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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.
Alumni
For a list of notable alumni of
Yale Law School , see
List of Yale Law School alumni .
Prize recipients
Paul Krugman
Sinclair Lewis
Nobel laureates
George Akerlof (B.A. 1962), Economics, 2001
[1]
Raymond Davis Jr. (Ph.D. 1942),
[2] Physics, 2002
Douglas Diamond (M.A. 1976, M.Phil. 1977, PhD 1980), Economics, 2022
Peter A. Diamond (B.A. 1960), Economics, 2010
[3]
Philip H. Dybvig (M.A. 1978, M.Phil. 1978, PhD 1979), Economics, 2022
John F. Enders (B.A. 1920),
[4] Physiology or Medicine, 1954
John Fenn (Ph.D. 1940),
[5]
[6] Chemistry, 2002
John B. Goodenough (B.S. 1944),
[7] Chemistry, 2019
Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948),
[8] Physics, 1969
Alfred G. Gilman (B.S. 1962),
[9] Physiology or Medicine, 1994
Brian Kobilka (M.D. 1981), Chemistry, 2012
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),
[10] Physics, 1939;
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and the element
Lawrencium are named for him
[11]
Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948),
[12] Physiology or Medicine, 1958
David Lee (Ph.D. 1959),
[13] Physics, 1996
Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908),
[14] Literature, 1930
William Nordhaus (B.A. 1963),
[15] Economics, 2018
Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935),
[16] Chemistry, 1968
Edmund Phelps (Ph.D. 1959), Economics, 2006
Dickinson W. Richards (B.A. 1917),
[17] Physiology or Medicine, 1956
James Rothman (B.A. 1971), Physiology or Medicine, 2013
William Vickrey (B.S. 1935),
[18] Economics, 1996
George Whipple (A.B. 1900),
[19] Physiology or Medicine, 1934
Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D. 1974),
[20] Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Anne Applebaum
David McCullough
Thornton Wilder (Yale graduation photo)
Bob Woodward
Pulitzer Prize winners
Anne Applebaum (B.A. 1986), 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction
[21]
Ellen Barry (B.A. 1993), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Charles Bartlett (B.A. 1943), 1956
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Stephen Vincent Benét (B.A. 1919, M.A. 1920), two-time Pulitzer-winning author
Ron Chernow (B.A. 1970), 2011 Pulitzer Prize for biography of George Washington.
Anthony R. Dolan (B.A. 1970), 1978 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting
[22]
Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-author of articles for which
The Wall Street Journal won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007
[23]
John Lewis Gaddis , 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Cold War historian
Paul Goldberger (B.A. 1972), 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism
Stephen Greenblatt (B.A. 1964, M.Phil 1968, Ph.D. 1969), general editor of The Norton Shakespeare , 2012
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Linda Greenhouse (M.A. 1978),
[24] U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for
The New York Times , received the Pulitzer in 1998
[24]
John Hersey (B.A. 1936),
[25] Pulitzer-winning author in 1945 for the novel
A Bell for Adano , namesake of the annual John Hersey Lecture at Yale
Quiara Alegría Hudes (B.A. 1999), playwright, writer of
In the Heights , 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), book critic for
The New York Times , 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
David M. Kennedy (M.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1968), 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History
[26] for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–45"
Elizabeth Kolbert (B.A. 1983), 2015
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction
David McCullough (B.A. 1955),
[27]
popular historian , winner of two Pulitzers, best known for his books on American presidents
Harry S. Truman and
John Adams
[28]
J.R. Moehringer (B.A. 1986),
[29]
Los Angeles Times reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
[26]
Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915), 1951 Pulitzer, Music
Wesley Morris (B.A. 1997), critic-at-large for
New York Times , former film critic at
The Boston Globe , 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Lynn Nottage (M.F.A.),
[30] playwright and Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist of
Ruined
Mel Powell (B.A. 1952),
[31] 1990 Pulitzer Prize 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),
[32] Pulitzer Prize for the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
[33]
Kevin Puts (M.M. 1996), 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Thomas E. Ricks (B.A. 1977), 2000
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on
The Wall Street Journal team); former reporter who writes on defense topics
Mark Schoofs (B.A. 1985),
[34] reporter, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
[26]
Lewis Spratlan (B.A. 1962, M.M. 1965),
[34] composer, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version
[26]
Jeffrey C. Stewart , Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for his biography of
Alain LeRoy Locke ,
The New Negro
Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), 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
[35]
Thornton Wilder (B.A. 1920),
[36] 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),
[37] screenwriter, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for drama, winner of a
Tony Award
[38]
Yehudi Wyner (B.A. 1950, B. Mus. 1951, M. Mus. 1953),
[39] composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006
[40] for his piano concerto 'Chiavi in Mano'; professor emeritus of musical composition at
Brandeis University
Daniel Yergin (B.A. 1968),
[41] wrote Pulitzer-winning
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power ; founded
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Abel laureates
John G. Thompson (B.A. 1955), 2008
[43]
Architecture and visual arts
Maya Lin
Robert Mangold
Richard Rogers
Robert A. M. Stern
Constance Thalken
Garry Trudeau
Richard Anuszkiewicz (M.F.A. 1955), painter
Graham Arader (B.A. 1972), art dealer
Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), artist
Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A 1965), painter
Eve Blau (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1978), art historian
Barbara Bloemink (M.Phil., Ph.D.), art historian
Jonathan Borofsky (M.F.A. 1966), artist
Robert Branner (B.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1953), art historian
Theophilus Brown (B.F.A. 1941), painter
Norman Carlberg (B.F.A. 1958, M.F.A. 1961), sculptor
Kermit S. Champa (B.A. 1960), art historian
Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964), painter
William Cordova (M.F.A. 2004), cultural practitioner
Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
Sumner McKnight Crosby (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1937), art historian
John Currin (M.F.A. 1986), painter
Brian D'Amato (B.A. 1984), sculptor and novelist
Edward D. Dart (B.A. 1949), architect
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (M.F.A. 1979), photographer
Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
Leya Evelyn (M.F.A.), painter
Janet Fish (M.F.A. 1963), painter
Paul Fontaine (B.F.A. 1935), painter
Norman Foster (M.Arch. 1961), architect
Helen Frank , painter and printmaker
Ann Gale (M.F.A. 1991), painter and educator
Aaron Gilbert (M.F.A. 2008), painter
Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architecture critic
Steve Giovinco (M.F.A. 1989), photographer
John Graham Jr. (1931), architect
Nancy Graves (B.F.A. 1962, M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
George Heard Hamilton (B.A. 1932, M.A. 1934, Ph.D. 1942), art historian
Jodi Hauptman (M.A., Ph.D. 1995), art historian
Linda Dalrymple Henderson (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1975), art historian
Barkley L. Hendricks (B.F.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1972), painter
Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
Muzharul Islam (M.Arch. 1961), architect
Norman Ives (M.F.A. 1952), artist and educator
Sujata Keshavan (M.F.A. 1987), graphic designer
Johannes Knoops (M.Arch. II 1995), architect and educator
Jack Lembeck (MFA 1970), painter and sculptor
Neil Levine (Ph.D. 1975), art historian and educator
Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M.Arch. 1986, honorary Ph.D. 1987), architect
Holly Lynton (B.A. 1994), photographer
Tala Madani (M.F.A. 2006), painter
Robert Mangold (B.F.A. 1961, M.F.A. 1963), painter
Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963), painter
Malerie Marder (M.F.A. 1998), photographer
Herbert P. McLaughlin (B.A. 1956, M.Arch. 1958), architect
Patrick McNaughton (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1977), art historian
Joshua Meyer (B.A. 1996), painter
Amy Meyers (Ph.D. 1985), art historian
Alexander Nemerov (M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1992), art historian
Hally Pancer (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), scenic designer
Hayal Pozanti (M.F.A. 2011), painter
Joshua Prince-Ramus (B.A. 1991), architect
Martin Puryear (M.F.A. 1971), sculptor
Romita Ray (M.A. 1994, M.Phil. 1995, Ph.D. 1999), art historian
Richard Rogers (M.Arch. 1962), architect
Mark Rothko (B.A. 1924), painter
Leo Rubinfien (M.F.A. 1976), photographer
Eero Saarinen (B.Arch. 1934), architect
Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), art historian
Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
Daniel Sherer (BA, 1985), architectural and art historian
Sewell Sillman (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1953)
Rodney Smith (Th.M. 1973), photographer
Robert A. M. Stern (M.Arch. 1965), architect and educator
Peter C. Sutton (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1978), art historian
Sarah Sze (B.A. 1991), sculptor
Ann Temkin (Ph.D. 1984), curator
Constance Thalken (M.F.A 1988), photographer
Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), cartoonist
Marc Trujillo (M.F.A. 1994), painter
Katie Vida (M.F.A. 2010), artist and curator
Kehinde Wiley (M.F.A. 2001), painter
William T. Williams (M.F.A. 1968), artist
Evans Woollen III (B.A., M.Arch. 1952), architect
Arts and humanities
Judith Butler
Alan Dershowitz
Lawrence Lessig
Yung Wing
Frank Aarebrot ,
professor of
comparative politics at
University of Bergen
James S. Ackerman (B.A.), Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, professor at
Princeton Theological Seminary (1981–2002)
Edward J. Balleisen (Ph.D. 1995), professor of history at
Duke University
[44]
Jean Blackburn (M.F.A.), visual artist, illustrator, and professor of illustration
Christopher James Bonner , historian
David Boren (B.A. 1963), Governor of Oklahoma (1975–1979), U.S. Senator (1979–1994), president of
University of Oklahoma
Robert Brandom (B.A. 1972), philosopher at the
University of Pittsburgh
Leo Braudy (Ph.D. 1967), University Professor, University of Southern California, literary and cultural critic
Susan Buck-Morss (M.A.), philosopher, intellectual historian, professor of political science at CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Burns (Ph.D. 1980), actor on
Wagon Train and
It's a Man's World , and
emeritus professor of history at
Mount Holyoke College
Judith Butler (Ph.D. 1984), author of
Gender Trouble , philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar
Susan Casteras (M.A. 1973, M.Phil. 1975, Ph.D. 1977), art historian
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
William Cornyn (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1944), professor of Slavic and South East Asian Linguistics
[45]
Catherine Cusset (Ph.D. 1991), French novelist and author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel .
