Yalies are persons
affiliated with Yale
University
, commonly
including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and
others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
Notes:
Alumni
Nobel laureates
- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962).
Economics, 2001
- Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D.
1942). Physics, 2002
- John F. Enders (B.A. 1920).
Physiology or Medicine, 1954
- John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940)
Chemistry, 2002
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948)
Physics, 1969
- Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962). Physiology or Medicine,
1994
- Paul Krugman (B.A. Economics,
1974). Economics, 2008. Architect of "New
Trade Theory", winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, Princeton
University
economics professor, New York Times columnist
- Ernest Lawrence (Ph.D. 1925).
Physics, 1939. Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
& Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
are named for him
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948)
Physiology or Medicine, 1958
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959)
Physics, 1996
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908).
Literature, 1930
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935)
Chemistry, 1968
- Edmund Phelps (Ph.D. 1959).
Economics, 2006
- Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. 1917) Physiology or
Medicine, 1956
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935).
Economics, 1996.
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900)
Physiology or Medicine, 1934
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D. 1974).
Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Pulitzer Prize winners
- Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), won
2004 Pulitzer for non-fiction.
- Charles
Bartlett (B.A. 1943), 1956 Pulitzer for National Reporting
- Stephen Vincent Benét
(B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author
- Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize
for Public Service in 2007 for articles in the Wall Street Journal
- Paul Goldberger (B.A. 1972),
1984 Pulitzer for Distinguished Criticism
- Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978),
U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, received the Pulitzer
in 1998.
- John Hersey (B.A. 1936),
Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel A Bell for Adano, namesake of the
annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), 1947
Pulitzer for Music
- David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), Stanford
University
professor, won the 2000 Pulitzer in History for
"Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War,
1929-45"
- David McCullough (B.A. 1955),
famous historian, winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books
on American presidents Harry S.
Truman and John Adams
- J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986), Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000
Pulitzer for Feature Writing.
- Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915), 1951
Pulitzer, Music
- Lynn Nottage (M.F.A.), playwright and Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist
of Ruined
- Mel Powell (B.A. 1952 ),, won the 1990
Pulitzer for Music for Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos
and Orchestra; founding dean and professor of music of the
California
Institute of the Arts

- Samantha Power (B.A. 1992),
winner of the Pulitzer for the book A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide.
- Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985), reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer for
international reporting.
- Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M.
1965), composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer in Music for "Life is a
Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version"
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A.
1973), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his comic strip Doonesbury
- Wendy Wasserstein, (M.F.A.
1976), playwright and Pulitzer
Prize-winning dramatist of The
Heidi Chronicles
- Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920),
playwright, winner of two Pulitzers, the first in 1928 for
The Bridge of San Luis
Rey, and the second in 1938 for the play Our Town; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1963
- Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965),
journalist, co-author of the Pulitzer-winning book All the President's Men, won a
second Pulitzer in 2002 for National
Reporting
- Doug Wright (B.A. 1985),
screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for drama, winner of a
Tony Award.
- Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus.
1951, M. Mus. 1953), composer, recipient of the Pulitzer
Prize for Music in 2006 for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano';
professor emeritus of musical composition at Brandeis
University

- Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968), wrote
Pulitzer-winning "The Prize:
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power"; founded Cambridge Energy Research
Associates
Technology and innovation
- David Bushnell (ca. 1776),
inventor of the screw propeller,
submarine, naval
mine, and time bomb
- Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project.
- Harry B. Combs (B.S. 1935, Sheffield Scientific School),
aviation pioneer
- Harvey Williams Cushing
(B.A.), pioneer of modern brain surgery and considered by many the
greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century
- Arthur M. Chickering noted arachnologist of
Virginia
- Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D.
1899), inventor of the triode
- Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor
of CMOS image sensor
- W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total
quality management" (TQM)
guru
- Helen Flanders Dunbar
(M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic
medicine
- Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
(B.A. 1810), first commissioner United States Patent Office,
founder, United States Department of
Agriculture

- Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D.
1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
- J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863),
mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for
Gibbs' Phenomenon
- Grace Hopper (M.A. 1930, Ph.D.
1934), inventor of COBOL programming
language
- David Lempert, B.A. 1980, social
entrepreneur democratic
education, social theorist
- Paul B. MacCready (1947), "Engineer of the
Century", won the Kremer prize for
first human-powered flying machine (the Gossamer Condor); pioneer in solar powered flight; founder of AeroVironment
- Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930),
mathematician, one of the founders of "category theory".
- Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985),
videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
- Samuel F. B. Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor
of Morse code
- Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917),
engineer known for the Nyquist
theorem
- John Ousterhout (B.S. 1975),
creator of the Tcl programming language
- Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969),
computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA
cryptography, 2002 Turing Award recipient
- George B. Selden, Awarded the first United States
patent for an automobile
in 1895.
- Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925),
child psychology guru
- Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the
cotton gin
Business
- Tom Ascheim (M.B.A., 1990), CEO,
Newsweek
- Hugh D. Auchincloss (1879), Standard Oil
- Robert M. Bass (B.A. 1971), president, Keystone, Inc., member and former chair
of the Stanford
University
Board of Trustees
- Henry
Becton, namesake of Henry P.
Becton
Regional High School
and Fairleigh Dickinson
University
's Henry P. Becton School of Nursing, son of
Becton Dickinson co-founder Maxwell
Becton, retired Vice Chairman of the Board, Yale Benefactor (Becton
Hall, et al.)
- Roland W. Betts, investor, film producer (Gandhi), owner of Chelsea Piers
, lead owner in George
W. Bush's Texas Rangers partnership
- Noborne Berkeley (1945), president and director of Chemical
Bank, Freeport-McMoRan
- Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974),
Time Warner President and COO
- James Cox Brady (1904), corporate director of Chrysler and 21
other companies
- James Cox Brady Jr. (1929), Brady Security & Realty
Corp.
- Benjamin Brewster (1929), shareholder and director of Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon)
- George Stephenson Brewster (1891), financier, Standard Oil
- Robert Stanton Brewster (1897), major shareholder of Standard
Oil, president of Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co., New
York Security & Trust
- Gilbert Colgate, (1883), president and chairman of Colgate
& Co.
- Sidney Morse Colgate, (1885), chairman of Colgate-Palmolive
Co., president of Corporation of Colgate University
- Tim Collins (M.B.A.),
founder and CEO, Ripplewood
Holdings LLC
- Granger Kent Costikyan,
(1929), a banker, partner of Brown Brothers Harriman &
Co.
- Samuel Sloan Colt, (1914), president, Bankers Trust
- Wendi Deng (1997), Wife of Rupert Murdoch, MySpace
China chief strategist, MBA Board of Advisors
- John J. Donovan (M.S. 1964, M.Ph. 1965, M.Eng. 1965,
Ph.D. 1967), IT entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Technology
Partners.
- Donna Dubinsky (B.A. 1977),
former CEO of PDA company
Palm Inc., co-founder of PDA company
Handspring
- Charles B. Finch, (B.A. 1941, LLB 1944), CEO and
chairman of the board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political
activist
- Ted Forstmann, (B.A. 1961
(TC)), co-founder & senior partner of Forstmann Little &
Company, member of the Forbes
400
- Rob Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder
& CEO, RealNetworks
- Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive
vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts
- Roberto Goizueta (B.E.
1953),
former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of
Emory
University
's business school)
- Robert Greenhill (B.A. 1958),
founder of M&A department at and former president of Morgan Stanley, former chairman of Smith Barney, CEO of investment banking firm
Greenhill & Co.
- Briton Hadden (B.A. 1920),
co-founder of Time magazine
- Peter Halloran (B.A. 1984),
investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding
region. Founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group
- Daniel S. Hamermesh (Ph. D.) - Professor in
the Foundations of Economics at the University
of Texas at Austin
, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research, and Research Associate and Program Director at the
Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA).
- Henry Holt (B.A. 1862),
founder of publishing firm Henry Holt & Company, which
would later merge with other companies to become Holt, Rinehart &
Winston
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), former CEO and
chairman, BorgWarner
- Brewster Jennings (1920),
founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company (Standard Oil
of New York, now ExxonMobil), President of Memorial Center for
Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer
Research
- Charles B. Johnson, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
- Ellis Jones (M.B.A.), CEO, Wasserstein Perella &
Co.
- Henry Bourne Joy, president of
Packard
- Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications
Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder & former
CEO, Lotus Software
- John C. Kebabian, Yale student, who in 1882 began
America's first Oriental rug import
company to pay his tuition
- Herbert Kohler (B.S. 1965),
chairman & president, Kohler
Company
- Clarence King, founder of the
U.S. Geological Survey
- Loring Knoblauch (B.A. 1964),
president and CEO of Underwriters Laboratories, former
leader of nine high-tech and manufacturing companies
- Edward Lampert, founder &
chairman, ESL Investments (hedge
fund), chairman of Sears Holding
Company
- Colonel William K. Lanman, aviator, benefactor
- Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of
Time magazine.
- John Franklyn Mars, CEO,
Mars, Incorporated
- Robert McCormick (1903), owner,
president, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; co-founder of Kirkland & Ellis
- W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The
Boeing Company
- Robert Moses,
mid-20th-century New York
City
construction czar
- Indra Krishnamurthy
Nooyi (M.P.P.M. Yale School of Management
1980), CEO and president, Pepsi
- Eric Ober (B.A.), president, CBS News, Food
Network
- Joseph M. Patterson (1901), American media mogul,
manager of the Chicago Tribune; founder and president, New York
Daily News
- John Pepper (B.A. 1960), former
chairman and CEO of Procter &
Gamble
- George Sturgis Pillsbury (1943), Pillsbury Company, Sargent
Management Co.
- Norman R. Prouty (B.A. 1961), investor and
founder of the India Capital Fund, first American venture
capitalist in India

