List of Brown University alumni

The following is a partial list of notable Brown University alumni, known as Brunonians.^[1] 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[edit]

• Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – novelist, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship
• Greg Asbed (BSc 1985) – human rights strategist and labor organizer; recipient of the 2017 MacArthur Fellowship
• Kelly Benoit-Bird (BSc 1998) – Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
• Richard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of the Yale School of Art (1996–2006); recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship^[2]
• Lucy Blake (A.B. 1981) – conservationist, recipient of the 2000 MacArthur Fellowship
• John C. Bonifaz (A.B. 1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute, recipient of the 1999 MacArthur Fellowship
• Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – Haitian-American author, recipient of the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship

  

• Michael H. Dickinson (Sc.B. 1984) – Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology; recipient of the 2001 MacArthur Fellowship
• Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; recipient of the 1995 MacArthur Fellowship
• Rina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago; recipient of the 2023 MacArthur Fellowship^[3]
• Jim 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 Fellowship^[4]
• Ben Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet; recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship
• David 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 Fellowship
• Monica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – public historian; recipient of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship
• Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice; recipient of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship

  

• Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – obstetrician and gynecologist, Kate Macy Ladd Professor at Harvard Medical School; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship^[5]
• Lauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer; recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship
• Jennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
• Sarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright; recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
• Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship
• Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author; recipient of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship
• William Seeley (A.B. 1993) – Professor of Neurology and Pathology, UC San Francisco, recipient of the 2011 Macarthur fellowship^[6]

Academia[edit]

Academic administrators[edit]

• Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – President, College of Charleston; 1st President Hobart College^[7]
• Vernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – 15th President, Ohio University^[8]
• James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – 3rd President, University of Michigan

  

• Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President, Colby College
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda (PhD 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–)^[9]
• Samuel Belkin (PhD 1935) – 2nd President, Yeshiva University
• Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – 2nd President and namesake, Berklee College of Music
• Sarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – 12th President, College of Wooster; former Dean of the College, Williams College
• Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B. 1884) – 5th President, Tufts University
• Walter Burse (1920) – 2nd President, Suffolk University
• Dame Frances Cairncross (A.M. 1966) – Rector, Exeter College, Oxford^[10]
• James Tift Champlin (1834) – 7th President, Colby College
• Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B. 1925) – 13th President, Kenyon College; 9th President, Rockford College
• Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – Founder and 1st President, Colby College

  

• Oren B. Cheney (Class of 1840) – Founder and 1st President, Bates College
• Barbara Chernow (A.B. 1979) – Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, Brown University
• Aram Chobanian (A.B. 1951) – 9th President, Boston University
• Jay Coogan (A.B. 1980) – 16th President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• William E. Cooper (A.B., A.M. 1973) – 8th President, University of Richmond
• Robert A. Corrigan (A.B. 1957) – 12th President, San Francisco State University^[11]
• Glenn Cummings (M.A.T. 1984) – 13th President, University of Southern Maine^[12]
• Eliphaz Fay (A.B. 1821) – 4th President, Colby College
• Willbur Fisk (A.B. 1815) – 1st President, Wesleyan University^[13]
• Henry Simmons Frieze (A.B. 1841) – Acting President, University of Michigan
• Edward Guiliano (1972) – 3rd President, New York Institute of Technology^[14]
• Thomas 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 NAACP
• Suzanne Keen (A.B. 1984, A.M. 1986) – 10th President, Scripps College
• Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 17th President, Dartmouth College; 12th President of the World Bank
• Joan Leitzel (M.A. 1961) – 17th President, University of New Hampshire^[15]
• Luther Luedtke (PhD 1971) – 5th President, California Lutheran University
• James A. MacAlister (1856) – 1st President, Drexel University^[16]
• Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – 1st President, Antioch College; father of American public education; member of the U.S. House of Representatives

  

• Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd President, Brown University; 1st President, University of South Carolina; 3rd President, Union College
• David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – 12th President, Drake University
• Alexander Meiklejohn (A.B. 1893, A.M. 1895) – 8th President, Amherst College; Dean, Brown University; philosopher and free-speech advocate
• Alonzo G. Morón (B.A. 1932) – 8th President of Hampton University, sociologist, civil servant^[17]
• Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – 8th President, University of Richmond; 18th President, Centre College; President, Salem College
• Robert W. Morse (A.M. 1947, PhD 1949) – 1st President, Case Western Reserve University^[18]
• Bernard Muir (1990) – Athletic Director, Stanford University
• Samuel M. Nabrit (PhD 1932) – 2nd President, Texas Southern University
• Louis E. Newman (PhD 1983) – Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University
• Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT
• Eliphalet Nott (A.M. 1795) – 4th President, Union College; 3rd President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; the longest serving American college president
• Inman E. Page (A.B. 1877, A.M. 1880) – President of the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University
• Lynn Pasquerella (PhD 1985) – 18th President, Mount Holyoke College
• Willard Preston (A.B. 1806) – 4th President, University of Vermont^[19]
• Wendell 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^[20]

  

• Suzanne M. Rivera (A.B. 1991) – 17th President, Macalester College
• Chase F. Robinson (A.B. 1985) – President and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Leonard Schlesinger (A.B. 1972) – 12th President, Babson College
• Arthur R. Taylor (A.B. 1957, A.M 1961) – 10th President, Muhlenberg College; President, CBS (1972–1976)
• Sir Richard Trainor (A.B. 1970) – Principal, King's College London (2004–2014); Rector, Exeter College, Oxford (2014–)

  

• Yang Wei (PhD 1985) – President, Zhejiang University
• Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – 8th President, Tufts University
• Benjamin Ide Wheeler (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – 8th President, University of California
• Charles Lincoln White (A.B. 1887) – 13th President, Colby College
• Beniah Longley Whitman (A.B. 1887, A.M. 1890) – 11th President, Colby College; 7th President, George Washington University
• Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – 11th President, Mount Holyoke College

Applied sciences[edit]

• Lallit Anand (Sc.M. 1972, PhD 1975) – Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• Panos Antsaklis (MSc PhD 1977) – H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
• Ravi V. Bellamkonda (PhD 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–)^[9]
• Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Sc.B. 1990) – John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT^[21]

  

• Bernard Budiansky (PhD 1950) – James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard University; recipient of the 1989 Timoshenko Medal
• Herman Chernoff (PhD 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, MIT; known for the Chernoff bound, Chernoff distribution and Chernoff face
• Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Sc.B. 1969) – Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• Tejal Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, professor, School of Engineering, Brown University
• Philippe Fauchet (MSc 1980) – Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
• Rina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago; recipient of the 2023 MacArthur Fellowship^[3]
• Leigh Hochberg (BSc 1990) – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Philip G. Hodge (PhD 1949) – Professor Emeritus of Mechanics, University of Minnesota
• Ayanna Howard (Sc.B. 1993) – Dean, College of Engineering, Ohio State University

  

• Joseph Jacobson (Sc.B 1987) – Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
• Richard D. James (BSc 1974) – Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota
• Mark Kachanov (PhD 1981) – Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
• John Kim (Sc.M. 1974) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
• Victor Li (BSc 1977, MSc 1978, PhD 1981) – James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Michigan; inventor of engineered cementitious composites
• Reda R. Mankbadi (PhD 1979) – Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean, College of Engineering, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University
• Robert McMeeking (MSc 1974, PhD 1977) – Tony Evans Distinguished Professor of Structural Materials and Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara; recipient of the 2014 Timoshenko Medal
• Yves Moreau (MSc 1994) – Professor of Engineering, KU Leuven
• Simon Ostrach (Sc.M. 1945, PhD 1950) – Wilbert J. Austin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; pioneer in space science
• Stella Pang (BSc 1977) – Department Head and Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
• Louise Prockter (MSc PhD 1999) – Chief Scientist, Space Exploration Sector, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
• Upadrasta Ramamurty (PhD 1994) – Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
• Kavita Ramanan (MSc 1993, PhD 1998) – Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
• Kaliat Ramesh (Sc.M. 1985, Sc.M. 1987, PhD 1988) – Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
• Guruswami Ravichandran (PhD 1987) – John E. Goode Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology^[22]
• Ares J. Rosakis (ScM. 1980, PhD 1982) – Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Ed Scheinerman (BSc 1980) –Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
• Paul H. Steen (Sc.B. A.B., 1975) – Maxwell M. Upson Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
• Katia Sycara (Sc.B. 1969) – Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
• Gretar Tryggvason (Sc.M. 1982, PhD 1985) – Department Head and Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Krystyn Van Vliet (Sc.B. 1998) – Michael and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
• Richard W. Ziolkowski (Sc.B. 1974) – Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

Economics and management[edit]

• Mark Aguiar (A.B. 1988) – Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton University
• Igor Ansoff (PhD 1948) – economist and applied mathematician; Founding Dean, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University
• Clarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912, M.A. 1914) – Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin; leading proponent of institutional economics^[23]
• Malcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School^[24]
• William A. Darity Jr. (A.B. 1974) – Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

  

• Steven J. Davis (A.M. 1981, PhD 1986) – William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Mihir A. Desai (A.B. 1989) – Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Douglas Diamond (A.B. 1975) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2022)

  

• Karen Dynan (A.B. 1985) – Professor of the Practice, Economics Department, Harvard Kennedy School
• James Feyrer (A.M., PhD 2001) – Professor and Vice-Chair of Economics, Dartmouth College
• Marvin Goodfriend (PhD 1980) – Friends of Allan Meltzer Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University^[25]
• John Haltiwanger (Sc.B. 1977) – Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Janice Hammond (Sc.B.) – Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Harvard Business School
• Jerry A. Hausman (A.B. 1968) – John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT^[26]
• Guido Imbens (A.M. 1989, PhD 1991) – Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences, 2021)

  

• Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (A.M. 1997, PhD 2000) – Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Bruce J. Katz (A.B. 1981) – Vice President, Brookings Institution; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
• Michael Keane (PhD 1989) – Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University^[27]
• Robert G. King (A.B., A.M., PhD) – Professor of Economics, Boston University
• Randall Kroszner (Sc.B. 1984) – Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Neale Mahoney (Sc.B. 2005) – Professor of Economics, Stanford University
• Edwin Mills (A.B. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Finance, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
• Robert A. Moffitt (A.M. 1972, PhD 1975) – Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
• Jonathan Morduch (A.B. 1985) – Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU
• Anna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc.B. 1977, Sc.M. 1980, PhD 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Georgia Perakis (Sc.M. 1988, PhD 1993) – William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Eswar Prasad (A.M. 1986) – Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

  

• Nancy Rothbard (A.B. 1990) – Deputy Dean and David Pottruck Professor of Management, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania^[28]
• David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – John C Head III Dean and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Scott Shane (A.B. 1986) – A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University^[29]
• Anthony Shorrocks (A.M. 1970) – Professor, London School of Economics; 5th Director of World Institute for Development Economics Research;
• Julia Steinberger (Sc.B. 1996) – Professor of Ecological Economics, University of Lausanne
• Ebonya Washington (A.B. 1995) – Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University
• David N. Weil (A.B. 1982) – James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University
• John Henry Williams (A.B. 1912) – Founding Dean, Harvard Kennedy School; economist of international trade theory^[30]
• Janet 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