Leo Damrosch (B.A. 1963), professor at
Harvard University , 2005
National Book Award finalist for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Alan Dershowitz (LL.B. 1962), law professor at
Harvard University
Jeff Dolven , professor of English at
Princeton University
[46]
David Bates Douglass , professor at the
U.S. Military Academy , President of
Kenyon College , designer of
Green-Wood Cemetery , member of
Lewis Cass expedition of 1820
[47]
Jacques Ehrmann , literary theorist and French Department professor, 1961–1972
John C. Ewers (M.A. 1934),
ethnologist and first Director of the
National Museum of American History
Robert Fagles (M.A., 1956, Ph.D. 1959), professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Princeton University , poet, translator of classics
Tommy Fitzpatrick (M.F.A., 1993), professor, painter
Edward Foley , theorist of the
blue shift and former
Ohio Solicitor General
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
Roxane Gay , writer and professor
Roberto S. Goizueta (B.A., 1976), professor of theology,
Boston College
Daniel Harrison (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music,
Yale University
Lena Hill (Ph.D. 2005), professor of English and Africana studies, provost of
Washington and Lee University
Benjamin Hoffmann (Ph.D. 2015), French creative writer and professor at
Ohio State University
Annette Insdorf (Ph.D. 1975), film historian and author
Fredric Jameson (Ph.D. 1959), cultural theorist; author of Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ; chair of Duke University's Literature Program
Mimi Jennewein (B.A. 1942), painter and muralist
Mitchell James Kaplan (B.A. 1979), novelist
David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at
Bates College
Hart Day Leavitt (B.A. 1934), English teacher,
Phillips Academy ,
Andover, Massachusetts , 1937–1975
Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at
Harvard University
[48]
Anya Liftig (B.A., 1999), performance artist
Robert Oscar Lopez (B.A. 1993), associate professor of English and classics at
California State University, Northridge
[49]
F. O. Matthiessen (B.A. 1923), literary historian, professor at
Harvard University
Christie McDonald (Ph.D.), Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature at
Harvard University
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
[50]
Nicholas Muellner (B.A. 1991), photographer and writer; professor of media arts, sciences and studies at
Ithaca College
Don Nakanishi (B.S. 1971), former professor of
Asian American studies at
University of California, Los Angeles
Robert C. Neville (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1963), professor of philosophy, professor of religious studies and professor of theology at
Boston University .
Reinhold Niebuhr (
B.D. 1914), author,
theologian ,
Serenity Prayer
Bilal Orfali (Ph.D. 2009), professor of
Arabic language and
Islamic studies at the
American University of Beirut
Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972), author of
Sexual Personae , cultural critic and feminist scholar
Andrew Pessin , philosopher at
Connecticut College
Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at
University of Notre Dame
Eileen Pollack (B.S.), professor of creative writing at
University of Michigan
Richard Rorty (Ph.D. 1956), philosopher and professor of Humanities at
University of Virginia , 1982–1998 and
Stanford University , 1998–2007
Ofelia Schutte , professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida
T. K. Seung (B.A., Ph.D.), professor of philosophy, government, and law at the
University of Texas at Austin
Derek Shearer (B.A.), Director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs of
Occidental College , former
United States Ambassador to Finland
[51]
Robert B. Stepto , professor of English, pioneering African-American studies scholar
Matthias Storme , professor of law at the
Catholic University of Louvain and the
University of Antwerp
Richard Sugarman (born 1944) (B.A. & M.A.), professor of philosophy and religion at the
University of Vermont ; advisor to
Bernie Sanders
Frank Bigelow Tarbell (B.A. 1873, Ph.D. 1879), historian, archeologist and professor of classic studies at Yale and
University of Chicago
Dominic Thomas (Ph.D. 1996), chair of the department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA
[52]
Amor Towles (B.A.), novelist and author of
A Gentleman in Moscow
Donald Goddard Wing , librarian and bibliographer, of Yale University Library
Yung Wing (B.A. 1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
Sarah E. Winter (Ph.D. 1992), professor of English at the
University of Connecticut
Hossein Ziai (B.A. 1967), intensive mathematics and physics; (Ph.D. Harvard 1976), medieval philosophy. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies UCLA.
Rose Zimbardo (M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1960), professor of English at
Stony Brook University
Athletics
Craig Breslow
Calvin Hill
Nathan Chen
Sarah Hughes
Ryan Lavarnway
Kate O'Neill
Don Schollander
Joel Benjamin (B.A. 1985), chess
Grandmaster , three-time U.S. chess champion (1987, 1997, 2000)
[53]
Steve Benjamin (B.A. 1978), competitive sailor; silver medalist in
sailing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
[54]
Johnny Bent , silver medalist with the
American hockey team in the
1932 Winter Olympics
[55]
Chaim Bloom (2004), Chief Baseball Officer for the
Boston Red Sox
Craig Breslow , Major League Baseball pitcher and executive
[56]
Johnny Broaca , Major League Baseball player,
1936 World Series champion
[57]
Eric Brodkowitz , Israeli-American baseball pitcher for the
Israel National Baseball Team
Walter Camp (B.A. 1880), the "father of
American football "
[58]
Nathan Chen (class of 2024), 2-time Olympic champion (2022), 3-time world champion (2018, 2019 and 2021), 3-time Grand Prix final champion (2017-2019), and 6-time U.S. champion (2017–2022) in figure skating
[59]
Steve Clark (1964), swimmer, two-time Olympian
Alan Lyle Corey Jr. ,
polo player, five-time winner of the
Monty Waterbury Cup
[60]
Ron Darling , Major League Baseball
pitcher
[61]
Bob Davis , Major League Baseball pitcher
Irvin Dorfman , tennis player ranked No. 15 in singles in the US in 1947, and No. 3 in doubles in the US in 1948
[62]
[63]
Brian Dowling (B.A. 1969),
quarterback
[64]
Chris Dudley (B.A. 1987), former
NBA player
[65]
Eddie Eagan (B.A. 1921), AAU Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1919, Olympic gold medal in boxing 1920, Winter Olympics men's four-man bobsleigh gold medal 1932; only Olympian to win gold medals in Summer and Winter Olympics in different sports; New York State boxing commissioner
[66]
[67]
[68]
Theo Epstein (B.A. 1995), became
Red Sox general manager at age 28, youngest in
Major League Baseball history; currently President of Baseball Operations for the
Chicago Cubs
[69]
Eva Fabian (born 1993), American-Israeli world champion swimmer
Pete Falsey (Ph.B., 1914), Major League Baseball player
[70]
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
[71]
Robert A. Gardner (Class of 1912), two-time
U.S. Amateur golf champion
[72]
Earl G. Graves Jr. (B.A. 1984), former NBA player, all-time leading scorer in Yale's men's basketball history (3rd Ivy)
[73]
Bob Griffin (M.A. '80, M.Phil. '82, Ph.D. '85),
American-Israeli basketball player, and English Literature professor
Howdy Groskloss , was oldest living former
Major League Baseball player when he died aged 100 in 2006
[74]
George Haas Jr. ,
polo player, three-time winner of the
Monty Waterbury Cup
[75]
Chris Hetherington (B.A. 1996), NFL
running back
[76]
Chris Higgins , forward for the
National Hockey League
Vancouver Canucks
[77]
Calvin Hill (B.A. 1969), football player with the NFL's Cowboys, Redskins and Browns
[78]
Kenny Hill (B.A. 1980), football player with the NFL's Raiders, Giants and Chiefs
[79]
Sarah Hughes (Class of 2008), gold medalist in 2002 Olympic
figure skating
[80]
Bill Hutchison , former
Major League Baseball player
[81]
Philip L. B. Iglehart , Chilean polo player
[82]
Julian Illingworth (B.A. 2006), professional squash player, highest world ranking of no. 24
[83]
Levi Jackson (1926–2000), first African American elected by his teammates to captain an Ivy League football team
[84]
Sada Jacobson
[85] (B.A. 2006), bronze medalist in 2004, and silver medalist in 2008, Olympic women's
saber
[86]
Dick Jauron (B.A. 1973), head coach of the
National Football League 's
Buffalo Bills (2006–2009)
[87]
Eric Johnson (B.A. 2001), NFL
tight end
[88]
Jack Langer (born 1948/1949), basketball player and investment banker
Ryan Lavarnway , major league baseball catcher (
Boston Red Sox /
Los Angeles Dodgers )
Nate Lawrie (B.A. 2004), NFL
tight end
[89]
Glenn Layendecker (B.A. 1983), professional tennis player
[90]
Bob McKeown (B.A. 1971),
Canadian Football League
Grey Cup champion, award-winning journalist with
CBC News ,
NBC and
CBS
[91]
David Meckler , professional ice hockey player
[92]
Chuck Mercein (B.A. 1964), football player with the NFL's Giants, Packers, Redskins and Jets
[93]
Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist, and subsequently a government minister for Trinidad and Tobago
[94]
Kate O'Neill (B.A. 2003), long distance runner,
2004 Summer Olympics competitor
in 10,000 m [
citation needed ]
Miye Oni , NBA player for
Utah Jazz
[95]
Winthrop Palmer , silver medalist with the
American hockey team in the
1932 Winter Olympics
[96]
Mike Pyle (B.A. 1960), professional football player selected for the
Pro Bowl as a center for the
Chicago Bears
[97]
Barney Reilly , Major League Baseball infielder
[98]
Renée Richards , former professional tennis player, captain of the 1954 men's team as Richard Raskind
[99]
Mike Richter (B.A. 2006), former
goaltender for the
New York Rangers
[100]
Ryan Max Riley ,
World Cup ski racer and two-time national champion on the
US Ski Team
[101]
John Rogan , former
CFL quarterback
[102]
Jeff Rohrer (B.A. 1981), football player with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys
[103]
Don Schollander (B.A. 1968), swimmer, five-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist: 1964, 4 gold; 1968, 1 gold, 1 silver; one of the first inductees into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1983)
[104]
Justin Sears , professional basketball player
George C. Sherman Jr. , polo player
[105]
Frank Shorter (B.A. 1969), gold medal (1972) and silver medal (1976), Olympic marathon
[106]
Adam Snow , polo player, played varsity hockey and lacrosse at Yale against Harvard University
[107]
John Spagnola (B.A. 1978), football player with the NFL's Eagles, Seahawks and Packers
[108]
Jeff Van Gundy (attended Yale College for his freshman year), head coach for the NBA's New York Knicks and Houston Rockets
[109]
Ben Wanger , American-Israeli baseball pitcher, Team Israel
Anne Warner (B.A. 1976), first Yale College female undergraduate to win an Olympic medal (bronze, rowing)
[110]
[111]
Josh West (born 1977), British-American Olympic medalist rower and Earth Sciences professor
[112]
Business
Herbert M. Allison
William Boeing
Briton Hadden
Robert McCormick
Indra Nooyi
Joseph Medill Patterson