- James Stillman
Rockefeller, president and chairman, The First National City
Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924
- Wilbur Ross, (B.A. 1959) investor,
steel magnate, member of the Forbes
400
- Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder & CEO of
the Blackstone Group, member of the
Forbes 400
- David Singer (B.A. 1984),
founder, former CEO, chairman of the board of Genesoft
Pharmaceuticals (now Oscient Pharmaceuticals); founding president
of Affymetrix and Corcept Therapeutics;
principal of Maverick Capital Ltd.
- Frederick W. Smith, (B.A. 1966), founder & CEO,
FedEx
- Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
- Richard Thalheimer (B.A.
1970), founder & CEO of The
Sharper Image
- John L. Thornton (M.P.p.m. Yale School
of Management
1980), former president and co-COO, Goldman Sachs
- Juan Trippe (B.A. 1921), founder
& CEO, Pan Am
- Frederick William
Vanderbilt (Sheffield School 1893), philanthropist, director of
the New York Central
Railroad
- Friedrich
Weyerhäuser, founded Weyerhaeuser
- John Hay Whitney (B.A.
1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first
U.S. venture capital firm
- Sterling Brinkley (B.A 1974),
chairman of EZCORP, former managing director
at Lehman Brothers
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
Whitney (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and
government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of
thoroughbred racehorses.
- Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)
- Frederick Iseman (B.A. 1975),
philanthropist and founder of private
equity firm Caxton-Iseman
Capital, LLC
- Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO
of 23andMe
Academics
College founders and presidents
- Frederick Barnard (B.A.
1828),
mathematician, educator, president (1856-1858) and chancellor
(1858-1861) of the University of Mississippi
, president (1864-1889) of Columbia University, posthumous namesake
of Barnard
College
, active in the founding of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences
- Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968), president of
Duke
University

- Aaron Burr, Sr. (B.A.
1735),
second president of Princeton University
, father of the third Vice-President of the United
States, Aaron Burr
- Gerhard Casper (LL.B.
1962;
Honorary doctorate, 2000), ninth president of Stanford
University
, former provost at the University
of Chicago
, member of the Yale
Corporation
- Henry Roe
Cloud, first full-blooded Native American to attend Yale,
reformer, educator, President of Haskell
Indian Nations University
. First Native American member of a Yale
secret society (Elihu)
- Jonathan
Dickinson, (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the
Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New
Jersey, which was later named Princeton University

- Henry Durant, (B.A. 1827), first
president of the University of
California (Berkeley)
- James Duderstadt ( B.E.
1964),
President of the University of Michigan

- Peter Tyrrell
Flawn (Ph.D 1951), geologist and former president of the
University
of Texas at Austin

- Edward "Tad"
Foote (B.A.), former president of the University
of Miami

- Thomas H. Gallaudet (B.A. 1805, M.A. 1810), educator for
the deaf, co-founder and principal (1817-1830) of the American
School for the Deaf
, namesake of Gallaudet University
- Daniel Coit Gilman (B.A.
1852), second president of the University of California
(Berkeley); first president of Johns Hopkins University
(1876-1901); first president of the Carnegie Institution
- William Rainey Harper,
(Ph.D. 1874), first president of the University
of Chicago

- Catharine Bond Hill, (Ph.D.
1974),
tenth president of Vassar
College

- Joseph Gibson Hoyt, (B.A.
1840),
first chancellor of Washington University

- Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925),
president (1929-1945) and chancellor (1945-1951) of the University
of Chicago
- Samuel Johnson (B.A.
1714), first president of Columbia
University (known at the time as King's College);
father of U.S. Senator William
Samuel Johnson
- William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), son of Samuel
Johnson, president (1787-1800) of Columbia University (he was its first
president under its new name of Columbia
College; his father was the first president of the
institution when it was known as King's College), U.S.
senator (Connecticut
, 1789-1791) (See also: Senators for the many other roles he
served)
- Martin Kellogg, (B.A. 1850),
seventh president of the University of California
(Berkeley)
- Yamakawa Kenjiro (ca. 1876),
founder of Kyushu
Institute of Technology
- Aptullah Kuran
(B.A.1952, M.A.1954) founder and first president(1971-1979) of
Bogazici
University
, Istanbul.
- Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981 magna cum laude), president
(2003-present) of Amherst
College

- G. Dennis O'Brien (B.A. 1952), former
president of Bucknell University and the University of
Rochester
- Helen Parkhurst (M.A.
1943),
progressive educator, created the Dalton
Plan, founder of The Dalton School

- Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903), first
President of the University of Florida
(1905-1909); President of Southern
University
(1910-1914); first Professor of New Testament
Literature at Emory
University
's Candler
School of Theology (1914-1939)
- Charles Summerlin (M.Phil
1971, Ph.D. 1973), president of Schreiner University
- Ambrose Tighe (B.A. 1879, M.A.
1891), co-founder of William Mitchell College of
Law
- Andrew Dickson White
(B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of
Cornell
University
- Eleazar Wheelock (B.A.
1733),
founder of Dartmouth
College

- Tasuku Harada (B.D. 1891), president of
Doshisha
University

Professors and scholars
- Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D.
1964),
philosopher, theologian, Stuart Professor of
Philosophy at Princeton Theological
Seminary
(1981-2002)
- Richard Lee Armstrong (BSc
1959, Ph.D. Geology 1964), American/Canadian geochemist
- Walter A. Bell (MSc 1911, Ph.D. Geology 1920), Canadian
geologist and paleontologist
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of
Oklahoma (1975-79), U.S. senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-94), president
of University of Oklahoma
- Edward Bouchet (B.A. 1874, Ph.D.
Physics 1876), first African-American to graduate from Yale and the
first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university
- Eugene Bouton (B.A. 1875), first
principal of the New
York State Teachers College
- Michael Burns, actor and
professor of history
- Katharine Jeanette Bush
(Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences
from Yale
- Judith Butler (Ph.D. 1984), author
of Gender Trouble,
philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar
- Steve Charnovitz (B.A. 1975,
J.D. 1998), law professor at George
Washington University

- Janet Coleman
(B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), professor of Ancient & Medieval
Political Thought, London School of Economics

- Alan Dershowitz (LL.B.
1962),
law professor at Harvard University

- Jacques Ehrmann literary
theorist and French Department professor from 1961 to 1972
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and
African American Studies department
- Austan
Goolsbee (B.A.), professor of economics, University
of Chicago

- Douglas
Hodgkin (B.A.), political scientist at Bates College
, author
- David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D.
1972),
philosopher at Bates
College

- Howard Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977),
professor, Harvard
School of Public Health
- Arthur Lander,
B.A., developmental biologist at University
of California, Irvine

- Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960),
mathematician, author of the Langlands
Program
- Hart Day Leavitt (B.A.
1934),
English teacher, Phillips
Academy
, Andover, Massachusetts
, 1937-1975
- Aldo Leopold
(Master's degree in Forestry, 1909), pioneer in the field of
wildlife management at the
University of
Wisconsin–Madison
, author of A
Sand County Almanac
- Lawrence Lessig (J.D.
1989),
copyright activist, law professor at Stanford University

- George Marcus (B.A. 1968),
anthropologist, professor at University
of California, Irvine

- Scotty McLennan (B.A.
1970),
dean for Religious Life at Stanford
University

- Thomas V. Morris (Ph.D.), former University
of Notre Dame
philosophy professor, currently founding chairman
of the Morris Institute
of Human Values
- E.R. Ward Neale (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist,
professor at Memorial University of
Newfoundland

- Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian
- H.T. Odum (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the
University
of Florida

- Saul K. Padover (M.A., 1930), historian and
political scientist at The New School of Social
Research in New York City
- Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972),
author of Sexual Personae,
cultural critic and feminist scholar
- Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D.
1958),
Christian philosopher, professor at University
of Notre Dame

