Name | Year | College or University | Notability | References |
Bushrod Washington | 1778 | College of William & Mary | | |
John Heath | 1779 | College of William & Mary | | |
Richard Bland Lee | 1780 | College of William & Mary | | |
John Marshall | 1780 | College of William & Mary | | |
James Kent | 1781 | Yale College | | |
Stephen Van Rensselaer | 1782 | Harvard University | | [1] |
John Quincy Adams | 1787 | Harvard University | | |
Eli Whitney | 1792 | Yale College | | |
David Sherman Boardman | 1792 | Yale College | | |
Joseph Story | 1798 | Harvard University | | |
Oliver Ellsworth | 1799 | Yale College | | |
Daniel Webster | 1801 | Dartmouth College | | |
John Calhoun | 1804 | Yale College | | |
Levi Woodbury | 1809 | Dartmouth College | | |
Samuel Morse | 1810 | Yale College | | |
William H. Prescott | 1814 | Harvard University | | |
Joseph Tracy | 1814 | Dartmouth College | | |
William H. Seward | 1819 | Union College | | |
Rufus Choate | 1819 | Dartmouth College | | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1824 | Bowdoin College | | |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1825 | Bowdoin College | | |
Salmon Portland Chase | 1826 | Dartmouth College | | |
William Strong | 1828 | Yale College | | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1828 | Harvard University | | [2] |
Benjamin Robbins Curtis | 1829 | Harvard University | | |
Lorenzo Langstroth | 1831 | Yale College | | |
Asa Fowler | 1833 | Dartmouth College | | |
Timothy P. Redfield | 1836 | Dartmouth College | | |
Morrison Remick Waite | 1837 | Yale College | | |
Chester A. Arthur | 1848 | Union College | | |
William S. Clark | 1848 | Amherst College | | |
Timothy Dwight V | 1848 | Yale College | | |
Joshua Chamberlain | 1852 | Bowdoin College | | |
Joseph H. Choate | 1852 | Harvard University | | |
Melville Weston Fuller | 1853 | Bowdoin College | | |
George Shiras Jr | 1853 | Yale College | | |
David Josiah Brewer | 1856 | Yale College | | |
Henry Billings Brown | 1856 | Yale College | | |
James A. Garfield | 1856 | Williams College | | |
John B. Hinkson | 1860 | Lafayette College | | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 1861 | Harvard University | | |
George Moulton Carpenter | 1864 | Brown University | | |
William T. Sherman | 1866 | Dartmouth College | | [3] |
Henry Adams | 1872 | Harvard University | | [4] |
Henry James | 1872 | Harvard University | | [5] |
William Henry Moody | 1876 | Harvard University | | |
Robert Peary | 1877 | Bowdoin College | | |
William Howard Taft | 1878 | Yale College | | |
John Dewey | 1879 | University of Vermont | | |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1880 | Harvard University | | |
Charles Evans Hughes | 1881 | Brown University | | |
Edward Bouchet | 1874 | Yale College | | |
John Hessin Clarke | 1877 | Case Western Reserve University | | |
Henry Clay Folger | 1879 | Amherst College | | |
George Santayana | 1886 | Harvard University | | |
Henry Stimson | 1888 | Yale University | | |
Bernard Baruch | 1889 | City College of New York | | |
Benjamin Cardozo | 1889 | Columbia College | | |
W. E. B. Du Bois | 1890 | Fisk University | | |
Bainbridge Colby | 1890 | Williams College | | |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt | 1892 | Radcliffe College | | |
Edward E. Wilson | 1892 | Williams College | | |
Learned Hand | 1893 | Harvard University | | |
Alexander Meiklejohn | 1893 | Brown University | | |
Andrew Sledd | 1894 | Randolph-Macon College | | |
Harlan Fiske Stone | 1894 | Amherst College | | |
Owen Roberts | 1895 | University of Pennsylvania | | |