Tom Steyer
Richard Thalheimer
John Fellows Akers (B.A. 1956), former CEO and Chairman of
IBM
Wallace M. Alexander (1869–1939), heir, corporate director, philanthropist
[113]
[114]
Herbert M. Allison (B.A. 1965), former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability; former Chairman, President, and CEO of
TIAA-CREF ; former President and COO of
Merrill Lynch
Hugh D. Auchincloss (1879), Standard Oil
Edward P. Bass (B.A. 1968), Texas heir and billionaire
Lee Bass (BA 1971), Fort Worth, Texas billionaire and current board member of
Vanderbilt University
Perry Richardson Bass (1914–2006), investor and philanthropist
[115]
Robert M. Bass (B.A. 1971), former chairman,
Aerion , member and former chair of the
Stanford University Board of Trustees
Sid Bass (B.A. 1965), billionaire, founder of Bass Brothers Energy
Morris Burke Belknap (B.A. 1878),
Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company Vice President
Roland W. Betts (B.A. 1968), investor, film producer (
Gandhi ), owner of
Chelsea Piers , lead owner in
George W. Bush 's
Texas Rangers partnership
Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974),
Time Warner President and COO
[116]
[117]
Jules Blankfein (B.A. 1921), physician & financier; founder, Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein
[118]
William Boeing (1903), founder of the
Boeing Company and
United Airlines
James Chanos (B.A. 1980), billionaire hedge fund investor, founder of Kynikos Associates
Tim Collins (M.B.A. 1982), founder and CEO,
Ripplewood Holdings LLC
S. Sloan Colt (1914), banker, philanthropist, and chairman of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Granger Kent Costikyan (1929), banker, partner of
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Charles B. Finch (B.A. 1941, L.L.B. 1944), CEO and chairman of the board, Allegheny Power Systems, and political activist
Henry Ford II (1940), Chairman and CEO of the
Ford Motor Company
Ted Forstmann (B.A. 1961 (TC)), co-founder and senior partner of
Forstmann Little & Company , member of the
Forbes 400
Roberto Goizueta (B.A., 1953), CEO and Chairman of the Board,
The Coca-Cola Company
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
[119]
Peter Halloran (B.A. 1984), investment banker specializing in Russia and the surrounding region; founder and CEO of Pharos Financial Group
Henry Holt (B.A. 1862), founder of publishing firm
Henry Holt & Company , which would later merge with other companies to become
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
George H. Hume , President and CEO of
Basic American Foods
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 (B.A. 1954), chairman,
Franklin Templeton Investments
Henry Bourne Joy , president of
Packard
Clarence King (
Sheffield 1862), first head of the
U.S. Geological Survey
Herbert Kohler (B.S. 1965), billionaire, chairman and former president,
Kohler Company
Julius Kruttschnitt II (B. Phil. 1906), general manager of
Mount Isa Mines
Edward Lampert (B.A. 1984), founder and chairman,
ESL Investments (hedge fund), chairman of
Sears Holding Company
[120]
William K. Lanman (B.S.
Sheffield 1928), aviator, benefactor
Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of
Time magazine
[121]
John C. Malone (B.A. 1963), CEO of
TCI , chairman of
Liberty Media , and largest individual
landowner in the U.S.
Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), founder of
Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) in 1982
John Franklyn Mars (B.S. 1957), CEO,
Mars, Incorporated
[122]
Victoria B. Mars , Chairman of
Mars Incorporated
[123]
Robert McCormick (1903), owner, president, editor and publisher of the
Chicago Tribune ; co-founder of
Kirkland & Ellis
Robert L. McNeil Jr. (B.S. 1936), developer of
paracetamol (acetaminophen) and chairman of
McNeil Laboratories
[124]
W. James McNerney (B.A. 1971), CEO of The
Boeing Company
[125]
Roger Milliken , textiles magnate and promoter of
American conservatism
[126]
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (M.P.P.M.
Yale School of Management 1980), CEO and President,
Pepsi
[127]
Eric Ober (B.A. 1966), president,
CBS News ,
Food Network
Joseph M. Patterson (1901), 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
James Stillman Rockefeller , president and chairman, the First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew, 1924
Joel Root (1770–1847),
supercargo on the sealing ship Huron, author of a journal of his voyage around the world on that ship
Elihu Rose (B.A. 1954), real estate developer and military historian
Joseph Rosenberg (B.A. 1903),
Bank of America vice president, head of motion picture lending
Wilbur Ross (B.A. 1959), investor, steel magnate,
secretary of commerce in the
Trump presidential administration
Stacy H. Schusterman (B.A. 1985), former CEO and chairman of Samson Resources, philanthropist
[128]
Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969), co-founder and CEO of the
Blackstone Group , member of the Forbes 400
Daniel C. Searle (1950), heir, CEO of
G. D. Searle & Company , conservative philanthropist
[129]
Timothy Shriver (B.A. 1981),
Chairman and
CEO of
Special Olympics and member of
Kennedy Family
Chip Skowron , hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading
Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966), founder and CEO,
FedEx
Charles F. Spalding (a.k.a. Chuck Spalding) (1919–2000), Vice President of
Lazard , political campaigner for
John F. Kennedy , television writer
Harold Stanley , founder,
Morgan Stanley
Tom Steyer , billionaire, environmentalist and founder of
Farallon Capital
John Butler Talcott (1846), industrialist and founder of the
New Britain Museum of American Art
Richard Thalheimer (B.A. 1970), founder and 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 and CEO,
Pan Am
[130]
Frederick William Vanderbilt (
Sheffield 1893), philanthropist, director of the
New York Central Railroad
Friedrich Weyerhäuser , founded
Weyerhaeuser
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1922), businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, owner of thoroughbred racehorses
John (Jock) Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926), philanthropist and founder of J.H. Whitney & Co., first U.S.
venture capital firm
Payne Whitney (B.A. 1898)
Elisha Wiesel (B.S. 1994), businessman;
chief information officer of
Goldman Sachs
College founders and presidents
Henry Roe Cloud
Henry Durant
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
Andrew Dickson White
Yamakawa Kenjirō
Frederick Barnard (B.A. 1828),
[131]
[132]
[133] mathematician, educator, president (1856–58) and chancellor (1858–61) of the
University of Mississippi , president (1864–89) 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
Isaac K. Beckes (Ph.D. 1943), president of
Vincennes University , 1950–80
J. Seelye Bixler (Ph.D. 1924), 16th president of
Colby College , 1960–79
Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968),
[134] president of
Duke University
Samuel Palmer Brooks , President of
Baylor University , 1902–31
Aaron Burr Sr. (B.A. 1735),
[135] second president of
Princeton University , father of the third
Vice-President of the United States ,
Aaron Burr
Michael T. Cahill (B.A. 1993), Dean and President of
Brooklyn Law School
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
[136]
Daniel Chamovitz , biologist, author of
What a Plant Knows , and President of
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
[137]
William Chauvenet (B.A. 1840), Chancellor of
Washington University in St. Louis (1863–69)
Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. 1970), first female chancellor of the
University of California, Berkeley
[138]
Pinkhos Churgin (1894–1957), first President of
Bar-Ilan University
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 )
Vincent Cooke ,
S.J. , 23rd President of
Canisius College (1993–2010)
[139]
Oscar Henry Cooper , President of
Baylor University 1899–1902, and of Simmons College, now known as
Hardin-Simmons University , 1902–09
Raymond Culver , fourth president of
Shimer College
Jonathan Dickinson (B.A. 1706, when Yale was still named the Collegiate School of Connecticut), founder of the College of New Jersey, later named
Princeton University
[140]
[141]
James Johnson Duderstadt (B.E. 1964), President of the
University of Michigan
[142]
Henry Durant (B.A. 1827), first president of the
University of California (Berkeley)
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 (1817–30) of the
American School for the Deaf , namesake of
Gallaudet University
[143]
Thomas F. George (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1970), chemist and current chancellor of the
University of Missouri-St. Louis
[144]
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
[145]
William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1874), first president of the
University of Chicago
[146]
Robert Hess (1938–1994), President of
Brooklyn College
Catharine Bond Hill (Ph.D. 1974), tenth president of
Vassar College
Elliot Hirshman (1983), eighth president of
San Diego State University
Jonathan Scott Holloway (Ph.D. 1995), 21st President of
Rutgers University
Joseph Gibson Hoyt (B.A. 1840), first chancellor of
Washington University in St. Louis
[147]
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921, LL.B 1925), president (1929–45) and chancellor (1945–51) of the University of Chicago
[148]
John Wesley Johnson (1862), first president of the
University of Oregon
[149]
Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1714, M.A. 1717), first president of Columbia University (then known as King's College), father of William Samuel Johnson, signer of the US Constitution and third president of Columbia College (Columbia University)
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744, M.A. 1747), signer of the U.S. Constitution, third president of Columbia College (now Columbia University) and first US Senator from Connecticut
Joseph D. Kearney (1986), Dean at
Marquette University Law School
Yamakawa Kenjirō (ca. 1876), founder of
Kyūshū Institute of Technology
[150]
John Kneller (M.A., 1948 and Ph.D. in French, 1950), English-American professor and fifth President of
Brooklyn College
[151]
Aptullah Kuran (B.A.1952, M.A.1954), founder and first president (1971–79) of
Boğaziçi University , Istanbul
[152]
Ted Landsmark (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1973), president of
Boston Architectural College (1997–2014)
[153]
Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981),
[154]
[155] president (2003–11) of
Amherst College
Mario Monti (M.Sc.), Rector and then President of
Bocconi University ,
Milan , Italy and Italian Prime Minister
Douglas M. North (B.A. 1962), President of
Prescott College and
Alaska Pacific University ; head of
The Albany Academies
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
[156]
Harris Pastides (MPH 1977, MPhil 1978, Ph.D. 1980), 29th
President of the University of South Carolina
Ravi Rajan (M.Mus. 2000), 4th President of
California Institute of the Arts
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt (Ph.D. 1905), president of
