker (Sc.B. 2000) – professor of Artificial Intelligence and Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; director, Penn Center for Learning Analytics • Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityMary Beaudry (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) – professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy, Boston UniversityJ. Gayle Beck (A.B. 1979) – Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Emerita in the Department of Psychology, University of MemphisAaron Belkin (A.B. 1988) – Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; authority on LGBT people in the United States Armed ForcesAdia Benton (A.B. 1999) – cultural and medical anthropologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern UniversityBernard Bloch (Ph.D. 1935) – Professor of Linguistics, Yale UniversityKenneth A. Bollen (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1977) – Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Chapel HillJason Bordoff (A.B. 1994) – co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (1994) • Caroline Brettell (Ph.D. 1978) – Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ruth Collins Altshuler Professor, Southern Methodist UniversitySelmer Bringsjord (Ph.D. 1987) – chair of the Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteKarida Brown (Ph.D. 2016) – professor of Sociology, Emory UniversityJessica Calarco (A.B. 2006) – professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–MadisonMelani Cammett (A.B. 1991) – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University; director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthPrudence Carter (BSc 1991) – Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology, Brown University; Mary E. Pardee Professor and dean of the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley (2016–2021) • Bruce Chorpita (A.B. 1989) – professor of Psychology, UCLAAlbert T. Corbett (A.B. 1972) – associate research professor emeritus of Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon UniversityElizabeth Cowper (Ph.D. 1976) – professor of Linguistics, University of TorontoNeta Crawford (A.B. 1985) – Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University • Rafaela Dancygier (A.B. 2000) – IBM Chair in International Studies, Princeton UniversityLee Drutman (A.B. 1999) – senior fellow, New America; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins UniversityCarl Porter Duncan (A.M. 1944, Ph.D. 1947) – professor of Experimental Psychology, Northwestern UniversityRobert E. Emery (A.B. 1974) – professor of Psychology, University of VirginiaEmily Falk (Sc.B. 2004) – professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, vice dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of PennsylvaniaCarol Fowler (A.B. 1971) – professor of Psychology, University of ConnecticutWilliam H. Frey (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) – senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings InstitutionEster Fuchs (A.M. 1974) – professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University SIPARobert M. Gagné (Sc.M 1939, Ph.D. 1940) – educational psychologist; professor, Florida State University; author of Conditions of LearningJohn Ghazvinian (A.B. 1996) – executive director, Middle East Center, University of PennsylvaniaJohn Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African-American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African-American archaeologist • Jill S. Grigsby (Sc.B. 1976, A.M. 1977) – professor of Sociology, Pomona CollegeKinch Hoekstra (A.B. 1987) – Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Law and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Classics, UC BerkeleyTracey Holloway (Sc.B. 1995) – Jeff Rudd and Jeanne Bissell Professor of Energy Analysis and Policy, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCarol Nagy Jacklin (Ph.D. 1972) – professor of Psychology, University of Southern California; dean, College of William & MaryMartha Sharp Joukowsky (A.B. 1958) – professor in the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and the Department of Anthropology, Brown UniversityPatricia Keating (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, UCLAOrit Kedar (A.M. 1998) – professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of JerusalemDavid Kertzer (A.B. 1969) – Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Brown University; Recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1969) • Michael Kimmel (M.A. 1974) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook UniversityEric Klinenberg (A.B. 1993) – professor of Sociology and Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science, New York UniversityPrema Kurien (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1993) – professor of Sociology, Syracuse UniversityRobert Ladd (A.B 1968) – professor of Linguistics, University of EdinburghAditi Lahiri (Ph.D. 1982) – chair of Linguistics, University of OxfordSarah Lamb (A.B. 1982) – professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences, Brandeis UniversityWallace Lambert (A.B. 1947) – psychologist of linguistics; "widely considered the father of the psychological study of bilingualism" • Harold Leavitt (Sc.M. 1944) – pioneer in management psychology; Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford UniversityJacob T. Levy (A.B. 1993) – Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science, McGill UniversityOgden Lindsley (A.B. 1948, Sc.M. 1950) – developer of precision teaching; professor, University of KansasGeoffrey Loftus (A.B. 1967) – professor emeritus of Psychology, University of WashingtonJulie Beth Lovins (A.B. 1968) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching • Sabina Magliocco (A.B. 1980) – professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of British ColumbiaTarek Masoud (A.B. 1997) – Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy SchoolLeslie McCall (A.B. 1986) – Presidential Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNYLouis C. Midgley (Ph.D. 1865) – Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young UniversityRuth Milkman (A.B. 1975) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY; former president, American Sociological AssociationKevin V. Mulcahy (Ph.D. 1977) – Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State UniversityLetitia Naigles (A.B. 1983) – professor of Psychological Sciences, University of ConnecticutRichard P. Nathan (A.B. 1957) – director, Rockefeller Institute of Government; professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University at Albany, SUNYMelissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Ccancellor and professor of Political Science, MIT; Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2015–2021) (1985) • Pedro Noguera (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1982) – Distinguished Professor of Education and Dean, USC Rossier School of EducationLloyd Ohlin (A.B. 1940) – sociologist and criminologist; professor emeritus, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of ChicagoJane L. Parpart (A.B. 1961) – Lester B. Pearson Chair of International Development Studies, Dalhousie UniversityHal Pashler (A.B. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC San DiegoWendy Pearlman (A.B. 1996) – Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityThomas Pepinsky (A.B. 2001) – Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government, Cornell UniversityCarl Pfaffmann (1933) – Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor of Physiological Psychology, Rockefeller UniversityNelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1957) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley, member, Council on Foreign RelationsImam Prasodjo (Ph.D. 1997) – professor in the Department of Social and Political Science, University of IndonesiaArthur S. Reber (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) – psychologist known for introducing the concept of implicit learning; Broeklundian Professor, Emeritus, Brooklyn CollegeMary E. Reuder (1945) – professor of Psychology, Queens CollegeJennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Macarthur fellowship recipient (1994) • Bruce Riedel (A.B. 1975) – senior fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; professor, Johns Hopkins SAISLisa Rofel (A.B. 1975) – professor emerita of Anthropology, UC Santa CruzDaniel Rothenberg (A.B. 1987) – professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Study; co-director, Center on the Future of War, Arizona State UniversityCarolyn Rovee-Collier (M.Sc. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – professor of Psychology, Rutgers University; pioneering developmental psychologist • John Howland Rowe (A.B. 1939) – professor emeritus of Anthropology, UC BerkeleyJenny Saffran (A.B. 1991) – Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Psychology, University of WisconsinEldar Shafir (A.B. 1984) – Class of 1987, professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (1984) • Patrick Sharkey (A.B. 2000) – William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton UniversityWilliam Herbert Sheldon (A.B. 1919) – psychologist, creator of the field of somatotype and constitutional psychologyRachel Sherman (A.B. 1991) – professor and chair of Sociology, The New School for Social ResearchWilliam Simmons (1960) – professor of Anthropology and provost, Brown University; acting director, Haffenreffer Museum of AnthropologyAdam T. Smith (A.B. 1990) – Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Cornell UniversityRichard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – experimental psychologist; author of the opponent-process theory of emotion; James M. Skinner University Professor of Science, University of PennsylvaniaErroll Southers (A.B. 1978) – professor of Practice in National and Homeland Security, director of the Safe Communities Institute, and director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies, USC Price School of Public PolicyJohn R. Thelin (A.B. 1969) – University Research Professor on the History of Higher Education and Public Policy, University of KentuckyDeborah A. Thomas (A.B. 1988) – R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of PennsylvaniaMark R. Thompson (A.B. 1982) – Chair Professor of Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong KongKhachig Tölölyan (Ph.D. 1975) – founding figure in diaspora studies; professor emeritus of English and Letters, Wesleyan UniversityJeffrey K. Tulis (A.M. 1974) – professor emeritus of Government, The University of Texas at AustinFred Turner (A.B. 1984) – Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford UniversityNicholas Valentino (A.B. 1990) – Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan and research professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Institute for Social ResearchGuy Montrose Whipple (A.B. 1897) – professor of Experimental Education, University of MichiganSuzanne Wilson (A.B. 1973) – Neag Endowed Professor of Teacher Education, University of ConnecticutSam Wineburg (Class of 1980) – Margaret Jacks Professor Emeritus of Education, Stanford UniversityDeborah J. Yashar (A.B. 1985) – Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Others Jamie Metzl (A.B. 1990) – futurist; senior fellow, Atlantic Council (1990) • Bina Venkataraman (A.B. 2002) – director of Global Policy Initiatives, Broad InstituteNoah Wardrip-Fruin (Ph.D. 2006) – professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz ==Science, technology and innovation==
Science, technology and innovation
Katherine L. Adams (A.B. 1986) – general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Global Security, Apple Inc.Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) – chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas InstrumentsZachariah Allen (1813) – inventor of the steam engine automatic cut-off valve • Seth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI, founder and former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (1978, 1981) • John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheckWalter Guyton Cady (1895) – physicist and electrical engineer; developed the first quartz crystal oscillatorBryan Cantrill (BSc 1996) – one of the three authors of DTrace, CTO of Oxide Computer Company, former CTO of JoyentJohn H. Crawford (1975) – chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group • John Cumbers (Ph.D. 2011) – British molecular biologist, founder of SynBioBeta • Helen Wendler Deane (Ph.D. 1943) – histophysiologist • Lisa Gelobter (1991) – developed visual programs such as ShockwaveLillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) – one of the first working female engineers; arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist; mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen (1915) • Morton Gurtin (Ph.D. 1961) – Timoshenko Medal-winning mechanical engineer and mathematical physicist • Andy Hertzfeld (Sc.B. 1975) – key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of the primary software architects of the classic Mac OSAlexander Lyman Holley (1853) – inventor, founding member of the American Society of Mechanical EngineersEliot Horowitz (Sc.B. 2003) – co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB (2003) • Mary Lou Jepsen (1987, Ph.D. 1997) – technology executive and inventor, co-founder of One Laptop per ChildChirinjeev Kathuria (BSc 1988, M.D. 1993) – co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc, co-founder of Ocean BiomedicalAmy Leventer (Sc.B. 1979) – marine biologist, micropaleontologist, Antarctic researcher • Adam Leventhal (Sc.B. 2001) – software engineer, one of the three authors of DTraceDavid J. Lipman (A.B.) – director, National Center for Biotechnology InformationHilary Mason – data scientist, former general manager of machine learning at Cloudera and chief scientist at BitlyRebecca Moore (1977) – director, Google EarthMeredith Ringel Morris (Sc.B. 2001) – director and principal scientist, People + AI Research Team, Google ResearchPeter Norvig (Sc.B. 1978) – director of research, Google Inc. • Erin Pettit (Sc.B. 1994) – glaciologist, Antarctic researcher • David Shrier (Sc.B. 1995) – futurist and author • Ken Silverman (Sc.B. 2000) – writer of the Build engineMarion Elizabeth Stark (A.B. 1916, A.M. 1979) – one of the first female American mathematics professors • Gordon Kidd Teal (Ph.D. 1931) – inventor of the commercial silicon transistor • John Tukey (Sc.B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) – co-developed the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm; coined the terms "bit", "byte", "software" and "cepstrum", recipient of National Medal of Science (1971) • Bob Wallace (Class of 1971) – ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term "shareware" Space science and exploration Brian Binnie (Sc.B. 1975, Sc.M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOneJames B. Garvin (Sc.B. 1978, Sc.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs • David Grinspoon (Sc.B. 1982) – astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science InstituteWesley Huntress (Sc.B. 1964) – president, The Planetary SocietyByron K. Lichtenberg (Sc.B. 1969) – NASA astronaut • Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; one of two women to participate in the first all-female spacewalkSarah Milkovich (Sc.M. 2002, Ph.D. 2005) – lead of Science Operations for the Mars 2020 rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1999) • Lynn J. Rothschild (Ph.D. 1985) – evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) – third administrator of NASA, oversaw first seven Apollo crewed missions (1942) • Suzanne Smrekar (Sc.B. 1984) – deputy principal investigator for the Mars InSight landerPaul Spudis (Sc.M. 1977) – noted lunar scientist associated with the NASA Office of Space Science • Ellen Stofan (Ph.D. 1989) – NASA chief scientist (2013–2016), John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space MuseumWinslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd ObservatoryGeorge Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell LectureshipMaria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – principal investigator of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission ==Government, law and public policy==
Government, law and public policy