- J. Roger Porter (Ph.D 1938), microbiology
professor at University of Iowa
, 1938-1979
- Tia Powell (M.D), psychiatrist,
former head of NY State Task Forceon Life & the Law
- Richard Rorty
(Ph.D 1956), philosopher and professor of Humanities at University
of Virginia
, 1982-1998 and Stanford University
, 1998-2007
- Kenneth
Rogoff, economist, professor at Harvard University
, former director, Research at the IMF
- James Rothman (B.A. 1971),
biologist, winner of 2002 Lasker Award
for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel
Prize")
- T. K.
Seung (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of philosophy,
government, and law at the University of Texas at Austin

- Robert B. Stepto, professor of English, pioneering
African-American studies scholar
- Matthias
Storme, professor of law at the Catholic
University of Louvain
and the Antwerp University
- Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796),
"father of American scientific education"
- Amy Solomon, the first woman to register as an undergraduate at
Yale, in 1971.
- David Swensen
(Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the Yale School
of Management

- Frank Bigelow Tarbell
(B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor
of classic studies at Yale and University of Chicago

- Karl Taube (M.A. 1983, Ph.D.
1988
Anthropology), pre-Columbian Mesoamerica researcher and Mayanist, professor of Anthropology at UC
Riverside

- John Griggs Thompson (B.A.
1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields
Medal in 1970
- Daniel S. Weld (B.A., B.S. 1982), professor of
Computer Science and
Engineering at University of Washington

- Josiah Whitney (B.A. 1839), geologist,
chief of California
Geological Survey, and geology professor at Harvard
University

- Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese
person to receive an American college degree
Law and politics
Presidents and vice presidents, other heads of state, prime
ministers and ministers
- George H. W. Bush
(B.A. 1948), president of the United
States (1989-1993), vice president of the United
States (1981-1989), member of the House of
Representatives (R-Texas
)
(1967-1971)
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968),
president of the United States (2001-2009), governor of Texas (1995-2000)
- John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804), seventh vice president
of the United States, for two different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; Senator; Member of the House of
Representatives; Secretary of State in the
Tyler presidential administration
- Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), fifth president
of Germany (1979-1984)
- Dick Cheney (Class of 1963*), vice
president of the United States (2001-2009)
- Tansu
Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), prime minister of Turkey
(1993-1996)
- Jose P. Laurel, president of the Philippines in World
War II
- Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), president of the United States (1993-2001),
Governor of Arkansas
(1979-1981,1983-1992)
- Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), president of the
United States (1974-1977), Vice President of the United States
(1973-1974), member of the House of
Representatives
- William Howard Taft (B.A.
1878, honorary LL.D. 1893),
27th president of the United States (1909-1913), 10th Chief Justice of the United
States (1921-1930)
- Victoria, Crown
Princess of Sweden of the House
of Bernadotte (Class of 2000*, attended for two years)
- Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D.
1981), president of Mexico
(1994-2000)
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964),
Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and
Tobago minister
- Salvador H. Laurel (LL.M 1953)(J.S.D.1960,
vice-president of the Philippines
(1986-1992)
Supreme Court justices
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of
Federal Judges.
- Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), Supreme
Court
justice (2006-present)
- Henry Baldwin (1797),
Supreme Court justice (1830-1844)
- David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice
(1889-1910)
- Henry B. Brown (1856), Supreme Court justice
(1891-1906)
- David Davis (Law 1835),
Supreme Court justice (1862-1877)
- Oliver Ellsworth (Class of
1766*), Supreme Court justice (1796-1800)
- Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court
justice (1965-1969)
- Sherman Minton (YLS one-year
degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949-1956)
- George Shiras, Jr. (1853),
Supreme Court justice (1892-1903)
- Sonia Sotomayor (Law 1979),
Supreme Court justice (2009-present)
- Potter Stewart, Supreme Court
justice (1958-1981)
- William Strong (1828, GRD
1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870-1880)
- William Howard Taft (B.A.
1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th president of the United States (1909-1913),
10th chief justice of the United States (1921-1930)
- Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974),
Supreme Court justice (1991-present)
- Morrison R. Waite (1837), chief justice of the United
States (1874-1888)
- William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice
(1881-1887)
- Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme
Court justice (1962-1993)
U.S. senators
Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the
U.S. Congress.
- Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1923-24,
1932-1941)
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum
laude) U.S. attorney
general (2001-2005), U.S. senator (R-Missouri, 1993-2001),
governor of Missouri
(1985-1993)
- Abraham Baldwin (B.A.
1772),
U.S. representative (1789-1799), U.S. senator (1799-1807); author
of the charter for, and president of, the University
of Georgia
(1786-1801)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin
(B.A. 1811), governor of
Connecticut (1844-46), U.S. senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1847-51)
- John Beall (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator
(R-Maryland, 1971-1976)
- Hiram Bingham
III (1898), governor of
Connecticut (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924-1933);
explorer who rediscovered the lost city of Machu Picchu, Peru
; said to
be the inspiration behind the fictional Indiana Jones character
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975-79), U.S.
senator (D-Oklahoma
, 1979-94), president of University
of Oklahoma
- Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952), U.S. senator (R-New
Jersey, 1982)
- Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974), U.S.
representative (1993-2007), U.S. senator (D-Ohio
,
2007-present)
- Prescott Bush (B.A. 1917), U.S.
senator (R-Connecticut, 1953-1963)
- James L. Buckley (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S.
senator (C-New York
, 1971-1977); president of Radio Free Europe, 1982-1985; federal
judge for the United
States Court of Appeals (District of Columbia
Circuit) (1985-1996)
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island (1962-69),
secretary of the navy
(1969-72), U.S. senator (R-Rhode Island
, 1976-99)
- John M. Clayton (1815), secretary of state in the
Taylor administration, U.S. senator
(AJ-Delaware
, 1829-1836; W-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware
1853-1856)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
(J.D. 1973), current secretary of state, U.S.
senator (D-New
York
, 2001-2009)
- LeBaron Colt (B.A. 1868), U.S.
senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
- David Daggett (1783), U.S. senator
(F-Connecticut,
1813-19)
- David
Davis (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court
by Lincoln
(1862-1877); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877-1883)
- John Davis
(1787-1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts,
1835-1841&1845-1853)
- Henry L. Dawes (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut,
1875-93)
- John Danforth (J.D, DIV 1963), U.S
senator (R-Missouri, 1976-95)
- Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator
(D-Minnesota
, 2001 – 2007)
- Fred Dubois (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator
(R-Idaho
,1891-1897;
D-Idaho, 1901-1907)
- William M. Evarts (1837), secretary of state under
Hayes, U.S. senator (R-New York,
1885-91)
- Gary Hart (DIV
1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-Colorado
, 1975-1987)
- John Heinz(B.A. 1960), U.S. senator
(R-Pennsylvania)
- James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773),
U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796-1810 )
- James Jeffords (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator
(I-Vermont
, 1989-present)
- William Samuel Johnson
(B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), United States Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress (1785-1787),
delegate to the Constitutional
Convention in 1787, president (1787-1800) of Columbia University (he was its first
president under its new name of Columbia
College; his father was the first president of the
institution when it was known as King's College), U.S.
senator (Connecticut
, 1789-1791)
- John
Kean, (1852-1914), U.S. senator (D-New Jersey
)
- John Kerry (B.A. 1966), U.S. senator
(D-Massachusetts
, 1985-present)
- Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator
(D-Minnesota
, 2007-present)
- James Lanman (1788), U.S.
senator
- Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964,
J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (I-Connecticut
, 1989-present)
- Joseph Medill McCormick
(1900) - U.S. senate '19-'24, publisher, Chicago Tribune
- Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator
(DR-Ohio
,
1808-181), 4th governor of Ohio
(1810-1814), 8th U.S.
postmaster general (1814-1823). Meigs
County, Ohio
is named in his honor.
- Henry Mitchell
(1804), U.S. representative (Jacksonian-New York, 1833-35)
- Thurston Morton (B.A.
1929),
U.S. senator (R-Kentucky
, 1957-68)
- Bill Nelson (B.A.
1965),
U.S. representative (D-Florida
, 1979-91), astronaut
(STS-61-C, 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida,
2001-present)
- Truman Newberry Republican
United States senator from Michigan 1919-1922, secretary of the
navy 1908-1909
- Francis Newlands (ca. 1859),
U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903-17)
- William Proxmire (B.A. 1948),
U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957-89)
- Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S.
senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981-present)
- Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923),
United States
Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Senator (D-Missouri,
1953-1976}
- Robert Taft (B.A. 1910), U.S.
senator (R-Ohio, 1939-1953)
- Robert Taft, Jr. (B.A. 1939),
U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963-64, 1967-70), U.S. senator
(R-Ohio, 1971-76),
- John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative
(D-California, 1965-1970), U.S. senator (D-California,
1971-1977)
- Frederic Walcott (1891), U.S.
senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-35)
- John Wales (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator
(W-Delaware, 1849-1851);
co-founder of Delaware
College