Mills College (1916–43)
L. Song Richardson (JD), President of
Colorado College (2021–present)
Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903), first President of the
University of Florida (1905–09); President of
Southern University (1910–14); first Professor of New Testament Literature at
Emory University 's
Candler School of Theology (1914–39)
[157]
Frank Strong (Ph.D. 1897), third president of the
University of Oregon and sixth chancellor of the
University of Kansas
[158]
Charles Burt Sumner (B.A. 1862), founding trustee and de facto first president of
Pomona College
[159]
Andrea Talentino (B.A.), ninth president of
Augustana College
[160]
Ambrose Tighe (B.A. 1879, M.A. 1891), co-founder of
William Mitchell College of Law
[161]
Ella King Torrey (B.A. 1980), art historian, former president of
San Francisco Art Institute
[162]
[163]
Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733), founder of
Dartmouth College
[164]
Andrew Dickson White (B.A. 1853), co-founder and first president of
Cornell University
[165]
[166]
Menahem Yaari (born 1935), Israeli economist, S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , President of the
Open University of Israel
Hagit Messer Yaron (born 1953), Israeli electrical engineer, businesswoman, and President of
Open University of Israel
Film and television
Jodie Foster
Elia Kazan
Vincent Price
Oliver Stone
Meryl Streep
Max Barbakow (B.A. 2011, American Studies), director
Angela Bassett (B.A. 1980 African-American Studies, MFA 1983), Academy Award-nominated 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
Mary Ellen Bute (studied stage lighting in the Department of Drama, 1925–26), animator and director
Rob Campbell (MFA 1990), actor, debuted in
Unforgiven
Lee Isaac Chung ,
Academy Award -nominated director of
Minari
Michael Cimino (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963), Academy Award-winning director of
The Deer Hunter
Bruce Cohen , film producer, won an
Academy Award for
American Beauty
Jennifer Connelly (Class of 1992), Academy Award-winning actress
Whitfield Cook , author, playwright and screenwriter
Robert Curtis Brown (B.A. 1979), television, film, and stage actor
Claire Danes (Class of 2002), actress
Winston Duke (MFA 2013), actor
Noah Emmerich (B.A. 1992), actor
Jodie Foster (B.A. 1985 in literature,
magna cum laude ), Academy Award-winning actress and director
James Franco , actor, comedian
Paul Giamatti (B.A. 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 (MFA), actress
Brian Tyree Henry (MFA), actor
Michael Herz , director, founder of Troma Studios
George Hickenlooper (B.A. 1985), film director
George Roy Hill (B.A. 1943), Academy Award-winning director
Moses Ingram (MFA 2019), actress
Lloyd Kaufman (B.A. 1968), director, actor, President of Troma Studios, IFTA Charman
Elia Kazan (studied 1930–32), Academy Award-winning director
Zoe Kazan (B.A. 2005, Theatre), film and stage actress, Elia's granddaughter
Fran Kranz (B.A. 2004), actor
Phil LaMarr (B.A. 1989), actor, comedian
Adam Leipzig (B.A. 1979 in literature), film and theater producer
Thomas F. Lennon (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Ron Livingston (B.A. 1989), actor, best known for
Office Space
Jefferson Mays (B.A. 1987),
Tony Award -winning actor
Tom McCarthy (MFA), Academy Award-winning director, best known for
Spotlight
Frances McDormand (MFA 1982), Academy Award-winning actress
Peter McRobbie (B.A. 1966), actor
William Cameron Menzies (studied art in the School of Fine Arts 1913–14), production designer, art director, director
Bill Moseley , actor
Paul Newman (DRA 1954), Academy Award-winning actor
Thomas Newman (B.A. 1977, M.M. 1978), film composer
Alessandro Nivola (B.A. 1994), actor
Edward Norton (B.A. 1991), Academy Award-nominated actor (
American History X ), known for
Fight Club
Lupita Nyong'o (MFA 2012), Academy Award-winning actress (
12 Years A Slave )
Alan J. Pakula (B.A. 1948), director
Kip Pardue (B.A. 1998), actor
D.A. Pennebaker (B.A.), documentarian and director of
Dont Look Back
Bronson Pinchot (B.A. 1981), actor
James Ponsoldt (B.A.), director
Vincent Price (B.A. 1933, History & English), actor
Ira Sachs (B.A. 1988), director
Michael Sarnoski (B.A. 2010), director
Liev Schreiber (MFA 1992), actor
Robert Simonds , (B.A. 1985 in Philosophy, summa cum laude), film producer, best known for
Big Daddy ,
Cheaper by the Dozen , and
The Wedding Singer ; also the founder and chairman of
STX Entertainment
Josh Singer (B.A.), screenwriter, best known for
Spotlight
Gene Siskel (B.A. 1967), movie critic
Todd Solondz (B.A. 1981), director,
Welcome to the Dollhouse and
Happiness
Oliver Stone (Class of 1968), Academy Award-winning director
Meryl Streep (MFA, 1975), 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 1974), actress
Jon Weinbach (B.A. 1998), director/writer/producer
Joe Weisberg (B.A. 1987), creator and showrunner of
The Americans
Sam Weisman (B.A. 1969), director/producer/actor
Jennifer Westfeldt (B.A. 1991), actress, screenwriter (
Kissing Jessica Stein )
James Whitmore , actor
Douglas Wick (B.A. 1976), film producer
Allison Williams (B.A. 2010), actress (
Get Out ), comedian, singer
Jessica Yu (B.A. 1987), Academy Award-winning film director
Inventors and innovators
Ben Carson
Francis Collins
Samuel Morse
Joseph P. Allen (Ph.D. 1965), NASA astronaut with two STS missions experience
Herbert Boyer (1963–66), co-founder of
Genentech ; genetic engineering pioneer
[167]
David Bushnell (ca. 1776), inventor of the
screw propeller ,
submarine ,
naval mine , and
time bomb
Ben Carson (B.A. 1973), pediatric neurosurgeon, first surgeon to successfully separate
twins conjoined at the back of the head
[168]
Francis S. Collins (Ph.D. 1974), 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
Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor of the
triode
Helen Flanders Dunbar (M.D. 1930), important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (B.A. 1810), first commissioner of
United States Patent Office , founder of
United States Department of Agriculture
Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor of
CMOS image sensor
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
Maurice Karnaugh (B.Sc. 1949, M.Sc. 1950, Ph.D. 1952), developer of
Karnaugh map
L. L. Langstroth (1831), apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, considered to be the father of American beekeeping; namesake and creator of the
Langstroth hive
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
Aaron Marcus (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1968), the first graphic designer in the world to work with
computer graphics
Elmer McCollum (Ph.D. 1904), biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D
Warren Sturgis McCulloch (B.A. 1921), cybernetics pioneer, created the first computational models for studying the brain
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 Silliman (1779–1864), early chemist and science educator; one of the first professors of science at Yale College; the first person to distill petroleum; a founder of the American Journal of Science , the oldest scientific journal in the United States
Benjamin Silliman Jr. , professor of chemistry at Yale University, instrumental in developing the oil industry
Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925),
child psychology guru
Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the
cotton gin
Life sciences and medicine
Mandy Cohen
Jeffrey Laitman
Othniel Charles Marsh
Florence Seibert
A. Elizabeth Adams (Ph.D. 1926), professor of Zoology at
Mount Holyoke College
Christina Agapakis (B.S. 2006),
synthetic biologist and Creative Director of
Ginkgo Bioworks
Michael L.J. Apuzzo (B.A. 1961), academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, Editor and educator; professor of Neurological Surgery, Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics,
University of Southern California ; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery,
Yale
Shy Arkin (Ph.D. 1966 in
Cell Biology ), Israeli Professor of Structural Biochemistry at
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
George Alfred Baitsell (M.A. 1909, Ph.D. 1914), biologist, official of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Oxiris Barbot , Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
Aaron Beck (M.D. 1946), "father of
cognitive behavioral therapy "; founder of the
Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the
University of Pennsylvania ; winner of the
Lasker Award
Jules Blankfein , Class of 1921, physician and financier; founder of Physicians' Hospital, New York; uncle of Lloyd Blankfein
[118]
Katharine Jeanette Bush (Ph.D. 1901), zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in sciences from Yale
Alice Chen (B.S. 2001 ), founding member and former director of
Doctors for America
Mandy Cohen (M.D. 2005), physician, Secretary of the
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services , Director of the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), personal physician to Thomas Jefferson, chair of medicine at University of Maryland and Jefferson Medical College
John Elefteriades (M.D. 1976), cardiac surgeon, professor at Yale School of Medicine
Nathan Havill (M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2006), entomologist and evolutionary biologist
Rani Hoff (MPH and PhD), Yale professor of psychiatry
Peter Hotez (B.A. 1980), dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at
Baylor College of Medicine
Howard A. Howe (B.A. 1925), polio researcher at
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Allyn Merriam Hungerford (M.D. 1839), prominent Connecticut physician, legislator and judge
Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (B.A. 1833), President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insane
Howard Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977), professor,
Harvard School of Public Health
Jeffrey Laitman (Ph.D 1977), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine , President-Elect of the
American Association of Anatomists
Arthur Lander , B.A., developmental biologist at
University of California, Irvine
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
Othniel Charles Marsh (1862), preeminent paleontologist, discovered numerous dinosaur species
Harold J. Morowitz (B.S. 1947, M.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1951), professor of biology and natural philosophy at
George Mason University
Vivek Murthy (MD 2003, MBA 2003), vice admiral in the
United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , 19th and 21st
surgeon general of the United States
Johnathan Oberlander (M.A. 1990, M.Phil 1993, Ph.D. 1995), author and professor of social medicine at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary I. O'Connor (B.S. 1979), chair of orthopedic surgery at
Mayo Clinic ; director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at the
Yale School of Medicine
H.T. Odum (Ph.D. 1950), ecologist, professor at the
University of Florida
J. Roger Porter (Ph.D. 1938), microbiology professor at
University of Iowa , 1938–79