John Barlow | 1895 | Brown University | | |
Louis Brandeis | 1895 | Harvard University | | [6] |
Caroline Ransom Williams | 1896 | Mount Holyoke College | | [7] |
John D. Rockefeller Jr. | 1897 | Brown University | | [8] |
Richard B. Carter | 1898 | Harvard University | | |
Mary Annette Anderson | 1899 | Middlebury College | | |
John Gresham Machen | 1901 | Johns Hopkins University | | |
Felix Frankfurter | 1902 | City College of New York | | |
Elihu Root | 1903 | Hamilton College | | |
Stanley King | 1903 | Amherst College | | |
John J. Tigert | 1904 | Vanderbilt University | | |
Booker T. Washington | 1904 | Harvard University | | [9] |
Jessie Redmon Fauset | 1905 | Cornell University | | |
Christine Iverson Bennett | 1907 | University of Michigan | | [10] |
Ernest Everett Just | 1907 | Dartmouth College | | |
John J. Parker | 1907 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | |
William Burke Belknap | 1908 | Yale College | | |
John Foster Dulles | 1908 | Princeton University | | |
John Hall Wheelock | 1908 | Harvard University | | |
Owen Brewster | 1909 | Bowdoin College | | |
Harold Hitz Burton | 1909 | Bowdoin College | | |
Walter Lippmann | 1909 | Harvard University | | |
Harold Medina | 1909 | Princeton University | | |
C.T. Wang | 1910 | Yale University | | |
Paul Douglas | 1913 | Bowdoin College | | |
Jane Barus | 1913 | Smith College | | |
Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell | 1913 | Smith College | | |
Pearl Buck | 1914 | Randolph-Macon Woman's College | | |
James Bryant Conant | 1914 | Harvard University | | |
Carroll A. Edson | 1914 | Dartmouth College | | |
Dean Acheson | 1915 | Yale University | | |
Archibald MacLeish | 1915 | Yale University | | |
Charles Hamilton Houston | 1915 | Amherst College | | |
Alfred Kinsey | 1916 | Bowdoin College | | |
Robert Frost | 1916 | Harvard University | | [11] |
Irwin Edman | 1917 | Columbia University | | |
Jarvis Offutt | 1917 | Yale University | | |
Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. | 1917 | College of William & Mary | | |
Oliver Waterman Larkin | 1918 | Harvard University | | |
Paul Robeson | 1919 | Rutgers University | | [12] |
K. K. Chen | 1920 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | | |
William O. Douglas | 1920 | Whitman College | | |
Percy Lavon Julian | 1920 | DePauw University | | |
David E. Lilienthal | 1920 | DePauw University | | |
Countee Cullen | 1922 | New York University | | |
Nathan F. Leopold | 1923 | University of Chicago | | |
Herbert Brownell Jr. | 1924 | University of Nebraska | | |
Grayson L. Kirk | 1924 | Miami University | | |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1925 | Harvard University | | [13] |
Alger Hiss | 1926 | Johns Hopkins University | | |
Martin Dobelle | 1926 | Fordham University | | |
Joseph J. Spengler | 1927 | Ohio State University | | |
George H. Hitchings | 1927 | University of Washington | | |
Mildred Grosberg Bellin | 1928 | Smith College | | |
Grace Hopper | 1928 | Vassar College | | |
John C. Stennis | 1928 | University of Virginia | | |
Carl Sandburg | 1928 | Harvard University | | [14] |
Leroy Anderson | 1929 | Harvard University | | |
Harry Blackmun | 1929 | Harvard University | | |
Paul S. Dunkin | 1929 | DePauw University | | |
Margaret Burnham Geddes | 1929 | Vassar College | | |
James Michener | 1929 | Swarthmore College | | |
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. | 1929 | Washington & Lee University | | |
Nelson Rockefeller | 1930 | Dartmouth College | | |
Jonas Salk | 1930 | City College of New York | | |
Carl Albert | 1931 | University of Oklahoma | | |