- Malcolm Wallop (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator
(R-Wyoming
, 1977-95)
- Lowell Weicker (B.A.
1953), U.S. representative (R-Connecticut, 1968-1971), U.S. senator
(R-Connecticut, 1971-1989), governor of Connecticut
(1990-1994).
- Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A.
1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006-present)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), U.S.
senator (R-California, 1983-1991), governor of California 1991-1999
Governors
Alumni who have served as Governors may also have served in other
government capacities, such as
President or
Senator. In such cases, the names are
left un-linked, but are annotated with a "
See also:" which
links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can
be found.
- John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 )
governor of Missouri
(1985-1993).(See also: Senators)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811), governor of Connecticut
(1844-46).(See also: Senators)
- Hiram Bingham III (1898), governor of Connecticut
(1925).(See also: Senators)
- David Boren (B.A. 1963), governor of Oklahoma (1975-79).
(See also: Senators)
- Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr.
(J.D. 1964), governor of
California (1975-1983)
- George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), governor of Texas (1995-2000). (See
also: Presidents &
Vice Presidents)
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of Rhode Island
(1962-69).(See also: Senators)
- William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), governor of Arkansas (1983-1992).
(See also: Presidents & Vice
Presidents)
- Wilbur Cross (B.A.1885, Ph.D.
1889), governor of
Connecticut (1931-1939), Yale professor of English
- John Davis
(1787-1854), governor of
Massachusetts (1834-1835 & 1841-1843)
- Howard Dean (B.A. 1971), governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
- Henry Huntly Haight (B.A.
1844), governor of California
(1867-1871)
- W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913), governor of New York (1955-1958),
United States ambassador to Russia
(1943-1946), ambassador to Britain
(1946), Secretary
of Commerce (1946-1948)
- Tony Knowles (B.A.
1968),
governor of Alaska (1994-2002),
mayor of Anchorage,
Alaska
(1981-1987)
- William Livingston (B.A.
1741), First governor of New
Jersey (1776-1790) after the signing of the Declaration of
Independence
- Gary Locke (B.A. 1972),
governor of Washington
(1997-2005) (thereby the first Chinese
American governor in the United States)
- Return Jonathan Meigs (B.A. 1785), 4th governor of Ohio (1810-1814).(See also:
Senators)
- Robert D. Orr (1940) - governor of Indiana
- George Pataki (B.A. 1967),
governor of New York
(1995-2007)
- Gifford Pinchot (Yale College
graduate, 1889), governor of
Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935), first Chief of the
United States Forest
Service (1905–1910), and founder of and professor in Yale School of Forestry
- Winthrop Rockefeller (Class
of 1935*), attended Yale from 1931 to 1934; governor of Arkansas (1967-1971)
- William Scranton (B.A. 1939,
J.D. 1946), governor of
Pennsylvania (1963-1967), United States
Ambassador to the United Nations (1976-1977), member of the
United States House of Representatives Undergraduate picture at:
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- Robert Taft (B.A. 1953), governor of Ohio (1999-2007)
- Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), governor of Connecticut
(1990-1994).(See also: Senators)
- Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), governor of California
(1991-1999).(See also: Senators)
Executive council members
The following have worked within the
cabinet for their respective
governments.
- Dean Acheson (B.A, 1915), secretary of state in the
Truman presidential administration
- James Jesus Angleton, (B.A.
1941), chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff
(1954-1974)
- Les Aspin (B.A. 1960), secretary of
defense, congressman (D-Wisconsin
(1971-1993)
- McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940),
former cabinet official
- John Chafee (B.A. 1947), governor of
Rhode Island (1962-69), secretary of the navy (1969-72), U.S.
senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976-99) (also listed under Senators and Governors)
- John M. Clayton (1815), secretary of state in the
Zachary Taylor administration,
senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829-1836; W-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware
1853-1856) (also listed under Senators)
- William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), chairman of the
U.S.
Securities and Exchange
Commission (2003-2005), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette, founder and former dean of the Yale
School of Management
, president of the New York
Stock Exchange
- William M. Evarts (1837), secretary of state in the
Rutherford B. Hayes administration, U.S. senator
(R-New York, 1885-91) (also listed under Senators
- Olu Falae, finance minister of Nigeria
(1989-1991), Presidential
Candidate (1999)
- Roswell Gilpatric (B.A. 1928),
deputy secretary of
defense (1961–1964), presiding partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
(1966–1977)
- Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004-2006),
Florida
congressman
- Stephen Hadley, (J.D. 1972),
aational
security advisor
- Robert S. Ingersoll (1937), deputy secretary of
state and ambassador to Japan under presidents Nixon and Ford
- William McChesney
Martin, Jr. (B.A. ca. 1926), the ninth and longest-serving
chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
- John Negroponte (B.A.
1960),
first director of
national intelligence (2005-present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq
(2004-2005)
- Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964), secretary of the
treasury (1995-1999) in the Clinton
presidential administration
- Henry L. Stimson, (B.A. 1888), secretary of state in
the Hoover presidential
administration
- Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law),
attorney general and
secretary of war in
the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration
- Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968),
deputy secretary of state (1994-2001) in the Clinton presidential administration, president
of the Brookings
Institution
- Cyrus Vance, (B.A. 1939, Law 1942),
secretary of state in the Carter
presidential administration
Diplomats
Justices and attorneys
See also: Supreme Court Justices
- Cecilia Altonaga (J.D. 1986),
federal judge, first Cuban American
woman to be appointed as a federal
judge in the United States
- R. Lanier Anderson III (B.A., 1958),
federal judge on the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Richard S. Arnold (B.A., 1957), late judge of the
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, federal courthouse in Little
Rock
named in his honor
- Richard Blumenthal (J.D.),
Connecticut attorney general
- David Sherman Boardman
(B.A. 1793), Connecticut
judge and congressman
- David Boies (LL.B.. 1966), famous
lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster
v. RIAA)
- Geraldo
Brindeiro (L.L.M, J.S.D.), attorney general of Brazil
(1995-2003)
- José A. Cabranes (J.D. 1965), judge on the
United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Benjamin Darrow (J.D., ca. 1890)
New York district attorney
- Sir
Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the
High Court
of Australia

- Marc Stuart Dreier (B.A.
1972), lawyer and felon
- William Kunstler (B.A. 1941),
Civil liberties lawyer
- Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B.
1951), assistant attorney
general
- Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former
United States attorney
general
- Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979),
judge on the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and recipient of
the nomination for Supreme Court
Justice by Barack Obama
- Robert W. Sweet (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York
Southern District
Activists
- Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820),
abolitionist
- Cassius
Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832), abolitionist. (Also the namesake of
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus
Clay, Jr., took the name Muhammad
Ali.)
- Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (B.D.
1956),
chaplain of Yale (1958-1975), senior minister of Riverside
Church
in New York, political and civil rights
activist, author
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki (B.S.
2002), environmental activist,
speaker, television host, and author; member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Council (United Nations)
- David Dellinger (B.A. 1936),
activist, member of the Chicago
Seven
- Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802),
author, editor, activist, opponent of the Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Barry Scheck (B.S., 1971),
co-founded the Innocence
Project
- Sargent Shriver (B.A. 1938,
LL.B. 1941), main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps. Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of
Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger) and Bobby Shriver,
(Yale B.A. 1976) California politician and businessman
- Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969),
theologian and activist; President of Evagelicals For Social Action
and professor at Eastern
University.
- Jared Taylor (B.A., 1973), author,
editor, activist, founder of the New Century Foundation
- John Wilhelm (B.A., 1967) labor
leader; president, Hospitality Division, UNITE HERE.
- Todd Sims (B.A., 1978) founder of USAC
UNITE HERE.
- Y.C. James Yen. (B.A. 1918; M.A. (Honorary) 1928),
founder of Chinese Mass
Education Movement and Rural Reconstruction
Movement.
Public intellectuals
- Christopher Buckley (B.A.
1975), political pundit, columnist, author of Thank You for Smoking
- William F. Buckley (B.A. 1950), political pundit,
founder of the National
Review, host of public affairs television show
Firing Line
- David Gergen (B.A. 1963), political
pundit, worked as an advisor for the Republican and Democratic presidential
administrations of Richard Nixon,
Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill
Clinton
- Andrés Martinez
(B.A.), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
- Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971),
conservative pundit
- Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986),
political pundit, author, host of public affairs show, Foreign
Exchange
Frontiersmen
Military
- Henry B. Carrington (1845), Union army general in the American Civil War
- A. Peter Dewey, first American to be killed in
the Vietnam War, in 1945
- John Brown of
Pittsfield (B.A. 1771), accuser of Benedict Arnold
- Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's
first spy, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my
country."
- David Humphreys (B.A.
1771), aide-de-camp to George Washington
- Lewis Nixon,
army officer featured in Band of Brothers
- Jarvis Offutt
(1917), World War I aviator, namesake of
Offutt Air
Force Base
.
- John Paterson (B.A.
1762), major general in the American Revolution and congressman
from New York
- John Francisco Richards
II (B.A. 1917), World War
I aviator, namesake of Richards-Gebaur Air Force
Base