Tia Powell (M.D,), psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Force on Life & the Law
Christian R. H. Raetz (B.S. 1967), professor of biochemistry at
Duke University
Marjorie S. Rosenthal (M.D. 1995; Fellow 2016), Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the
Yale University School of Medicine ; Co-Director of Yale's National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) and Director of the NCSP Community Research Initiative; former
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at both Yale and the
University of North Carolina
[169]
Jonathan Rothberg (Ph.D. 1921), first to sequence an individual human genome; serial biotechnology entrepreneur; professor of genetics at
Yale
James Rothman (B.A. 1971), biologist, winner of 2002
Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (sometimes called "America's Nobel Prize")
David Sanders (B.S. 1983), structural biologist at
Purdue University
William Thompson Sedgwick (B.A. 1877), bacteriologist, epidemiologist, founder of the
MIT -
Harvard School of Public Health
Florence B. Seibert (Ph.D. 1923),
[170] biochemist, winner of 1942
Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the
National Women's Hall of Fame
Robert Shope (faculty 1965–95),
arbovirologist and
emerging infectious diseases expert
Linda Siegel (M.S., 1964 and Ph.D., 1966), wrote doctoral dissertation on information processing in children;
[171]
[172] worked as a
cognitive psychologist and was holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education at the
University of British Columbia 1996–2010
Julian M. Sturtevant (Ph.D., 1931), professor of
biochemistry , Yale University
Mathematics and computer science
Hassler Whitney
James Arthur (Ph.D. 1970), Wolf Prize medallist, mathematician known for
Arthur-Selberg trace formula and
Arthur conjectures
Jeffrey Brock (B.A. 1992), Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Yale University , Guggenheim Fellow known for his work on classifying hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jaime Carbonell (Ph.D. 1979), University Professor,
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
Bernard Chazelle (Ph.D. 1980), Eugene Higgins Professor of
Computer Science at
Princeton University
Bruce Donald (B.A. 1980),
James B. Duke Professor of
Computer Science and
Mathematics ,
Chemistry and
Biochemistry , at
Duke University and the
Duke University Medical Center
Theodore Gamelin (B.S. 1960),
professor emeritus of mathematics at the
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew M. Gleason (B.A. 1942), Chair of Mathematics at
Harvard , World War II codebreaker, made fundamental contributions to Lie Groups, Quantum Mechanics and Combinatorics
Leslie Greengard (M.D., Ph.D. 1987), former director of the NYU
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences ; inventor of the
fast multipole method
Marshall Hall (B.A. 1932), mathematician, who made significant contributions to the development of group theory and combinatorics
Richard S. Hamilton (B.A. 1963), discovered
Ricci flow , instrumental to the solution of the
Poincaré conjecture , winner of the
Shaw Prize ,
Clay Research Award and AMS
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Brendan Hassett (B.A. 1992), mathematician who made significant contributions to higher-dimensional arithmetic geometry and birational geometry, fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
Paul Hudak , professor of computer science, co-creator of the programming language
Haskell
Janet Kolodner (Ph.D. 1980), Cognitive Scientist, Regents' Professor,
College of Computing ,
Georgia Tech
Robert Langlands (Ph.D. 1960),
Abel Prize winner, emeritus professor,
Institute for Advanced Study , author of the
Langlands Program
Charles E. Leiserson (B.S. 1975), bestselling co-author of
Introduction to Algorithms , inventor of
Cilk , professor of
Computer Science at
MIT
Saunders Mac Lane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of
category theory
Andreas Mandelis (B.Sc. 1974), expert on
photonics ; professor at the
University of Toronto
Alan Perlis , professor of computer science and first ever recipient of the
Turing Award
Matt Pharr (B.S. 1993), Academy Award winner for the formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering
Yoav Shoham (Ph.D. 1987),
Allan Newell Award winner,
Professor Emeritus at
Stanford University
Daniel Spielman (B.S. 1992), MacArthur Fellow, Godel, Polya and Nevanlinna Prize Winner, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science professor at Yale University
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
[173]
John H. Wharton , software engineer specializing in microprocessors
Brian White (B.A. 1977), professor of mathematics at
Stanford University who specializes in
differential geometry and
geometric measure theory
Hassler Whitney (B.S. 1928) (B.A. 1929), mathematician, founder of singularity theory, foundational work in manifolds and embedding, Wolf Prize medallist
Robert Wilensky (B.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1978), former chair of Computer Science at
UC Berkeley , doctoral advisor of
Peter Norvig
Physical sciences and engineering
Edward Bouchet
Benjamin Silliman
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
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
Emanuel Fritz (M.A. Forestry 1914), professor of forestry and noted consultant on California redwoods
Milton Harris (Ph.D. 1929), chemist
McAllister Hull (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951), Manhattan Project
explosive lens expert, Yale physics professor,
SUNY Buffalo dean,
University of New Mexico professor and provost
Michael E. Mann (Ph.D. 1998), climatologist and geophysicist at
Penn State University , originator of the "
hockey stick graph "
Henry Margenau (Ph.D. 1929), Physicist and Philosopher of Science, expert on spectral analysis and microwave theory
Clark Blanchard Millikan (B.A. 1924), professor of
aeronautics , noted researcher, administrator and advisor at
California Institute of Technology
E. R. Ward Neale (M.S. 1951; Ph.D. 1952), geologist, professor at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) (M.A. 1799), "father of American scientific education"
Lyman Spitzer (B.S. 1935), theoretical physicist, National Medal of Science winner, namesake of NASA's
Spitzer Space Telescope
Eugene Stevens (B.S. 1960), professor at
Binghamton University , known for research in biodegradable plastics
Josiah Whitney (B.A. 1839), geologist, chief of
California Geological Survey , and geology professor at
Harvard University
Arthur Wightman (B.A. 1942), founding father of modern mathematical physics, Poincare Prize Winner
Zhan Tianyou (Ph.B. 1881), pioneering Chinese railroad engineer, considered the "father of China's Railroad"
Law and politics
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Peter Mutharika
Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers
Abd al-Karim al-Iryani (Ph.D. 1968), Prime Minister of the Republic of
Yemen (1980–83, 1998–2001), and Foreign Minister (1993–98)
[174]
Olympia Bonaparte, Princess Napoléon , consort of
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
[175]
George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989–93),
Vice President of the United States (1981–89), member of the
House of Representatives (
R -Texas) (1967–71), played baseball while attending and was on the
1947 and
1948 College World Series runner-up teams
[176]
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001–09),
Governor of Texas (1995–2000)
[177]
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
[178]
Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), fifth
President of Germany (1979–84)
[179]
Dick Cheney (Class of 1963), Vice President of the United States (2001–09)
[180]
Tansu Çiller (Postdoctoral Fellow), Prime Minister of Turkey (1993–96)
[181]
Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), President of the United States (1993–2001),
Governor of Arkansas (1979–81, 1983–92)
[182]
Gerald Ford (
LL.B. 1941), President of the United States (1974–77), Vice President of the United States (1973–74), member of the
House of Representatives
[183]
Jiang Yi-huah ,
Premier of the Republic of China (2012–13)
Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), Vice President of the
European Parliament (2009–11), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2011)
José P. Laurel , President of the Philippines in World War II
Salvador H. Laurel (LL.M 1953) (J.S.D.1960), Vice President of the
Philippines (1986–92)
Lee Hong-koo (Ph.D. 1968),
Prime Minister of South Korea (1994–95)
Mario Monti (M.Sc. 1968),
Prime Minister of Italy (2011–13)
Wendell Mottley (B.A. 1964), Olympic medalist and subsequently a government of Trinidad and Tobago minister
Peter Mutharika (LL.M. 1966, J.S.D. 1969), 5th
President of Malawi
Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky , prince, aristocrat, financier, grandson of Tsar
Alexander II of Russia
[184]
Jovito R. Salonga (J.S.D.1949), Senator of the
Philippines (1965–72) (1987–92)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, honorary LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th
Chief Justice of the United States (1921–30)
[185]
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden of the
House of Bernadotte (Class of 2000, attended for two years)
[186]
Valdis Zatlers ,
President of Latvia (2007–11)
Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), President of Mexico (1994–2000)
[187]
Supreme Court justices
Abe Fortas
Sonia Sotomayor
Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.
[188]
Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975),
Supreme Court justice (2006–present)
Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830–44)
David J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889–1910)
Henry Billings Brown (1856, and law study, LL.D. 1891), Supreme Court justice (1891–1906)
David Davis (Law 1835), Supreme Court justice (1862–77)
Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766),
[189] Supreme Court justice (1796–1800)
Abe Fortas (Law 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965–69)
Brett Kavanaugh (J.D 1990),
Supreme Court Justice (2018–present)
Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949–56)
George Shiras Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892–1903)
Sonia Sotomayor (J.D. 1979),
Supreme Court justice (2009–present)
Potter Stewart (1937, Law 1941), Supreme Court justice (1958–81)
William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870–80)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, LL.D. 1893), 27th President of the United States (1909–13), 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30)
Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court justice (1991–present)
Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874–88)
Byron White (Law 1946), Supreme Court justice (1962–93)
William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881–87)
U.S. Senators
Prescott Bush
John Chafee
Amy Klobuchar
William Proxmire
Arlen Specter
Stuart Symington
Lowell Weicker
Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.