Governors Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – 22nd governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853), U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859) • Oliver Ames (1851–1853) – 35th governor of Massachusetts (1887–1890) • Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – 21st governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851), U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1859–1884), president pro tempore of the U.S. SenateAugustus O. Bourn (1855) – 36th governor of Rhode Island (1883–1885) • Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – 73rd governor of Rhode Island (2003–2011) • Norman S. Case (A.B. 1908) – 56th governor of Rhode Island (1928–1933) • Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – 74th governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015), U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1975) • William Claflin (Class of 1837) – 27th governor of Massachusetts (1869–1872) • John H. Clifford (1827) – 21st governor of Massachusetts (1853–1854) • Samuel Cony (1829) – 31st governor of Maine (1864–1867) • Elisha Dyer (A.B. 1829) – 25th governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859) • Elisha Dyer Jr. (1856) – 45th governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900) • James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – 7th, 11th, and 17th governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811, 1824–1831, 1843–1845) • John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – 13th governor of Rhode Island (1833–1838) (1887) • Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. senator, DNew Hampshire (2017–) , class of 1980, U.S. senator of New HampshireJames H. Higgins (A.B. 1898) – 50th governor of Rhode Island (1907–1909) • Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 36th governor of New York (1907–1910) and 1916 Republican presidential nomineeCharles Jackson (A.B. 1917, A.M. 1920) – 18th governor of Rhode Island (1845–46) • Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – 55th governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) • Otto Kerner Jr. (1930) – 33rd governor of Illinois (1961–1968) • Samuel Ward King – 15th governor of Rhode Island (1839–1843) • Frank Licht (A.B. 1938) – 67th governor of Rhode Island (1969–1973) • William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); 11th governor of New York (1833–1839); U.S. secretary of war (1845–1849); U.S. senator from New York; U.S. secretary of state (1853–1857) (1808) • Jack Markell (1982) – 18th United States ambassador to the OECD, 73rd governor of Delaware (2009–2017) (1982) • Charles H. Mason (1850) – acting governor of the Washington Territory (1854–1859); 1st secretary of state of the Washington TerritoryMatt Meyer (A.B. 1994) – 76th governor of Delaware (2025-present) • Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), 16th & 18th governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844) • Pendleton Murrah (1848) – 10th governor of Texas (1863–1865) • Philip W. Noel (1954) – 68th governor of Rhode Island (1973–1977) • Robert E. Quinn (1915) – 58th governor of Rhode Island (1937–1939); judge, Rhode Island Superior CourtEdward C. Stokes (1883) – 32nd governor of New Jersey (1905–1908) • John Milton Thayer (1841) – 2nd governor of Wyoming Territory (1875–1878) and 6th governor of Nebraska (1887–1892) • David Rogerson Williams (1792–1795) – 45th governor of South Carolina (1814–1816) • Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – 21st governor of New Hampshire (1847–1849) • William D. Williamson (1804) – 2nd governor of Maine (1821–1821), U.S. congressman, Maine (1821–1823) Legislators United States senators Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853) • James Burrill Jr. (A.B. 1788) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandLincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1999–2007); governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015) • John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandNathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) – U.S. senator, Rhode IslandNathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandJames Fenner (A.B. 1789) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandDwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. senator from MassachusettsLafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) – U.S. senator, Connecticut (1855–1867), president pro tempore of the Senate (1865–1867) (1828) • Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandJohn Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – U.S. senator from Rhode IslandTheodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1937–1961) • Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. senator, DNew Hampshire (2017–) (1980) • Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) – U.S. senator, Colorado (1879–1885) • John Holmes (A.B. 1796) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820), U.S. Senator, Maine (1820–1827, 1829–1833) • Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1811–1817) • William Hunter (A.B. 1791) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1811–1821) • Edward L. Leahy (A.B.) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1949–1950) • Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) – U.S. senator, Rhode Island (1911–1917) • William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. senator, New York (1831–1833) • Blair Moody (A.B. 1922) – U.S. senator, Michigan (1951–1952) • John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) – U.S. senator from Maine (1835–1841) • Frederic M. Sackett (1890) – U.S. senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1930–1933) • John Milton Thayer (1841) – U.S. senator, Nebraska (1867–1871) (1841) • Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – U.S. senator, New Hampshire (1853–1854); U.S. congressman, New Hampshire (1837–1841); 21st governor of New Hampshire (1847–1849) United States representatives Benjamin Adams (A.B. 1788) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1816–1821) • Jeremiah Bailey (1795) – U.S. congressman, Maine (1835–1837) • John Bailey (1807) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1824–1831) • John Baldwin (A.B. 1797) – U.S. congressman, Connecticut (1825–1829) • Gideon Barstow (1803) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1821–1823) • William Baylies (1795) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1809–1809, 1813–1817, 1833–1835) • David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital, Providence, Rhode Island; U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (2011–2023) (1983) • Gil Cisneros (M.A. 2015) – U.S. congressman, California (2019–2021, 2025–present), 10th Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2015) • William Claflin – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1877 –1881) • Stephen A. Cobb (1858) – U.S. congressman, Kansas (1873–1875) • Howard A. Coffin (1901) – U.S. congressman, Michigan (1947–1949) • Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. congressman, Ohio, New York, U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman EmpireSamuel L. Crocker (1822) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1853–1855) • Robert Lee Davis – U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania (1932–1933) • Nathan F. Dixon II (1833) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1851, 1863–1871) • Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835) • Frederick D. Ely (1859) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1885–1887) • James Ervin (1797) – U.S. congressman, South Carolina (1817–1821) • Horace Everett (A.B. 1797) – U.S. congressman, Vermont (1829–1843) • Thomas Ewing Jr. – U.S. congressman, Ohio (1877–1881) • George Fisher (1813) – U.S. congressman, New York (1829–1830) • Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1793–1800) • Nathaniel Hazard (1792) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1820) • Aaron Hobart (1805) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1820–1827) • Thomas Jenckes (1838) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1859–1863) • Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – U.S. congressman, Louisiana (2004–2008) (1992) • George Gordon King (1825) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1853) • Oscar Lapham (1864) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1891–1895) • Dan Maffei (A.B. 1990) – U.S. congressman, D-New York (2009–2011, 2013–2015) • Seth Magaziner (A.B. 2006) – U.S. congressman, D-Rhode Island (2022–) (2006) • Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1848–1853) • James Brown Mason (A.B. 1791) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1819) • Charles D. Millard (1897) – U.S. congressman, New York (1931–1937) • Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821); Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844) • John J. O'Connor (1906) – U.S. congressman, New York (1923–1939) • Richard Olney II (1892) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1815–1921) • Dutee Jerauld Pearce (A.B. 1808) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1837) • Dean Phillips (A.B. 1991) – U.S. congressman, Minnesota (2019–); former candidate for the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nomination (1991) • Henry Kirke Porter (1860) – U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania (1903–1905) • John Reed Jr. (1803) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1813–1817, 1821–1841) • Edwin R. Reynolds (1839) – U.S. congressman, New York (1860–1861) • Christopher Robinson (1825) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1859–1861) • Deborah Ross (1985) – U.S. congresswoman, North Carolina (2021–present) • Jonathan Russell (1791) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1820) • William P. Sheffield, II (1877) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1909–1911) • Solomon Sibley (1794) – first United States attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial delegate to CongressThomas Hale Sill (1804) – U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania (1826 –1827, 1829 –1831) • Edward L. Sittler Jr. (1930) – U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania, 23rd Congressional District • Albert Smith (1813) – U.S. congressman, Maine (1839–1841) • James Tallmadge Jr. (1798) – U.S. congressman, New York (1817–1819), assisted the founding of New York University (1798) • Eli Thayer (1845) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1857–1861) • Benjamin Thomas (1830) – U.S. congressman, Massachusetts (1861–1863) • Ezekiel Whitman (1795) – U.S. congressman, Maine (1835–1837) • John W. Wydler (1947) – U.S. congressman, New York (1963–1981) State legislators Michael Abbott (A.B. 1970) – member of New Hampshire House of Representatives (2014–present) • Jonathon Acosta (A.B. 2011, A.M. 2016, A.M. 2019, Ph.D. 2025) – member of Rhode Island Senate (2021–present) • William Ames – member of Rhode Island House of RepresentativesRobert Arnould (Class of 1976) – member of Iowa House of Representatives (1977–1995) • Sullivan Ballou (Class of 1852) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives; Major in Rhode Island militia; killed at First Battle of Bull RunToby Barker (2015) – member of Mississippi House of Representatives (2008–2017) • Wendell B. Barnes (1928) – member of Oklahoma House of Representatives (1950–1952), 2nd administrator of the Small Business AdministrationPhilip Baruth (A.B. 1984) – 83rd president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate, majority leader of the Vermont Senate (2013–2017) • Sam Bell (A.M. 2014, Ph.D. 2016) – member of Rhode Island Senate (2019–present) • Brian Benjamin (A.B. 1998) – member of the New York State Senate (2017–2021), lieutenant governor of New York (2021–2022) • Steve Bennett (1972) – member of California State Assembly (2020–present) • Seth Berry (1991) – member of Maine House of Representatives (2006–2014, 2016–present) • Nate Blouin (2020) – member of Utah State Senate (2023–present) • Erastus Brooks (attended) – member of New York State Senate and New York State AssemblyElon R. Brown (1876) – majority leader of the New York State Senate (1915–1918) • Nathaniel Bullock (1798) – speaker of Rhode Island House of RepresentativesBridget Burkhardt (A.B. 1995) – member of Vermont House of Representatives (2025–present) • Antonio F. D. Cabral (1997) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1990–present) • Jack Cera (A.B. 1978) – member of Ohio House of RepresentativesEla Chapin (Sc.B. 1998) – member of Vermont House of Representatives (2023–present) • David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (2011–2023) • Everett Colby (1897) – member of New Jersey General Assembly (1904–1906) and member of New Jersey Senate (1906–1909) • Cherie Cruz (A.B. 2009, A.M. 2010) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (2023–present) • Lauren Davis (A.B. 2009) – member of Washington House of Representatives (2019–present) • Louis DiPalma (Sc.M. 1989) – member of the Rhode Island Senate (2009–present) • Elisha Dyer Jr. (1856) – member of the Rhode Island Senate (1877–1904) • Kirsten Engel (A.B. 1983) – member of Arizona House of Representatives (2017–2021) and Arizona Senate (2021) • S. Thomas Gagliano (A.B. 1954) – member of New Jersey Senate (1978–1989) • G. Ellsworth Gale, Jr. (A.B. 1922) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (1954–1956) and Rhode Island Senate (1956–1964) • Kyle Evans Gay (A.B. 2008) – member of Delaware Senate (2021–2025), 27th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (2025–present) • Alfred A. Gemma (1960) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (2005–2011) • Traci Gere (A.B. 1986) – member of Maine House of Representatives (2022–present) • Solomon Goldstein-Rose (2016) – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives (2017–2019) • Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) – member of the Arkansas General Assembly (2006–2011) • Will Guzzardi (A.B. 2009) – member of Illinois House of Representatives (2015–present) • Elijah Hamlin – member of the Maine House of Representatives (1830–1832) and Maine SenateSteve Harrison (1990) – member of the West Virginia State Senate (2003–2006) and the West Virginia House of Delegates (1993–2002) • Wingate Hayes (1844) – speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1859-1860) • Benjamin Hazard (1792) – speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (1816–1818) • Ratcliffe Hicks (1864) – member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1866–1895), benefactor of the University of ConnecticutRobert Benjamin Hilton (1843) – member of Florida House of RepresentativesRebecca Holcombe (A.B. 1988) – member of Vermont House of RepresentativesEzekiel Holmes (1821) – member of Maine House of Representatives and Maine SenateEmmons Johnson (attended) – member of Iowa SenateMeghan Kallman (Ph.D. 2016) – member of Rhode Island SenateWalter M. D. Kern – member of New Jersey General Assembly (1978–1990) • Jeff King (A.B. 1997) – member of Kansas House of Representatives (2007–2011) and Kansas Senate (2011–2017) • Rebecca Kislak (A.B. 1994) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (2019–present) • Peter Kocot (A.B. 1978) – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives (2002–2018) • J. Michael Lenihan (A.M. 1968) – member of Rhode Island Senate (1990–2010) • Dana Levenberg (1986) – member of the New York State Assembly (2023–present), Town Supervisor of Ossining (2016–2022) • Stefanie Mach (2011) – member of the Arizona House of Representatives (2013–2017) • Tiara Mack (A.B. 2016) – member of the Rhode Island Senate (2021–present) • Tom McCormick (1947) – member of the New Hampshire House of RepresentativesMee Moua (1992) – Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician • Donna Nesselbush (A.B. 1984) – member of the Rhode Island Senate (2011–2021) • Michael C. Nichols (A.B. 1974) – member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1977–1980) • William Norbert (A.B. 1990) – member of Maine House of Representatives (1998–2004) • Manuel Rodríguez Orellana (A.M. 1972) – member of Senate of Puerto Rico (1999–2001) • Steven Owens (A.B. 1999) – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives (2021–present) • Louis Pastore (1954) – member of Rhode Island Senate (1971–1976) • Cornelius W. Pendleton (1881) – speaker of the California State Assembly (1901) • Bill Perkins (1972) – member of New York State Senate (2007–2017) • Hannah Pingree (A.B. 1998) – speaker of the Maine House of Representatives (2008–2010) • William Francis Ray – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts SenateAaron Regunberg (A.B. 2012) – member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (2015–2019) • Abbott Barnes Rice (A.B. 1884, A.M. 1889) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1919–1922) and Massachusetts Senate (1923–1926) • José Javier Rodríguez (A.B. 2000) – member of Florida House of Representatives (2012–2016) and Florida Senate (2016–2020) • Samuel Rotondi (A.B. 1969) – member of the Massachusetts Senate (1977–1983) • Steve Sandell (A.B. 1962) – member of