Dean Rusk | 1931 | Davidson College | | |
Fred Sington | 1931 | University of Alabama | | |
Edward H. Levi | 1932 | University of Chicago | | |
Eugene O'Neill Jr. | 1932 | Yale University | | |
Eugene V. Rostow | 1932 | Yale University | | |
Barry Wood | 1932 | Harvard University | | |
Paul Weston (as Paul Wetstein) | 1933 | Dartmouth College | | |
Frank Oppenheimer | 1933 | Johns Hopkins University | | |
John Howard | 1934 | Case Western Reserve University | | |
Daniel Boorstin | 1934 | Harvard University | | |
Richard Helms | 1935 | Williams College | | |
T. S. Eliot | 1935 | Harvard University | | |
Samuel Belkin | 1935 | Brown University | | |
Milton Babbitt | 1936 | New York University | | |
Ed Muskie | 1936 | Bates College | | |
Robert McNamara | 1936 | University of California Berkeley | | |
Alan Lomax | 1936 | University of Texas | | |
Potter Stewart | 1937 | Yale University | | |
Byron White | 1937 | University of Colorado | | |
Caspar Weinberger | 1938 | Harvard University | | |
Doris Grumbach | 1939 | New York University | | |
John L. Loos | 1939 | University of Nebraska | | |
Nile Kinnick | 1939 | University of Iowa | | |
Wilma Dykeman | 1940 | Northwestern University | | |
Orville Freeman | 1940 | University of Minnesota | | |
Bernard Epstein | 1940 | New York University | | |
Ella T. Grasso | 1940 | Mount Holyoke College | | |
Allen Ludden | 1940 | University of Texas | | |
Robie Macauley | 1941 | Kenyon College | | |
Ruth Barcan Marcus | 1941 | New York University | | |
Wade H. McCree | 1941 | Fisk University | | |
William Kunstler | 1941 | Yale University | | |
John Paul Stevens | 1941 | University of Chicago | | |
Betty Friedan | 1942 | Smith College | | |
Carl W. Gottschalk | 1942 | Roanoke College | | |
Jade Snow Wong | 1942 | Mills College | | |
George C. Baldwin | 1943 | Kalamazoo College | | |
James F. Howard Jr. | 1943 | Yale University | | |
Phyllis Schlafly | 1943 | Washington University in St. Louis | | |
Cid Corman | 1945 | Tufts University | | |
Frank Church | 1947 | Stanford University | | |
Jack St. Clair Kilby | 1947 | University of Illinois | | |
Peter D. Lax | 1947 | New York University | | |
Tom Lehrer | 1947 | Harvard University | | |
Robert Bork | 1948 | University of Chicago | | |
George H. W. Bush | 1948 | Yale University | | |
Edward D. White Jr. | 1948 | Columbia University | | |
Martin Lewis Perl | 1948 | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | | |
William Rehnquist | 1948 | Stanford University | | |
Judith Tobin | 1948 | Mount Holyoke College | | |
Brock Adams | 1949 | Washington University in St. Louis | | |
Bill Naito | 1949 | Reed College | | |
Edward O. Wilson | 1949 | University of Alabama | | |
Jane Dempsey Douglass | c. 1950s | Syracuse University | | |
Henry Kissinger | 1950 | Harvard University | | |
Marv Levy | 1950 | Coe College | | |
William Dickey | 1951 | Reed College | | |
Ursula K. Le Guin | 1951 | Radcliffe College | | |
Susan Sontag | 1951 | University of Chicago | | |
Arlen Specter | 1951 | University of Pennsylvania | | |
David Lee | 1952 | Harvard University | | |
Arthur Levitt | 1952 | Williams College | | |
Stephen Sondheim | 1952 | Williams College | | |
John Shelby Spong | 1952 | University of North Carolina | | |
Guido Calabresi | 1953 | Yale University | | |
John Hope Franklin | 1953 | Fisk University | | [15] |
Clive Davis | 1953 | New York University | | |
Paul Donnelly Paganucci | 1953 | Dartmouth College | | |
Thomas R. Pickering | 1953 | Bowdoin College | | |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 1954 | Cornell University | | |