[190]
Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (
D -Colorado, 1923–24, 1932–41)
[191]
John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude),
U.S. attorney general (2001–05), U.S. senator (
R -Missouri, 1995–2001),
governor of Missouri (1985–93)
[192]
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772), U.S. representative (1789–99), U.S. senator (1799–1807); author of the charter for, and president of, the
University of Georgia (1786–1801)
[193]
Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811),
governor of Connecticut (1844–46), U.S. senator (
Whig -Connecticut, 1847–51)
[194]
John Beall (B.A. 1950), U.S. senator (R-Maryland, 1971–76)
[195]
Michael Bennet (J.D. 1993), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 2009–)
[196]
Hiram Bingham III (1898),
governor of Connecticut (1925), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1924–33); explorer who rediscovered the lost city of
Machu Picchu ,
Peru ; said to be the inspiration behind the fictional character
Indiana Jones
[197]
Richard Blumenthal (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-
Connecticut , 2011–)
[198]
Cory Booker (J.D. 1997), U.S. senator (D-New Jersey, 2013–), former
mayor of Newark
David Boren (B.A. 1963),
governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. senator (D-
Oklahoma , 1979–94), president of
University of Oklahoma
[199]
Stephen R. Bradley (B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778), U.S. senator (
Democratic-Republican Party ), Vermont, 1801–13
[200]
Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952), U.S. senator (R-New Jersey, 1982)
[201]
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974), U.S. representative (1993–2007), U.S. senator (D-
Ohio , 2007–)
[202]
James L. Buckley (B.A. 1943, Law 1949), U.S. senator (
C -New York, 1971–77); president of
Radio Free Europe , 1982–85; federal judge for the
United States Court of Appeals (
District of Columbia Circuit) (1985–96)
[203]
Prescott Bush (B.A. 1917), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1953–63), father of
George H. W. Bush , grandfather to
George W. Bush
[204]
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)
[205]
John M. Clayton (1815),
secretary of state in the
Taylor administration, U.S. senator (
AJ –
Delaware , 1829–36;
W -Delaware, 1845–49;
O -Delaware 1853–56)
[206]
Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. senator (D-
New York (2001–09)
LeBaron Colt (B.A. 1868), U.S. senator (R-
Rhode Island , 1913–24)
[207]
Chris Coons (J.D./M.A.), U.S. senator (D-
Delaware , 2010–)
[208]
David Daggett (1783), U.S. senator (
F -Connecticut, 1813–19)
[209]
John Danforth (J.D. DIV 1963), U.S senator (R-
Missouri , 1976–95)
[210]
David Davis (Law 1835), appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court by
Lincoln (1862–77); U.S. senator (I-Illinois, 1877–83)
[211]
John Davis (1787–1854), U.S. senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835–41 and 1845–53)
[212]
Henry L. Dawes (1839), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1875–93)
[213]
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), U.S. senator (D-
Minnesota , 2001–07)
[214]
Fred Dubois (B.A. 1872), U.S. senator (R-
Idaho , 1891–97; D-Idaho, 1901–07)
[215]
William M. Evarts (1837),
secretary of state under
Hayes , U.S. senator (R-New York, 1885–91)
[216]
Gary Hart (DIV 1961, LLB 1964), U.S. senator (D-
Colorado , 1975–87)
[217]
John Heinz (B.A. 1960), U.S. senator (R-
Pennsylvania )
[218]
James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773), U.S. senator (F-Connecticut, 1796–1810)
[219]
James Jeffords (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (I-
Vermont , 1989–2007)
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)
[220]
John Kean (1852–1914), U.S. senator (R-
New Jersey )
[221]
Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982), U.S. senator (D-
Minnesota , 2007–)
[222]
James Lanman (1788), U.S. senator (D-
Connecticut , 1819–25)
[223]
Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967), U.S. senator (I-
Connecticut , 1989–2013)
[224]
Joseph Medill McCormick (1900), U.S. Senate 1919–24, publisher,
Chicago Tribune
[225]
Return J. Meigs Jr. (B.A. 1785), U.S. senator (
DR –
Ohio , 1808–10), 4th
governor of Ohio (1810–14), 8th
U.S. postmaster general (1814–23); namesake of
Meigs County, Ohio
[226]
Henry Mitchell (1804), U.S. representative (
Jacksonian -New York, 1833–35)
[227]
Thurston Morton (B.A. 1929), U.S. senator (R-
Kentucky , 1957–68)
[228]
Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965), U.S. representative (D-
Florida , 1979–91),
astronaut (
STS-61-C , 1986), U.S. senator (D-Florida, 2001–19)
[229]
Truman Newberry , U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1919–22), secretary of the navy 1908–09
[230]
Francis Newlands (ca. 1859), U.S. senator (D-Nevada, 1903–17)
[231]
William Proxmire (B.A. 1948), U.S. senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957–89)
[232]
Ben Sasse (Ph.D. 2004), U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska, 2014–)
Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S. senator (D-Pennsylvania, 1981–2011)
[233]
Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923),
United States Secretary of the Air Force , U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953–76)
[234]
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1939–53)
[235]
Robert Taft Jr. (B.A. 1939), U.S. representative (R-Ohio, 1963–64, 1967–70), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 1971–76)
[236]
John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956), U.S. representative (D-California, 1965–70), U.S. senator (D-California, 1971–77); inspiration for
Robert Redford 's character in the film
The Candidate
[237]
J. D. Vance (J.D. 2013), U.S. senator (R-Ohio, 2023–present), author of
Hillbilly Elegy
Frederic Walcott (1891), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1929–35)
[238]
John Wales (B.A. 1801), U.S. senator (
W -Delaware, 1849–51); co-founder of
Delaware College
[239]
Malcolm Wallop (B.A. 1954), U.S. senator (R-
Wyoming , 1977–95)
[240]
Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953), U.S. representative (R-Connecticut, 1968–71), U.S. senator (R-Connecticut, 1971–89),
governor of Connecticut (1990–94)
[241]
Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978), U.S. senator (D-Rhode Island, 2006–)
[242]
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956), U.S. senator (R-California, 1983–91),
governor of California 1991–99
[243]
Other legislators
Porter Goss
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Richard S. Aldrich (B.A. 1906), U.S. Representative, R-Rhode Island
[244]
William L. Borden (B.A. 1942, J.D. 1947), executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949–53
Carolyn Bourdeaux (B.A. 1992), U.S. Representative, D-Georgia (2021–23)
Winfield S. Braddock , Wisconsin State Assembly
Edwin Corning Jr. (B.A. 1942),
New York State Assembly
[245]
Parker Corning (B.A. 1895), U.S. Representative, D-New York
[246]
Lawrence Coughlin , Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1969–91
Nelson Antonio Denis (J.D., 1980), New York State Assemblyman
Ron DeSantis (B.A., 2001), Republican Representative from Florida (2013–18), Governor of Florida
Charles S. Dewey , Republican Representative from Illinois (1941–42)
Jerome F. Donovan (Law 1894), U.S. Representative, D-New York (1918–21)
E. D. Estilette (B.A. 1857), Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1876; state district court judge in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
[247]
Anne P. Graham , (M.S. 1986), Maine House of Representatives
[248]
Porter J. Goss , U.S. Representative, R-FL, 1989–2004, and director of
CIA
George Hambrecht (LL.B. 1904), Wisconsin State Assembly (1909–10, 1915)
Ro Khanna (J.D. 2001), U.S. Representative, D-California (2017–present)
Roland Kotani , member of
Hawaii State House of Representatives
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (B.A. 2012), Alaska House of Representatives (2013–)
Sheila Jackson Lee (B.A. 1972), U.S. Representative, D-Texas
Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737), Delegate and signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York, state senator
Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1859–63)
Seth Magaziner (M.B.A. 2010), U.S. Representative, D-Rhode Island (2023–present)
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
David M. McIntosh (B.A. 1980), U.S. Representative, R-Indiana (1994–2001)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (M.A. 1963, LL.B. 1964), non-voting congressional delegate for
District of Columbia (1991–)
Hugh Q. Parmer (B.A. 1961), Democratic member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, 1963–65 and 1983–91;
mayor of Fort Worth , Texas, 1977–79
Katie Porter (B.A. 1996), U.S. Representative, D-California (2019–present)
William S. Reyburn , Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–13
Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953), U.S. Representative (Resident commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (1993–2000),
Governor of Puerto Rico (1977–85)
[249]
Daniel Sayre (B.A. 1985), Maine state representative
[250]
Gerry Studds (B.A. 1959, M.A. 1961), U.S. Representative, D-Massachusetts, 1973–97
Richard Swett (B.A. 1979), U.S. Representative, D-New Hampshire, 1991–95
(See also:
#Diplomats )
Governors, mayors, other city and state officials
Jerry Brown
W. Averell Harriman
Gary Locke
Gifford Pinchot
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.