  

Formal sciences[edit]

• Frederick J. Almgren Jr. (PhD 1962) – Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship^[31]
• Douglas N. Arnold (A.B. 1975) – McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
• Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (PhD 1939) – President, Mathematical Association of America; the first woman elected to position
• David Blei (Sc.B. 1997) – Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Columbia University
• Dick Bulterman (Sc.M. 1977, PhD 1982) – Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Nelson Dunford (PhD 1936) – James E. English Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Yale University; namesake of the Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem;
• Steven K. Feiner (A.B. 1973, PhD 1985) – Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
• George Forsythe (PhD 1941) – founder and chair of the Computer Science Department, Stanford University;^[32] creator of the term "Computer Science"

  

• William Fulton (A.B. 1961) – Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
• Anne Gelb (Sc.M. 1991, PhD 1996)– John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
• Mark Goresky (PhD 1976) – Member, Institute for Advanced Study; co-inventor of intersection homology
• John Guttag (A.B. 1971) – Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004), MIT
• James Hendler (MSc 1983, PhD 1986) – Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; one of the originators of the Semantic Web
• Scott Klemmer (A.B. 1999) – Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego
• Robert Lazarsfeld (PhD 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University
• Edward D. Lazowska (A.B. 1972) – Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington
• Derrick Henry Lehmer (PhD 1930) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley; "father of computational number theory"^[33][34]

  

• Katrina Ligett (Sc.B. 2004) – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Michael L. Littman (PhD 1996) – University Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
• Dan Margalit (Sc.B. 1998) – Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
• Kathleen McKeown (A.B. 1976) – Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director, Data Science Institute at Columbia University
• Melanie Mitchell (A.B. 1980) – Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute; co-developer of Copycat
• John Coleman Moore (PhD 1952) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University; known for the Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence
• Edward F. Moore (PhD 1950) – Professor of Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison; known for the Moore machine
• Anthony Morse (PhD 1937) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Morse–Kelley set theory, Morse–Sard theorem and the Federer–Morse theorem
• John Mylopoulos (Sc.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• David Nadler (BSc 1996) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
• David Notkin (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
• Peter J. Olver (Sc.B. 1973) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
• Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Carl Pomerance (A.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
• Ken Ribet (A.B., A.M. 1969) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley; known for the Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem

  

• Stefan Roth (Sc.M. 2003, PhD 2007) – Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Robert Schapire (Sc.B. 1986) – former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University
• Robert Sedgewick (Sc.B. 1968, Sc.M. 1970) – Department Chair and William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University^[35]
• Scott Shenker (Sc.B. 1978) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Chief Scientist, UC Berkeley
• Shu Shien-Siu (PhD 1948) – Chair Emeritus, Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Joseph H. Silverman (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Mathematics, Brown University
• Scott A. Smolka (PhD 1984) – Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
• Halil Mete Soner (MSc 1983, PhD 1986) – Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
• John A. Stankovic (BSc 1970, MSc 1975, PhD 1979) – BP America Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
• John Stasko (Sc.M. 1985, PhD 1989) – Regents Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
• Frank Tompa (Sc.B., Sc.M. 1970) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
• Kari Vilonen (PhD 1983) – Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Melbourne
• Martin M. Wattenberg (A.B. 1991) – Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Raymond Louis Wilder (Ph.B. 1918, Sc.M. 1921) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Thaleia Zariphopoulou (MSc 1989, PhD 1989) V.F. Neuhaus Centennial Professor and Presidential Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Humanities[edit]

• Linda Martín Alcoff (PhD 1987) – Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
• Margaret L. Anderson (PhD 1971) – Professor Emerita of History, UC Berkeley^[36]
• Leora Auslander (PhD 1988) – Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization, Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago
• Jacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at the University of Vermont; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer
• Janetta Rebold Benton (PhD 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Art History, Pace University
• Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian
• Bernard Bloch (PhD 1935) – Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
• George Boas (A.B., A.M. 1913) – Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
• Edgar S. Brightman (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1908) – philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr.'s advisor at Boston University
• Marcia Chatelain (A.M., PhD 2008) – Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History for Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

  

• Roderick Chisholm (A.B. 1938) – Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
• James Corum (A.M.) – military historian; Lecturer, University of Salford
• Christina Crosby (PhD 1982) – Professor of English, Wesleyan University; scholar of feminism and critical disability studies
• Kenneth Dean (A.B. 1979) – Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore
• Matt Delmont (A.M. 2004, PhD 2008) – Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
• Melvin Dixon (PhD 1975) – Professor of Literature, Queens College
• Anne Dufourmantelle – philosopher and psychoanalyst^[37]
• Fred Feldman (PhD 1968) – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Ann Ferguson (PhD 1965) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst^[38]
• Alison Fields (M.A. 2003) – Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma
• Diana Fuss (PhD 1988) – Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English, Princeton University
• Alexander R. Galloway (A.B. 1996) – Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

  

• Gary Gerstle (A.B. 1976) – Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge
• Brie Gertler (PhD 1997) – Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Virginia
• George Gorse (A.M. 1974, PhD 1980) – Viola Horton Professor of Art History, Pomona College
• Jacqueline Wernimont (A.M 2005, PhD 2009) – Distinguished Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, Dartmouth College
• John Greco (PhD 1989) – Robert L. McDevitt and Catherine H. McDevitt Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
• Roland Greene (A.B. 1979) – Mark Pigott KBE Professor, Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of the Humanities, director, Humanities Center, Stanford University; President, Modern Language Association (2015–16)
• Albert Harkness (1842) – founder of the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens^[39]
• John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) – Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History, United States Naval War College
• Dagmar Herzog (A.M. 1985, PhD 1991) – Distinguished Professor of History, Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Graduate Center, CUNY
• Marianne Hirsch (A.B., A.M. 1970, PhD 1975) – William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

  

• Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University
• James S. Holmes (1948–1950) – founding figure in translation studies
• Jean E. Howard (A.B. 1970) – George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Princeton University
• George B. Hutchinson (A.B. 1975) – Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, Cornell University
• Matthew Frye Jacobson (PhD 1992) – Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University
• Dale Jacquette (A.M. 1981, PhD 1983) – Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy, University of Bern
• Gene Andrew Jarrett (A.M. 1999, PhD 2002) – Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English, Princeton University^[40]
• Donald Kagan (A.M. 1955) – Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics & History, Yale University; winner of the National Humanities Medal

  

• Matthew Kapstein (PhD 1987) – Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School
• Patricia Keating (A.M. 1976, PhD 1980) – Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, UCLA
• David Kelley (A.B., A.M.) – philosopher, founder of The Atlas Society
• Sean Dorrance Kelly (Sc.B. 1989, M.S. 1989) – Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University
• Ari Kelman (A.M. 1993, PhD 1998) – Chancellor's Leadership Professor of History, University of California, Davis; winner of the 2014 Bancroft Prize
• Karen Leigh King (PhD 1984) – Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University^[41]
• Mark Kishlansky (A.M. 1972, PhD 1977) – Frank Baird Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University
• Carolyn Korsmeyer (PhD 1972) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
• Jennifer Lackey (PhD 2000) – Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
• Aditi Lahiri (PhD 1982) – Chair of Linguistics, University of Oxford
• Wallace Lambert (A.B. 1947) – psychologist of linguistics; "widely considered the father of the psychological study of bilingualism"^[42][43]
• Keith Lehrer (PhD 1960) – Regents' Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Arizona^[44]
• Jeffrey Lesser (A.B. 1982; M.A. 1984) – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University
• Nancy MacLean (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1981) – William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University

  

• Sharon Marcus (A.B. 1986) – Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University^[45]
• Brian Massumi (A.B. 1979) – philosopher and social theorist, former Professor of Communication, Université de Montréal^[46]

  

• Brian McHale (A.B. 1974) – Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University
• Jeffrey L. Meikle (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1971) – Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
• Anne K. Mellor (A.B. 1963) – Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, UCLA
• Nara Milanich (A.B. 1994) – Professor of History, Barnard College
• Monica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – Associate Professor of History, UT Austin, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
• Ronald H. Nash (A.M. 1960) – Evangelical Baptist philosopher and apologist; Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary
• Sianne Ngai (A.B. 1993) – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago
• Kathy Peiss (PhD 1982) – Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
• Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1956) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Arthur Upham Pope (A.B. 1904) – expert on Iranian art; founder and first director, Asia Institute
• Gerald Prince (PhD 1968) – Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
• Arthur S. Reber (M.A. 1965, PhD 1967) – psychologist known for introducing the concept of implicit learning; Broeklundian Professor, Emeritus, Brooklyn College^[47]
• Christina J. Riggs (A.B. 1993) – Professor of History of Visual Culture, Durham University
• Camille Robcis (A.B. 1999) – Professor of History and French, Columbia University, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
• Daniel T. Rodgers (A.B., Sc.B. 1965) – Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University
• Tricia Rose (A.M. 1987, PhD 1993) – Chancellor's Professor of Africana studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

  

• Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld (PhD 1967) – Professor of English and M. Glazer Chair and Professor of Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
• James F. Ross (PhD 1958) – Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania
• John Howland Rowe (A.B. 1939) – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
• Mari Ruti (A.B. 1988) – Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Nathan Schneider (A.B. 2006) – journalist; Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
• Daniel R. Schwarz (PhD 1968) – Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University
• Julius S. Scott (A.B 1973) – scholar of slavery and Caribbean and Atlantic history, author, The Common Wind
• Russ Shafer-Landau (A.B. 1986) – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Ethan H. Shagan (A.B. 1994) – Zaffaroni Family Chair in Education of the History Department, UC Berkeley
• Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (PhD 1994) – Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
• Maxim D. Shrayer (A.B. 1989) – Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston University
• Kaja Silverman (PhD 1977) – Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania^[48]
• Richard Slotkin (PhD 1966) – Olin Professor of English Emeritus, Wesleyan University
• Timothy D. Snyder (A.B. 1991) – Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences

  

• David Sosa (A.B. 1989) – Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
• Jeffrey Stout (A.B. 1972) – Professor Emeritus of Religion, Princeton University
• David Summers (A.B. 1963) – William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art, University of Virginia.
• Charles Taliaferro (A.M., PhD 1984) – Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College
• Richard Taylor (PhD 1959) – philosopher; subject of David Foster Wallace's prize-winning undergraduate thesis^[49][50]
• John L. Thomas (PhD 1961) – George L. Littlefield Professor of American History Emeritus, Brown University; winner of the 1964 Bancroft Prize
• Salamishah Tillet (M.A.T. 1997) – Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University–Newark; recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

  