Minnesota House of Representatives (2019–2023) • John Day Smith (1872) – member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1889–1890) and Minnesota Senate (1891–1894) • Chris Soto (2011) – member of Connecticut House of Representatives (2017–2019) • Mark Strama (A.B. 1990) – member of the Texas House of RepresentativesChipalo Street (Sc.B. 2006, Sc.M. 2007) – member of Washington House of RepresentativesReena Szczepanski (A.B. 1998) – majority leader of the New Mexico House of RepresentativesAustin Volk (1941) – member of the New Jersey General Assembly and mayor of Englewood, New JerseyJoseph Walker (1887) – speaker of the Massachusetts House of RepresentativesMark L. Walker (A.B. 1974, A.M. 1974) – member of Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois SenateReuel Washburn (1815) – member of the Maine Senate and Maine House of RepresentativesDavid H. Watters (Ph.D. 1979) – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (2008–2012) and New Hampshire Senate (2012–present) • Albert Benjamin West (A.B. 1904, A.M. 1904) – member of Rhode Island House of RepresentativesLemuel Williams Jr. (1804) – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts SenateGeorge C. Wing Jr. (1900) – member of Maine House of RepresentativesLeslie Winner (A.B. 1972) – member of North Carolina Senate Mayors Peter C. Bacon (1827) – 3rd mayor of Worcester, MassachusettsWilliam C. Baker (A.B. 1881) – 20th mayor of Providence, Rhode IslandKostas Bakoyannis (A.B. 2000) – mayor of Athens, Greece (2019–2023) • Toby Barker (2015) – 35th mayor of Hattiesburg, MississippiSamuel W. Bridgham (1794) – 1st mayor of Providence, Rhode IslandAlbert D. Bosson (1875) – 17th mayor of Chelsea, MassachusettsThomas M. Burgess (1822) – 2nd mayor of Providence, Rhode IslandHenry Chapin (1835) – 2nd mayor of Worcester, MassachusettsDavid Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital; 36th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island; U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (2011–) • Oliver B. Munroe (A.M.) – mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts (2011) • Freddie O'Connell (A.B., Sc.B. 2000) – 10th mayor of Nashville, TennesseeChelsie J. Senerchia – 26th mayor of Miami, Florida (1951–1953) • Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – 1st mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1806–1806) • Sumbul Siddiqui (A.B. 2010) – Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020–); first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history • Jerome V. C. Smith (M.D. 1818) – mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (1854–1856) • Samuel Starkweather (1822) – 7th and 15th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1844–1845, 1857–1858) • Elijah B. Stoddard (1847) – 23rd mayor of Worcester, MassachusettsSam Sutter (A.B. 1976) – 43rd mayor of Fall River, MassachusettsHenry Traphagen – 19th mayor of Jersey City, New JerseyKonstantinos Zervas (Sc.M. 1989) – mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece (2019–2023) Diplomats Willard L. Beaulac (1918) – U.S. ambassador to Paraguay (1944–1947), Colombia (1947–1951), Cuba (1951–1953), Chile (1953–1956) and Argentina (1956–1960) • Taylor G. Belcher (1941) – U.S. ambassador to Cyprus (1964–1969) and Peru (1969–1974) • W. Randolph Burgess (1912) – U.S. ambassador to NATO (1957–1961) • Mercer Cook (A.M. 1931, Ph.D. 1936) – U.S. ambassador to Niger (1961–1964), Senegal (1964–1966), and the Gambia (1964–1966) • William H. Courtney (Ph.D. 1972) – U.S. ambassador to Georgia (1995–1997) and Kazakhstan (1992–1994) • Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1885–1886) • Nathaniel Davis (1944) – U.S. ambassador to Switzerland (1976–1977), Chile (1971–1973), Guatemala (1968–1971), and Bulgaria (1965–1966); director general of the Foreign Service (1973–1975) • Roy T. Davis (A.B. 1910) – U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica (1922–1930), Panama (1930–1933), and Haiti (1953–1957) • Rosemary DiCarlo (A.B. 1969, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1979) – acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2013) (1969) • J. Thomas DoughertyU.S. ambassador to Burkina Faso (2010–2013) • Norm Eisen (A.B. 1985) – U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011–2014) Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, chief of protocol of the United StatesJohn Hay (A.B. 1858) – 37th U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905) • Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962) – U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1999–2001), U.S. assistant secretary of state, U.S. ambassador to Germany (1993–1994), former chairman of the Asia Society, member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, counselor to the Council on Foreign Relations, founding chairman of the American Academy in BerlinFranklin Huddle (A.B. 1965) – U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan (2001–2003) (1962) • Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 44th U.S. secretary of state (1921–1925) • Frederick Irving (A.B. 1943) – U.S. ambassador to Iceland (1972–1976) and Jamaica (1977–1978) • Roberta S. Jacobson (A.B. 1982) – U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018) • Noble Brandon Judah (1904) – U.S. ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929) • Clinton E. Knox (A.M. 1931) – U.S. ambassador to Haiti (1969–1973) • Edward G. Lanpher (A.B. 1965) – U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe (1991–1995) • Suzan G. LeVine (A.B. 1993) – U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein (2014–2017) • William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – 21st U.S. secretary of state (1853–1857), 20th United States secretary of war (1845–1849) • Anthony Dryden Marshall (1950) – U.S. consul in Istanbul, 1958–59; U.S. ambassador to Malagasy Republic (1969–71), Trinidad and Tobago (1972–74), Kenya (1973–77), Seychelles (1976–77); theatrical producer; felon • Virgil Maxcy (1804) – U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium (1837–1842) • John M. McSweeneyU.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (1966–1970) • Roderick W. Moore (A.B. 1986, A.M. 1987) – U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro (2007–2010) and acting U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (2015) • Adam Namm (A.B. 1985) – U.S. ambassador to Ecuador (2012–2015) • James D. Nealon (A.B. 1980) – U.S. ambassador to Honduras (2014–2017) • Victoria Nuland (A.B. 1983) – Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2021–2024), U.S. ambassador to NATO (2005–2008) (1983) • Richard Olson (A.B. 1981) – U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2008–2011) and Pakistan (2012–2015) • Richard Olney (A.B. 1856) – 34th U.S. Secretary of State (1895–1897), 40th United States Attorney General (1893–1895) • Ely Palmer (A.B. 1907) – U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan (1948) • Nit Phibunsongkhram (A.M. 1967) – Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008), Thai Ambassador to the United States (1996–2000) • David Pressman (A.B. 1999) – U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs (2014–2017), U.S. ambassador to Hungary (2022–2025), co-founder Not on Our WatchJon Purnell (A.B. 1970) – U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan (2003–2007) • J. Meredith Read (A.M. 1866) – U.S. minister to Greece (1873–1879) • L. Nicholas Ruwe (1955) – U.S. ambassador to Iceland (1985–1989) • Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) – U.S. senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. ambassador to Germany (1930–1933) • Richard SneiderU.S. ambassador to South Korea (1974–1978) • John J. Sullivan (A.B. 1981) – U.S. ambassador to Russia (2020–2022), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2017–2019), acting U.S. Secretary of State (2018) • Stephanie S. Sullivan (A.B. 1980) – U.S. ambassador to Ghana (2019–2022), and Republic of the Congo (2013–2017) • William H. Sullivan (A.B. 1943) – U.S. ambassador to Laos (1964–1969), the Philippines (1973–1977), and Iran (1977–1979) • W. Stuart Symington (A.B. 1974) – U.S. ambassador to Nigeria (2016–2019) and Rwanda (2008–2011) • William H. Twaddell (1963) – U.S. ambassador to Nigeria (1997–2000) • Thomas J. Watson Jr. (A.B. 1937) – U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981); 2nd president of IBM (1952–71); 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68); recipient of the 1964 Presidential Medal of Freedom (1937) • Henry Wheaton (A.B. 1802) – U.S. Minister to Denmark (1827–1835) and Prussia (1837–1846) • Sharon P. Wilkinson (A.B. 1968) – U.S. ambassador to Burkina Faso (1996–1999) and Mozambique (2000–2003) • Curtin Winsor Jr. (A.B. 1961) – U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica (1983–1985) Advisors and officials John A. Bolles (A.B. 1829, A.M. 1832) – 8th secretary of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsKate Brandt (A.B. 2007) – 1st American chief sustainability officerNicholas Brown III (1811) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandNathaniel Bullock (1798) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandCharles "Chuck" Colson (1953) – chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in the Watergate Scandal; founder of Prison FellowshipJames G. Connolly (1909) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandKate R. Cook (A.B. 1998) – chief of staff to the governor of Massachusetts (2023–present); acting Massachusetts Attorney General (2023) • Thomas Corcoran (1922) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyistTad Devine (A.B. 1978) – political consultant, senior adviser in Al Gore's 2000 and John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaigns, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaignThomas R. DiLuglio (1953) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandDavid F. Duncan (1995) – domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug addiction • Rochelle Mercedes Garza (A.B. 2007) – chief, United States Commission on Civil RightsWilliam Greene (1817) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandBenjamin F. Hallett (1816) – 1st chair of the Democratic National Committee; United States attorney for the District of MassachusettsJohn Hay (1858) – U.S. secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1898–1905), private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln (1858) • Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – senior lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University; former executive aid to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz; research fellow, Hoover InstitutionE. Howard Hunt (1940) – author, OSS & CIA officer, worked under President Richard Nixon; figured in the Watergate scandalRandall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemBarbara Leonard (A.B. 1946) – 23rd Secretary of State of Rhode IslandIra Magaziner (1969) – Clinton advisor, current chairman of Clinton AIDS Initiative; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum • Seema Nanda (1992) – United States Solicitor of Labor, CEO of the Democratic National ConventionAnnette Nazareth (A.B. 1979) – former Securities and Exchange commissioner, partner at Davis Polk & Wardell • Richard Olney (1856) – United States attorney general (1893–1895), United States secretary of state (1895–1897) • Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) – chair of the Democratic National Committee, former United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017) (1983) • Elizabeth H. Roberts (1978) – lieutenant governor of Rhode IslandElisse B. Walter (Class of 1971) – 30th chair of the Securities and Exchange CommissionJoseph Ward (1865) – leader in the movement for South Dakota statehood • Tahesha Way (A.B. 1993) – secretary of state of New Jersey (2018–2023), lieutenant governor of New Jersey (2023–) • Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – United States secretary of the treasury, former chair of the Federal Reserve, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley International politicians Junaid Ahmad (A.B.) – Bangladeshi economist, World Bank country director for India • Silas Alward (A.M. 1871) – member of Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (1887–1899) • Pang Chien-kuo (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1988) – member of Legislative Yuan (2002–2005) • Laura E. Flores (A.B. 1990) – permanent representative of Panama to the United NationsIchirō FujisakiJapanese ambassador to the United States (2008–12), Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1995–99) • James Gillies (A.M. 1949) – member of Parliament of Canada representing Don Valley (1972–1979) • Shigeyuki Goto (A.M. 1984) – Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (2021–present) • Martín Guzmán (Ph.D. 2013) – Minister of Economy of Argentina (2019–2022) (2013) • Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay – Scottish lord, member of the House of Lords Excepted Hereditary (2019–present) • Nadiem Makarim (2006) – Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia (2021–present) • Eduardo Montealegre (Sc.B. 1976) – Nicaraguan politician, deputy to the National Assembly, Minister of Foreign AffairsNitya Pibulsonggram (A.M. 1967) – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand (2006–2008) • Uttama Savanayana (Sc.B. 1982) – former Minister of Finance (2019–2020), Industry (2016–2018), and Digital Economy and Society of Thailand (2015–2016) • Tarek Shawki (MSc 1983, MSc 1985, Ph.D. 1985) – Minister of Education and Technical Education of Egypt • Ijyaraj Singh (Sc.B. 1987) – Indian politician, Member of the Lok Sabha representing Kota (2009–2014) • Kenneth Tiong (Sc.B. 2014) – member of Parliament of Singapore representing the Serangoon Division of Aljunied Group Representation ConstituencyHenry Tufnell (A.B. 2015) – Welsh politician, Member of Parliament for Mid and South Pembrokeshire (2015) • Julio Velarde (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1978) – chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2006–present) Activists, reformers, and thought leaders Junaid Ahmad (A.B. 1983) – economist; World Bank country director for India • Benjamin Boas (A.B. 2007) – Cool Japan ambassador to the Cabinet Office of Japan and cultural consultant • John Bonifaz (1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute, recipient of the MacArthur FellowshipGeoffrey Bowersplaintiff an early HIV/AIDS discrimination case • Katherine Chon (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and board president of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris ProjectBhupendranath Datta (M.A. 1914) – Indian revolutionary, sociologist and anthropologist • Sean Eldridge (A.B. 2009) – political activist and former congressional candidate • Derek Ellerman (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and board chairman of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project, former Ashoka fellow and current Ashoka ambassador • John Dix Fisher (1820) – founder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, the first school for the blind established in the U.S. • Kathryn S. Fuller (A.B. 1968) – chairman of the board, Ford Foundation; former president and CEO of non-governmental organization World Wildlife Fund – U.S. (1989–2005) • Samuel Gridley Howe (1821) – prominent physician, abolitionist, advocate of education for the blind • Gene Karpinski (1974) – president, League of Conservation VotersKerry Kennedy (A.B. 1981) – activist, writer; president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; former wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo; daughter of Robert F. Kennedy (1981) • Maya Keyes – anarchist and gay rights activist • Alfie Kohn (A.B. 1979) – proponent of progressive educationNancy Lublin (1993) – founder of Crisis Text LineHorace Mann (A.B. 1819) – educationist; father of American public school education • Nancy Northup (A.B. 1981) – president, Center for Reproductive RightsNawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – physician, founder of the first hospital center in the United States devoted to the medical needs of African women who have undergone FGM, recipient of the MacArthur FellowshipMichael Parenti (A.M. 1957) – political scientist, social critic, and author • Jesselyn Radack (A.B. 1992) – national security and human rights attorney • Cecile Richards (1980) – president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (1980) • George Lincoln Rockwell (Class of 1942) – founder of the American Nazi Party; dropped out after second year to join the NavyKenneth Roth (A.B. 1978) – executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993–2022) (1978) • Malika Saada Saar (A.B. 1992) – director of the Human