James Hopkins Adams (1831),
Governor of South Carolina (1854–56)
John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964),
Governor of Missouri (1985–93)
[251] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811),
Governor of Connecticut (1844–46)
[252] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898), Governor of Connecticut (1925)
[253] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Rob Bonta (B.A. 1993, J.D. 1998), 34th
Attorney General of California (2021–present)
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963),
Governor of Oklahoma (1975–79)
[254] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Jabez Bowen (B.A. 1757), Federalist supporter, deputy governor of Rhode Island
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (J.D. 1964), 34th and 39th
Governor of California
[255]
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968),
Governor of Texas (1995–2000) (See also:
#Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers )
Susan Bysiewicz (B.A. 1983),
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (since 2019), Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999–2010)
Dick Celeste (B.A. magna cum laude 1959),
Governor of Ohio (1983–91) (See also:
#Diplomats )
John Chafee (B.A. 1947),
Governor of Rhode Island (1962–69)
[256] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973),
Governor of Arkansas (1983–92) (See also:
#Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers )
Edwin Corning (B.A. 1906),
Lieutenant Governor of New York
Erastus Corning 2nd (B.A. 1932),
mayor of
Albany, New York
Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889), Governor of Connecticut (1931–39), Yale professor of English
[258]
Jack Dalrymple (B.A. 1970), 32nd Governor of North Dakota (2010–16)
John Davis (1787–1854),
Governor of Massachusetts (1834–35 and 1841–43)
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969), Governor of Minnesota (2011–)
Howard Dean (B.A. 1971),
Governor of Vermont (1991–2003)
[259]
Stephen Clark Foster (1815–1898), first American mayor of Los Angeles, California
Henry Huntly Haight (B.A. 1844),
Governor of California (1867–71)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913),
Governor of New York (1955–58), U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1943–46), Ambassador to Britain (1946),
Secretary of Commerce (1946–48)
[260]
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968),
Governor of Alaska (1994–2002), Mayor of
Anchorage, Alaska (1981–87)
Ned Lamont (M.B.A. 1980),
Governor of Connecticut (2019–present)
John Lindsay (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1948),
Mayor of New York City
William Livingston (B.A. 1741), first
Governor of New Jersey (1776–90) after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence
[261]
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972),
Governor of Washington (1997–2005) (thereby the first
Chinese American governor in the United States)
[262]
Return J. Meigs Jr. (B.A. 1785), 4th
Governor of Ohio (1810–14)
[263] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Marshall F. Moore , 7th Governor of
Washington Territory
[264]
Robert Moses (B.A. 1909), New York City
Parks Commissioner , Chairman of the
New York State Council of Parks , head of the
Triborough Bridge Authority , and various other positions
George Pataki (B.A. 1967),
Governor of New York (1995–2007)
[265]
Gifford Pinchot (Yale College graduate, 1889),
Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–27, 1931–35), first Chief of the
United States Forest Service (1905–10), and founder of and professor in
Yale School of Forestry
Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935), attended Yale 1931–34;
Governor of Arkansas (1967–71)
Carlos Romero Barceló (B.A. 1953),
Governor of Puerto Rico (1977–85)
[249] (See also:
#Other legislators )
William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946),
Governor of Pennsylvania (1963–67),
United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–77), member of the United States House of Representatives
[266]
Israel Smith (Yale College graduate, 1781),
Governor of Vermont (1807–08), member of the
United States House of Representatives and member of the
United States Senate
[267]
Robert Taft (B.A. 1953),
Governor of Ohio (1999–2007)
James Camp Tappan (B.A. 1845),
Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1897–99)
[268]
Samuel J. Tilden (B.A. 1837, LL.D. 1875),
Governor of New York (1875–76),
Democratic nominee for President
in 1876
[269]
[270]
Lowell Weicker (B.A. 1953),
Governor of Connecticut (1990–94)
[271] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979),
Mayor of Washington, D.C. , 1999–2007
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956),
Governor of California (1991–99)
[272] (See also:
#U.S. Senators )
Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers
Dean Acheson
Hillary Clinton
Robert Marjolin
Henry Stimson
The following have worked within the
cabinet for their respective governments.
Dean Acheson (B.A. 1915),
U.S. Secretary of State (1949–1953)
[273]
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941), chief of Counterintelligence Staff for the
Central Intelligence Agency (1954–1974)
Les Aspin (B.A. 1960),
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1993–1994)
[274]
Michael J. Astrue (B.A. 1978), Commissioner of the
Social Security Administration (2007–2013)
McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940),
National Security Advisor (1961–1966)
Jay Carney (B.A. 1987),
White House Press Secretary (2011–2014)
Ash Carter (B.S. 1976),
U.S. Secretary of Defense (2015–2017), professor at
Harvard Kennedy School
[275]
John Chafee (B.A. 1947),
U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1969–1972) (also listed under
Senators and
Governors )
Fredrick Chien (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962),
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (1990–1996), Speaker of the
National Assembly (1996–1999),
President of the Control Yuan (1999–2005)
John M. Clayton (1815),
U.S. Secretary of State (1849–1850)
[276] (also listed under
Senators )
Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973),
U.S. Secretary of State (2009–2013)
[277] (also listed under
Senators )
William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1954), Chairman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003–2005), Chair of the Board of Directors of the
New York Stock Exchange (1991–1995), founder and 1st dean of the
Yale School of Management (1975–1980), co-founder of
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
William M. Evarts (1837),
U.S. Secretary of State (1877–1881)
[278] (also listed under
Senators )
Olu Falae ,
Finance Minister of Nigeria (1989–1991), presidential candidate (
1999 )
David Frum (B.A. and M.A. 1982),
White House speechwriter under President
George W. Bush , who coined the phrase "
Axis of Evil "
Roswell Gilpatric (B.A. 1928),
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (1961–1964), presiding partner of the
Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1966–1977)
[279]
T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927),
Administrator of NASA (1958–1961)
Austan Goolsbee (B.A. 1991, M.A. 1991), Chairman of the President's
Council of Economic Advisors (2010–2011), professor of economics at
University of Chicago
Porter Goss (B.A. 1960),
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2004–2006)
Stephen Hadley (J.D. 1972),
National Security Advisor (2005–2009),
Deputy National Security Advisor (2001–2005)
Robert S. Ingersoll (1937),
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1974–1976)
John Kerry (B.A. 1966),
U.S. Secretary of State (2013–2017)
[280] (also listed under
Senators )
Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972), former aide to Vice President
Dick Cheney , principal figure in the
Plame Affair
Robert Marjolin (Economics, 1934), French
Marshall Plan implementer,
European Commissioner (1958–1967)
William McChesney Martin (B.A. ca. 1926),
Chair of the Federal Reserve (1951–1970)
[281]
Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953),
U.S. Attorney General (1985–1988)
[282]
Steven Mnuchin (B.A. 1985),
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2017–2021)
[283]
Rogers Morton (B.A.),
U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1975–1976) and
U.S. Secretary of Interior (1971–1975)
John Negroponte (B.A. 1960),
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009) and
Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007)
Urjit Patel ,
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2016–2018)
Wilbur Ross (B.A.),
Secretary of Commerce (2017–2021)
[284]
Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964),
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995–1999), Director of the
National Economic Council (1993–1995)
[285]
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888),
U.S. Secretary of War (1911–1913; 1940–1945),
U.S. Secretary of State (1929–1933),
Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–1929)
[286]
Jake Sullivan (B.A. 1998, J.D. 2003),
National Security Advisor (2021–present)
[287]
Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, Law),
U.S. Attorney General (1876–1877),
U.S. Secretary of War (1876)
[288]
Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968),
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001), president of the
Brookings Institution (2002–2017)
Cyrus Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942),
U.S. Secretary of State (1977–1980)
[289]
Janet Yellen (Ph.D. 1971),
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2021–present),
Chair of the Federal Reserve (2014–2018)
[290]
Diplomats
Hiram Bingham IV
John Negroponte
Samantha Power
Roy L. Austin , U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (2001–09)
Hiram Bingham IV , U.S. vice consul in
Marseilles , France (1940–41)
Bradford Bishop , former
Foreign Service officer, indicted for murder, still at large
L. Paul Bremer (B.A. 1963), U.S. ambassador
Dick Celeste (B.A. magna cum laude 1959), U.S. ambassador to India (1997–2001)
Robert P. De Vecchi (B.A. 1952, L.H.D.H honorary 2005), president emeritus of the
International Rescue Committee
Donald Burnham Ensenat (BA, 1968),
US ambassador to Brunei (1992–1993);
US Chief of Protocol (2001–2007)
Carl Gershman (B.A. magna cum laude 1965), U.N. Representative and
National Endowment for Democracy President
Donald Gips (MBA), U.S. ambassador to South Africa (2009–13)
Gordon Gray III (B.A. 1978), U.S. ambassador to Tunisia (2009–12)
David Huebner (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (2009–14)
Rashad Hussain (J.D.), U.S. special envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Howard Leach (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to France (2001–05)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972), U.S. ambassador to China (2011–14)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. , U.S. ambassador to Australia (2006–09)
John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2001–04) and Deputy Secretary of State (2007–09)
John O'Leary (B.A. 1969), U.S. ambassador to
Chile (1998–2001)
Samantha Power (B.A. 1992), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2013–17)
Clark T. Randt Jr. , U.S. ambassador to China (2001–09)
Philip T. Reeker (B.A. 1986), U.S. ambassador to Macedonia (2008–11)
Ogden Reid , U.S. ambassador to Israel (1959–61)
Charles Rivkin (B.A. 1984), U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco (2009–13)
Herbert Salzman , U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
William Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1976–77)
Derek Shearer (B.A.), U.S. ambassador to Finland (1994–97)
[51]
R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (J.D. 1946), U.S. ambassador to Norway (1994–89)
Richard Swett (B.A. 1979), U.S. ambassador to Denmark (1998–2001)
Katherine Tai (B.A.), U.S. Trade Representative (2020–)
David Thorne (B.A. 1966), U.S. ambassador to Italy (2009–13), U.S. ambassador to San Marino (2009–13)
Peter Tufo (J.D.), U.S. ambassador to Hungary (1997–2001)
Kori Udovički (Ph.D. 1999 in Economics),
Governor of the
National Bank of Serbia (2003–04), assistant secretary-general of United Nations (2007–)
Frederick Vreeland (B.A. 1951), U.S. ambassador to Morocco (1992–93)
Judges and attorneys
William Kunstler
Edwin Meese