Sheldon Glashow | 1954 | Cornell University | | |
Richard Lugar | 1954 | Denison University | | |
Victor Navasky | 1954 | Swarthmore College | | |
Joan Rivers | 1954 | Barnard College | | |
John Updike | 1954 | Harvard University | | |
Steven Weinberg | 1954 | Cornell University | | |
Franklin M. Fisher | 1955 | Harvard University | | |
Ralph Nader | 1955 | Princeton University | | |
Reynolds Price | 1955 | Duke University | | |
John L. Hall | 1956 | Carnegie Mellon University | | |
Gloria Steinem | 1956 | Smith College | | |
Akira Iriye | 1957 | Haverford College | | |
Elizabeth Dole | 1958 | Duke University | | |
Anthony Kennedy | 1958 | Stanford University | | |
Kris Kristofferson | 1958 | Pomona College | | |
Joseph Nye | 1958 | Princeton University | | |
Paul Comi | 1958 | University of Southern California | | |
Robert Coleman Richardson | 1958 | Virginia Tech | | |
Stephen Breyer | 1959 | Stanford University | | |
Francis Ford Coppola | 1959 | Hofstra University | | |
John W. Dower | 1959 | Amherst College | | |
Bob Graham | 1959 | University of Florida | | |
Robert Nozick | 1959 | Columbia University | | |
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. | 1959 | Cornell University | | |
Richard Posner | 1959 | Yale University | | |
Richard Lindzen | 1960 | Harvard University | | |
Robert E. Rubin | 1960 | Harvard University | | |
David H. Souter | 1960 | Harvard University | | |
Daniel Gillespie | 1960 | Rice University | | |
Lester Thurow | 1960 | Williams College | | |
Fay Vincent | 1960 | Williams College | | |
Pat Schroeder | 1961 | University of Minnesota | | |
Sheldon Goldman | 1961 | New York University | | |
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston | 1961 | Wellesley College | | |
Lamar Alexander | 1962 | Vanderbilt University | | |
Tom Brokaw | 1962 | University of South Dakota | | |
Lynne Cheney | 1962 | Colorado College | | |
Robert Christgau | 1962 | Dartmouth College | | |
Edward Ng | 1962 | University of Minnesota | | |
Barack Obama Sr. | 1962 | University of Hawaii | | |
Daniel C. Tsui | 1962 | Augustana College | | |
David L. Boren | 1963 | Yale University | | |
Richard Epstein | 1963 | Columbia University | | |
David Satcher | 1963 | Morehouse College | | |
John Edgar Wideman | 1963 | University of Pennsylvania | | |
James Woolsey | 1963 | Stanford University | | |
David Boies | 1964 | University of Redlands | | |
Michael Crichton | 1964 | Harvard University | | |
Leonard Bernstein | 1964 | Harvard University | | [8] |
Joseph Lieberman | 1964 | Yale University | | |
Angela Davis | 1965 | Brandeis University | | |
Carl Gershman | 1965 | Yale University | | [16][17] |
Terrence Malick | 1965 | Harvard University | | |
Walter Murch | 1965 | Johns Hopkins University | | |
W. Taylor Reveley III | 1965 | Princeton University | | |
Paul Wellstone | 1965 | University of North Carolina | | |
William Weld | 1966 | Harvard University | | |
Philip Lader | 1966 | Duke University | | |
George Smoot | 1966 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
Jane Harman | 1966 | Smith College | | |
John Postlethwait | 1966 | Purdue University | | |
Douglas D. Osheroff | 1967 | California Institute of Technology | | |
Richard Blumenthal | 1967 | Harvard University | | |
Janet Yellen | 1967 | Brown University | | |
Bill Clinton | 1968 | Georgetown University | | |
Michio Kaku | 1968 | Harvard University | | |
John C. Mather | 1968 | Swarthmore College | | |
Henry Paulson | 1968 | Dartmouth College | | |
Isaac Asimov | 1972 | Boston University | | [9] |
Laurie Anderson | 1969 | Barnard College | | |
Jon Corzine | 1969 | University of Illinois | | |