• Francesca Trivellato (PhD 2004) – Andrew W Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study^[51]
• Adam Ulam (A.B. 1943) – Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University; one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union^[52][53]
• Dell Upton (M.A. 1975, PhD 1980) – Chair of the Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
• Geoffrey Wawro (A.B. 1983) – Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center, University of North Texas
• Charles Edwin Wilbour (Class of 1854) – Egyptologist, co-discoverer of the Elephantine Papyri
• Dean Zimmerman (PhD 1992) – Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University^[54]
• Steven Zwicker (PhD 1969) – Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis

Law[edit]

• Herman Vandenburg Ames – legal scholar, Professor of American Constitutional History, University of Pennsylvania
• Richard Reeve Baxter (A.B. 1942) – Judge, International Court of Justice; Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• Karima Bennoune (A.B. 1988) – Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Samuel W. Buell (A.B. 1987) – Bernard M. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Zechariah Chafee (A.B. 1907) – First Amendment scholar; University Professor of Law, Harvard University^[55]
• Sarah Cleveland (A.B. 1987) – Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School

  

• Jennifer Daskal (A.B. 1994) – Professor of Law, Washington College of Law at American University
• Lawrence Douglas (A.B. 1982) – James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
• Justin Driver (A.B. 1997) – Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School^[56]
• Heidi Li Feldman (A.B. 1986) – Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Daniel Fischel (A.M. 1974) – Lee and Brena Freeman Professor Emeritus of Law and Business and Dean Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School
• James Forman Jr. (A.B. 1988) – J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School;^[57] Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

  

• Kent Greenfield (A.B. 1984) – Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School^[58]
• Henry B. Hansmann (A.B. 1967) – Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School
• Harold Dexter Hazeltine (A.B. 1894) – Downing Professor of the Laws of England (1919–1942), University of Cambridge
• Sonia Katyal (A.B. 1993) – Distinguished Haas Chair, UC Berkeley School of Law^[59]
• David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) – Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
• Larry Kramer (A.B. 1980) – Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Stanford Law School; president of the Hewlett Foundation
• Alexandra Lahav (A.B. 1993) – Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
• Bruce H. Mann (A.B., A.M. 1972) – Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, husband of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren^[60]

  

• Eric L. Muller (1984) – Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Wendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law School^[20]
• Alexander A. Reinert (A.B. 1994) – Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy, Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
• Vincent Rougeau (A.B. 1985) – President, College of the Holy Cross; Dean Emeritus, Boston College Law School
• Paul M. Schwartz (A.B. 1981) – Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Harry Shulman (A.B. 1923) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School
• Kenneth Starr (A.M. 1969) – Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean Emeritus, Pepperdine University School of Law; Solicitor General of the United States (1989–93); Independent Counsel for the Whitewater controversy; 14th President of Baylor University
• Francis Wayland III (A.B. 1846) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School

Medicine and public health[edit]

• Cheryl A. M. Anderson (A.B. 1992) – Professor and Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, UC San Diego
• Louise Aronson (A.B. 1986) – author; Professor of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco
• Ann Arvin (A.B. 1966) – Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emerita, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Aaron 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

  

• Jonathan Berek (M.MSc 1973) – Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
• John M. Barry (A.B. 1968) – author; Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• Linda Bartoshuk (PhD 1965) – Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida
• Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975, M.MSc 1976) – H.J. Smead Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Atul Butte (A.B. 1991, M.D. 1995) – Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Baker Computational Health Sciences Institute
• Christopher G. Chute (A.B. 1977, M.D. 1982) – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University
• Barbara E. Ehrlich (Sc.B. 1974) – Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine
• Nancy Etcoff (A.B.) – Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
• Stanley Falkow (PhD 1961) – father of microbiology, discoverer of the molecular nature of antibiotic resistance; Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine; winner of the Lasker Award^[61]

  

• James D. Griffin (A.B. 1970) – Professor, Harvard Medical School; Chair of Medical Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute; Director of Medical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tina Hartert (A.B. 1985) –  Lulu H. Owen Chair in Medicine and Vice President for Translational Research, Vanderbilt University
• Arthur 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, Shaw Prize, and Breakthrough Prize; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone-mediated protein folding
• Howard Hu (BSc 1976) – Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Founding Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto
• William Kessen (Sc.M. 1950) – Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University
• Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – President, Dartmouth College; co-founder of Partners in Health; Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS department; recipient of the Macarthur fellowship; 12th President of the World Bank

  

• Beth Levine (A.B. 1981) – Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• Jonathan S. Lewin (A.B. 1981) – Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University; Professor, Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health
• David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University.
• Stacy Tessler Lindau (M.D. 1996) – Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine Director, University of Chicago
• George Makari (A.B. 1982) – Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the De Witt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Joseph Matarazzo (A.B. 1946) – 98th President of the American Psychological Association, chair of the first department of medical psychology in the United States^[62]
• Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; former Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
• Craig C. Mello (Sc.B. 1982) – Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine); Blais University Chair in Molecular medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School

  

• Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine; former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University^[63]

  

• Mark Musen (Sc.B. 1977, M.D. 1980) – Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
• Srihari S. Naidu (Sc.B. 1993, M.D. 1997) – Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College
• Jordan S. Orange (A.B., PhD, 1996, M.D., 1997) – Chair of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Pediatrician-in-Chief of New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
• Thomas G. Plante (Sc.B. 1982) – clinical psychologist; Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor of Psychology, Santa Clara University
• Paul Ridker (BSc. 1981) – Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Janet Sinsheimer (BSc 1979) – Professor of Biostatistics, Biomathematics, and Human Genetics, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
• Thomas A. Wadden (A.B. 1975) – Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Augustus A. White (A.B. 1957) – Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Natural sciences[edit]

• Anthony Aguirre (Sc.B. 1995) – Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information, UC Santa Cruz
• Stephon Alexander (PhD 2000) – theoretical physicist and musician, Professor of Physics, Brown University
• Edgar Allen (Sc.B. 1915, A.M. 1916, PhD 1921) – anatomist and physiologist, discoverer of estrogen and father of endocrinology
• Amy Arnsten (A.B. 1976) – Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• Raymond Arvidson (PhD 1974) – James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
• Biman Bagchi (PhD 1980) – biophysical chemist, theoretical chemist; Amrut Mody Professor, Indian Institute of Science

  

• Mark Bear (PhD 1984) – Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT; former Howard Hughes Medical Investigator^[64]
• Joy M. Bergelson (Sc.B. 1984) – Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, New York University
• Marianne Bronner (Sc.B. 1975) – Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology; Director of the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
• Stephen L. Buchwald (Sc.B. 1977) – Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT; developed Buchwald-Hartwig amination
• Sankar Das Sarma (PhD 1979) – Distinguished University Professor and Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
• Richard E. Carson (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
• Andrew G. Clark (Sc.B. 1976) – Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population genetics and Chair of Computational Biology, Cornell University^[65]
• Julia Clarke (A.B. 1995) – John A. Wilson Professor in Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Texas at Austin
• Tejal A. Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – bioengineer and therapeutic nanotechnologist; Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Brown University School of Engineering
• Michael H. Dickinson (Sc.B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, California Institute of Technology; recipient of the Macarthur fellowship
• Neil Donahue (BSc 1985) – atmospheric chemist; Thomas Lord Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• John Donoghue (PhD 1979) – H.M. Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown University
• Bethany Ehlmann (M.S. 2008, PhD 2010) — president of The Planetary Society; Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology; Rhodes Scholar
• Anne Fausto-Sterling (PhD 1970) – major contributor to sexology and biology of gender; Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University

  

• W. Tecumseh Fitch (A.B. 1986, PhD 1994) – Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna
• Raymond Fuoss (PhD 1932) – Sterling Professor Chair of Chemistry, Yale University
• Paul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – Director of the Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University^[66]
• Margaret Gardel (Sc.B. 1998) – Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
• Miriam B. Goodman (BSc 1986) – Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Stanford University; Chair, Stanford Neuroscience Institute
• Andrew V. Granato (PhD 1955) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Alan Grossman (Sc.B. 1979) – Praecis Professor of Biology and Department Head of Biology, MIT
• David Grinspoon (A.B., Sc.B.) – astrobiologist; Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
• James W. Head (PhD 1969) – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences, Brown University
• Arthur Hoag (A.B. 1942) – astronomer; discoverer of Hoag's Object
• Michael R. Hoffmann (PhD 1973) – John S. and Sherry Chen Professor of Environmental Science, Caltech
• Albrecht Hofmann (PhD 1969) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, ForMemRS

  

• John Edwards Holbrook (A.B. 1815) – zoologist, herpetologist, and naturalist
• Donald C. Hood (PhD 1969) – James F. Bender Professor in Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science, Columbia University
• Arthur 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

  

• Richard Ivry (A.B. 1981) – Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
• Bor-ming Jahn (MSc 1967) – Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Geosciences, National Taiwan University
• Lucy Jones (A.B. 1976) – seismologist
• Richard Kaner (A.B. 1980) – Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, UCLA
• Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (PhD 1975) – William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus, Cornell University
• Brian Keating (MSc 1995, PhD 2000) – Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC San Diego
• Steven Kliewer (BSc 1985) – Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Philip Kocienski (PhD 1971) – Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds
• Clifford Kubiak (Sc.B 1975) – Distinguished Professor and Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry, UC San Diego
• Krishna Kumar (PhD 1996) – Robinson Professor in Chemistry, Tufts University
• Ka Yee Christina Lee (Sc.B. 1986) – 14th Provost (2020–23) and David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago^[67][68]
• Wen-Hsiung Li (PhD 1972) – James Watson Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
• Robert 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 Medal
• David 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 Fellowship
• Robert H. MacArthur (A.M. 1953) – founding figure in evolutionary ecology; Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University^[69]
• Nick McCave (PhD 1967) – Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge; fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
• Warren Meck (PhD 1982) – Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
• Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) – Professor of Biology, Brown University
• David D. 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 partner.