Rights Project for Girls; co-founder of Rebecca Project for Human Rights • Rinku Sen (A.B. 1988) – co-president of the Women's March board of directors, former executive director of Race ForwardMartha Sharp (A.B. 1926) – Unitarian who aided hundreds of Jews in escaping the Holocaust • Michael Soussan (A.B. 1996) – whistleblower and author • Irving Stowe (A.B. 1936) – founder of GreenpeaceAdam Werbach (A.B. 1995) – president, Sierra Club Jurists and attorneys State supreme court justices Asa Aldis (A.B. 1796) – chief justice of the Vermont Supreme CourtSamuel Ames (1823) – chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1856–1865) • Peleg Arnold (A.B.) – chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1795 to 1812; represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1787–1788 session; incorporator of the Providence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790 • Chester W. Barrows (1895) – justice, Rhode Island Supreme CourtTheodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) – justice, Supreme Court of IndianaAlfred Bosworth (1835) – justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1854–1862) • John P. Bourcier (1950) – justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1995–2002) • Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1866–1868) • George A. Brayton (1824) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1868–1874) • Allyn L. Brown (1905) – chief justice, Connecticut Supreme CourtFranklin J. Dickman (1846) – judge, Supreme Court of OhioNorman S. Dike (Ph.B. 1887) – judge, New York Supreme CourtLuke Drury (1813) – judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtJob Durfee (A.B. 1813) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme CourtThomas Durfee (1846) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme CourtSamuel Eddy (1787) – U.S. congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835) • Carmen E. Espinosa (A.M. 1973) – senior judge, Connecticut Supreme CourtCharles E. Forbes (1815) – judge, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial CourtC. G. W. French (1842) – chief justice, Arizona Territorial Supreme CourtRichard Ward Greene (1812) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court; United States Attorney for the District of Rhode IslandLevi Haile (1821) – judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtClarke Howard Johnson (1877) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme CourtAlfred H. Joslin (A.B. 1936) – justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1963–1979) • Victoria Lederberg (Ph.D. 1966) – judge, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1993–2002) • Charles Matteson (A.B. 1861) – chief justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1891–1900) • Lewis Linn McArthur – justice, Oregon Supreme CourtTheron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial CourtMarcus Morton (1838) – chief justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882–1890) • James Madison Morton Sr. (1859) – judge, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial CourtWilliam W. Moss (1891) – judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtJohn S. Murdock (1896) – judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtThomas J. Paolino – judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtChristopher F. Parkhurst (1876) – chief judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtCharles Ray (Class of 1852) – judge, Indiana Supreme CourtSolomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – chief justice, Michigan Supreme Court; first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial delegate to CongressWilliam R. Staples (1817) – chief judge, Rhode Island Supreme CourtJulie J. Vargas (A.B. 1990) – judge, New Mexico Supreme CourtHenry L. Warren – chief judge, Montana Territorial Supreme CourtJoseph R. Weisberger (1947) – chief judge, Rhode Island Supreme Court State attorneys general Margery Bronster (A.B. 1979) – 10th attorney general of HawaiiRobert W. Burbank (1878) – 49th attorney general of Rhode IslandKate R. Cook (A.B. 1998) – acting attorney general of Massachusetts (2023); chief of staff to the Governor of Massachusetts (2023–present) • Herbert F. DeSimone (A.B. 1910) – 64th attorney general of Rhode Island and assistant secretary of transportation • John Patrick Hartigan (A.B. 1951) – 59th attorney general of Rhode Island (1933–1939); judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1940–1951); judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1951–1968) • David Howell (A.M. 1769) – 41st attorney general of Rhode Island; judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1812–1824) • Richard J. Israel (A.B.) – 65th attorney general of Rhode IslandGeorge V. N. Lothrop (1838) – 7th attorney general of Michigan; U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1885–1888) • Patrick C. Lynch (1987) – 72nd attorney general of Rhode IslandBenjamin M. McLyman (1913) – 58th attorney general of Rhode IslandJulius C. Michaelson (A.M. 1967) – 66th attorney general of Rhode IslandDennise Longo Quiñones (A.B. 1989) – secretary of justice of Puerto RicoWilliam Tong (A.B. 1995) – 25th attorney general of Connecticut (2019–present) United States district court judges Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) – senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto RicoTerrence Boyle (A.B. 1967) – chief justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North CarolinaArthur Lewis Brown (A.B. 1876) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode IslandA. Richard Caputo (A.B. 1960) – senior judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of PennsylvaniaGeorge Moulton Carpenter (A.B. 1864) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode IslandRobert Chatigny (A.B. 1973) – chief judge, United States District Court for the District of ConnecticutEdward William Day (A.B. 1922) – chief judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode IslandLeslie Abrams Gardner (A.B. 1997) – chief judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of GeorgiaJohn Power Knowles (A.B. 1836) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode IslandJohn Christopher Mahoney (A.B. 1905) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island; Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitJohn J. McConnell Jr. (A.B. 1980) – chief judge, United States District Court for the District of Rhode IslandEdmund A. Sargus Jr. (A.B. 1975) – chief judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of OhioRobert N. Scola Jr. (A.B. 1977) – senior judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of FloridaMatthias B. Tallmadge (A.M. 1798) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of New YorkJoseph L. Tauro (A.B. 1953) – chief judge, United States District Court for the District of MassachusettsAnne Rachel Traum (A.B. 1991) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada Other federal legal officials (1881) • Jeffrey Arbeit (A.B. 2005) – judge, United States Tax CourtZachary A. Cunha (A.B. 1998) – United States attorney for the District of Rhode IslandIsrael HamiltonUnited States attorney for the District of OhioRichard Hertling (A.B. 1982) – judge, United States Court of Federal ClaimsDwight Holton (A.B. 1987) – United States attorney for the District of OregonCharles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 11th chief justice of the United States (1930–1941); governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. secretary of state (1921–1925) • Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (A.B. 1909) – 20th United States solicitor general; son of Charles Evans Hughes • Charles F. Lettow (A.M. 2001) – senior judge, United States Court of Federal ClaimsJoshua S. Levy (A.B. 1987) – United States attorney for the District of MassachusettsRichard Olney (1856) – 40th United States attorney general (1893–1895), 34th United States Secretary of State (1895–1897) • Thomas J. Perrelli (A.B. 1988) – United States associate attorney generalJohn A. Rizzo (A.B. 1969) – acting general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency; noted for his role in "laying the legal groundwork" for the war on terror (1969) • Lafe Solomon (A.B. 1970) – acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations BoardKenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – 39th United States solicitor general; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings and namesake of the Starr Report; president of Baylor UniversityTheodore Tannenwald Jr. (A.B. 1936) – judge, United States Tax CourtNorman O. Tietjens (Ph.B. 1925, M.A. 1927) – judge, United States Tax CourtOjetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; Judge, Rhode Island Superior CourtCharles H. Turner (A.B. 1958) – United States attorney for the District of Oregon Other legal officials Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – chief justice, Rhode Island Family Court • Michael A. Cardozo (A.B. 1963) – 77th corporation counsel of New York CityJeremy Feigenbaum (A.B. 2011) – 1st solicitor general of New JerseyGeorge Edward Chalmer Hayes (1915) – lead attorney in Bolling v. Sharpe, the companion case to Brown v. Board of EducationNathan Hochman (A.B. 1985) – attorney, district attorney of Los Angeles County (2024–), United States assistant attorney general for the Tax Division (2008–2009) • William M. Jackson (A.B. 1975) – judge, Superior Court of the District of ColumbiaJoseph B. Keenan (1910) – chief prosecutor, International Military Tribunal for the Far East; United States Assistant Attorney General, Criminal DivisionLynn Leibovitz (A.B. 1981) – judge, Superior Court of the District of ColumbiaMichael Newdow (Sc.B. 1974) – atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before the U.S. Supreme CourtTheodore R. Newman Jr. (A.B. 1955) – chief judge, District of Columbia Court of AppealsLouis L. Redding (A.B. 1923) – first Black lawyer in Delaware, successfully litigated Gebhart v. Belton, which was upheld in Brown v. Board of EducationRobert A. Salerno (A.B. 1983) – judge, Superior Court of the District of ColumbiaMichael A. Silverstein (A.B. 1956) – judge, Rhode Island Superior CourtCraig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court ==Business==
Business
Lawrence D. Ackman (1960) – real estate entrepreneur, father of billionaire Bill AckmanDamola Adamolekun (A.B. 2011) – CEO of P. F. Chang's (2020–2023), CEO of Red Lobster (2024–present) • Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (1986) – heir apparent and designated future chairman of the Fiat groupEverett M. Arnold (A.B. 1921) – founder of Quality ComicsGeorge S. Barrett (A.B. 1977) – CEO of Cardinal Health (2009–2017) • John Berylson (A.B. 1975) – investor • Marvin Bower (Sc.B. 1925) – co-founder of McKinsey & CompanyAneel Bhusri (Sc.B. 1988) – billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Workday (1988) • Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1938) – co-founder and President, Diners Club InternationalOrlando Bravo (1970) – first Puerto Rican billionaire businessman • Harry G. Broadman (A.B. 1977) – international investment executive (1970) • Willard C. Butcher (1948) – former chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan BankAdam Cahan (A.B. 1993) – former senior vice president of Mobile and Emerging Products, Yahoo!Arthur L. Carter (1953) – investor, namesake of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University • Lisa Caputo (A.B. 1986) – chief marketing officer, CitigroupFinn M. W. Caspersen (A.B. 1963) – financier, chairman and chief executive of the Beneficial CorporationJohn S. Chen (Sc.B. 1978) – chairman and CEO of BlackBerry LimitedChung Yong-jin (A.B. 1994) – South Korean billionaire, vice chairman and CEO of Shinsegae GroupGlenn Creamer (A.B. 1984) – billionaire, Senior managing director of Providence Equity PartnersDan DiMicco (BSc 1972) – CEO (2000–12) and chairman (2006–12) of NucorTanya Dubash (A.B. 1991) – Indian businesswoman • David Ebersman (A.B. 1991) – former chief financial officer of Facebook, Inc.; founder, Lyra Health • Donna M. Fernandes (Sc.B 1981) – president and CEO, Buffalo Zoo 2000–2017 • Dylan Field (Class of 2013½) – founder and CEO of FigmaDevin Finzer (BSc 2013) – billionaire, CEO and co-founder of OpenSeaGeorge M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – former CEO of Motorola and Eastman Kodak CompanyAlan H. Fishman (A.B. 1967) – CEO of Washington MutualSidney Frank (Class of 1942) – billionaire founder of Grey Goose and JägermeisterTom Gardner (A.B. 1990) – co-founder and co-chairman of the Motley FoolKenneth Gaw (1992) – Hong Kong businessman • Charles Giancarlo (BSc 1979) – chairman and CEO of Pure Storage, former chief technology officer at Cisco SystemsJeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) – chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan CompaniesTheresia Gouw (Sc.B. 1990) – investor, wealthiest female venture capitalist in the United States • Ross Greenburg (1977) – president of HBO SportsOliver Haarmann (1990) – founding partner of Searchlight Capital PartnersJames Harmon (A.B. 1957) – investor; President and CEO, Export–Import Bank of the United States (1997–2001) • Harry Henshel (1940) – CEO of BulovaWalter Hoving (Ph.B. 1920) – CEO of Tiffany & Co.Moses Brown Ives (1812) – president, Providence BankNina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) – former president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (1987) • Parth Jindal (A.B. 2012) – managing director of JSW Cement, son of Sajjan JindalCraig Kallman (A.B. 1987) – chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records GroupRay Kassar (1948) – former CEO of AtariPaul Kazarian (M.A. 1980) – billionaire investor • Dara Khosrowshahi (Sc.B. 1991) – CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia Group (1991) • İpek Kıraç (2007, M.P.H. 2011) – Turkish billionaire heiress and businesswoman • Beth Kobliner (A.B. 1986) – personal finance commentator • Randy Komisar (A.B. 1976) – co-founder of Claris, former CEO of LucasArts • Jonathan Klein (A.B. 1980) – former president of CNN/US • Steph Korey (A.B. 2009) – founder of AwayLiz Lange (A.B. 1988) – founder of Liz Lange Maternity • Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) – chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment TelevisionGordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) – former president and CEO, NASDAQNadiem Makarim (A.B. 2006) – founder of Gojek, current Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia • Chloe Malle (A.B. 2008) – Head of Editorial Content, VogueBrian Moynihan (A.B. 1981) – president and CEO, Bank of America (1981) • Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977) – billionaire, investor, founder of Providence Equity PartnersLucius Pond Ordway (1883) – president, 3MKaran Paul (1992) – chairman, Apeejay Surrendra GroupSteven Price (Sc.B. 1984) – co-founder of Townsquare Media, and minority owner of the Atlanta HawksGeorge Pyne (1988) – founder and CEO of Bruin Sports Capital • Sridhar Ramaswamy (Ph.D. 1995) – former senior vice president of Advertising and Commerce, Google • Ajit Ranade (A.M., Ph.D. 1997) – chief economist with the Aditya Birla GroupSteven Rattner (A.B. 1974) – deputy chairman and Deputy CEO, Lazard Frères & Co.William R. Rhodes (A.B. 1957) – senior vice-chairman, CitigroupStephen Robert (A.B. 1962), chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. (1983–1997), Chancellor of Brown University (1998–2007) • John D. Rockefeller Jr. (A.B. 1897) – financer, philanthropist, son of John D. Rockefeller, and builder of Rockefeller Center (1897) • Tom Rothman (A.B. 1976) – president, 20th Century Fox Film Group • Tom Scott (A.B. 1989) – co-founder of Nantucket Nectars, with Tom First • John Sculley (A.B. 1961) – president of PepsiCo (1977–1983); CEO of Apple Computer (1983–1993) • Josh Silverman (A.B. 1991) – CEO of Etsy (2017–) and Skype (2008–10); founder of EviteRashmi Sinha (Ph.D. 1998) – co-founder and CEO of SlideShareLawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) – president of Fannie Mae; secretary of the Smithsonian InstitutionOrin R. Smith (1957) – chairman and CEO, Engelhard (1999–2001) • Barry Sternlicht (A.B. 1982) – co-founder and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, co-founder of StarwoodJeff Stibel (Sc.M. 1999) – entrepreneur, founder of Bryant Stibel • Jeffrey Swartz (A.B. 1982) – former CEO of TimberlandMelvin Swig (A.B. 1939) – real estate developer and philanthropist • Ted Turner (Class of 1960) – billionaire founder of CNN and Turner BroadcastingAmelia Warren Tyagi (A.B. 1993) – businesswoman, author; daughter of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth WarrenThomas J. Watson Jr. (1937) – president and CEO of IBM (1956–1971); U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981) • Gus Wenner (2012) – CEO of Rolling StoneJochen Wermuth (A.M. 1992) – German investor, founder and chief investment officer of Wermuth Asset Management • Melanie Whelan (1999) – CEO of SoulCycle (2015–2019) • Meredith Whitney (A.B. 1992) – equity research analyst notable for her prediction of the 2008 financial crisisAndrew Yang (A.B. 1996) – founder of Venture for America (VFA), 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate (1996) • Nancy Zimmerman (A.B. 1985) – hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital ==Journalism==