- Richard K. Sutherland, (B.A. 1916) army general
during World War II
- Nathan Whiting, (B.A. 1743),
colonel of Connecticut troops during the French and Indian War also the nephew
of university president Thomas Clap
- David Wooster (B.A. 1738), brigadier
general in the American
Revolutionary War; namesake of Wooster, Ohio
, The College of Wooster
, and the Wooster
School
- Decius Wadsworth
(1785), Colonel U.S. Army War of 1812
and Chief of Ordnance
1815-1821
Other legislators
- Lawrence Coughlin Republican
representative from Pennsylvania 1969-1991
- Charles Schuveldt Dewey [142372] Republican representative from Illinois
1941-1942, as assistant secretary of the treasury in the 1920s, he
was responsible for the redesign and downsizing of U.S. paper
currency.[142373] Father of A.
Peter Dewey, the first American to be
killed in the Vietnam War, in 1945.
- Jerome F. Donovan (Law 1894), U.S. representative,
D-New York (1918-1921)
- Porter J. Goss (U.S. representative, R-FL, 1989-2004,
and director of CIA)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A.
1972), U.S. representative, D-Texas
- Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S.
representative from Connecticut (1859-1863)
- Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A.
1828), member of the Texas State
Senate, namesake for eponym
maverick
- Edward Ralph May, (1838), sole
delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to
support African American suffrage
- Warren A. Morton (1924-2002) (B.S. 1945), speaker of
the Wyoming House of
Representatives (1979-1980)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
(M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate
for District
of Columbia
(1991-present)
- William S. Reyburn Republican representative from
Pennsylvania 1911-1913
- Gerry Studds (B.A. 1959, M.A.
1961), U.S. representative, D-MA, 1973-1997
- John Tunney Democratic
representative from California 1965-1970, United States senator
1970-1976. He was the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in
the film The
Candidate.
Other
- Jabez Bowen, (B.A. 1757), Federalist
supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island
- Albert Bel Fay, (B.S.
1936),
Houston,
Texas
, shipbuilder, oilman, and Republican Party
official
- Susan Bysiewicz, (B.A. 1983),
Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut, 1999-present
- Gifford Pinchot, founder of the
United States Forest
Service
- Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862),
founder of the U.S.
Geological
Survey
- John Lindsay (B.A. 1944, LL.B.
1948), mayor of New York
- Cory Booker (J.D. 1997), mayor of Newark, New
Jersey
- Sayed Rahmatullah
Hashemi, Taliban spokesman
- Robert
Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French
Marshall Plan
implementor and European
Commissioner
- Bradford Bishop, fugitive,
indicted for murder
- John T. Downey, judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in
China 1952-1973
- Arthur Mag, lawyer, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
- Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972), former aide
to Vice President Dick Cheney, principal figure in the Plame Affair
- Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979), mayor of Washington, D.C.,
1999-2007
- Kori Udovički (Ph.D 1999 in
Economics) Governor
of the National Bank of
Serbia 2003-2004, assistant secretary-general of United Nations
2007-
- Aleksey Vayner, an internet
sensation due to his video resume sent to UBS titled Impossible is Nothing
Religion
- Jonathan Edwards,
New England pastor; widely considered the greatest theologian in
American history
- Asa Thurston (1816), one of the
first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- Hiram Bingham II (1853),
missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert
Islands
- Ashley Day Leavitt (B.A.
1900),
minister of Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts

- William
Ragsdale Cannon (B.D.,
1940; Ph.D., 1942), professor and dean
of the Candler School of
Theology at Emory
University
; United
Methodist Church bishop
- Aaron L. Mackler (B.A. 1980), notable rabbi in the Conservative movement
- James W.C. Pennington (1809 - 1870), an African
American orator, minister, and abolitionist; born a slave, he
escaped and audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to
1839, becoming the first black man to attend classes at Yale. He
was subsequently ordained
- John H. Leith (Ph.D., 1949), a
Presbyterian author, theologian and professor
- Yasir Qadhi (Ph.D.), a Muslim theologian
History, literature, art, and architecture
- Josef Albers, painter
- Richard Anuszkiewicz,
painter of the Op-Art movement
- Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), video
and installation artist
- Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A),
painter
- Carl Bialik (Class of 2001)
journalist, Wall Street
Journal
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), literary
critic
- Jonathan Borofsky, artist
- Robert
Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale
Repertory Theatre
, critic, author
- Norman Carlberg, sculptor,
director of Rinehart School of
Sculpture
- Lan Samantha Chang (B.A.
1987),
writer and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

- Susan Choi (B.A. 1990), author
- Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964),
painter
- Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988),
photographer
- John Currin (M.F.A. 1986),
painter
- James Fenimore Cooper
(Class of 1805*), author of The Last of the Mohicans
- Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963,
M.F.A 1964), painter
- Randy Charles Epping (M.A.
1983), author
- Paul Fontaine (B.F.A. 1935),
painter
- Norman
Foster (M.Arch. 1961), architect
- Ann Gale (M.F.A. 1991) painter;
professor at the University of Washington
School of Art
- Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture writer
- Nancy Graves, sculptor
- Linda Greenhouse, journalist,
covers the United States Supreme Court for the New York Times
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony
Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Amin Gulgee (B.A. 1987), renowned
Pakistani
metal sculptor and jewellery designer; son of famed
artist Gulgee
- Erwin Hauer, sculptor
- Fenno Heath, Yale music professor
and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club
- Barkley L. Hendricks (B.F.A. and M.F.A.
1970-1972), painter
- Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
- Quiara Alegria Hudes (BA),
playwright, In the Heights
2008 Tony for Best Musical
- Yolanda Joe (B.A. 1983),
novelist
- Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976),
book critic for the New York Times
- Sujata Keshavan (M.F.A. 1987)
graphic designer
- John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of
A Separate Peace
- Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), playwright and gay
activist
- David Leavitt (B.A. 1983),
author
- Jeremy Leven, author, screenwriter,
director and producer whose works include Don Juan DeMarco
- Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M. Arch 1986, honorary
Ph.D 1987), architect, best known for the
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial
, subject of the 1995 Academy Award-winning documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear
Vision
- Jonathan Littell (B.A. 1989),
writer; won the Prix Goncourt
- William Logan (B.A. 1972), poet,
critic
- Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer
of the Broadway musical Avenue Q. Winner of
3 Tony Awards
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia
(M.F.A. 1979), photographer
- Alvin Lucier, experimental
composer
- Robert Mangold, painter
- Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963),
painter
- Peter Matthiessen (B.A. 1950),
naturalist, author of historical
fiction and non-fiction
- Jane Mayer (B.A. 1977), journalist
and author
- J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, member
of American Academy
of Arts and Letters
- Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989), of
the band The Nields
- George Packer (B.A. 1982),
author
- Ann Packer (B.A. 1981),
author
- Hally Pancer (M.F.A 1988), photographer
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic
designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
- Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983),
author
- Howardena Pindell (M.F.A.
1967), painter
- Martin Puryear (M.F.A. 1971),
sculptor
- Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998),
author
- Richard Rogers (M.Arch. 1962),
architect, 2007 Pritzker Prize
winner
- Mark Rothko (Class of 1924*),
painter
- Eero Saarinen
(B.Arch, 1934), architect, best known for the St.
Louis
Gateway Arch
- Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), art
historian
- Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A.
1964), sculptor
- Robert A. M. Stern (M. Arch. 1965), architect, current dean of
Yale
School of Architecture

- Andrew Solomon (B.A. 1985),
writer
- Sarah Sze (B.A.), sculptor and
MacArthur Foundation fellow
- Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A.
1973), Doonesbury cartoonist
- Erica Simone Turnipseed
A writer
- Marc Trujillo (M.F.A. 1994)
painter
- Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, Ll.D.
1823),
lexicographer, author of the first
definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped
found Amherst
College