  

• John F. Mustard (MSc 1986, PhD 1990) – Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
• Myung Kyungjae (PhD 1999) – biologist, Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• Samuel M. Nabrit (PhD 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 University
• Michael Paradiso (PhD 1984) – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
• Robert L. Park (PhD 1964) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park; former Director of Public Information at the American Physical Society
• Robert Parr (A.B. 1942) – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill; co-founder of quantum chemistry^[70]
• Ainissa 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 School
• Collin Roesler (Sc.B. 1985) – William R. Kenan Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin College
• Rachel Rosen (Sc.B.) – Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University
• Carolyn Rovee-Collier (MSc 1964, PhD 1966) – Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University; pioneering developmental psychologist
• David M. Sabatini (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Biology, MIT (2002–2021); Member, Whitehead Institute; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; discoverer of mTOR

  

• Jenny Saffran (A.B. 1991) – Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
• Ellery Schempp (PhD 1967) – physicist, primary student involved in the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp
• William Seeley (A.B. 1993) – Zander Family Endowed Professor in Neurology, UC San Francisco, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship^[6]
• Michael Shadlen (A.B. 1981, M.D. 1988) – Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator^[71]
• Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (PhD 1998) – Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science
• Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (BSc 2003) – Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Sc.B. 1986) – Director, Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor, Carnegie Mellon University^[72]
• Steven H. Simon (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Physics, University of Oxford^[73]
• Daniel L. Stein (Sc.B. 1975) – Professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York University
• Eliot Stellar (MSc 1942, PhD 1947) – Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; one of the founders of behavioral neuroscience^[74]
• James W. Stigler (A.B. 1976) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA
• Jesse Thaler (Sc.B. 2002) – Professor of Physics, MIT; Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
• Jessica Tierney (A.B. 2005, MSc 2008, PhD 2010) – Associate Professor of Geosciences and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science, University of Arizona^[75]
• Jan Peter Toennies (PhD 1957) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization; Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Göttingen
• Stefanie Tompkins (MSc 1993, PhD 1997) – Director, DARPA; former vice president for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines^[76]
• Mark Trodden (MSc, PhD 1995) – Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor and Department Chair of Physics, Co-Director of the Penn Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
• Fyodor Urnov (PhD 1996) – Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, Berkeley
• John S. Werner (PhD 1979) – Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis
• Xi-Cheng Zhang (PhD 1986) – Parker Givens Chair of Optics, University of Rochester; Director of Institute of Optics
• Maria Zuber (PhD 1986) – E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research, MIT; NASA planning advisor; Co-chair of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology^[77]

  

Social sciences[edit]

• Massimo Livi Bacci (1960–61) – Professor Emeritus of Demography, University of Florence
• Mary Beaudry (A.M. 1975, PhD 1980) – Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy, Boston University^[78]
• Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University^[79]
• Aaron Belkin (A.B. 1988) – Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University; authority on LGBT people in the United States Armed Forces
• Adia Benton (A.B. 1999) – cultural and medical anthropologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University
• Kenneth A. Bollen (A.M. 1975, PhD 1977) – Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill^[80]
• Jason 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

  

• Selmer Bringsjord (PhD 1987) – Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Melani 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 Health
• Prudence 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)
• Neta Crawford (A.B. 1985) – Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University^[81]
• Lee Drutman (A.B. 1999) – Senior Fellow, New America; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University^[82]
• Emily Falk (Sc.B. 2004) – Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
• William H. Frey (A.M. 1971, PhD 1974) – Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
• Ester Fuchs (A.M. 1974) – Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University SIPA
• Robert M. Gagné (Sc.M 1939, PhD 1940) – educational psychologist; Professor, Florida State University; author of Conditions of Learning
• John Ghazvinian (A.B. 1996) – Executive Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania^[83]
• John Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist^[84]
• Michael Inzlicht (Sc.M. 1999, PhD 2001) – Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough
• David Kertzer (A.B. 1969) – Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Brown University; recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

  

• Michael Kimmel (M.A. 1974) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
• Eric Klinenberg (A.B. 1993) – Professor of Sociology and Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science, New York University
• Prema Kurien (A.M. 1989, PhD 1993) – Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
• Harold Leavitt (Sc.M. 1944) – pioneer in management psychology; Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University^[85]
• Jacob T. Levy (A.B. 1993) – Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science, McGill University
• Ogden Lindsley (A.B. 1948, Sc.M. 1950) – developer of precision teaching; Professor, University of Kansas
• Geoffrey Loftus (A.B. 1967) – Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington
• Sabina Magliocco (A.B. 1980) – Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of British Columbia
• Leslie McCall (A.B. 1986) – Presidential Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
• Ruth Milkman (A.B. 1975) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY; former president, American Sociological Association^[86]
• Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT; Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2015–2021)^[87]

  

• Lloyd Ohlin (A.B. 1940) – sociologist and criminologist; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago^[88]
• Hal Pashler (A.B. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC San Diego
• Thomas Pepinsky (A.B. 2001) – Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government, Cornell University
• Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1957) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley, member, Council on Foreign Relations
• Imam Prasodjo (PhD 1997) –Professor in the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia^[89]
• Jennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Macarthur fellowship recipient

  

• Bruce Riedel (A.B. 1975) – Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS
• Lisa Rofel (A.B. 1975) – Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz^[90]
• Eldar Shafir (A.B. 1984) – Class of 1987 Professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

  

• Patrick Sharkey (A.B. 2000) – Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University^[91]
• William Herbert Sheldon (A.B. 1919) – psychologist, creator of the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology
• Rachel Sherman (A.B. 1991) – Professor and Chair of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
• Adam T. Smith (A.B. 1990) – Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Cornell University
• Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, PhD 1947) – experimental psychologist; author of the opponent-process theory of emotion; James M. Skinner University Professor of Science, University of Pennsylvania^[92]
• Erroll Southers (A.B. 1978) – Director of the Safe Communities Institute and Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies, USC Price School of Public Policy
• Deborah A. Thomas (A.B. 1988) – R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
• Fred Turner (A.B. 1984) – Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University
• Khachig Tölölyan (PhD 1975) – founding figure in diaspora studies; Professor Emeritus of English and Letters, Wesleyan University
• Jeffrey K. Tulis (A.M. 1974) – Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
• Sam Wineburg (Class of 1980) – Margaret Jacks Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University
• Deborah J. Yashar (A.B. 1985) – Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Others[edit]

• Asger Aaboe (PhD 1957) – Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Mathematics and of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale University
• Ryan S. Baker (BSc 2000) – Professor, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Director, Penn Center for Learning Analytics
• Albert T. Corbett (A.B. 1972) – Associate Research Professor Emeritus of Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University
• Julie Beth Lovins (A.B. 1968) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching
• Jamie Metzl (A.B. 1990) – futurist; Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

  

• Pedro Noguera (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1982) – Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
• Bina Venkataraman (A.B. 2002) – Director of Global Policy Initiatives, Broad Institute
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin (PhD 2006) – Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Science, technology and innovation[edit]

• Willis Adcock (PhD 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments
• Katherine L. Adams (A.B. 1986) – General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal and Global Security, Apple Inc.^[93]
• Zachariah Allen (1813) – Inventor of the steam engine automatic cut-off valve^[94]
• Seth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI, founder and former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

  

• John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheck^{[citation needed]}
• Walter Guyton Cady (1895) – physicist and electrical engineer; developed the first quartz crystal oscillator
• Bryan Cantrill (BSc 1996) – one of the three authors of DTrace, CTO of Oxide Computer Company, former CTO of Joyent
• John H. Crawford (1975) – chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group
• John Cumbers (PhD 2011) – British molecular biologist, founder of SynBioBeta
• Helen Wendler Deane (PhD 1943) – American histophysiologist
• Lisa Gelobter (1991) – developed visual programs such as Shockwave
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth (PhD 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

  

• Morton Gurtin (PhD 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 OS
• Alexander Lyman Holley (1853) – American inventor, founding member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Eliot Horowitz (Sc.B. 2003) – co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB

  

• Mary Lou Jepsen (1987, PhD 1997) – technology executive and inventor, co-founder of One Laptop per Child
• Chirinjeev Kathuria (BSc 1988, M.D. 1993) – co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc, co-founder of Ocean Biomedical
• Amy Leventer (Sc.B. 1979) – marine biologist, micropaleontologist, Antarctic researcher
• Adam Leventhal (Sc.B. 2001) – software engineer, one of the three authors of DTrace
• David J. Lipman (A.B.) – Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Hilary Mason – data scientist, former general manager of machine learning at Cloudera and chief scientist at Bitly
• Rebecca Moore (1977) – Director, Google Earth
• Meredith Ringel Morris (Sc.B. 2001) –  Director and Principal Scientist, People + AI Research Team, Google Research
• Peter Norvig (Sc.B. 1978) – Director of Research, Google Inc.
• Erin Pettit (Sc.B. 1994) – glaciologist, Antarctic researcher
• David Shrier (Sc.B. 1995) – American futurist and author
• Ken Silverman (Sc.B. 2000) – writer of the Build engine
• Marion Elizabeth Stark (A.B. 1916, A.M. 1979) – one of the first female American mathematics professors
• Gordon Kidd Teal (PhD 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 the National Medal of Science

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  Bob Wallace (Class of 1971) – ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware

Space science and exploration[edit]

• Brian Binnie (Sc.B. 1975, Sc.M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
• James B. Garvin (Sc.B. 1978, Sc.M. 1981, PhD 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
• David Grinspoon (Sc.B. 1982) – astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute
• Wesley Huntress (Sc.B. 1964) – president, The Planetary Society
• Byron K. Lichtenberg (Sc.B. 1969) – NASA astronaut
• Sarah Milkovich (Sc.M. 2002, PhD 2005) – Lead of Science Operations for the Mars 2020 rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; one of two women to participate in the first all-female spacewalk^[95]

  

• Lynn J. Rothschild (PhD 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

  

• Ellen Stofan (PhD 1989) – NASA Chief Scientist (2013–2016), John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum^[96][97]
• Suzanne Smrekar (BSc 1984) – Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars InSight lander
• Paul Spudis (Sc.M. 1977) – noted lunar scientist associated with the NASA Office of Space Science^[98]
• Winslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd Observatory
• George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
• Maria Zuber (PhD 1986) – Principal Investigator of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission^[77]

Government, law and public policy[edit]

Governors[edit]

• Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – 22nd Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859)^[99]
• 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. Senate^[100]
• Augustus O. Bourn (1855) – 36th Governor of Rhode Island (1883–1885)
• Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – 73rd Governor of Rhode Island (2003–2011)^[101]
• 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^[102]

  

• 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)^[103]
• Elisha Dyer (A.B. 1829) – 25th Governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859)^[104]
• Elisha Dyer Jr. – 45th Governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900)^[105]
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – 7th, 11th, and 17th Governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811, 1824–1831, 1843–1845)^[106]
• John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – 13th Governor of Rhode Island (1833–1838)^[107]
• William Gaston (1840) – 29th Governor of Massachusetts (1875–1876)
• Theodore Francis Green (1887) – 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator, D–Rhode Island (1937–1961)^[108]

  

• Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D–New Hampshire (2017–)^[109]
• James 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)^[110]
• Charles Jackson (A.B. 1917, A.M. 1920) – 18th Governor of Rhode Island (1845–46)^[111]
• Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – 55th Governor of Louisiana (2008–2016)^[112]
• Otto Kerner Jr. (1930) – 33rd Governor of Illinois – (1961–1968)^[113]
• 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)^[114]

  

• Jack Markell (1982) – 18th United States Ambassador to the OECD, 73rd Governor of Delaware (2009–2017)^[115]

  

• Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), 16th & 18th Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844)^[116]
• Pendleton Murrah (1848) – 10th Governor of Texas (1863–1865)^[117]
• Philip W. Noel (1954) – 68th Governor of Rhode Island (1973–1977)^[118]
• Robert E. Quinn (1915) – 58th Governor of Rhode Island (1937–1939), Judge for the Rhode Island Superior Court^[119]
• Edward C. Stokes (1883) – 32nd Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908)^[120]
• John Milton Thayer (1841) – 2nd Governor of Wyoming Territory (1875–1878) and 6th Governor of Nebraska (1887–1892)^[121]
• 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)^[122]