Journalism
Leroy F. Aarons (A.B. 1955) – journalist; founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists AssociationRachel Aviv (A.B. 2004) – staff writer at The New YorkerJim Axelrod (A.M. 1989) – chief White House correspondent, CBS NewsJoel Bach (A.B. 1991) – Emmy Award-winning journalist and television producer for 60 Minutes and Years of Living DangerouslyRebecca Ballhaus (A.B. 2013) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist • Chris Berman (A.B. 1977) – ESPN host and anchor • Amy DuBois Barnett (A.B. 1991) – Editer-in-chief, Ebony; editor-in-chief, Teen People; deputy editor, Harper's BazaarMartin Bernheimer (1958) – Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic • Duncan B. Black, aka Atrios (Ph.D. 1999) – political blogger • Elizabeth Bruenig (2014–2015) – opinion writer at The New York Times and formerly The Washington PostAlex Cohen (A.B. 1993) – Emmy Award-winning journalist • Robert Conley (1953) – founding member and former general manager of NPR; creator and original host of All Things Considered; former New York Times front-page correspondent; National Geographic writer; reporter and anchor for NBC and the Huntley-Brinkley ReportGareth Cook (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Boston Globe, for writing about stem cell research • David Corn (1981) – Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Mother JonesDana Cowin (A.B. 1982) – editor-in-chief of Food & WineLyn Crost (A.B. 1938) – World War II correspondent and author, Honor by Fire:Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the PacificSachi Cunningham (1994) – PBS Frontline/world producer and director of photography, Los Angeles Times video journalist • Adrian Dearnell (A.B. 1994) – Franco-American financial journalist, CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media • Larry Elder (A.B. 1974) – columnist; radio personality; TV talk show host, The Larry Elder Show; author; unsuccessful Republican candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall electionKatherine Eban (A.B. 1989) – investigative journalist • Chip Giller (A.B. 1993) – environmentalist, founder of GristIra Glass (A.B. 1982) – host and producer, National Public Radio, This American Life (1982) • Jerry Green (A.B. 1950) – sports journalist, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. • Catherine Gund (A.B. 1988) – documentary filmmaker; activist • Chris Hayes (A.B. 2001) – editor of The Nation and host of All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC (2001) • Tony Horwitz (1980) – journalist, Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National ReportingA. J. Jacobs (1990) – journalist and author, ''The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, The Year of Living Biblically'' • Edward Davis Jones (Class of 1877) – co-founder of The Wall Street Journal, namesake of the Dow Jones Industrial AverageSasha Frere-Jones (Class of 1988) – writer, music critic, and musician • John F. Kennedy Jr. (A.B. 1983) – lawyer; journalist; publisher of George magazine; son of President John F. Kennedy; killed in an airplane crash on July 16, 1999 (1983) • Glenn Kessler (A.B. 1981) – diplomatic correspondent for The Washington PostNoel King (A.B. 2004) – co-host of Morning Edition and Up FirstHiroko Kuniya (A.B. 1979) – Japanese news anchor • Erik Kuselias (1991) – host of Sportsline and CBS Sports • Sharon LaFraniere (A.B. 1977) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at The New York TimesSharon Lerner – investigative reporter and environmental journalist • Josh Levin (2002) – national editor at SlateIrving R. Levine (1944) – former NBC News correspondent • Mara Liasson (A.B. 1977) – NPR correspondent • Bill Lichtenstein (1978) – journalist, documentary filmmaker, president of LCMedia, Inc.; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Peabody AwardAndrew Marantz (2006) – staff writer at The New YorkerMark Maremont (1980) – senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner • Josh Marshall (Ph.D. 2003) – Polk Award-winning journalist; founder, Talking Points MemoUsha Lee McFarling (A.B. 1989) – director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program, MIT; recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory ReportingMatthew Miller (A.B. 1983) – senior fellow, Center for American Progress; columnist for Fortune; regular contributor to The New York Times MagazineGeorge Musser (Sc.B. 1988) – author and editor at Scientific AmericanPamela Paul (A.B. 1993) – opinion columnist, The New York Times, editor of The New York Times Book Review (2013–2022) (1993) • Holly Peterson (A.B. 1987) – contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, editor-at-large for Talk magazine, producer for ABC NewsSasha Polakow-Suransky (2001) – deputy editor at Foreign Policy, Rhodes Scholar • Scott Poulson-Bryant (A.B. 2008, originally Class of 1989) – co-founding editor of VIBE MagazineAndrew Revkin (A.B. 1978) – environmental journalist, New York Times; recipient of 2008 Columbia University Journalism School John Chancellor AwardQuentin Reynolds (1924) – World War II war correspondentJames Risen (1977) – journalist for The Intercept; author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency; broke the 2005 story of warrantless NSA wiretapping; winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National ReportingDavid S. Rohde (A.B. 1990) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist; escaped from 7-month Taliban captivity in 2009 • Kevin Roose (Class of 2009) – technology columnist for The New York TimesAlissa J. Rubin (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Baghdad Bureau chief, The New York TimesMargaret Russell (1980) – editor-in-chief, Elle Decor magazine; design judge, Top DesignLaura Secor (A.B.) – journalist • Aaron Schatz (1996) – ESPN NFL analyst, founder of Football OutsidersKathryn Schulz (A.B. 1996) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker (1996) • Julia Flynn Siler (A.B. 1983) – journalist and nonfiction author • Elissa Silverman (A.B. 1995) – journalist, member of the Council of the District of Columbia at-large (2015–2023) • Amy Sohn (A.B. 1995) – columnist, New York magazine; novelist, Run Catch Kiss and Sex and the City: Kiss and TellDoreen St. Félix (2014) – staff writer at The New YorkerAlison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – host, MSNBC's The Most with Alison StewartA. G. Sulzberger (A.B. 2003) – publisher, The New York Times; chairman of The New York Times Company (2005) • André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of Vogue; regarded as "fashion icon" • Wallace Terry (A.B. 1959) – African-American journalist, author, and oral historian known for his coverage of Black soldiers in the Vietnam WarSalamishah Tillet (M.A.T. 1997) – Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist • Krista Tippett (A.B. 1983) – host, NPR's Speaking of Faith, and creator and host of On BeingLarry Tye (A.B. 1977) – journalist • Alex Wagner (A.B. 1999) – host, Alex Wagner Tonight, MSNBC (1999) • David Wallace-Wells (A.B. 2004) – opinion columnist, The New York Times; author of The Uninhabitable EarthIvan Watson (A.B. 1997) – senior international correspondent, CNN • Emily Witt (A.B. 2003) – staff writer, The New YorkerCurtis Yarvin (1992) – blogger, political theorist, software engineer, and internet entrepreneur associated with the Dark Enlightenment ==Literature==
Literature
Lauren Acampora (A.B. 1997) – author • David Allyn (A.B. 1991) – author, Make Love, Not War, ''I Can't Believe I Just Did That, playwright, Baptizing Adam'' • Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – author, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Verificationist, The Hundred Brothers, recipient of the MacArthur fellowshipJacob M. Appel (A.B. 1995) – author, playwright, Arborophilia, Creve Coeur, The Mistress of WholesomeMona Awad (M.F.A. 2014) – novelist and short story writer • Peter Balakian (Ph.D. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Ozone JournalEdward Ball (A.B. 1982) – National Book Award-winning nonfiction writer, Slaves in the Family, The Genetic Strand and Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White SupremacyMark Baumer (M.F.A. 2011) – writer and environmental activist • Josh Bazell (A.B. 1992) – novelist • Bill Berkson (1957–1959) – poet and critic • Lisa Birnbach (A.B. 1978) – author, The Official Preppy HandbookKate Bornstein (née Albert Bornstein) (A.B. 1969) – transgender activist, performance artist, playwright, gender theorist, and author • Jeffrey Carver (A.B. 1971) – science fiction author, Nebula Award finalist • Andrew Chaikin (A.B. 1978) – author, A Man on the MoonJessamine Chan (2000) – author, The School for Good MothersSusan Cheever (A.B. 1965) – author • Frank Chipasula (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1987) – Malawian writer • Franny Choi (A.B. 2011) – poet • Mallika Chopra (A.B. 1993) – author and self-help entrepreneur • Ted Chiang (Sc.B. 1989) – Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer; author of Story of Your Life, the basis for the film Arrival (1989) • Brian Christian (A.B. 2006) – author, The Most Human HumanZinzi Clemmons (A.B. 2007) – author • Nicole Cooley (A.B. 1988) – poet, professor of English, Queens College, City University of New YorkNilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the TropicsEdwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – American Book Award-winning author, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Dew Breaker, recipient of the MacArthur fellowshipCyrus Grace Dunham (2014) – author, A Year Without A Name: A MemoirDavid Ebershoff (A.B. 1991) – Lambda Literary Award-winning author, The Danish Girl, editor-at-large at Random House, professor at Columbia UniversityJeffrey Eugenides (A.B. 1983) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage PlotPercival Everett (A.M. 1982) – novelist, poet; Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California; winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction and finalist for the Booker Prize for his 2024 novel James (1982) • Rudolph Fisher (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920) – author, musician, physician; a leader of the Harlem RenaissanceRichard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright/avant-garde theater pioneer; founder, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, recipient of the MacArthur fellowshipSam Walter Foss (A.B. 1882) – poet • Sarah Gambito (M.F.A. 1999) – poet; director of Creative Writing, Fordham UniversityDeborah Garrison (A.B. 1986) – poet • Peter Gizzi (M.F.A. 1991) – poet, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & WritersXochitl Gonzalez (A.B. 1999) – author and screenwriter, Olga Dies Dreaming; staff writer at The AtlanticJaimy Gordon (A.M. 1972, A.D. 1975) – National Book Award-winning author, Lord of MisruleAndrew Sean Greer (A.B. 1992) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, LessJennifer Haley (M.F.A. 2005) – playwright, winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeScott Haltzman (1982, M.D. 1985) – psychiatrist, self-help author • Jordan Harrison (M.F.A. 2003) – playwright, finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for DramaJoan D. Hedrick (Ph.D. 1974) – Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and biographer • Tony Horwitz (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author of Confederates in the Attic, Blue LatitudesShelley Jackson (M.F.A. 1994) – hyperfiction writer, author of Patchwork GirlSteven Johnson (A.B. 1990) – writer and popular science author, including the 2005 best-seller ''Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter''Winthrop Jordan (Ph.D. 1960) – American Civil War and racial history writer, winner of the National Book Award and Bancroft PrizeGayl Jones (M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1975) – novelist, poet, and playwright; "literary legend" of Black literature (1973, 1975) • Zeyn Joukhadar (Ph.D. 2014) – novelist • Bess Kalb (A.B. 2010) – author and television writer • Phil Kaye (A.B. 2010) – poet and spoken word artist • Sarah Kay (A.B. 2010, M.A.T. 2012) – poet and spoken word artist • Caroline Kepnes (A.B. 1999) – author and screenwriter, You (adapted into a television series of the same name), Hidden Bodies, ProvidenceAlexandra Kleeman (A.B. 2007) – writer • T. E. D. Klein (A.B. 1969) – horror fiction writer and magazine editor • Caroline Knapp (A.B. 1981) – essayist and author, Drinking: A Love StoryRichard Kostelanetz (A.B.1962) – cultural historian, fictioner, poet, experimental writer, critic of avant-garde arts and artists, anthologist • Geoffrey A. Landis (Ph.D. 1988) – Nebula Award and Hugo Award-winning scientist-writer and hard science fiction author • Reif Larsen (A.B 2003) – professor at Columbia University; author, The Selected Works of T.S. SpivetMarie Myung-Ok Lee (A.B. 1986) – author and essayist • Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (A.M. 1969) – author and journalist • Ben Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet, author of Angle of Yaw, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, The Topeka School, and The Lichtenberg Figures, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship (2001, 2003) • Steven Levenson (A.B. 2006) – author, Dear Evan Hansen, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a MusicalDavid Levithan (A.B. 1993) – author, Boy Meets Boy, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, ''Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist'' • Alan Levy (A.B. 1952) – author • David Lipsky (A.B. 1987) – author, Three Thousand Dollars, The Art Fair, Absolutely AmericanSam Lipsyte (A.B. 1990) – author, Home Land, Venus Drive, The Fun PartsLois Lowry (Class of 1958) – Newbery Medal-winning author, The GiverThomas Mallon (A.B. 1973) – author, Henry and Clara, Bandbox, Dewey Defeats Truman, Two MoonsBen Marcus (M.F.A. 1991) – author, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American WomenAlex McAulay (A.B.) – author, Bad Girls, Lost Summer, Oblivion Road, Shelter MeEmily Arnold McCully (A.B. 1961) – Caldecott Award-winning children's author, Mirette on the High WireMark C. McGarrity (A.B. 1966) – wrote crime fiction under the name Bartholomew GillRoland Merullo (A.B. 1975, A.M.) – author • Madeline Miller (A.B. 2000, A.M. 2001) – Women's Prize for Fiction-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe (2000, 2001) • Steven Millhauser (1968–71) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Martin DresslerRick Moody (A.B. 1983) – author, The Ice Storm, Garden State, Purple America, The DivinersKass Morgan (A.B.) – author, The 100Rebecca Morris (M.F.A. 1986) – nonfiction author, Ted and Ann, ''If I Can't Have You, A Killing in Amish Country'' • Benjamin Moser (A.B. 1998) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author • Ottessa Moshfegh (M.F.A. 2011) – writer, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2011) • Jandy Nelson (M.F.A. 1992) – author, ''I'll Give You the Sun'' • Emily Nemens (A.B. 2005) – writer, editor, The Paris ReviewNaomi Novik (A.B. 1995) – fantasy author, ''His Majesty's Dragon'' • Dan O'Brien (M.F.A. 1999) – playwright and poet, author of The Body of an AmericanNicanor Parra (1943–1945) – Chilean poet, author of Poemas y antipoemas, winner of the 2011 Miguel de Cervantes PrizeS. J. Perelman (Class of 1925) – humorist, The New Yorker; author; Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) and the Marx Brothers films Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932) • Nathaniel Philbrick (A.B. 1978) – nonfiction writer; National Book Award winner, author of In the Heart of the SeaMarilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) – Pulitzer Prize and Orange Prize-winning author, Gilead, Housekeeping, Home (1966) • Ariel Sabar (A.B. 1993) – author, National Book Critics Circle Award 2009 for ''My Father's Paradise'' • Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award for FictionDana Schwartz (A.B. 2015) – author • David Shenk (A.B. 1988) – author, The Forgetting, Data Smog, The Immortal GameReginald Shepherd (M.F.A. 1988) – poet and author • Daniel Sherrell (A.B. 2013) – author and climate organizerDavid Shields (A.B. 1978) – author, Reality HungerScott Snyder (A.B. 1998) – author of the story collection Voodoo Heart and writer of Vertigo Comics's ongoing original series American VampireGustaf Sobin (A.B. 1957) – poet, expatriate • Brian Kim Stefans (M.F.A. 2006) – poet; professor of English, UCLANathanael West (Ph.B. 1924) – author, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the LocustMeg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) – author, The Wife, The Interestings, The PositionAdelle Waldman (A.B. 1988) – author, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.Afaa M. Weaver (M.F.A. 1987) – poet, author, and editor • Sherley Anne Williams (A.M. 1972) – poet and novelist • Kevin Young (M.F.A. 1996) – poetry editor, New Yorker; director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (1996) • Joshua Zeitz (A.M. 1998, Ph.D. 2002) – historian and commentator • C Pam Zhang (2011) – author, How Much of These Hills Is Gold == Medicine and public health ==