Hugh David Politzer | 1969 | University of Michigan | | |
Frank J. Fabozzi | 1969 | City University of New York | | |
E. Annie Proulx | 1969 | University of Vermont | | |
Steven Chu | 1970 | University of Rochester | | |
Frank Easterbrook | 1970 | Swarthmore College | | |
Mazie Hirono | 1970 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | | |
Frank Wilczek | 1970 | University of Chicago | | |
David Rubenstein | 1970 | Duke University | | |
Louis Freeh | 1971 | Rutgers University | | |
Michael Katze | 1971 | Boston University | | |
Mike Nifong | 1971 | University of North Carolina | | |
Chuck Schumer | 1971 | Harvard University | | |
Pat Quinn | 1971 | Georgetown University | | |
Roger Tsien | 1971 | Harvard University | | |
Nadine Strossen | 1972 | Radcliffe College | | |
Samuel Alito | 1972 | Princeton University | | |
Robert B. Laughlin | 1972 | University of California Berkeley | | |
Jeffrey K. Tulis | 1972 | Bates College | | |
Benazir Bhutto | 1973 | Radcliffe College | | |
Jeb Bush | 1973 | University of Texas | | |
E.J. Dionne | 1973 | Harvard University | | |
John N. Kennedy | 1973 | Vanderbilt University | | |
Rita Dove | 1973 | Miami University | | |
Austin Ligon | 1973 | University of Texas | | |
Renée Montagne | 1973 | University of California Berkeley | | |
Diana Nyad | 1973 | Lake Forest College | | |
Carl Wieman | 1973 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
Glenn Close | 1974 | College of William & Mary | | |
Christie Hefner | 1974 | Brandeis University | | |
Mark E. Kalmansohn | c. 1974 | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
Condoleezza Rice | 1974 | University of Denver | | |
Ben Bernanke | 1975 | Harvard University | | |
Susan Collins | 1975 | St. Lawrence University | | |
Griffith R. Harsh | 1975 | Harvard University | | |
Harold Hongju Koh | 1975 | Harvard University | | |
Gale Norton | 1975 | University of Denver | | |
Robert Zoellick | 1975 | Swarthmore College | | |
Michael Burns | 1976 | University of California, Los Angeles | actor and historian | |
Lawrence B. Lindsey | 1976 | Bowdoin College | | |
Jack A. Goldstone | 1976 | Harvard University | | |
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt | 1976 | Johns Hopkins University | | |
John G. Roberts | 1976 | Harvard University | | |
Sonia Sotomayor | 1976 | Princeton University | | |
Joseph C. Nuesse | 1976 | Catholic University of America | | |
Mark Warner | 1977 | George Washington University | | |
Michael Stuart | 1977 | DePauw University | | [18] |
Dale Archer | 1978 | Tulane University | | |
Maurice Berger | 1978 | Hunter College | | |
Karen Hughes | 1978 | Southern Methodist University | | |
David Addington | 1978 | Georgetown University | | |
Paula Franzese | 1979 | Barnard College | | |
Debra Lehrmann | 1979 | University of Texas at Austin | | |
David Merritt | 1979 | University of Santa Clara | | |
Stavros Lambrinidis | 1984 | Amherst College | | |
Jennifer Granholm | 1980 | University of California, Berkeley | | |
Michael R. Barratt | 1981 | University of Washington | | |
Lynn Barry | 1981 | College of William & Mary | | |
Nicholas D. Kristof | 1981 | Harvard University | | |
Elena Kagan | 1981 | Princeton University | | |
I Michael Leitman | 1981 | Boston University | | |
Eliot Spitzer | 1981 | Princeton University | | |
Matthew Kramer | 1981 | Cornell University | | |
Jill Zimmerman | 1981 | Purdue University | | |
George Stephanopoulos | 1982 | Columbia University | | |
Kateryna Yushchenko | 1982 | Georgetown University | | |
Patrick Fitzgerald | 1982 | Amherst College | | |
David Duchovny | 1982 | Princeton University | | [19] |