Legislators[edit]

United States senators[edit]

• Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853)^[99]
• Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of the United States Senate (1875–1875), Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851)^[100]

  

• Samuel G. Arnold (A.B. 1841) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[123]
• James Burrill Jr. (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[124]
• Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1999–2007); Governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015)^[125]
• John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[126]
• Nathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island^[127]
• Nathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[128]
• James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[129]
• Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts^[130]
• Lafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) – U.S. Senator, Connecticut (1855–1867), President pro tempore of the Senate (1865–1867)^[131]

  

• Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[132]
• John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[107]
• Theodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1937–1961)^[133]
• Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D–New Hampshire (2017–)

  

• Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) – U.S. Senator, Colorado (1879–1885)^[134]
• John Holmes (A.B. 1796) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820), U.S. Senator, Maine (1820–1827, 1829–1833)^[135]
• Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1811–1817)^[136]
• William Hunter (A.B. 1791) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1811–1821)^[137]
• Edward L. Leahy (A.B.) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1949–1950)^[138]
• Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1911–1917)^[139]
• William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator, New York (1831–1833)^[140]
• Blair Moody (A.B. 1922) – U.S. Senator, Michigan (1951–1952)^[141]
• John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) – U.S. Senator from Maine (1835–1841)^[142]
• Frederic M. Sackett (1890) – U.S. Senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)^[143]
• John Milton Thayer (1841) – U.S. Senator, Nebraska (1867–1871)

  

• 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)^[144]

Members of the United States House of Representatives[edit]

• Benjamin Adams (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1816–1821)
• Jeremiah Bailey (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1835–1837)^[145]
• John Bailey (1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1824–1831)
• John Baldwin (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Connecticut (1825–1829)^[146]
• Gideon Barstow (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1821–1823)
• William Baylies (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1809–1809, 1813–1817, 1833–1835)^[145]
• William H. Bates (1940) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1950–1969)
• Barnabas Bidwell – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1805 –1807)
• William Daniel Brayton – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1857–1861)
• Franklin E. Brooks (1883) – U.S. Congressman, Colorado (1903–1907)
• George H. Browne (1840) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1861–1863)
• Tristam Burges (A.B. 1796) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1835)^[147]
• David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital–Providence, Rhode Island; U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (2011–2023).^[148]

  

• Gil Cisneros (M.A. 2015) – U.S. Congressman, California (2019–2021),^[149] 10th Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness^[150]

  

• 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)^[151]
• Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. Congressman, Ohio, New York, U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire^[152]
• Samuel L. Crocker (1822) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1853–1855)^[153]
• Robert Lee Davis – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1932–1933)^[154]
• Nathan F. Dixon II (1833) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1851, 1863–1871)^[145]
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1821–1825)^[155]
• Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835)^[156]
• Frederick D. Ely (1859) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1885–1887)
• James Ervin (1797) U.S. Congressman, South Carolina (1817–1821)^[157]
• Horace Everett (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Vermont (1829–1843)^[158]
• Thomas Ewing Jr. – U.S. Congressman, Ohio (1877–1881)
• George Fisher (1813) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1829–1830)^[159]
• Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1793–1800)^[130]
• George B. Francis (1904) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1917–1919)
• Daniel L. D. Granger (1874) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1903–1909)
• Julian Hartridge (1848) – U.S. Congressman, Georgia (1875–1879)^[160]
• Nathaniel Hazard (1792) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1820)^[161]
• 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)^[162]

  

• George Gordon King (1825) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1853)
• Oscar Lapham (1864) – U.S. Congressman, Rhode Island (1891–1895)^[163]
• Dan Maffei (A.B. 1990) – U.S. Congressman, D-New York (2009–2011, 2013–2015)^[164]
• Seth Magaziner (A.B. 2006) – U.S. Congressman, D-Rhode Island (2022–)

  

• Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1848–1853)
• James Brown Mason (A.B. 1791) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1819)^[165]
• 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)^[166]
• John J. O'Connor (1906) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1923–1939)^[167]
• Richard Olney II (1892) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1815–1921)
• Dutee Jerauld Pearce (A.B. 1808) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1837)^[168]
• Dean Phillips (A.B. 1991) – U.S. Congressman, Minnesota (2019–)^[169]; former candidate for the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nomination

  

• Henry Kirke Porter (1860) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1903–1905)^[170]
• 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 K. Ross (1985) – U.S Congresswoman, North Carolina (2021–)^[171]
• Jonathan Russell (1791) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1820)^[145]
• Zabdiel Sampson (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820)^[172]
• William P. Sheffield, II (1877) – U.S. Congressman, Rhode Island (1909–1911)^[173]
• Solomon Sibley (1794) – first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial Delegate to Congress^[174]
• Thomas Hale Sill (1804) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1826 –1827, 1829 –1831)
• Edward L. Sittler Jr. (1930) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania, 23rd Congressional District^[175]
• Albert Smith (1813) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1839–1841)^[145]
• Henry J. Spooner (1860) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1881–1891)
• Walter Russell Stiness (1877) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1823)
• Ebenezer Stoddard (1807) – U.S Congressman, Connecticut.^[176]
• James Tallmadge Jr. (1798) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1817–1819), President of New York University (1830–1846)

  

• Eli Thayer (1845) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1857–1861)
• Benjamin Thomas (1830) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1861–1863)^[145]
• Charles R. Train (1837) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1859–1863)
• Daniel Wardwell (1811) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1831–1837)^[177]
• Ezekiel Whitman (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1835–1837)^[145]
• David Rogerson Williams (1792–1795) – U.S. Congressman, South Carolina (1811– 1813), Governor of South Carolina (1814–1816)
• Henry Williams (1826) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1839 –1831, 1843–1845)^[145]
• William D. Williamson (1804) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1809–1811) and Maine (1821–1822)
• William Widnall (1926) – U.S. Congressman, New Jersey (1950–1975)^[178]
• John W. Wydler (1947) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1963–1981)^[179]

State legislators[edit]

• Sullivan Ballou (Class of 1852) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives; Major in Rhode Island militia; killed at First Battle of Bull Run
• Brian Benjamin (A.B. 1998) – member of the New York State Senate ( 2017–present), Lieutenant Governor of New York (2021–2022)
• Antonio F. D. Cabral (1997) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1990–present)
• Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) – member of the Arkansas General Assembly (2006–2011)
• Elijah Hamlin – member of the Maine House of Representatives (1830–1832)
• Steve 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 from 1859 to 1860
• Ratcliffe Hicks (1864) – member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1866–1895), benefactor of the University of Connecticut
• Walter M. D. Kern – politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1978 to 1990, where he represented the 40th Legislative District.^[180]
• Dana Levenberg (1986)- member of the New York State Assembly (2023–present), Town Supervisor of Ossining (2016–2022)
• Mee Moua (1992) – Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician
• Mark Strama (1990) – member of the Texas House of Representatives
• Austin Volk (1941) – member of the New Jersey General Assembly and mayor of Englewood, New Jersey
• Aaron Regunberg (2012) – member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and 2018 Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
• Kyle Evans Gay – member of the Delaware Senate^[181]

Mayors[edit]

• Kostas Bakoyannis (A.B. 2000) – Mayor of Athens, Greece (2019–present)^[182]
• David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital–Providence, Rhode Island; U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (2011–).^[148]
• Buddy Dyer (Sc.B. 1980) – 32nd Mayor of Orlando, Florida (2003–)
• Henry Loeb (1943) – Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee (1960–1963, 1968–1971)
• Alex Morse (A.B. 2011) – 44th Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts (2012–2021); elected youngest mayor of Holyoke at age 22^[183]

  

• Freddie O'Connell (A.B., BSc 2000) – 10th Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee^[184]
• Chelsie 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^[185][186]
• Samuel Starkweather (1822) – 7th and 15th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1844–1845, 1857–1858)
• Konstantinos Zervas (Sc.M. 1989) – Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece (2019–)^[187]

Diplomats[edit]

• Willard L. Beaulac (1918) – U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (1944–1947), Colombia (1947–1951), Cuba (1951–1953), Chile (1953–1956) and Argentina (1956–1960)
• W. Randolph Burgess (1912) – U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1957–1961)
• William H. Courtney (PhD 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, PhD 1979) – acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2013)

  

• Norm Eisen (A.B. 1985) – U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011–2014)^[188]
• Ana A. Escrogima (A.B. 2001) – nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Oman
• Rufus Gifford (A.B. 1996) – U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2013–2017),^[189] Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, Chief of Protocol of the United States^[190]
• John 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 Berlin

  

• Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 44th U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925)
• Noble Brandon Judah (1904) – U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929)
• Suzan G. LeVine (A.B. 1993) – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein (2014–2017)^[191]
• Frederick Irving (A.B. 1943) – U.S. Ambassador to Iceland (1972–1976)^[192]
• Roberta S. Jacobson (A.B. 1982) – U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018)^[193]
• 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^[194]
• 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–), U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2005–2008)

  

• 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)^[195]
• 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–), co-founder Not on Our Watch
• Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) – U.S. Senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933)
• 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)^[196]
• W. Stuart Symington (A.B. 1974) – U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (2016–2019) and Rwanda (2008–2011)
• 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

  

• Henry Wheaton (A.B. 1802) – U.S. Minister to Denmark (1827–1835) and Prussia (1837–1846)
• Curtin Winsor Jr. (A.B. 1961) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1983–1985)

Advisors and officials[edit]

• Charles "Chuck" Colson (1953) – chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in the Watergate Scandal; founder of Prison Fellowship
• Thomas Corcoran (1922) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyist
• Tad 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 campaign
• David F. Duncan (1995) – domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug addiction
• John Hay (1858) – U.S. Secretary of State under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1898–1905), private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln

  

• 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 Institution^[197][198]
• E. Howard Hunt (1940) – author, OSS & CIA officer, worked under President Richard Nixon; figured in the Watergate scandal
• Randall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Ira 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 Convention
• Annette 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)
• David Onek (1991) – candidate for District Attorney of San Francisco
• Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) – Chair of the Democratic National Committee, former United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017)

  

• John A. Rizzo (A.B. 1969) – Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency noted for his role in "laying the legal groundwork" for the War on Terror^[199]
• Tahesha Way (A.B. 1993) – Secretary of State of New Jersey (2018–2023), Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey (2023–)^[191][200]
• 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[edit]

• Junaid Ahmad (A.B.) – Bangladeshi economist, World Bank country director for India
• Ichirō Fujisaki – Japanese 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)
• Shigeyuki Goto (A.M. 1984) – Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (2021–present)
• Martín Guzmán (PhD 2013) – Minister of Economy of Argentina (2019–2022)^[201]

  