Medicine and public health
Samuel Warren Abbott (A.M. 1858) – first medical examiner and first secretary of Massachusetts's first state board of health from 1886 to 1904 • Justin M. Andrews (Ph.B. 1923) – director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2nd Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAaron T. Beck (A.B. 1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy"; founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award (1942) • Deborah Benzil (1981) – vice chair and professor of Neurosurgery, Cleveland ClinicSeth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI, founder and former president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine InitiativeTom Catena (A.B. 1986) – Catholic medical missionary working in central Sudan (1986) • William A. Catterall (A.B. 1968) – chair and professor of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, ForMemRSCharles V. Chapin (A.B. 1876) – Providence superintendent of health (1884–1932), pioneer in public health research and practice, first president of the American Epidemiological Society, professor of physiology at Brown • Tina L. Cheng (A.B., M.D.) – chair of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterLynda Chin (A.B. 1988) – department chair and professor of genomic medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Scientific Director, MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science • James J. Cimino (BSc 1977) – professor of Medicine and director, Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of MedicineGeorge E. Coghill (A.B. 1896, Ph.D. 1902) – anatomist • Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician, academic, and surgeon during the American RevolutionJacqueline A. French (M.D. 1982) – neurologist, professor, NYU Langone Health, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Epilepsy FoundationNora Groce (Ph.D.) – Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College LondonTina Hartert – Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt UniversityAndrew C. Hecht (1989) – chief of Spine Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital; associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Neurologic Surgery, Icahn School of MedicineInsoo Hyun (Ph.D. 1998) – professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical SchoolJudith V. Jordan (1965) – co-director, Jean Baker Miller Institute; assistant professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical SchoolMark L. Kahn (A.B. 1984, M.D. 1987) – Edward S. Cooper, M.D./Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaRavi Kalhan (A.B. 1996) – director of the Asthma and COPD Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicinePhilip Kantoff (1976, M.D. 1979) – former chairman of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical SchoolWilliam Williams Keen (A.B. 1859) – first American brain surgeon; president, Philadelphia School of Anatomy; president, American Surgical Association; president, American Medical Association; president, American Philosophical Society (1859) • Linda Liau (A.B. 1987, Sc.B. 1987) – W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLALloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine; former provost, Johns Hopkins UniversityGriffin P. Rodgers (Sc.B. 1976, M.MSc & M.D. 1979) – director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesMatthew Sacchet (A.B. 2010) – assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolSally Satel (M.D. 1984) – lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of MedicineErica Schwartz (Sc.B. 1994, M.D. 1998) – deputy surgeon general of the United States (2019–2021) • Harry Selker (M.D. 1978) – dean, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of MedicineManny Sethi (A.B. 2000) – physician, president and founder, Healthy Tennessee • Meena Seshamani (A.B. 1997) – Maryland Secretary of Health (2025–) • Neel Shah (Sc.B. 2004, M.D. 2009) – executive director of Costs of Care, assistant professor at Harvard Medical SchoolJerome K. Sherman (Sc.B. 1947) – professor of Biology, University of Arkansas ==Military==
Military
Charles Wheaton Abbot Jr. (A.M. 1922) – adjutant general of Rhode Island, commander of the 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment during Spanish–American WarJohn F. Aiso (1931) – highest-ranking Japanese American in the U.S. Army during World War II, first Japanese American judge in the contiguous U.S. • Charles Henry Alden (A.M. 1856) – 1st president, Army Medical SchoolDavid A. Burchinal (A.B. 1938) – United States Air Force four-star general and deputy commander in chief, United States European Command (1931) • G. Edward Buxton (Ph.B. 1902) – commanding officer of Sergeant Alvin C. York; first assistant director of the OSSWilliam C. Chase (A.B. 1916) – major general during World War IIJames M. Cutts (A.M. 1856) – Soldier during the American Civil War; recipient of the Medal of HonorThomas Ewing Jr. (Class of 1856) – Union Army general during the American Civil War, first chief justice of Kansas • Ployer Peter Hill (Sc.B. 1916) – test pilot, namesake of Hill Air Force Base in Utah • Miles Imlay (Class of 1925) – rear admiral, United States Coast GuardJames M. Keck (Class of 1943) – lieutenant general, United States Air ForceRoyal B. Lord (Sc.B. 1919) – major general, United States ArmyWilliam R. Maloney (A.B. 1951) – lieutenant general, United States Marine CorpsJohn Eaton Tourtellottebrevet brigadier general, United States Army during the American Civil WarAdin Ballou Underwood (1849) – brevet major general, United States Army during the American Civil WarJames Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest TerritoryFrank Wheaton (Class of 1853) – major general during the American Civil War ==Performing arts==
Performing arts
Music Sean Altman (A.B. 1983) – founding tenor member of Rockapella, known for the theme song of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?Charles Ansbacher (1965) – founder and conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra • MC Paul Barman (A.B. 1997) – cult rapperMarco Beltrami (Sc.B. 1988) – two-time Academy Award-nominated film score composer, Scream (1996), Resident Evil (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Hellboy (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Max Payne (2008), Mesrine (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Wolverine (2013), Warm Bodies (2013), World War Z (2013), Free Solo (2018), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and the video game FortniteClare Burson (1997) – singer-songwriter • David Buskin (A.B 1965) – singer-songwriter (Modern Man), jingle composer, Clio Award winner (1983) • Julia Cafritz – musician, known for Pussy GaloreWendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) – composer and electronic musician, Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Tron (1982) (1962) • Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) – country singer-songwriter • Chubb Rock – rapper and radio host • Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963) – director of the Boston CamerataAlvin Curran (A.B. 1960) – avant-garde composer • Catie Curtis (1987) – contemporary folk singer-songwriter • Dave Dederer (A.B.) – guitarist, singer, and founding member of rock band The presidents of the United States of AmericaThomas DeLio (Ph.D. 1979) – Professor of Music Theory and Composition, University of Maryland, College ParkShelby Gaines (1991) – musician and artist • Tucker Halpern (2013) – musician and DJ, one half of electronic pop group Sofi TukkerDhani Harrison (2001) – son of George Harrison, composer, guitarist • Sophie Hawley-Weld (2014) – musician, one half of electronic pop group Sofi TukkerLili Haydn (1992) – singer-songwriter, violinist • Dave Harrington (2009) – multi-instrumentalist and producer • Lingua Ignota (M.F.A. 2016) – multidisciplinary artist and instrumentalist • Nicolás Jaar (A.B. 2012) – avant-garde electronic music producer, owner and founder of record label and art house Clown & Sunset (2012) • Gabriel Kahane (2003) – singer-songwriter • Elliott Kerman (Sc.B. 1981) – founding baritone member of RockapellaTad Kinchla (1995) – bassist for jam band Blues TravelerRichard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – electro-acoustic composer (New York City Oratorio, America's Game), writer on innovative musics and musicians • Damian Kulash (A.B. 1998) – lead singer and founding member of indie rock band OK GoErich Kunzel (1964) – conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra • Lawrence – soul-pop group founded by Clyde Lawrence '15 and Gracie Lawrence (Class of 2020) • Lisa Loeb (A.B. 1990) – Grammy Award-winning alternative singer-songwriter; first unsigned artist to score a #1 hit song on the American charts, with "Stay (I Missed You)" from the film Reality Bites (1990) • The Low Anthemindie folk band that includes alums Ben Knox Miller (2006), Jeff Prystowsky (2006) and Jocie Adams • Erin McKeown (2000) – folk singer-songwriter • Elizabeth Mitchell (1990) – musician, member of indie folk–pop band Ida; played in a band with Lisa Loeb and Duncan Sheik while at Brown • Will Oldham (Class of 1992) – indie rock/alternative country singer-songwriter who also performs under the names Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Palace • Elvis Perkins (1995) – singer-songwriter • Navah Perlman (A.B. 1992) – concert pianist; daughter of Itzhak PerlmanDan Prothero – producer / engineer and owner of Fog City Records • The Range – DJ and electronic musician • Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and faculty member of the Yale School of MusicSusan Salms-Moss (A.B. 1967) – soprano • Theodore Shapiro (A.B. 1993) – film score composer, State and Main (2000), Old School (2003), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), I Love You, Man (2008), ''We're the Millers (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Ghostbusters (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), Severance'' (2022) • Duncan Sheik (A.B. 1992) – alternative rock singer-songwriter; top 10 hit for the song "Barely Breathing"; Grammy and two-time Tony Award-winning composer, Spring AwakeningSasha Spielberg (2012) – musician, Wardell; daughter of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw (2012) • Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) – alternative rock singer-songwriter • Saleka (A.B. 2018) – R&B singer-songwriter; daughter of M. Night ShyamalanJon Spencer – singer and composer, known for Pussy Galore, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Boss HogSally Taylor (1996) – musician, daughter of Carly Simon and James TaylorGwyneth Walker (A.B. 1967) – composer • J. Mayo Williams (1920) – first African-American producer at a major record label • Jamila Woods (A.B. 2011) – singer, songwriter and poet signed to JagajaguwarZOX – SideOneDummy recording artist, composed of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain Film Andrew Ahn (2008) – director, Spa Night, Driveways, Fire IslandEva Amurri (2007) – actress, Loving Annabelle, Saved!, The Banger Sisters; daughter of Susan SarandonScott E. Anderson (Sc.B. 1986) – Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor, Babe, and nominee Starship Troopers, Hollow ManBess Armstrong (1975) – actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to ChinaRaymond J. Barry (A.B) – actor, Born on the Fourth of July, Steel CityDavid Bartis (A.B. 1988) – producer, The Wall, Edge of Tomorrow, Fair GameRandall Batinkoff (1990) – actor, For Keeps, School TiesSteve Bloom (A.B. 1978) – screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach, The Sure Thing, Tall Tale, Jack FrostJoseph Bologna – actor, My Favorite Year, Blame It on RioSara Colangelo (A.B. 2001) – writer and director, Little Accidents, WorthDavid Conrad (A.B. 1990) – actor, Wedding Crashers, Ghost WhispererMichael Costigan (1990) – producer, Brokeback Mountain, American Gangster, Under the Banner of HeavenLouis Ozawa Changchien (M.F.A. 2006) – actor, Predators, The Bourne Legacy, BoschYaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) – actress, Take the Lead, Honeydripper, The Kids Are All Right, The Butler; fashion model (2004) • Lucy DeVito (A.B. 2005) – actress, Melissa and Joey, Leaves of GrassTom Dey (A.B. 1987) – director, Shanghai Noon, Showtime, Failure to Launch, Marmaduke, Wedding SeasonAlice Drummond (A.B. 1950) – actress, Awakenings, ''Nobody's Fool (1994), Doubt'' (2008) • Richard Fleischer (A.B. 1939) – director, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Narrow Margin, Fantastic Voyage, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Boston Strangler, Doctor Dolittle, Mandingo, Soylent Green; Academy Award-winning documentary producer, Design for DeathJomo Fray (A.B.) – cinematographer, Nickel BoysSarah Friedland (A.B. 2014) – director, Familiar TouchJosh Friedman (1989) – screenwriter, War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; developer, SnowpiercerLiz Garbus (A.B. 1992) – 2-time Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, What Happened, Miss Simone?, The Farm: Angola, USA, Killing in the Name, All In: The Fight for Democracy, Ghosts of Abu GhraibFrancesca Gregorini (A.B. 1990) – Italian-American writer and film director • Davis Guggenheim (1986) – Academy Award-winning documentary film director, An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for "Superman"; film director for Gracie, Gossip (2000), and episodes of 24, Alias, The Shield, ER, NYPD Blue (1986) • John Hamburg (A.B. 1992) – director, I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly; screenwriter, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Meet the FockersJosh Hamilton (1991) – actor, Eighth Grade, 13 Reasons WhyHill Harper (A.B. 1988) – actor, Constellation, Lackawanna Blues, CSI: NYPhil Hay – screenwriter, Destroyer, The Invitation, Ride AlongTodd Haynes (A.B. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Mildred Pierce, ''I'm Not There, Far from Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Safe (1995), Poison, Dark Waters, The Velvet Underground'' (1983) • David Hedison (Class of 1949) – film, television, and stage actor • Sean Hood (1988) – screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed, Cube 2: HypercubeRuth Hussey (A.B. 1933) – Academy Award-nominated actress, The Philadelphia StoryOren Jacoby (1977) – Academy Award-nominated documentarian, ''Constantine's Sword'' • Kirsten Johnson (1987) – documentarian, director, and cinematographer, Dick Johnson Is Dead, CamerapersonRory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) – independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.; Ghosts of Abu GhraibSimon Kinberg (A.B. 1995) – screenwriter and producer, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sherlock Holmes, Jumper (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) • Alison Klayman (A.B. 2006) – documentary filmmaker and journalist, Ai Weiwei: Never SorryPaul Kowalski (A.B. 2004) – film director and screenwriter, Paper Tiger (2020) • John Krasinski (A.B. 2001) – playwright, actor, director, and producer, The Office, Jack Ryan, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, License to Wed, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, IF; selected as People magazine's 2024 Sexiest Man Alive (2001) • Ellen Kuras (1981) – cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Be Kind RewindJustin Kuritzkes (2012) – playwright and screenwriter, ChallengersJonathan Levine (A.B. 2000) – writer/director, Warm Bodies, 50/50 (2011), The Wackness, All The Boys Love Mandy LaneDoug Liman (A.B. 1988) – director and producer, The O.C., Edge of Tomorrow, Fair Game (2010),Jumper (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy, Go (1999), Swingers (1996) • Laura Linney (A.B. 1986) – three-time Academy Award and two-time Tony Award-nominated actress, The Big C, The Savages, The Nanny Diaries, The Squid and the Whale, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Kinsey, Mystic River, Love Actually, You Can Count on Me, The Truman Show, Absolute Power, Primal Fear, Ozark (1986) • Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Out of AfricaKátia Lund (A.B. 1989) – co-director, Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002) • George Macready (A.B. 1921) – actor of film, stage, and television, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Paths of GloryEli Marienthal (Class of 2008) – actor, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, The Iron Giant, Jack Frost (1998) • Matt Manfredi – screenwriter, Crazy/Beautiful, Ride Along, The Mysterious Benedict SocietyRoss McElwee (A.B. 1970) – documentary filmmaker, ''Sherman's March (1986) and Bright Leaves'' • Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) – Student Academy Award-nominated writer/director, TwitchTim Blake Nelson (A.B. 1986) – actor, Lincoln (2012), The Incredible Hulk, Syriana, Minority Report, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Thin Red Line (1998); director, Leaves of Grass, O, The Grey Zone (1986) • Lorraine Nicholson (2012) – actress, Soul Surfer, daughter of Jack NicholsonMatthew Reeve (2002) – producer and director, son of Christopher ReeveYoruba Richen (A.B. 1994) – film director, screenwriter, and producer • Angela Robinson (A.B. 1992) – director, Herbie: Fully Loaded, D.E.B.S. (2003), D.E.B.S. (2004) • Jane Rosenthal – founder of the Tribeca Film FestivalDanny Rubin (A.B. 1979) – screenwriter, Groundhog DayMichael Showalter (A.B. 1992) – actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter and the series The State, Stella and Michael & Michael Have IssuesLeelee Sobieski (Class of 2005) – actress, Eyes Wide Shut, Never Been Kissed, Here on Earth, Joy Ride (2001), The Glass House (2001), Wicker Man (2006), 88 Minutes, Public Enemies (2009); nominated for an Emmy for Joan of ArcAlison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – radio and television journalist; filmmaker • Matthew Sussman – actor, documentary filmmaker • Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) – actress, Rushmore, Old School, Imaginary HeroesAstra Taylor (Class of 2001) – activist and filmmaker, Zizek!, Examined Life, What Is Democracy?Christine Vachon (A.B. 1983) – acclaimed independent film producer, ''I'm Not There, Infamous (2006), The Notorious Bettie Page, Far From Heaven, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Boys Don't Cry (1999); executive producer, This American Life'' • Andrew Wagner (A.B. 1985) – writer, director, Starting Out in the Evening, The Talent Given UsEarl Wallace (A.B. 1955) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, WitnessJulie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Doc Hollywood, Tommy BoyEmma Watson (A.B. 2014) – actress, model, and activist, Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beauty and the Beast (2017), Little Women (2019) (2014) • Betsy West (1973) – filmmaker and director, RBG, My Name Is Pauli Murray; Fred W. Friendly Professor of Professional Practice in Media Society Emeritus, Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismJoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) – actress, The Big Chill, PoltergeistElizabeth Woodward – producer, The Great Hack, The Vow, You Resemble MeJanet Yang (A.B. 1978) – first Asian-American president, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2022–); producer, The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, South CentralJeff Zimbalist (2000) – filmmaker, Favela Rising Television Sosie Bacon (Class of 2014) – actress, 13 Reasons Why, Loverboy, Smile; daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra SedgwickIris Bahr (1998) – actress, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Curb Your EnthusiasmKenneth Biller (1986) – television producer, writer, and director • Julie Bowen (A.B. 1991) – actress, Modern Family, Boston Legal, Ed, Happy Gilmore (1991) • Roger Bowen (A.B.) – comedic actor, M*A*S*H; novelist • Warren Brown – host, Sugar RushJessica Capshaw (A.B. 1998) – actress, ''Grey's Anatomy, The Practice, Minority Report'' • Jordan Carlos (A.B. 2001) – comedian, Stephen Colbert's "black friend" • Charise Castro Smith (A.B. 2005) – actress, writer, playwright, producer, The Exorcist, The Haunting of Hill House, EncantoKitty Chen (A.B. 1966) – actress, Law & Order, writer • Nick Chinlund – actor, The X-FilesJude Ciccolella (A.B. 1969) – actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24Julian Cihi (A.B. 2009) – Japanese and American actor • Joel de la Fuente (A.B. 1991) – actor, best known for his role as Dr. Johann Pryce in Hemlock GroveAunjanue Ellis (A.B. 1993) – actress, The Mentalist, Academy Award nominee for King Richard (1993) • India Ennenga (A.B.) – actress, Treme, The ReturnedEve Gordon (A.B. 1978) – actress, Recount, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Felicity, American Horror Story, ''Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Supernatural'' • Robin Green (1967) – Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, The Sopranos, Northern ExposureAndy Greenwald (1999) – writer, podcaster, and producer • Jonathan Groff (A.B. 1983) – actor, BlackAF; producer, Black-ish; writer, The Jon Stewart Show and ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' • David Groh (1961) – actor, RhodaLevon Hawke – actor, son of Ethan Hawke and Uma ThurmanMarin Hinkle (1988) – actress, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Once and Again, Two and a Half MenTakehiro Hira (1997) – Japanese-born actor, Giri/Haji, SekigaharaTina Holmes (1995) – actress, Six Feet UnderPeter Jacobson (1987) – actor, House M.D.Max Joseph (2004) – host, Catfish: The TV ShowRafe Judkins (2005) – contestant on Survivor: Guatemala, television writer • Rhonda Ross Kendrick (A.B. 1993) – Daytime Emmy-nominated actress, Another World, daughter of Diana RossRory Kennedy (A.B. 1990) – Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, director, and writer, American Hollow, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (1990) • John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) – actor, The Office, Leatherheads, License to Wed; director, A Quiet PlaceNicole Leach (A.B. 2000) – actress • Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) – actress, Ellen, Andy Barker, P.I.Tom Lipinski (A.B. 2004) – actor, SuitsFlorencia Lozano (A.B. 1992) – actress, One Life to LiveIan Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) – writer, producer, The Simpsons, Saturday Night LiveSilas Weir Mitchell (A.B. 1991) – actor, GrimmAlexandra Metz (A.B. 2008) – actress, The PittPeter Nowalk (A.B. 2000) – creator, How to Get Away with Murder; producer, Scandal, ''Grey's Anatomy'' • Masi Oka (Sc.B. 1997) – actor, Heroes, Scrubs, Will and Grace, Gilmore Girls, Get Smart (1997) • Monica Owusu-Breen (1990) – writer, Alias, Lost; executive producer, Brothers & Sisters, Midnight, TexasJohn Pleshette (1964) – actor, Knots Landing, The Trial of Lee Harvey OswaldTracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995) – actress, Girlfriends, Black-ish, daughter of Diana Ross (1995) • Ben Shenkman (A.B. 1990) – actor, Royal Pains and Angels in AmericaSam Trammell (A.B. 1991) – actor, True BloodBee Vang (2015) – actor, Gran Torino, writer • Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Nip/Tuck, Family Law, The Guiding LightSuzanne Whang (Sc. M. 1986) – General Hospital, Las Vegas; host HGTV's House HuntersDavid Walton (2001) – actor, About a BoyMoisés Zamora (A.B. 2000) – creator, Selena: The Series Theater Ayad Akhtar (A.B. 1993) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, DisgracedJohn Lee Beatty (A.B. 1970) – Tony Award-winning set designer • Adam Bock (M.F.A. 1989) – Obie Award-winning playwright, The ThugsKate Burton (A.B. 1979) – actress; nominated for three Tony Awards; on ''Grey's Anatomy'' as Dr. Ellis Grey • Zoë Chao (A.B. 2008) – actress in theatre and star of her own television show The God Particles; currently starring as Isobel in Facebook Watch drama StrangersNilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics (1994) • Daveed Diggs (A.B. 2004) – actor, Tony Award-winning originator of the roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 2015 musical Hamilton (2004) • Jackie Sibblies Drury (M.F.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, FairviewKatherine G. Farley (A.B. 1971) – chair, Lincoln CenterGina Gionfriddo (M.F.A. 1997) – playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Becky Shaw (2009) and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013); producer, Law and OrderAnn Harada (A.B. 1985) – actress in the original Broadway casts of Avenue Q and CinderellaQuiara Alegría Hudes (M.F.A. 2004) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Water by the Spoonful, In the Heights (Tony Award winner for Best Musical), ''Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue'' • Stephen Karam (A.B. 2002) – playwright, Speech & Debate (2006); Tony Award winner, The Humans (2016); two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sons of the Prophet (2012) and The HumansDanny Mefford (M.F.A. 2007) – choreographer, Dear Evan Hansen, Fun Home, Kimberly AkimboHonor Molloy (M.F.A. 1993) – award–winning playwright, Crackskull Row, Smarty Girl: Dublin SavageRachel Moore (A.B. 1992) – CEO, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (The Music Center); CEO, American Ballet TheatreJames Naughton (A.B. 1967) – actor, two-time Tony Award winner for City of Angels (1992) and Chicago (1996); also featured in films such as The Paper Chase (1973), The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006) • John Ford Noonan (A.B. 1964) – actor and playwright best known for A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around TalkingLynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Macarthur fellowship recipient, Ruined, SweatSarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship, The Clean House, Eurydice, |Passion Play, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)Burt Shevelove (1937) – Tony Award-winning playwright, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumMiriam Silverman (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2005) – Tony Award-winning actress, ''The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2001, 2005) • Alfred Uhry (1958) – playwright; Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of BallyhooAmy Van Nostrand – actress, The HothouseDavid Yazbek (1982) – Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, ''The Band's Visit (2017), The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' (2010) • John Lloyd Young (A.B. 1998) – actor; Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys (2006); lead vocalist, 2007 Grammy-winning Jersey Boys album for Clint Eastwood's 2014 Jersey Boys; member of President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities ==Religion and theology==
Religion and theology
Alfred W. Anthony (A.B. 1883) – professor at Bates College and Cobb Divinity School, author, Free Will Baptist minister • Mark E. Brennan (A.B. 1969) – Catholic auxiliary bishop of BaltimoreAlexander Burgess (1838) – 1st bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of QuincyFrederick Burgess (1873) – bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long IslandGeorge Burgess (1826) – first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of MaineS. Kent Brown (Ph.D. 1972) – Professor Emeritus of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young UniversityElizabeth Castelli (A.B. 1979) – Professor of Religion, Barnard CollegeThornton Chase (Class of 1870) – first western convert to the Baháʼí FaithEdward Winter Clark (1857) – Baptist missionary active in Nagaland, India • Paula Clark (A.B. 1984) – 13th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ChicagoL. F. P. Curry – presiding bishop and member of the First Presidency, Community of ChristJames Cooley Fletcher (1846) – Presbyterian missionary active in Brazil • Josiah Goddard (1835) – Baptist missionary active in China • Adoniram Judson Gordon (1860) – Baptist preacher; founder of Gordon College and Gordon–Conwell Theological SeminaryRonald Michael Green (A.B. 1964) – Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values in Religion, Dartmouth CollegeAlexander Viets Griswold (A.B. 1810) – 5th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Episcopal bishop of the Eastern Diocese, which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of ConnecticutStephen P. Hill (1829) – chaplain of the United States SenateMark Antony DeWolfe Howe (A.B. 1828) – first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania (now Diocese of Bethlehem) • James Huckins – first Southern Baptist missionary of Texas • Jayapataka Swami – religious leader for the International Society for Krishna ConsciousnessLyman Jewett (1848) – Baptist missionary active in India • William Bullein Johnson (A.M. 1814) – South Carolina Baptist leader; first president of the Southern Baptist Convention; instrumental figure in the founding of Furman University, out of which emerged Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryAdoniram Judson (A.B. 1807) – Baptist missionary; due in part to his efforts, Myanmar has the third largest number of Baptists worldwide (1807) • Matthew Kapstein (Ph.D. 1987) – Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago Divinity SchoolCyrus Kingsbury (1812) – Christian missionary active among several Native American communities • Swami Kriyananda (1945–47) – founder of the Ananda movementYehuda Kurtzer (A.M. 2001) – president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America • Edward Lewis Lee Jr. (A.B. 1956) – 7th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western MichiganRonald H. Nash (A.M. 1960) – Evangelical Baptist philosopher and apologist; professor, Reformed Theological SeminaryGail R. O'Day (A.B. 1976) – dean and professor of New Testament and Preaching, Wake Forest University School of DivinityEdwards Amasa Park (1826) – Abbot Professor of Christian theology, Andover Theological SeminaryWilliam Stevens Perry (Class of 1854) – 2nd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of IowaHenry Niles Pierce (1842) – bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ArkansasGeorge Maxwell Randall (A.B. 1835) – bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and Parts Adjacent • Hays Hamilton Rockwell (A.B. 1958) – 9th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of MissouriRobert A. Seiple (1965) – president, Eastern University; President, Palmer Theological Seminary; 1st United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious FreedomBenjamin B. Smith (1816) – 9th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal ChurchKatherine Sonderegger (Ph.D. 1990) – William Meade Chair in Systematic Theology, Virginia Theological SeminaryJeffrey Stout (A.B. 1972) – professor emeritus of Religion, Princeton UniversityGray Temple (A.B. 1935) – 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South CarolinaJoshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting minister with U.S. sympathies • Thomas Joseph White (A.B. 1993) – rector, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas AquinasGeorge Frederick Wright (D.D. 1887) – professor of the Harmony of Science and Revelation, Oberlin Theological SeminaryWubong (A.B. 1973) – Zen master and head teacher of the European Kwan Um School of Zen ==Royalty and nobility==
Royalty and nobility
Aga Khan V (A.B. 1995) – 50th imam of Nizari Ismailism, eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan IVPrince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (1983) – son of Sunny von BülowCountess Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (1989) – daughter of Claus von Bülow and Sunny von BülowPrince Jaime Bernardo of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi – member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and relative of the Dutch royal family; Dutch Ambassador to the Holy See • Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg (A.B. 1993) – businessman, son of Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von FürstenbergPrincess Tatiana von Fürstenberg (A.B. 1991) –singer-songwriter, daughter of Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von FürstenbergPrince Faisal bin Al Hussein (Sc.B. 1985) – son of the late King Hussein of Jordan; Commander of the Jordan Royal Air Force • Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 1993) – member of the titular royal family of GreecePrincess Nissa Raad (A.B. 2002) – member of the Jordanian royal familyPrincess Lila Pahlavi (A.B. 1992) – Princess of Iran; youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of IranPrincess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 2006) – member of the titular royal family of Greece • Prince Nikita Romanov – member of the Romanov familyLady Gabriella Windsor (A.B. 2004) – member of the British royal family ==Fine and applied arts==