- William T. Williams (M.F.A 1968), artist, first
African American included in the H.W. Janson History of Art
- Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984), feminist writer
- Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist,
author of The Right
Stuff and The
Bonfire of the Vanities
Music
- Marin Alsop, (1973-1975, transferred
to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra
- Eric Banks (B.A. 1990),
composer
- Jane Ira Bloom, soprano
saxophonist
- Carter Brey, principal
cellist for the New York
Philharmonic
- Robert Carl, composer and chair of
the Composition department at the Hartt
School
- Jonathan Coulton (B.A. 1992),
musician, internet celebrity, best known for his song Code Monkey
- Jack Glatzer (B.A. 1960), concert
violinist
- Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony
Award-winning composer/lyricist
- Fenno Heath, Yale music professor
and former long-time director of the Yale Glee Club
- Walter Hekster (M.Mus. 1963),
composer, clarinetist and conductor
- Paul Hindemith, composer,
musician, conductor, music theorist
- Lisa Hopkins, opera singer and Tony
Award winner
- Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer,
classical music
- Mitch Leigh (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952),
composer, producer Man of La
Mancha, "To Dream the Impossible Dream"
- Daniel Lewis James Jr.
(Class of 1933), screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.
Collaborator with wife Lillith
Stanwood on Broadway musical Bloomer
Girl. Wrote the novel Famous All Over Town under the
pseudonym Danny Santago. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on the film The Great Dictator. Blacklisted by
the House
Un-American Activities Committee. First cousin of Jesse James.
- George Lewis (B.A.
1974), trombonist and composer
- Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer
of the Broadway musical Avenue Q and winner
of 3 Tony Awards
- Alvin Lucier, experimental
composer
- Pras Michel, Grammy Award-winning rapper, member of hip-hop trio The
Fugees
- Douglas Moore (B.A 1915, B.M
1917), composer
- Johann Sebastian
Paetsch (M.M. 1987), musician and
cellist
- Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic
designer, Tony Award for The Pillowman
- Cole Porter (B.A. 1913),
composer
- Chad Shelton (M.A. 1997), operatic
tenor
- Sam Tsui (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation
- Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974
), lyricist, composer, Tony Awards for
Nine and Titanic
- Foster MacKenzie III, aka Root Boy
Slim (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician
- Dave Longstreth, songwriter, singer, guitarist of critically
acclaimed indie rock band Dirty
Projectors
Athletics
- Matt Polhemus (B.A.
2008),Quarterback for Les Cougars, St. Ouen L'amone-France.
- Boris Baczynskyj (B.A. 1967),
chess master
- Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985),
three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)
- Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "Father
of American Football"
- Britton Chance, 1952 Olympic gold
medalist in yachting for the USA, bio-chemist and bio-physicist
[142374]
- Ron Darling, Mets pitcher
- Brian Dowling (B.A.
1969), quarterback
- Earl G. Graves, Jr. (B.A. 1984) former NBA
Player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's Mens Basketball history
(3rd Ivy)
- Chris Dudley (B.A. 1987), former
NBA player
- Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became
Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest
in Major League Baseball
history
- Chris Ernst, 1976 Summer Olympics,
1984 Summer Olympics, 1987 World Champion - Women's Lightweight
Double, and Yale captain, 1976. Featured in Mary Mazzio's documentary film, A Hero for
Daisy
- Gary Fencik (Class of 1975, B.A.
1976), professional football player twice selected for the Pro Bowl as a defensive back for the Chicago Bears
- Robert A. Gardner (Class of 1912), two-time
U.S. Amateur golf champion
- Howard Groskloss, the oldest
living former Major League
Baseball player, aged 100 as of 2006
- Chris Hetherington (B.A.
1996), NFL running back
- Chris Higgins, forward for
the National Hockey League
Montreal Canadiens
- Calvin Hill (B.A. 1969), football
player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns
- Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold
medalist in 2002 Olympic figure skating
- Bill Hutchison, former
Major League Baseball
player
- Levi Jackson (1926 - 2000), elected
by his teammates the First African American to captain an Ivy
League football team
- Sada Jacobson (B.A. 2006), bronze
medalist in 2004 Olympic women's
saber
- Dick Jauron (B.A. 1973), head coach
of the National Football
League's Buffalo Bills
(2006-2009)
- Eric Johnson
(B.A. 2001), NFL tight end
- Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), NFL
tight end
- Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1983),
professional tennis player
- Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964),
Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for
Trinidad and Tobago
- Kate O'Neill (B.A. 2003), long
distance runner 2004 Summer
Olympics competitor in 10,000 m,
Currently a competitive marathoner.
- Mary O'Connor, 1980 Summer Olympics Yale member of
Olympic Rowing Eight. Team did not compete due to U.S. boycott.
- Renée Richards, former
professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as
Richard Raskind
- Mike Richter (B.A. 2006), former
New York Rangers goaltender
- Don Schollander (B.A. 1968),
swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968,
1 gold, 1 silver. One of first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of
Fame (1983)
- Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969) gold
medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic Marathon
- Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale
College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York
Knicks and Houston Rockets
- Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale
College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze,
rowing)
Film
- Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980
African-American Studies, MFA 1983), actress
- Jennifer Beals, (B.A. 1987
American Literature) actress, best known for Flashdance and The
L Word
- Henry Bean, screenwriter/director
The Believer
- Jordana Brewster, actress,
plays Mia in The Fast and the
Furious
- Bruce Cohen, film producer, won an
Academy Award for American Beauty
- Michael Cimino (B.A. 1961, M.A.
1963), Academy Award-winning director of The Deer Hunter
- Jennifer Connelly (Class of
1992*), Academy Award-winning actress
- Claire Danes (Class of 2002*),
actress
- Nelson Antonio Denis (J.D.,
1980), writer/director
- Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992),
actor
- Jodie Foster (B.A. 1985 in
literature, magna cum laude),
Academy Award-winning actress (The Accused, The Silence of the
Lambs) and director
- Paul Giamatti (BA 1989, MFA 1994),
actor, starred in "Sideways"
- Alex Gibney, Academy Award-winning
documentary-filmmaker ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in
the Room," 2005; "Taxi to the
Dark Side," 2007)
- David Alan Grier, actor,
comedian
- Kathryn Hahn, actress
- Michael Herz director, founder of
Troma Studios
- George Hickenlooper, film
director
- George Roy Hill, Academy
Award-winning director
- Daniel Lewis James Jr.
(Class of 1933) screenwriter, playwright, & novelist.
Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin on
the film The Great
Dictator. Blacklisted by the House Un-American
Activities Committee. Collaborator with wife Lillith Stanwood
on Broadway Musical Bloomer Girl.
Authored the novel Famous All Over Town under the
pseudonym Danny Santago. First cousin of Jesse James.
- Elia Kazan, Academy Award-winning
director
- Zoe Kazan (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film
and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter
- Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor,
comedian
- Lloyd Kaufman (B.A. 1968),
Director, Actor, President of Troma Studios. IFTA Charman
- Thomas F. Lennon (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning
documentary filmmaker
- Ron Livingston, (B.A. 1989),
actor, best known for Office
Space
- Frances McDormand (MFA 1992),
actress
- Bill Moseley actor
- Paul Newman, (DRA 1954) Academy
Award-winning actor
- Alessandro Nivola, (B.A.
1994), actor
- Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), Academy
Award nominated actor
- Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981),
actor
- Vincent Price, actor
- Ira Sachs (B.A. 1987), director
- Liev Schreiber, actor
- Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie
critic
- Todd Solondz, (B.A. 1981), director
Welcome to the
Dollhouse & Happiness
- Oliver Stone (Class of 1968*),
Academy Award-winning director
- Meryl Streep (MFA), Academy
Award-winning actress
- Ted Tally (B.A.), Academy
Award-winning screenwriter
- John Turturro (MFA 1983),
actor
- Sam Waterston, (B.A. 1961),
actor
- Sigourney Weaver (MFA),
actress
- Jennifer Westfeldt, (B.A.
1991), actress, screenwriter (Kissing Jessica Stein)
- Douglas Wick, (B.A. 1976), film producer
Television
- Lewis Black (MFA 1977) stand-up comedian who often appears on
The Daily Show
- James Bohanek (B.A. 1991),
Broadway and television actor
- James Burrows (M.A.), producer of
shows such as: Cheers and
Will & Grace
- Dick Cavett, TV personality,
nominated eleven times for the Emmy
Award, and won three times.
- Enrico Colantoni (MFA), actor,
Just Shoot Me, Galaxy Quest, and Veronica Mars*
- Anderson Cooper (B.A. 1989), CNN
anchor of Anderson Cooper
360°
- Bill Corbett (DRA 1989), actor,
writer, played Crow T. Robot in Mystery Science Theater
3000
- David Duchovny (M.A. English
literature 1989*), actor in The
X-Files
- Dick Ebersol, president of NBC sports division, helped launch Saturday Night Live
- Malcolm Gets (MFA), actor, best
known for as "Richard Karinsky" on Caroline in the City
- Sara Gilbert, actress, best known
for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sit-com Roseanne
- Felipe Gozon, Philippine television
executive
- Michael Gross (DRA 1973),
actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of Michael J. Fox's character) on Family Ties
- John Hodgman (B.A. 1992), author
and comedian who often appears in The
Daily Show and in the Get a Mac
ad campaigns, representing a humanized PC.
- Conor Knighton, host of
Infomania on Current TV
- Leo Laporte*, host of The Screen Savers on TechTV
- Demetri Martin (B.A. 1995)
stand-up comedian who often
appears on The Daily
Show
- Kellie Martin (B.A 2001)
- Crystal McKellar (B.A. 1999),
played "Becky Slater" in The Wonder
Years in her youth; now an attorney
- Anne Meacham (B.A. 1947), Broadway
and television actress (Another World)
- Ari Meyers (B.A. 1991), actress,
played Emma McArdle on Kate &
Allie
- Chris Noth (CDR 1985), actor
Law & Order:
Criminal Intent", Sex and the
City
- Stone Phillips, (B.A. 1977)
television anchor for NBC
- Robert Picardo, (B.A. 1975) the
holographic doctor on the
television show Star Trek:
Voyager
- David Hyde Pierce, (B.A. 1981)
actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on Frasier; winner of four Emmy Awards
- Josh Saviano (B.A. 1998) played
Paul Pfeiffer on "The Wonder
Years"
- Tony Shalhoub (MFA 1980) actor,
"Monk"
- Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979),
executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and
An Unreasonable
Man
- Ben Stein (LLD 1970), economist, host
of Win Ben Stein's
Money
- Ming Tsai (B.A. 1986), chef on
East Meets West with Ming Tsai on PBS
- Courtney B. Vance (MFA 1986), actor, current on
Law & Order:
Criminal Intent as "Assistant District Attorney Ron
Carver"
- Margaret Warner, co-anchor on
The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, PBS'
weekday news program
- Sam Waterston, (B.A. 1962) best
known for his portrayal of A.D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order
- Henry Winkler (MFA 1970), actor,
best known as "Fonzie" on Happy Days
- Walter F. Parkes, (B.A. 1973)
producer/writer, former head of Dreamworks