• Nitya Pibulsonggram (A.M. 1967) – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand (2006–2008)
• Nadiem Makarim (2006) – Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia (2021–present)^[202]
• Eduardo Montealegre (Sc.B. 1976) – Nicaraguan politician, Deputy to the National Assembly, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay – Member of the House of Lords Excepted Hereditary (2019–present)

  

• 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, PhD 1985) – Minister of Education and Technical Education [ar] of Egypt
• Ijyaraj Singh (Sc.B. 1987) – Member of the Lok Sabha representing Kota (2009–2014)
• Julio Velarde (M.A. 1977, PhD 1978) – Chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2006–present)

Activists, reformers, and thought leaders[edit]

• Junaid Ahmad (A.B. 1983) – economist; World Bank Country Director for India^[203]
• 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 Fellowship
• Geoffrey Bowers – plaintiff an early HIV/AIDS discrimination case^[204]
• Katherine Chon (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and Board President of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project
• Bhupendranath Datta (M.A. 1914) – Indian revolutionary, sociologist and anthropologist
• Sean Eldridge (A.B. 2009) – political activist and former congressional candidate^[205]
• 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 Voters
• Kerry 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^[206]

  

• Maya Keyes – anarchist and gay rights activist
• Alfie Kohn (A.B. 1979) – proponent of progressive education
• Nancy Lublin (1993) — founder of Crisis Text Line
• Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – educationist; father of American public school education
• Nancy Northup (A.B. 1981) – President, Center for Reproductive Rights
• Nawal 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 Fellowship
• Michael 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

  

• George Lincoln Rockwell (Class of 1942) – founder of the American Nazi Party; dropped out after second year to join the Navy
• Kenneth Roth (A.B. 1978) – Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (1993–2022)

  

• Malika Saada Saar (A.B. 1992) – Director of the Human Rights Project for Girls; co-founder of Rebecca Project for Human Rights^[207]
• Rinku Sen (A.B. 1988) – Co-president of the Women's March board of directors, former executive director of Race Forward^[208]
• Martha Sharp (A.B. 1926) – Unitarian who aided hundreds of Jews in escaping the Holocaust^[209]
• Michael Soussan (A.B. 1996) – whistleblower and author
• Irving Stowe (A.B. 1936) – founder of Greenpeace^[210]

Jurists and attorneys[edit]

• Leslie Abrams Gardner (A.B. 1997) – District Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia^[211]
• Asa Aldis (A.B. 1796) – Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[212]
• 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^[213]
• Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Family Court^[214]
• Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) – District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
• Theodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) – Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana^[215]
• Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• George Moulton Carpenter (A.B. 1864) – Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
• Zachary A. Cunha (A.B. 1998) – United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island
• Herbert F. DeSimone (A.B. 1910) – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation^[216]
• Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835)
• John Patrick Hartigan (A.B. 1951) – Rhode Island Attorney General, 1933–1939; US District Court, 1940–1951; US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1951–1968^[217]
• Richard Hertling, (A.B. 1982) – Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims^[218]
• Charles 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^[219]
• Alfred H. Joslin (A.B. 1936) – Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1963–1979)
• Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov (A.B. 1979) – Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals
• Patrick C. Lynch (1987) – Rhode Island Attorney General (D)
• Lewis Linn McArthur – Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
• Theron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court^[220]
• Marcus Morton (1838) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882–1890)
• Michael Newdow (Sc.B. 1974) – atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Thomas J. Perrelli (A.B. 1988) – former United States Associate Attorney General
• Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory; territorial Delegate to Congress
• Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – former U.S. Solicitor General; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings and namesake of the Starr Report; President of Baylor University

  

• Norman O. Tietjens (Ph.B. 1925, M.A. 1927) – judge of the United States Tax Court^[221][222]
• Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former Rhode Island Superior Court judge
• William Tong (A.B. 1995) – Attorney General of Connecticut (2019–)^[223]
• Anne Rachel Traum (A.B. 1991) – Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
• Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court

Business[edit]

• Lawrence D. Ackman (1960) – real estate entrepreneur, father of billionaire Bill Ackman^[224]
• Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (1986) – heir apparent and designated future chairman of the Fiat group
• Akash Ambani (A.B. 2013) – Director of Jio and Reliance Retail; eldest son of Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani^[225][226]
• George S. Barrett (A.B. 1977) – CEO of Cardinal Health (2009–2017)^[227]
• John Berylson (A.B. 1975) – American investor
• Marvin Bower (Sc.B. 1925) – co-founder of McKinsey & Company
• Aneel Bhusri (Sc.B. 1988) – billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Workday

  

• Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1938) – co-founder and President, Diners Club International^[228]
• Orlando Bravo (1970) – first Puerto Rican billionaire businessman

  

• Willard C. Butcher (1948) – former chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan Bank
• Adam Cahan (A.B. 1993) – former Senior Vice President of Mobile and Emerging Products, Yahoo!^[229]
• 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, Citigroup
• Finn M. W. Caspersen (A.B. 1963) – financier, chairman and chief executive of the Beneficial Corporation
• John S. Chen (Sc.B. 1978) – chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited
• Chung Yong-jin (A.B. 1994) – South Korean billionaire, vice chairman and CEO of Shinsegae Group^[230]
• Glenn Creamer (A.B. 1984) – billionaire, Senior managing director of Providence Equity Partners
• Dan DiMicco (BSc 1972) – CEO (2000–12) and chairman (2006–12) of Nucor
• Tanya 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 Figma

  

• Devin Finzer (BSc 2013) – billionaire, CEO and co-founder of OpenSea
• George M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, PhD 1966) – former CEO of Motorola and Eastman Kodak Company
• Sidney Frank (Class of 1942) – billionaire founder of Grey Goose and Jägermeister
• Tom Gardner (A.B. 1990) – co-founder and co-chairman of the Motley Fool
• Kenneth Gaw (1992) – Hong Kong businessman
• Charles Giancarlo (BSc 1979) – chairman and CEO of Pure Storage, former chief technology officer at Cisco Systems^[231]
• Jeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) – chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies
• Theresia Gouw (Sc.B. 1990) – investor, wealthiest female venture capitalist in the United States^[232][233]
• Ross Greenburg (1977) – president of HBO Sports
• Oliver Haarmann (1990) – founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners
• James Harmon (A.B. 1957) – investor; President and CEO, Export–Import Bank of the United States (1997–2001)
• Walter Hoving (Ph.B. 1920) – CEO of Tiffany & Co.
• Nina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) – former president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

  

• Parth Jindal (A.B. 2012) – managing director of JSW Cement, son of Sajjan Jindal
• Craig Kallman (A.B. 1987) – chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records Group^[234]
• Ray Kassar (1948) – former CEO of Atari
• Paul Kazarian (M.A. 1980) – billionaire investor^[235]
• Dara Khosrowshahi (Sc.B. 1991) – CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia Group^[236]

  

• 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^[237]
• Jonathan Klein (A.B. 1980) – former president of CNN/US
• Steph Korey (A.B. 2009) – founder of Away
• Liz Lange (A.B. 1988) – founder of Liz Lange Maternity
• Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) – chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
• Gordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) – former president and CEO, NASDAQ
• Nadiem Makarim (A.B. 2006) – founder of Gojek, current Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia
• Robert Marcus (A.B. 1987) – former chairman and CEO of Time Warner Cable
• Brian Moynihan (A.B. 1981) – president and CEO, Bank of America

  

• Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977) – billionaire, investor, founder of Providence Equity Partners
• Karan Paul (1992) – chairman, Apeejay Surrendra Group
• Steven Price (Sc.B. 1984) – co-founder of Townsquare Media, and minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks
• George Pyne (1988) – founder and CEO of Bruin Sports Capital
• Sridhar Ramaswamy (PhD 1995) – former Senior Vice President of Advertising and Commerce, Google
• Ajit Ranade (A.M., PhD 1997) – Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group
• Steven Rattner (A.B. 1974) – Deputy chairman and Deputy CEO, Lazard Frères & Co.
• William R. Rhodes (A.B. 1957) – Senior vice-chairman, Citigroup
• Stephen 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

  

• 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 Evite
• Rashmi Sinha (PhD 1998) – co-founder and CEO of SlideShare
• Lawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) – president of Fannie Mae; secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
• Orin 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 Starwood
• Jeff Stibel (Sc.M. 1999) – entrepreneur, founder of Bryant Stibel
• Jeffrey Swartz (A.B. 1982) – former CEO of Timberland
• Melvin Swig (A.B. 1939) – real estate developer and philanthropist
• Ted Turner (Class of 1960) – billionaire founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting

  

• Amelia Warren Tyagi (A.B. 1993) – businesswoman, author; daughter of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren^[238]
• Thomas 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 Stone
• Jochen 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 financial crisis of 2007–2009
• Andrew Yang (A.B. 1996) – founder of Venture for America (VFA), 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate

  

• Nancy Zimmerman (A.B. 1985) – hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital

Journalism[edit]

• Leroy F. Aarons (A.B. 1955) – journalist; founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association^[239]
• Rachel Aviv (A.B. 2004) – staff writer at The New Yorker^[240]
• Jim Axelrod (A.M. 1989) – Chief White House correspondent, CBS News
• Rebecca Ballhaus (A.B. 2013) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist^[241]
• Chris Berman (A.B. 1977) – ESPN host and anchor
• Martin Bernheimer (1958) – Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic^[242]
• Duncan B. Black, aka Atrios (PhD 1999) – political blogger
• Elizabeth Bruenig (2014–2015) – opinion writer at The New York Times and formerly The Washington Post

  

• 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 Report
• Gareth 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 Jones
• Dana Cowin (A.B. 1982) – Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine
• Lyn Crost (A.B. 1938) – World War II correspondent and author, Honor by Fire:Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
• Adrian Dearnell (A.B. 1994) – Franco-American financial journalist, CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media^[243]
• 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 election
• Katherine Eban (A.B. 1989) – investigative journalist
• Chip Giller (A.B. 1993) – environmentalist, founder of Grist
• Ira Glass (A.B. 1982) – host and producer, National Public Radio, This American Life

  

• Jerry Green (A.B. 1950) – sports journalist, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Catherine Gund (A.B. 1988) – documentary filmmaker; activist^[244]
• Chris Hayes (A.B. 2001) – Editor of The Nation and host of All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC

  

• Tony Horwitz (1980) – journalist, Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
• A. 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 Average
• Sasha 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

  