Jean Rhodes | 1983 | University of Vermont | | |
Christopher Eisgruber | 1983 | Princeton University | | |
Miguel Estrada | 1983 | Columbia University | | |
Dinesh D'Souza | 1983 | Dartmouth College | | |
Christiane Amanpour | 1983 | University of Rhode Island | | [20] |
Lisa Randall | 1984 | Harvard University | | |
Lee Siegel | 1984 | Columbia University | | |
Eric Allin Cornell | 1985 | Stanford University | | |
Ken Stern | 1985 | Haverford College | | |
Daniel Pearl | 1985 | Stanford University | | |
Carol Queen | 1985 | University of Oregon | | |
Anne Applebaum | 1986 | Yale University | | |
Jeff Bezos | 1986 | Princeton University | | |
Sabine Hyland | 1986 | Cornell University | | |
Susan Rice | 1986 | Stanford University | | |
Rafael Resendes | 1987 | University of California, Berkeley | | |
Laura J. Snyder | 1987 | Brandeis University | | |
Paul Clement | 1988 | Georgetown University | | |
KellyAnne Conway | 1989 | Trinity Washington University | | |
Eudora Welty | 1989 | Millsaps College | | [9] |
Ashley Judd | 1990 | University of Kentucky | | |
Rosa Brooks | 1990 | Harvard University | | |
Joshua Redman | 1991 | Harvard University | | |
Paul Adelstein | 1991 | Bowdoin College | | |
Peter R. Orszag | 1991 | Princeton University | | |
Carson Kressley | 1991 | Gettysburg College | | |
Jimmy Carter | 1991 | Kansas State University | | [21] |
Dena Grayson | 1991 | University of Florida | | |
Julie Story Byerley | 1992 | Rhodes College | | |
Doris Eaton Travis | 1992 | University of Oklahoma | | |
Benjamin Radford | 1993 | University of New Mexico | | |
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin | 1993 | Georgetown University | | |
Amit Mehta | 1993 | Georgetown University | | |
Bobby Jindal | 1993 | Brown University | | |
Matt Sherman | 1994 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | |
Amy Coney Barrett | 1994 | Rhodes College | | |
Robb LaKritz | 1994 | University of Michigan | | |
Burton Rocks | 1994 | Stony Brook University | | |
Mamphela Ramphele | 1994 | Harvard University | | [22] |
James Kerwin | 1995 | Texas Christian University | | |
Griff Aldrich | 1996 | Hampden-Sydney College | | |
Matthew Kleban | 1996 | Reed College | | |
Andrew Mueller | 1996 | University of California, Santa Cruz | | |
Dan O'Brien | 1996 | Middlebury College | playwright | |
Emily Bergl | 1997 | Grinnell College | | |
Richard Carrier | 1997 | University of California, Berkeley | | |
Susan Haack | 1997 | University of Miami | | [23] |
Peyton Manning | 1997 | University of Tennessee | | [24] |
Michael Schur | 1997 | Harvard University | | |
Ro Khanna | 1998 | University of Chicago | | [25][26] |
Kerry Washington | 1998 | George Washington University | | |
Sufjan Stevens | 1998 | Hope College | | |
Brad Delson | 1999 | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
Rita Ng | 2000 | Stanford University | | [27] |
Heidi Cruz | 2000 | Claremont McKenna College | | [28] |
Brianna Keilar | 2001 | University of California, Berkeley | | |
Josh Hawley | 2002 | Stanford University | | |
Pete Buttigieg | 2004 | Harvard University | | [29] |
Ben Shapiro | 2004 | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
Rivers Cuomo | 2006 | Harvard University | | |
Isaiah Andrews | 2009 | Yale College | | |
Lena Park | 2010 | Columbia University | | |
Kurt Hugo Schneider | 2010 | Yale University | | |
Annie E. Clark | 2011 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | |
Tamar Kaprelian | 2016 | Columbia University | | |
Sylvia Swayne | 2019 | University of Alabama | | |
Amanda Gorman | 2020 | Harvard University | | |