- Amy Young (B.A. 1991), Broadway
and television actress
- Glenn Beck, (dropped out) Fox News
talk show host
Fictional
(In alphabetical order by last name, if available)
- Dhrubo, character in cult Indian book English
August.
- "Paul Allen", victim of serial killer
Patrick Bateman (who is a Harvard
alumnus) in the movie American Psycho.
- "Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl) is straight out accepted to
Yale for his lacrosse skills.
- Nell Bedworth, played by Samaire
Armstrong in It's a
Boy/Girl Thing
- "Amanda Bonner", Yale Law School graduate, played by Katharine
Hepburn, in 1949 film Adam's
Rib.
- "Tom Buchanan", antagonist of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The
Great Gatsby
- "Jamie Stemple Buchman" (played by Helen
Hunt) in 1990's television comedy series Mad About You
- "Jay Burchell", J.D. 2007, one of the main characters on the
short-lived ABC series Traveler
- "Tyler Fog", M.B.A. 2007, one of the main characters on the
short-lived ABC series Traveler
- "Charles Montgomery Burns", B.S.
1914, the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power
Plant in the hit cartoon television series The Simpsons
- "Nick Carraway", narrator of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, The
Great Gatsby
- "Charlotte" (played by Scarlett
Johansson), main character of the 2003 movie Lost in Translation
- "Lane Coutell", Franny's boyfriend in J.D. Salinger's
Franny and Zooey published in 1962
- "Dr. Niles Crane", Frasier's brother
in the award-winning television comedy series Frasier. The actor who plays him, David Hyde Pierce, is a real-life
alumnus.
- "Florence Farfaletti", protagonist of Christopher Buckley's 2004 Novel
Florence of Arabia
- "Gogol Ganguli", main character of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
- "Paris Geller", Rory Gilmore's best
friend on the television series Gilmore
Girls
- "Richard Gilmore", father of
Lorelai Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls
- "Rory Gilmore", main character of
the television series Gilmore
Girls
- "Anson Hunter" protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1926 short
story 'The Rich Boy'
- "Logan Huntzberger,"*Rory
Gilmore's boyfriend on the television series Gilmore Girls.
- "Flash Gordon", internationally
renowned polo player, Yale graduate, intrepid space explorer,
Emperor Ming's relentless enemy, and savior of the Planet
Mongo.
- "Linus Larrabee," protagonist in the movie Sabrina, played by Humphrey Bogart in 1954 and played by
Harrison Ford in the 1995 remake.
- Josh Lyman, played by Bradley Whitford, is a graduate of Yale Law
School and serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the (fictional)
President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), in the television show
The West
Wing.
- "Frank Merriwell," the most
popular dime-novel hero of the early twentieth century. Protagonist
of Gilbert Patten's 200-odd Merriwell
novels.
- "Sherman McCoy", central character in Tom
Wolfe's Bonfire of the
Vanities.
- Dr. R. Lars Porsena, a major character in Philip Jose Farmer's sci-fi novel
Red Orc's Rage. Dr. Porsena is a
graduate of Yale Medical School and was trained in psychiatry in
the psychiatry department at Yale.
- Bette Porter - character in "The
LWord". Yale graduate.
- "Neela Rasgotra", B.S. doctor on
the television series "ER."
- "Bud Stamper", played by Warren
Beatty, in the Oscar winning 1961
film Splendor in the
Grass
- "Dink Stover", hero of Owen
Johnson's 1911 novel Stover at
Yale
- "Robert Underdunk
Terwilliger", who goes by the stage name of "Sideshow Bob" in the television series
The Simpsons
(* attended but did not graduate from Yale)
Faculty
Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in
italics.
Nobel laureates
- Sidney Altman: Chemistry,
1989
- John Fenn: Chemistry,
2002. Received his PhD from Yale 1940, and was a member of the Yale
faculty from 1962 to 1994
- Tjalling Koopmans: Economics,
1975
- Wangari Maathai: Peace, 2004;
visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002 YDN article
- George Palade, professor at Yale
Medical School from 1973-1990: Physiology or Medicine, 1974.
- James Tobin: Economics, 1981
- Gerard Debreu: Economics,
1983
- Edward Tatum: Physiology or
Medicine, 1958; was at Yale from 1945 to 1948
- Erwin Neher: Physiology or Medicine,
1991; biophysicist at the Max Planck
Institute for Biophysical Chemistry who was previously a
postdoctoral fellow at Yale
- Thomas A. Steitz: Chemistry, 2009
Others
- Robert P.
Abelson, late Eugene
Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political
Science
- Sydney E. Ahlstrom, historian of religion in
America
- Josef Albers, artist
- Akhil Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D.
1984), law professor
- Kanichi Asakawa (Ph.D.
1902), historian, first Japanese professor at U.S. university
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D 1955),
writer and critic, author of The Anxiety of Influence,
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and many other
scholarly books
- John Morton Blum, professor of
political history
- Cleanth Brooks, Professor of
English, world-renowned expert on writer William Faulkner
- Benjamin Carson, African
American neurosurgeon
- Yung-Chi Cheng,
pharmacology professor, inventor of AIDS drug 3TC, lamivudine, known as Epivir
- Edwin Mimba,Founder,Economic Voice
of Africa-EVA
- Jordan Cohen, president emeritus,
Association of
American Medical Colleges
- Paul de Man,
Sterling Professor of the
Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature;
literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote
for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium
, one of which is widely held to be antisemitic
- Jacques Derrida, philosopher;
held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man
- Isidore Dyen, professor emeritus of
comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages
- William Francis Gray
Swann, Anglo-American physicist
- Fred Rogers Fairchild
(1877-1966) economist
- Irving Fisher,
economist
- Bassam Frangieh, scholar of
Arabic language and literature
- Harold Hongju Koh, dean of
Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human
rights and labor in the Clinton Administration
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
- Jacques Armand Gauthier,
comparative morphologist,
paleontologist, and systematist
- Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
- David Gelernter (1976),
computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming
language
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
(1839-1903) American theoretical physicist, chemist, and
mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering
- Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize
winner, poet
- Orvan Hess, M.D. (1906–2002),
practitioner and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, known for
the fetal heart monitor
- Paul Hindemith, composer
- Paul Hudak, computer scientist, known
for his work on the Haskell programming language,
author of "The Haskell School of Expression"
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson, zoologist,
considered to be the father of modern limnology
- Silvio Inzucchi, Yale medical
staff- Endocrinology, professor- alumni of Harvard, author of
"Diabetes Facts and Guidelines"
- Donald Kagan,
historian of ancient Greece

- Shizuo Kakutani, mathematician,
Kakutani fixed-point
theorem
- Paul Kennedy,
historian, coiner of the term "imperial overstretch" and author of
"The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- Bronislaw
Malinowski (1884-1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology,
and a professor at Cornell University
, Yale
University
, and
Harvard
University
- Benoît Mandelbrot,
mathematician known for fractal
geometry
- Julián Marías,
philosopher, author of "History of Philosophy"
- Samuel E. Martin, linguist, developed the Yale Romanization#Korean system for
transliterating Korean
- James Mitchell, actor,
played Palmer Cortlandt on All My
Children
- David Montgomery,
Professor of History Emeritus
- Edmund S. Morgan, Emeritus Professor of
History
- William Nordhaus
(1963), economist
- William Odom,
director, National Security Agency