Fine and applied arts
Architecture Stan Allen (A.B. 1978) – architect; George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture and former Dean (2002–2012), Princeton University School of ArchitectureEdwin T. Banning (1885) – architect active in Rhode Island • Prescott O. Clarke (1880) – architect active in Rhode Island • Henry Atherton Frost – architect • Sarah Williams Goldhagen (A.B. 1982) – architectural critic • John G. Haskell – architect of Kansas public buildings, including the Kansas State CapitolRaymond Hood (1898–99) – architect of the Tribune Tower in Chicago and Rockefeller Center in New York (1902) • Charles Evans Hughes III (A.B.) – architect, grandson of Charles Evans Hughes • Francis L. V. Hoppin (A.B.) – architect • Norman Isham (A.B. 1886, A.M. 1890) – Rhode Island historical architect • Harry Wild Jones – architect • John Black Leemid-century modern architect • Robert Somol (A.B. 1982) – architectural theoristLaurinda Hope Spear (B.F.A. 1972) – architect, co-founder of ArquitectonicaThomas Alexander Tefft (1851) – pioneer American architect Design Jonathan Adler (A.B. 1988) – potter, designer and author • Nikolas Bentel (A.B. 2017) – designer • Julie Carlson (A.B. 1983) – co-founder of RemodelistaTom Geismar (A.B. 1953) – graphic designer, designer of the PBS and Mobil logos • Chuck Hoberman (1974–1976) – designer, inventor of the Hoberman sphere Fashion Montana Levi Blanco (A.M.) – costume designer, recipient of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a PlayDana Buchman (A.B. 1973) – fashion designer • Pierre-Alexis Dumas (A.B. 1991) – artistic director, Hermès (2011–present) • Juman Malouf (1997) – Lebanese costume designer, partner of Wes AndersonKimberly Ovitz (A.B. 2005) – fashion designer • Michael Rider (A.B. 2002) – creative director, CelineAndré Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of VogueRichard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of the Yale School of Art (1996–2006), recipient of the MacArthur FellowshipBill Bollinger (1961) – minimalist sculptor and installation artist • Susan Chen (A.B. 2015) – painter • Dawn Clements (A.B. 1986) – contemporary artist known for her panoramas • Dave Cole (A.B. 2000) – sculptor, visual artist • John Connell (Class of 1962) – sculptor and painter • Devon Dikeou (A.B. 1986) – artist and curator • Barnaby Evans (1975) – creator of the environmental art installation WaterFireAyana Evans (A.B. 1998) – performance artist • Brian Floca (A.B. 1991) – author and book illustrator • Coco Fusco (A.B. 1982) – interdisciplinary artist and feminist (1982) • Susan Freedman (A.B. 1982) – president of the Public Art FundChitra Ganesh (A.B. 1996) – artist • Orly Genger (A.B. 2001) – contemporary sculptor and installation artist • Sanford Robinson Gifford (A.B. 1844) – landscape painter of the Hudson River School (1844) • Isca Greenfield-Sanders (A.B. 2000) – artist • Karl Haendel (A.B. 1998) – artist known for his pencil drawings • Ilana Halperin (A.B. 1995) – artist • George Hitchcock (A.B. 1872) – impressionist painter • Akiko Ichikawa (A.B. 1994) – interdisciplinary visual artist and writer • Bill Jacobson (A.B. 1977) – photographer • Ken Johnson (A.B. 1976) – art critic for the New York TimesPaul Ramirez Jonas (A.B. 1987) – contemporary artist; chair of the Department of Art, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and PlanningNina Katchadourian (A.B. 1989) – multimedia artist • Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – book-art, audio, video, photography, film, holography • Paul Laffoley (A.B. 1962) – artist and architect • Walter Liedtke (A.M. 1969) – curator of European paintings Metropolitan Museum of ArtCandice Lin (A.B 2001) – artist • Cameron Martin (A.B. 1994) – F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting, School of the Art Institute of ChicagoSarah Morris (A.B. 1988) – contemporary painter and filmmaker • Elizabeth Neel (A.B. 1997) – contemporary painter • Lisa Oppenheim (A.B. 1998) – multimedia artist • Sarah Oppenheimer (A.B. 1995) – sculptor and installation artist • Maureen Paley (A.B. 1975) – established the first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists • Bern Porter (Sc.M. 1933) – visual artist and scientist involved in the development of the cathode-ray tube and the Manhattan ProjectSeth Price (A.B. 1997) – post-conceptual artist • Lauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer, recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Macarthur fellowshipRalph Rugoff (A.B. 1980) – director, Hayward Gallery; artistic director for the 58th Venice BiennaleWilloughby Sharp (A.B. 1957) – pioneer in conceptual and performance art • Jeff Shesol (A.B. 1991) – cartoonist, Thatch; scriptwriter for Bill ClintonTaryn Simon (A.B. 1997) – multidisciplinary artist • Scott Snibbe (A.B. 1991, MSc 1994) – interactive media artist • Anne Morgan Spalter (A.B. 1987) – digital mixed media artist and pioneering computer art academic; founder of Brown's and RISD's original digital fine arts courses • Martha Tedeschi (A.B. 1980) – Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art MuseumsKerry Tribe (A.B. 1997) – installation artist (1997) • Mark Tribe (A.B. 1990) – artist; chair of the School of Visual Arts' MFA program • Ian Wardropper (A.B. 1973) – director, Frick CollectionMarcus Waterman (1857) – Orientalist painter • Nikolas Weinstein (born 1968), American glass artist • Virgil Macey Williams (1847–1850) – painter, co-founder of the San Francisco Art AssociationSaya Woolfalk (A.B. 2001) – multimedia artist Other Elizabeth Hargrave (1994) – board game designer ==Athletics==
Athletics
Baseball Bill Almon (1975) – professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates; No. 1 pick in the 1974 draft • Mark Attanasio (A.B. 1979) – financier and owner of the Milwaukee BrewersCharley Bassett – professional baseball player • Tommy Dowd – professional baseball player • Dave Fultz – professional baseball player • Irving "Bump" Hadley (Class of 1928) – professional baseball player, pitcher for the Washington Senators and New York YankeesMike Lynch – professional baseball player • Frank Philbrick – professional baseball player • Lee Richmond – professional baseball player, pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history • Fred Tenney – professional baseball player • William Edward White – possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball Basketball Lindsay Gottlieb (1999) – head coach, USC Trojans women's basketballDeAndre Jordan – 3-time All-NBA center for the New Orleans PelicansBernard Muir (1990) – athletic director at Stanford UniversityStephen Silas (1996) – head coach for the Houston Rockets Football Don Colo (1950) – professional football player, three-time Pro Bowl selection; played for the Cleveland BrownsZak DeOssie (2007) – linebacker and long snapper for the New York Giants, two-time Pro Bowl selection (2008, 2010) • James Develin (2010) – fullback for the New England Patriots; 2014 and 2016 Super Bowl Champion; 2017 Pro Bowl selection • Mark Donovan (1988) – President of the Kansas City ChiefsJohn W. Heisman (Class of 1891) – college football player and coach; namesake of the Heisman Trophy (1891) • Steve Jordan (Sc.B. 1982) – professional football player, six-time All-Pro tight end who played for the Minnesota VikingsSean Morey (1999) – Special Teams Captain of 2005 Super Bowl XL Champion Pittsburgh SteelersBill O'Brien (A.B. 1992) – Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Alabama, former head Coach at Penn State, former NFL head coach of the Houston TexansCurly Oden (1921) – National Football League running back and member of 1928 league champion Providence Steam RollerJoe Paterno (A.B. 1950) – Head Coach for Penn State (1966–2011), all-time winningest Division I football coach • E. J. Perry (A.B. 2021) – quarterback for the Michigan Panthers (1950) • Fritz Pollard (A.B. 1919) – first black All-American halfback; first black National Football League head coach; as a player, led the Akron Pros to the NFL's first-ever championship in 1920; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1919) • Edward North Robinson (1896) – football coach at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Brown, Tufts, Boston University, and for the Providence Steam Roller; member of the College Football Hall of FameWallace Wade (1917) – football coach at the University of Alabama and then Duke, member of the College Football Hall of Fame; namesake of Duke's football stadium Ice hockey Curt Bennett (1970) – professional ice hockey player, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta FlamesYann Danis (A.B. 2004) – professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York IslandersBrian Eklund (A.B. 2002) – professional ice hockey goaltender for the Tampa Bay LightningGarnet Hathaway (2014) – professional ice hockey forward for the Washington CapitalsBrian Ihnacak (1985) – professional ice hockey forward for HC '05 Banská BystricaSam Lafferty (2018) – professional ice hockey forward for the Vancouver Canucks Lacrosse Timothy Kelly (2002) – general manager of the New York Titans of the National Lacrosse LeagueDylan Molloy (2017) – player for the Chrome Lacrosse ClubLars Tiffany (1990) – head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of VirginiaDom Starsia (1974) – former head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of Virginia Olympics Gold Tessa Gobbo (2013) – rower, Olympic gold (2016) medalist in women's coxed eight rowing • Helen Johns Carroll (A.B. 1936) – freestyle swimmer, Olympic gold (1932) medalist • Becky Kellar-Duke (1997) – Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic gold (2002, 2006, 2010) and silver (1998) medalist • Katie King (1997) – ice hockey player, Olympic gold (1998), silver (2002), and bronze (2006) medalist • Tara Mounsey (Sc.B. 2001) – ice hockey player, Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medalist • Xeno Müller (2002) – Swiss rower, Olympic gold (1996) and silver (2000) medalist in the single scull • Albina Osipowich (A.B. 1933) – freestyle swimmer, Olympic gold (1928) medals in the 100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestyle • Alicia Sacramone (2010) – gymnast, Olympic silver (2008) medal in the women's artistic team all-around • Jack Spellman (1924) – wrestler, Olympic gold (1924) medal in the men's freestyle light heavyweight • Norman Taber (1913) – runner, Olympic gold (1912) medal in the 3000m relay • Vincent Zhou (2023) – figure skater, Olympic silver in the team event (2022) (2023) Silver Lauren Gibbs (2006) – bobsledder, Olympic silver (2018) medalist in women's doubles bobsled • Jonathan Smith (1983) – rower, Olympic silver (1984) and bronze (1988) medalist in the coxless four and men's eight • Sarah Herndon (1983) – sailor, Olympic silver (2000) medalist in Women's 470 (crew) team • John Welchli (1950) – rower, Olympic silver (1956) Bronze Igor Boraska (1995) – Croatian rower, Olympic bronze (2000) medal in the eights competition • Robert Bennett (1949) – athlete, Olympic bronze (1948) medal in the men's hammer throwCharles Thomas Butler (1955) – bobsledder, Olympic bronze (1956) medal in the four-man • Emilie Bydwell (2008) – rugby 7s coach, coached the United States women's national rugby sevens team to an Olympic bronze in the 2024 Summer OlympicsJohn Collier (1929) – athlete, Olympic bronze (1928) medal in the 110-metre hurdlesPam Dreyer (2003) – ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (2006) medal in the women's tournament • Glen Foster (1952) – sailor, Olympic bronze (1972) medal in the Tempest classDavid Hall (1901) – runner, Olympic bronze (1900) medalist in the 800-meter raceHenry Hollingsworth (2022) – rower, Olympic bronze (2024) medal in the men's eightKim Insalaco (2003) – ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (2006) medal in the women's tournamentKathleen Kauth (2001) – ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (2006) medalist in the women's tournamentJanet Leung (2016) – Canadian softball player, Olympic bronze (2020) • Ted Patton (1988) – rower, Olympic bronze (1988) • Jimmy Pedro (A.B. 1994) – most decorated American male judo athlete; Judo World Champion (1999); two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1996, 2004) • Donald Whiston (1951) – ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (1952) medal in the men's tournament Competitors Hanna Barakat (2022) – Palestinian–American runner, competed at the 2020 Summer OlympicsPorter Collins (A.B. 1998) – rower and financial analyst, competitor in the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics, involved in betting against the collateralized debt obligation bubble as depicted in The Big ShortDick Dreissigacker (1969) – rower, competed in the 1972 Summer OlympicsCicely Madden (2018) – rower, competed at the 2020 Summer OlympicsAnna Willard (2006) – 2008 Olympic qualifier in 3000m steeplechase, American record holder in 3000m steeplechase • Joanna Zeiger (1992) – fourth in inaugural Olympic Women's Triathlon, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney; Olympic trial qualifier in marathon, triathlon and swimming; world champion in triathlon Other sports Rhett Bernstein (2009) – professional soccer player • Mark Donohue (1959) – professional race car driver; 1972 Indianapolis 500 winner; fatally injured in a crash in practice for the Formula One 1975 Austrian Grand Prix; inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991) • Charlie Enright (2008) – sailor, winning skipper of 2023 The Ocean RaceCory Gibbs (2001) – professional soccer player, Charlton Athletic, FA Premier LeagueFred Hovey (1890) – professional tennis player, US Open Men's Doubles Champion (1893) and Men's Singles Champion (1895) • Jeff Larentowicz (2005) – professional soccer player, New England Revolution, Major League SoccerBill Wirtz (1950) – owner of the Chicago Blackhawks ==Colonial era graduates (1769–1783)==
Colonial era graduates (1769–1783)
Burgiss Allison (D.D. 1777) – chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1816–1820) • Barnabus Binney (1774) – physician • Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician • Dwight Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States Senator from Massachusetts, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts • Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States senator from Rhode Island • David Howell (A.M. 1769) – delegate to the Congress of the ConfederationJoshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting ministerJames Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – leader of 1st Rhode Island Regiment, widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. history • Samuel Ward Jr. (A.B. 1771) – delegate to the Hartford Convention ==Unclassified==
Unclassified
Susan Bennett (1971) – voice actress, original voice of Apple's SiriMichael V. Bhatia (A.B. 1999) – Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom recipient • Nathan Bishop (1837) – first superintendent of schools in Providence and Boston; led the creation of Bishop CollegeFlorencio Campomanes (A.M. 1951) – former president of the World Chess FederationAmy Carter (Class of 1989) – daughter of former President Jimmy Carter; political activist • Andrew Dexter Jr. (A.B. 1798) – founder of Montgomery, AlabamaZe Frank (B.Sc. 1995) – online content creatorIsaac Haxton (2008) – professional poker player • Douglas Harriman Kennedy (A.B.) – tenth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel KennedyJaime Green (A.B. 1999) – first lady of Hawaii, wife of governor Josh GreenCasey Johnson (2001) – socialite, heiress of Johnson & Johnson, daughter of Nancy Sale & Woody Johnson • Alexandra Kerry (A.B. 1997) – daughter of presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John KerrySadad Ibrahim Al Husseini (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1973) – oil and gas industry expert • Theodore Morde (1935–36) – famed explorer and adventurer who claimed to have discovered the "Lost City of the Monkey God" in Honduras • Cara Mund (A.B. 2016) – Miss America 2018John Davis Pierce (1822) – founder of the Michigan public school system • Sonja Santelises (A.B. 1989) – CEO, Baltimore City Public SchoolsThomas B. Stockwell (A.B. 1862, A.M. 1865) – 8th commissioner of public schools of Rhode Island ==References==
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