• Glenn Kessler (A.B. 1981) – diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post
• Noel King (A.B. 2004) – co-host of Morning Edition and Up First
• Hiroko Kuniya (A.B. 1979) – Japanese news anchor
• Erik Kuselias (1991) – host of hosts Sportsline and CBS Sports
• Sharon LaFraniere (A.B. 1977) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at The New York Times^[245]
• Josh Levin (2002) – National Editor at Slate
• Irving R. Levine (1944) – former NBC News correspondent
• Mara Liasson (A.B. 1977) – NPR correspondent^[246]
• Bill Lichtenstein (1978) – journalist, documentary filmmaker, president of LCMedia, Inc.; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Peabody Award
• Andrew Marantz (2006) – staff writer at The New Yorker
• Mark Maremont (1980) – senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Josh Marshall (PhD 2003) – Polk Award-winning journalist; founder, Talking Points Memo
• Matthew Miller (A.B. 1983) – Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; columnist for Fortune; regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine
• George Musser (Sc.B. 1988) – author and editor at Scientific American
• Pamela Paul (A.B. 1993) – opinion columnist, The New York Times, editor of The New York Times Book Review (2013–2022)

  

• Holly Peterson (A.B. 1987) – contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, editor-at-large for Talk magazine, producer for ABC News
• Sasha 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 Magazine
• Andrew Revkin (A.B. 1978) – environmental journalist, New York Times; recipient of 2008 Columbia University Journalism School John Chancellor Award
• Quentin Reynolds (1924) – World War II war correspondent.
• James 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 Reporting
• David 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 Times
• Alissa J. Rubin (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Baghdad Bureau chief, The New York Times
• Margaret Russell (1980) – Editor-in-Chief, Elle Decor magazine; design judge, Top Design
• Laura Secor (A.B.) – journalist
• Aaron Schatz (1996) – ESPN NFL analyst, founder of Football Outsiders
• Kathryn Schulz (A.B. 1996) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker

  

• Julia Flynn Siler (A.B. 1983) – journalist and nonfiction author^[247]
• 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 Tell
• Doreen St. Félix (2014) – staff writer at The New Yorker
• Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – host, MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart
• A. G. Sulzberger (A.B. 2003) – publisher, The New York Times; chairman of The New York Times Company

  

• André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of Vogue; regarded as "fashion icon"^[248][249]
• Wallace Terry (A.B. 1959) – African-American journalist, author, and oral historian known for his coverage of Black soldiers in the Vietnam War^[250][251]
• Salamishah 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 Being
• Larry Tye (A.B. 1977) – journalist
• Alex Wagner (A.B. 1999) – host, Alex Wagner Tonight, MSNBC

  

• David Wallace-Wells (A.B. 2004) – opinion columnist, The New York Times; author of The Uninhabitable Earth
• Ivan Watson (A.B. 1997) – senior international correspondent, CNN^[252]
• Curtis Yarvin (1992) – blogger, political theorist, software engineer, and internet entrepreneur associated with the Dark Enlightenment^[253]
• Sachi Cunningham (1994) – PBS FRONTLINE/World producer and director of photography, Los Angeles Times video journalist^[254]

Literature[edit]

• 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 fellowship
• Jacob M. Appel (A.B. 1995) – author, playwright, Arborophilia, Creve Coeur, The Mistress of Wholesome
• Mona Awad (M.F.A. 2014) – novelist and short story writer^[255]
• Peter Balakian (PhD 1980) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Ozone Journal
• Edward Ball (A.B. 1982) – National Book Award-winning nonfiction writer, Slaves in the Family, The Genetic Strand
• Mark Baumer (M.F.A. 2011) – writer and environmental activist
• Josh Bazell (A.B. 1992) – novelist
• Bill Berkson (1957–1959) – poet and critic^[256]
• Lisa Birnbach (A.B. 1978) – author, The Official Preppy Handbook
• Kate 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 Moon
• Jessamine Chan (2000) – author, The School for Good Mothers
• Susan Cheever (A.B. 1965) – author
• Frank Chipasula (A.M. 1980, PhD 1987) – Malawian writer
• Franny Choi (A.B. 2011) – poet
• Mallika Chopra (A.B. 1993) — author and self-help entrepreneur^[257]
• 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

  

• Brian Christian (A.B. 2006) – author, The Most Human Human
• Zinzi Clemmons (A.B. 2007) – author
• Nicole Cooley (A.B. 1988) – poet, Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York^[258]
• Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics
• Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – American Book Award-winning author, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Dew Breaker, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
• Cyrus Grace Dunham (2014) – author, A Year Without A Name: A Memoir
• David Ebershoff (A.B. 1991) – Lambda Literary Award-winning author, The Danish Girl, editor-at-large at Random House, professor at Columbia University
• Jeffrey Eugenides (A.B. 1983) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot^[259][260]

  

• Percival Everett (A.M. 1982) – novelist, poet; Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California^[261]
• Rudolph Fisher (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920) – author, musician, physician; a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
• Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright/avant-garde theater pioneer; founder, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, recipient of the MacArthur fellowship
• Sam Walter Foss (A.B. 1882) – poet
• Sarah Gambito (M.F.A. 1999) – poet; director of creative writing, Fordham University^[262]
• Deborah Garrison (A.B. 1986) – poet^[263]
• Peter Gizzi (M.F.A. 1991) – poet, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers
• Xochitl Gonzalez (A.B. 1999) – author and screenwriter, Olga Dies Dreaming; staff writer at The Atlantic
• Jaimy Gordon (A.M. 1972, A.D. 1975) – National Book Award-winning author, Lord of Misrule
• Andrew Sean Greer (A.B. 1992) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Less^[264]
• Jennifer Haley (M.F.A. 2005) – playwright, winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize^[265]
• Scott Haltzman (1982, M.D. 1985) – psychiatrist, self-help author
• Jordan Harrison (M.F.A. 2003) – playwright, finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Tony Horwitz (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author of Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes^[266]
• Shelley Jackson (M.F.A. 1994) – hyperfiction writer, author of Patchwork Girl
• Steven Johnson (A.B. 1990) – writer and popular science author
• Winthrop Jordan (PhD 1960) – American Civil War and racial history writer, winner of the National Book Award and Bancroft Prize
• Gayl Jones (M.A. 1973, PhD 1975) – novelist, poet, and playwright; "literary legend" of Black literature^[267][268]

  

• Zeyn Joukhadar (PhD 2014) – novelist^[269]
• Bess Kalb (A.B. 2010) – author and television writer
• Phil Kaye (A.B. 2010) – poet and spoken word artist^[270][271]
• Sarah Kay (A.B. 2010, M.A.T. 2012) – poet and spoken word artist^[270][271]
• Jonathan Karp (A.B. 1986) – publisher, CEO of Simon & Schuster^[272]
• Caroline Kepnes (A.B. 1999) – American author and screenwriter, You, Hidden Bodies, Providence
• Alexandra 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 Story
• Richard Kostelanetz (A.B.1962) – cultural historian, fictioner, poet, experimental writer, critic of avant-garde arts and artists, anthologist
• Geoffrey A. Landis (PhD 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. Spivet
• Marie Myung-Ok Lee (A.B. 1986) – author and essayist^[273]
• 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^[274]

  

• Steven Levenson (A.B. 2006) – author, Dear Evan Hansen, winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
• David 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 American
• Sam Lipsyte (A.B. 1990) – author, Home Land, Venus Drive, The Fun Parts
• Lois Lowry (Class of 1958) – Newbery Medal-winning author, The Giver

  

• Thomas Mallon (A.B. 1973) – author, Henry and Clara, Bandbox, Dewey Defeats Truman, Two Moons
• Ben Marcus (M.F.A. 1991) – author, The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women
• Alex McAulay (A.B.) – author, Bad Girls, Lost Summer, Oblivion Road, Shelter Me
• Emily Arnold McCully (A.B. 1961) – Caldecott Award-winning children's author, Mirette on the High Wire
• Mark C. McGarrity (A.B. 1966) – wrote crime fiction under the name Bartholomew Gill
• Roland 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^[275]

  

• Steven Millhauser (1968–71) – Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Martin Dressler
• Rick Moody (A.B. 1983) – author, The Ice Storm, Garden State, Purple America, The Diviners
• Kass Morgan (A.B.) – author, The 100
• Rebecca Morris (M.F.A. 1986) – nonfiction author, Ted and Ann, If I Can't Have You, A Killing in Amish Country
• Ottessa Moshfegh (M.F.A. 2011) – writer, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation^[276]

  

• Jandy Nelson (M.F.A. 1992) – author, I'll Give You the Sun
• Emily Nemens (A.B. 2005) – writer, editor, The Paris Review^[277]
• Naomi 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 American
• Nicanor Parra (1943–1945) – Chilean poet, author of Poemas y antipoemas [es],^[278] winner of the 2011 Miguel de Cervantes Prize
• S. J. Perelman (Class of 1925) – humorist, The New Yorker; author; Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Around the World in Eighty Days
• Nathaniel Philbrick (A.B. 1978) – nonfiction writer; National Book Award winner, author of In the Heart of the Sea
• Marilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) – Pulitzer Prize and Orange Prize-winning author, Gilead, Housekeeping, Home

  

• 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 Fiction
• Dana Schwartz (A.B. 2015) – author
• David Shenk (A.B. 1988) – author, The Forgetting, Data Smog, The Immortal Game
• Reginald Shepherd (M.F.A. 1988) – poet and author
• Daniel Sherrell (A.B. 2013) – author and climate organizer
• David Shields (A.B. 1978) – author, Reality Hunger
• Scott Snyder (A.B. 1998) – author of the story collection Voodoo Heart and writer of Vertigo Comics's ongoing original series American Vampire
• Gustaf Sobin (A.B. 1957) – poet, expatriate
• Brian Kim Stefans (M.F.A. 2006) – poet, professor of English at UCLA
• Nathanael West (Ph.B. 1924) – author, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust
• Meg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) – author, The Wife, The Interestings, The Position
• Adelle 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^[279]

  

• Joshua M. Zeitz (A.M. 1998, PhD 2002) – historian
• C Pam Zhang (2011) – author, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Medicine and public health[edit]

• 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 Diseases^[280]
• Aaron 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
• Seth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI, founder and former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Tom Catena (A.B. 1986) – Catholic medical missionary working in central Sudan

  

• William A. Catterall (A.B. 1968) – Chair and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, ForMemRS
• Charles 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^[281]
• Tina L. Cheng, Chair of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.^[282]
• Lynda 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^[283]
• James J. Cimino (BSc 1977) – Professor of Medicine and director, Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
• George E. Coghill (A.B. 1896, PhD 1902) – anatomist
• Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician, academic, and surgeon during the American Revolution
• Jacqueline A. French (M.D. 1982) – neurologist, professor, NYU Langone Health, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Epilepsy Foundation
• Nora Groce (PhD) – Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London
• Tina Hartert – Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University
• Andrew C. Hecht (1989) – Chief of Spine Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Neurologic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine
• Insoo Hyun (PhD 1998) – Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
• Judith V. Jordan (1965) – co-director, Jean Baker Miller Institute; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
• Mark 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 Pennsylvania
• Philip 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 School

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  William Williams Keen (A.B. 1859) – first American brain surgeon
• Linda Liau (A.B., S.B. 1987) – W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine; former provost, Johns Hopkins University^[63]
• Christine Montross (M.D. 2006, M.MSc 2007) – Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School at Brown University
• Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1984) – Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Michael Polydefkis (BSc 1988) – Director, Cutaneous Nerve Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
• Megan Ranney (M.P.H. 2010) – Dean, Yale School of Public Health

  

• Joan Reede (Sc.B. 1976) – physician, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School^[284]
• Griffin P. Rodgers (Sc.B. 1976, M.MSc & M.D. 1979) – Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• Matthew Sacchet (A.B. 2010) – Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Sally Satel (M.D. 1984) – Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
• Erica Schwartz (Sc.B. 1994, M.D. 1998) – Deputy Surgeon General of the United States (2019–2021)
• Harry Selker (M.D. 1978) – Dean and professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Manny Sethi (A.B. 2000) – physician, president and founder of the non-profit Healthy Tennessee
• Neel Shah (Sc.B. 2004, M.D. 2009) – Executive Director of Costs of Care, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Military[edit]

• John 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.