- Arthur Okun, economist
- Oystein Ore, mathematician
- Aldo Parisot, musician and cellist
- Jaroslav Pelikan, historian,
author of "The Christian Tradition"
- Peter C. Perdue, historian of Modern China
- William Prusoff, pharmacologist,
inventor of AIDS drug d4T, known as Zerit
- Emir Rodríguez
Monegal, professor of Latin American contemporary literature,
founder of Mundo Nuevo
- Juan Rosai, professor of Pathology
and Director of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Yale
University between 1985 and 1991. Author and editor of a main
textbook in surgical pathology
and discoverer of several entities such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and Desmoplastic small round
cell tumor
- Philip Rubin, cognitive scientist,
CEO, Haskins Laboratories
- Herbert Scarf, economist
- Oktay Sinanoğlu,
theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale
full professor.
- James C. Scott, political scientist
- Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the
History of Art in Architecture
- Robert Shiller, economist, author
of "Irrational
Exuberance", well known for his work in investor
psychology
- Jonathan Spence, historian,
author of "The Search For Modern China"
- Joan Steitz, biochemist, discoverer
of snRNPs
- John Szwed, John M. Musser Professor
of Anthropology and African American Studies, believed to be the
first person at Yale to win a Grammy
Award (2006 Grammy Award, "Best Album Notes")
- David Underdown, historian of
17th-century England
- Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille
Professor of History; World War I
specialist
- Paul Wolfowitz, political science
instructor from 1970-72
- C. Vann Woodward, professor of history
- Ernesto Zedillo,
economics teacher and head of the Yale Center for the
Study of Globalization, (Ph.D. 1981), president of Mexico
(1994-2000)
- Deen Kemsley,
taught at Yale School of Management for a year in 2003, currently
teaches at A.B.
Freeman School of Business
- Dennis S. Charney, one of the world's leading
experts in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety
disorders.
- Kenneth L. Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center in
New York
City

Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale
University
- Also see Ivy League
Presidents.
|
Rectors of Yale College |
birth–death |
years as rector |
| 1 |
Rev. Abraham Pierson |
(1641–1707) |
(1701–1707) Collegiate School |
| 2 |
Rev. Samuel Andrew |
(1656–1738) |
(1707–1719) (pro tempore) |
| 3 |
Rev. Timothy Cutler |
(1684–1765) |
(1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College |
| 4 |
Rev. Elisha William |
(1694–1755) |
(1726–1739) |
| 5 |
Rev. Thomas Clap |
(1703–1767) |
(1740–1745) |
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President, died after only four and a half months in office and is
chiefly remembered for having been the leader of the little group
who, in his words, 'first concocted the plan and foundation of the
College.' To him, 'more than to any other man, the College . . .
owes its origin,' wrote Professor William A. Packard in The
Princeton Book (1879)."
- " Biographical Profile: James Johnson Duderstadt"
at the University of Michigan's "Millennium
Project" website
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(1787-1851)" at the official website of Gallaudet
University
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Louis
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http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_connecticut.html
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Convention: William Samuel Johnson, Connecticut"] article at the
National
Archives
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by Tasuku Takagi
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& L.Senocak eds., Yapi Kredi Publishing, Istanbul, 1999
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College", 440.
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University website: "Founded 1865 By Ezra Cornell and Andrew
Dickson White."
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College website: "The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational
minister from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College in 1769."
- Morris Institute of Human Values
- Yale University News
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Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical profile from the White House
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Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical entry at the official Bundespraesident
website.
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical entry from the Britannica Concise
Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Biographical profile from the White House
- Biographical entry from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical entry at the Biographical Directory of
Federal Judges
- Biographical profile from the Royal Court of
Sweden
- Biographical entry at the Encyclopedia Britannica
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Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed December
16, 2007.
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Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
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Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Archived 2009-10-31.
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Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Archived 2009-10-31.
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Governor's office: "Gov. Gregoire Unveils Official State Portrait
of Gov. Gary Locke; Praises Key Accomplishments", January 4,
2006
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Profile from the state of New York government
web site
- Biographical entry at the Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Biographical information from the Biographical
Directory of the U.S. Congress
- Muhammad Ali's Boxing Day Gloves by Anna Rohlender,
Forbes
Magazine, December 12, 2001: "Forbes Fact: Born in Louisville,
Ky., Ali's parents named him Cassius Marcellus Clay after a white
Kentucky abolitionist of the same name. The 19th-century Cassius
Clay served as a diplomat to Russia during the Civil War. "
- "Muhammad Ali" Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006: "Ali was born in
Louisville, Kentucky. His birth name
was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., named after famed Kentucky
abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay. ". Archived
2009-10-31.
- RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Yolanda
Joe
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/arts/music/07sisa.html?pagewanted=all
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Site
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http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:LHO8-FeZU4AJ:www.yale.edu/rowing/lt_history.html+yale+gold+medal+anne+warner&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us][http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_07/jacobson.html
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at the New
York Times
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New York
Times
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
- From the film American Psycho: KIMBALL: And where did
he go to school? BATEMAN: Don't you know this? KIMBALL: I just
wanted to know if you know. BATEMAN: Before Yale? If I remember
correctly, Saint Paul's...Listen, I just...I just want to
help.
- Gossip
Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
- From The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1: "...the
history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over
there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second
cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college."
- "Jamie Buchman" Profile of the character at the show's
official web site.
- "Forbes Fictional 15: #5 Burns, Charles
Montgomery Forbes Magazine December 1, 2005, by
David M. Ewalt
- From The Great Gatsby, in Chapter 1, "I was
rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn
and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'" In Chapter 3, "I took
dinner usually at the Yale Club..." In Chapter 7,
"Jordan smiled. 'He was probably bumming his way home. He told me
he was president of your class at Yale.'"
- "Lost in Translation" review in Rolling Stone (September
8, 2003) by Peter Travers: "Charlotte (Johansson) is
three decades younger than Bob, but she shares his sense of drift.
A Yale philosophy grad, she's in Tokyo with her photographer
husband (Giovanni Ribisi)..."
- 'Voice on Literature' The Village
Voice, review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, March 8, 1962
- "The Junger Brother" in Financial Times Magazine, March
31, 2001, by Nicholas Kralev; online version at homepage of Kralev
- From Florence of Arabia, Chapter 2:
"Florence had grown up fascinated by her grandfather's tales of the
Middle East. At college she majored in Arabic studies and was
fluent by the time she graduated Yale."
- Gilmore
Girls, episode '"Let the Games Begin"' (Season 3, Episode
51)
- Gilmore
Girls, episode '"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale"' (Season
4, Episode 67)
- Book review of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Volume 1 in
Publishers Weekly, November 3, 2003: "The
stories are swashbuckling adventures of Flash, 'Yale graduate and
world-renowned Polo player,' and the lovely Dale Arden, who become
stranded on the planet Mongo, a fierce place ruled with an iron
fist by Ming the Merciless." Flash Gordon was introduced as a Yale
alumnus in 1934 in the very first comic strip of the series.
- From the script for Sabrina, "Linus Larrabee, the
elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him the
man Most Likely to Leave his Alma Mater Fifty Million Dollars.
"
- The West Wing episode
"Celestial Navigation" (season 1, episode 15), in which Lyman says
"I'm a graduate of Harvard and Yale and I believe that my powers of
debate can rise to meet the Socratic wonder that is the White House press corps"
- The book Frank Merriwell at Yale(1897) by
Burt
Standish (pseudonym of Gilbert Patten), ISBN 0837390095
- Chronicle section the March 2, 1990 edition of
the New York
Times, by Susan Heller Anderson: "In the movie version of
The Bonfire of the
Vanities, TOM
HANKS will play Sherman McCoy, the philandering, self-absorbed
bond trader whose 'Yale chin' and prep-school background figure
prominently in the TOM
WOLFE best seller. Mr. Hanks visited Yale yesterday, soaking up
information and atmosphere."
- P.J. Farmer. Red Orc"s Rage. NY, Tor, 1991. ISBN
0-312-85036-0
- Official
ER site at NBC: "Newer
additions to the ER include Neela Rasgotra (Nagra), a
British-Indian medical student who arrives in Chicago after
finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular
biology at Yale."
- From Splendor in the Grass, Bud
Stamper's father Ace Stamper says "We got a future, boy. The first
thing we're gonna do, we're gonna get you an education - the best.
Four years at Yale."
- Stover at Yale, Owen Johnson, Grosset & Dunlap,
1911; online version at http://www.ctrl.org/stover/index.html
- "Reading Homer" in the Harvard Alumni Magazine
September-October 1997 issue
- Movie review by Roger Ebert: "Kat, meanwhile, is
baby-sitting for a 30-year-old Yale graduate who is an architect
rehabbing a local landmark. She's been accepted to Yale for the
fall, and so they have that in common. Also reckless romanticism.
His name is Tim (William R. Moses), his wife is in Europe,
and Kat falls head over heels in idealism with him. "
- Scrubs episode '"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu"'
(aired May 9, 2006; Season 5, episode 115). See also Quotes at TV.com
- Gossip Girl
by Cecily von Ziegesar]
- Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
- Movie Review at TV Guide
- From Lonesome Dove, Augustus says that
Wilbarger is "probably the only man who ever went to Yale College
who was buried under a buffalo skull." (p.567)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 episode
"Hello Life, Goodbye Beverly Hills" (season 5, episode 30)
- Profile from the official web site of the show
by NBC, which produced
The West
Wing
- National Institutes of Health