  

• William C. Chase (A.B. 1916) – Major general during World War II
• G. Edward Buxton (Ph.B. 1902) – commanding officer of Sergeant Alvin C. York; first assistant director of the OSS
• Thomas Ewing Jr. (Class of 1856) – Union Army general during the American Civil War, first chief justice of Kansas
• Ployer Peter Hill (BSc 1916) – test pilot, namesake of Hill Air Force Base in Utah
• James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory

Performing arts[edit]

Music[edit]

• 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 rapper^[285]
• Marco 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 Fortnite
• Clare 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 Galore
• Wendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) – composer and electronic musician, Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Tron (1982)

  

• Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) – country singer-songwriter
• Chubb Rock – rapper and radio host^[286]
• Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963) – director of the Boston Camerata
• Alvin 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 America
• Shelby Gaines (1991) – musician and artist
• Tucker Halpern (2013) – musician and DJ, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker^[287]
• Dhani Harrison (2001) – son of George Harrison, composer, guitarist^[288]

  

• Sophie Hawley-Weld (2014) – musician, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker
• Lili Haydn (1992) – singer-songwriter, violinist
• Dave Harrington (2009) – multi-instrumentalist and producer^[289]
• Lingua Ignota (M.F.A. 2016) – multidisciplinary artist and instrumentalist^[290]

  

• Nicolás Jaar (A.B. 2012) – avant-garde electronic music producer, owner and founder of record label and art house Clown & Sunset
• Gabriel Kahane (2003) – singer-songwriter
• Elliott Kerman (Sc.B. 1981) – founding baritone member of Rockapella
• Tad Kinchla (1995) – bassist for jam band Blues Traveler
• Richard 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 Go
• Erich 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 top the American charts

  

• The Low Anthem – indie 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 Perlman
• Dan Prothero – producer / engineer and owner of Fog City Records
• The Range – DJ and electronic musician^[291]
• Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and faculty member of the Yale School of Music
• Susan 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 Awakening
• Sasha Spielberg (2012) – musician, Wardell; daughter of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw^[292]

  

• Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) – alternative rock singer-songwriter
• Saleka (A.B. 2018) – R&B singer-songwriter; daughter of M. Night Shyamalan^[293]
• Jon Spencer – singer and composer, known for Pussy Galore and Boss Hog^[294]
• Sally Taylor (1996) – musician, daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor
• Gwyneth 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 Jagajaguwar
• ZOX – SideOneDummy recording artist, composed of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain

Film[edit]

• Andrew Ahn (2008) – director, Spa Night, Driveways
• Eva Amurri (2007) – actress, Loving Annabelle, Saved!, The Banger Sisters; daughter of Susan Sarandon

  

• Scott E. Anderson (Sc.B. 1986) – Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Babe, and nominee Starship Troopers, Hollow Man
• Bess Armstrong (1975) – actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China
• Raymond J. Barry (A.B) – actor, Born on the Fourth of July, Steel City
• David Bartis (A.B. 1988) – producer, The Wall, Edge of Tomorrow, Fair Game
• Randall Batinkoff (1990) – actor, For Keeps, School Ties
• Steve Bloom (A.B. 1978) – screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach, The Sure Thing, Tall Tale, Jack Frost
• Joseph Bologna – actor, My Favorite Year, Blame It on Rio^[295]
• Sara Colangelo (A.B. 2001) – writer and director, Little Accidents, Worth
• David Conrad (A.B. 1990) – actor, Wedding Crashers, Ghost Whisperer
• Michael Costigan (1990) – producer, Brokeback Mountain, American Gangster, Under the Banner of Heaven
• Louis Ozawa Changchien (M.F.A. 2006) – actor, Predators, The Bourne Legacy, Bosch
• Yaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) – actress, Take the Lead, Honeydripper, The Kids Are All Right, The Butler; fashion model

  

• Lucy DeVito (A.B. 2005) – actress, Melissa and Joey, Leaves of Grass
• Tom Dey (A.B. 1987) – director, Shanghai Noon, Showtime, Failure to Launch, Marmaduke, Wedding Season
• Alice 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 Death
• Josh Friedman (1989) – screenwriter, War of the Worlds, The Black Dahlia; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; developer, Snowpiercer
• Liz Garbus (A.B. 1992) – 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 Ghraib
• Francesca 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

  

• John Hamburg (A.B. 1992) – director, I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly; screenwriter, Zoolander, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers
• Josh Hamilton (1991) – actor, Eighth Grade, 13 Reasons Why^[296]
• Hill Harper (A.B. 1988) – actor, Constellation, Lackawanna Blues, CSI: NY
• Phil Hay – screenwriter, Destroyer, The Invitation, Ride Along
• Todd 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

• David Hedison (Class of 1949) – film, television, and stage actor
• Sean Hood (1988) – screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed, Cube 2: Hypercube
• Ruth Hussey (A.B. 1933) – Academy Award-nominated actress, The Philadelphia Story
• Oren Jacoby (1977) – Academy Award-nominated documentarian, Constantine's Sword
• Kirsten Johnson (1987)^[297] – documentarian, director, and cinematographer, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Cameraperson
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) – independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
• Simon 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 Sorry
• Paul 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

  

• Ellen Kuras (1981) – cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Be Kind Rewind
• Jonathan Levine (A.B. 2000) – writer/director, Warm Bodies, 50/50 (2011), The Wackness, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
• Doug 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

  

• Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Out of Africa
• Kátia 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 Glory
• Eli 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 Society
• Ross McElwee (A.B. 1970) – documentary filmmaker, Sherman's March (1986) and Bright Leaves
• Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) – Student Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Twitch
• Tim 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

  

• Lorraine Nicholson (2012) – actress, Soul Surfer, daughter of Jack Nicholson
• Matthew Reeve (002 )– producer and director, son of Christopher Reeve^[298]
• Yoruba 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 Festival^[299]
• Danny Rubin (A.B. 1979) – screenwriter, Groundhog Day
• Michael Showalter (A.B. 1992) – actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter and the series The State, Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues
• Leelee 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 Arc

  

• Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – radio and television journalist; filmmaker
• Matthew Sussman – actor, documentary filmmaker
• Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) – actress, Rushmore, Old School, Imaginary Heroes
• Astra Taylor (Class of 2001) – activist and filmmaker, Zizek!, Examined Life, What Is Democracy?^[300]
• 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 Us
• Earl Wallace (A.B. 1955) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Witness
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Doc Hollywood, Tommy Boy
• Emma Watson (A.B. 2014) – actress, model, and activist, Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beauty and the Beast (2017), Little Women (2019)

  

• 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 Journalism
• JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) – actress, The Big Chill, Poltergeist
• Elizabeth Woodward – producer, The Great Hack, The Vow, You Resemble Me.
• Janet Yang (A.B. 1978) – first Asian-American president, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2022–);^[301] producer, The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt
• Jeff Zimbalist (2000) – filmmaker, Favela Rising

Television[edit]

• Sosie Bacon (Class of 2014) – actress, 13 Reasons Why, Loverboy, Smile; daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick^[302]
• Iris Bahr (1998) – actress, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Curb Your Enthusiasm^[303][304]
• Kenneth Biller (1986) – television producer, writer, and director
• Julie Bowen (A.B. 1991) – actress, Modern Family, Boston Legal, Ed, Happy Gilmore

  

• Roger Bowen (A.B.) – comedic actor, M*A*S*H; novelist^[305]
• Warren Brown – host, Sugar Rush
• Jessica 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, Encanto
• Kitty Chen (A.B. 1966) – actress, Law & Order, writer
• Nick Chinlund – actor, The X-Files
• Jude Ciccolella (A.B. 1969) – actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24
• Julian Cihi (A.B. 2009) – Japanese and American actor
• Yaya DaCosta (A.B. 2004) – actress and model
• Joel de la Fuente (A.B. 1991) – actor, best known for his role as Dr. Johann Pryce in Hemlock Grove
• Aunjanue Ellis (A.B. 1993) – actress, The Mentalist

  

• India Ennenga (A.B.) – actress, Treme^[306][307]
• Eve 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 Exposure
• Andy Greenwald (1999)– writer, podcaster, and producer^[308]
• 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, Rhoda
• Marin Hinkle (1988) – actress, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Once and Again, Two and a Half Men
• Takehiro Hira (1997) – Japanese-born actor, Giri/Haji, Sekigahara
• Tina Holmes (1995) – actress, Six Feet Under
• Peter Jacobson (1987) – actor, House M.D.
• Rafe Judkins (2005) – contestant on Survivor: Guatemala, television writer
• Rhonda Ross Kendrick (A.B. 1993) – Daytime Emmy-nominated actress, Another World, daughter of Diana Ross
• Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1990) – Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, director, and writer, American Hollow, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

  

• John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) – actor, The Office, Leatherheads, License to Wed; director, A Quiet Place
• Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) – actress, Ellen, Andy Barker, P.I.
• Florencia Lozano (A.B. 1992) – actress, One Life to Live
• Ian Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) – writer, producer, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live
• Silas Weir Mitchell (A.B. 1991) – actor, Grimm^[309]
• Peter 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

  

• Monica Owusu-Breen (1990) – writer, Alias, Lost; executive producer, Brothers & Sisters, Midnight, Texas^[310]
• John Pleshette (1964) – actor, Knots Landing, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Tracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995) – actress, Girlfriends, Black-ish, daughter of Diana Ross

  

• Ben Shenkman (A.B. 1990) – actor, Royal Pains and Angels in America
• Sam Trammell (A.B. 1991) – actor, True Blood
• Bee Vang (2015) – actor, Gran Torino, writer^[311]
• Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Nip/Tuck, Family Law, The Guiding Light
• Suzanne Whang (Sc. M. 1986) – General Hospital, Las Vegas; host HGTV's House Hunters
• David Walton (2001) – actor, About a Boy
• Moisés Zamora (A.B. 2000) – creator, Selena: The Series^[312]

Theater[edit]

• Ayad Akhtar (1993) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Disgraced