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
Joaquin Avila (B.A, 1970), voting rights advocate and
MacArthur Fellow
Samuel H. Blackmer (B.A., 1924), Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[291]
Richard Blumenthal (J.D.), Connecticut attorney general (1991–2011)
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 )
Steven Brill (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of
Court TV and
The American Lawyer
José A. Cabranes (J.D. 1965), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
George B. Daniels (born 1953), federal judge
Benjamin Darrow (J.D., ca. 1890), New York district attorney
Daryl Dawson (L.L.M.), justice of the
High Court of Australia
John T. Downey , judge, former CIA flyer imprisoned in China 1952–73
Marc Stuart Dreier (B.A. 1972), lawyer and felon
Tali Farhadian (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
Dwight Foster (B.A. 1848), Massachusetts Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
[292]
Richard L. Gabriel (B.A. 1984), Associate Justice of the
Colorado Supreme Court
[293]
James Knoll Gardner (B.A. 1962), former federal judge for the
U.S. District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Ernest W. Gibson III (B.A. 1951), Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[294]
Nathan L. Hecht (B.A. 1971), Chief Justice of the
Texas Supreme Court
[295]
James Kent (B.A. 1781), father of American equity jurisprudence,
Chancellor of New York
Anthony Quinton Keasbey (B.A. 1843), 25-year United States attorney for the district of New Jersey
Denison Kitchel (B.A. 1930), attorney in
Phoenix, Arizona , and national campaign manager for
Barry M. Goldwater in
1964
[296]
William Kunstler (B.A. 1941),
civil liberties lawyer
Arthur Mag , lawyer, legal counsel to
Harry S. Truman
Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951),
assistant attorney general
Edwin Meese (B.A. 1953), former
United States Attorney General
John W. Nields Jr. (B.A. 1964), former chief counsel to House Select Committee investigating
Iran–Contra affair
Ann Olivarius (B.A., 1977, J.D. and M.B.A., 1986), feminist attorney and Managing Partner, McAllister Olivarius
Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, J.D. 1969),
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Myrna Perez (B.A. 1996),
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Henry L. Sherman (B.A. 1890), Justice of the
New York Supreme Court
Jerry Edwin Smith (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972),
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Stephen Susman (B.A. 1962), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey
Robert W. Sweet (LL.B. 1948), judge of New York Southern District
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871), founder of prominent law firm
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and first president of the
Yale Club
Thomas Day Thacher (B.A. 1904),
United States Solicitor General and federal judge
Cyrus Vance Jr. (B.A. 1978),
New York County District Attorney
Arthur A. Wilder , Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
[297]
Activists
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Sargent Shriver
Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820),
abolitionist
Aditi Banerjee , attorney, writer and minority (Hindu) rights activist in the US
Cassius Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832), abolitionist; namesake of
Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. , whose son, boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., took the name
Muhammad Ali
[298]
[299]
Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.D. 1956), chaplain of Yale (1958–75), senior minister of
Riverside Church in New York,
civil and political 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), conscientious objector, member of the
Chicago Seven
Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802), author, editor, activist, opponent of the
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Jodi Grant (B.A. 1990), executive director of the
Afterschool Alliance
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi ,
Taliban spokesman
Bruce W. Klunder (B.D. 1961), Presbyterian minister, civil rights activist with C.O.R.E., killed during protest against segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio
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 ; California politician and businessman; husband of
Eunice Kennedy ; father of
Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger ) and
Bobby Shriver (Yale B.A. 1976)
Ron Sider (B.D., 1967, Ph.D. 1969), theologian and activist; President of Evangelicals For Social Action and professor at
Palmer Theological Seminary
Jared Taylor (B.A., 1973), author, editor, activist, founder of the
New Century Foundation
Phyllis Ann Wallace (1948), economist, civil rights activist
Brian Wallach (B.A., 2003), founder of I AM ALS
Y.C. James Yen (B.A. 1918; M.A. (honorary) 1928), founder of Chinese Mass Education Movement and
Rural Reconstruction Movement
William F. Buckley
John P. Avlon (B.A. 1996), author, political commentator,
CNN Senior Political Analyst and former Editor-in-Chief of
The Daily Beast
[300]
[301]
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
Michael J. Knowles (B.A. 2012), political pundit, author ofSpeechless , host of political podcast on
The Daily Wire
Andrés Martinez (B.A. 1988), editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times
Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), editor-in-chief of
WORLD magazine
Kenneth M. Pollack (B.A. 1988), Middle East expert, author, fellow of the Brookings Institution
Gideon Rose (B.A. 1985), author, editor-in-chief of
Foreign Affairs
Sean Trende (B.A. 1995), Senior Elections Analyst for
RealClearPolitics , co-author of
The Almanac of American Politics
Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986), political pundit, author, host of public affairs show
Foreign Exchange
Other
Moses Cleaveland
Matthew Adler (B.A. 1984 and J.D. 1991), law professor
Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), lawyer and law professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moses Cleaveland (B.A. 1777), founder of
Cleveland, Ohio
Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765), co-author of the
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, member of the
Ohio Company of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in
Ohio ),
Federalist congressman from Massachusetts (1801–1805)
John Hart Ely (J.D. 1963), legal scholar
James Gadsden (B.A. 1806), namesake of the
Gadsden Purchase , in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of
Arizona and
New Mexico
Quintin Johnstone (J.S.D. 1951), legal scholar
Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the
U.S. Geological Survey
James Wadsworth (1787), founder of
Geneseo, New York , and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley
Amy Wax (B.S. 1975),
Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Military
William Odom
James Camp Tappan
John Brown (B.A. 1771), accuser of
Benedict Arnold
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
Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773), America's first spy, executed by the British for espionage in 1776;
[302] his last words are often quoted: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
[303]
Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle ,
army general
David Humphreys (B.A. 1771),
aide-de-camp to
George Washington
Lewis Nixon ,
army officer featured in
Band of Brothers
William Odom , Director of the
National Security Agency
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
George W. Roberts (B.A. 1857), Union Army colonel killed at the
Battle of Stones River during the American Civil War
George Fairlamb Smith (B.A. 1858), Union Army colonel and
Pennsylvania National Guard judge advocate general
Richard K. Sutherland (B.A. 1916), army general during World War II
Benjamin Tallmadge (B.A. 1773), head of General George Washington's
Culper spy ring on Long Island and New York
James Camp Tappan (B.A. 1845),
Confederate army general in the
American Civil War
[268] (See also:
#Governors, other state officials and mayors )
Decius Wadsworth (1785), Colonel U.S. Army
War of 1812 and
Chief of Ordnance 1815–21
Nathan Whiting (B.A. 1743), colonel of Connecticut troops during the
French and Indian War ; 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
Religion
Rabbi
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Asahel Nettleton
James W.C. Pennington
Hiram Bingham II (1853), missionary to Hawaii and the
Gilbert Islands
Ralph Arthur Bohlmann (Ph.D. 1968), ninth president of the
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
[304]
Angela Warnick Buchdahl (born 1972), rabbi
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
Oliver Crane (B.A. 1845), Presbyterian clergy, missionary to Turkey, Oriental scholar, writer
Thomas Frederick Davies Sr. (1853 & 1893), third Bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Michigan , 1889–1905
Jonathan Edwards , New England pastor and theologian
[305]
[306]
[307]
Leroy Gilbert ,
Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard
John Guernsey (B.A., 1975), Anglican bishop
Matthew Heyd , Episcopal priest
Jeffrey R. Holland (Ph.D. 1973), former president of
Brigham Young University , Apostle of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ashley Day Leavitt (B.A. 1900), minister of Harvard Congregational Church,
Brookline, Massachusetts
John H. Leith (Ph.D. 1949),
Presbyterian author,
theologian and professor
Aaron L. Mackler (B.A. 1980), notable
rabbi in the
Conservative movement
James Massa (M.Th. 1985), American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the
Diocese of Brooklyn
Asahel Nettleton (1809), theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the
Second Great Awakening
James W.C. Pennington (1809–1870), African American orator, minister, and abolitionist; the first black man to attend classes at Yale when he audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839
Harry Boone Porter , liturgist, journalist, clergyman of the
Episcopal Church , editor of
The Living Church magazine
Yasir Qadhi (
Ph.D. candidate ),
Muslim
theologian
Anson Phelps Stokes, III (B.A. 1927), eleventh bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
Andrew Leete Stone (1836), minister, author
Roy M. Terry ,
Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
Asa Thurston (1816), one of the first missionaries to introduce Christianity to the
Kingdom of Hawai'i
Baby Varghese (Ph.D. 2004), visiting professor of Liturgical Studies
[308]
Stephen N. Williams (1981), Ph.D. student,
Presbyterian
theologian
History, literature, and journalism
James Fenimore Cooper by
Mathew Brady
Ilana Dayan
Linda Greenhouse
Larry Kramer
Claire Messud
Noah Webster
Naomi Wolf
Tom Wolfe
Michael Barbaro (B.A. 2002), host of the podcast
The Daily
Leigh Bardugo (B.A. 1997), novelist
Emily Bazelon (B.A. 1993, J.D. 2000), journalist,
New York Times
Carl Bialik (Class of 2001), journalist,
The Wall Street Journal
Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), literary critic
Steven Brill (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of
Court TV and
The American Lawyer
Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the
Yale Repertory Theatre , critic, author
Thad Carhart , writer of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and other books
Lan Samantha Chang (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Susan Choi (B.A. 1990), author of
Trust Exercise
David Churbuck (B.A. 1980), journalist
Forbes Magazine , founder Forbes.com
Marie Colvin (B.A. 1978), journalist
James Fenimore Cooper (Class of 1805), author of
The Last of the Mohicans
Wilbur Cross , author
Catherine Cusset , novelist
Brian D'Amato (B.A. 1984), novelist and sculptor
Ilana Dayan (Ph.D. 1992), Israeli journalist and anchorwoman
Charles DeKay , linguist, poet, critic and fencer
Randy Charles Epping (M.A. 1983), author
Charles Finch (B.A. 2002), novelist and critic
Justus Miles Forman (1898), author and playwright
Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), architectural critic
David Gonzalez (B.A. 1979), journalist,
The New York Times
Dana Goodyear (B.A. 1998), journalist and poet
Linda Greenhouse (M.S.L. Yale Law School, 1978), journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times
Edwin S. Grosvenor (B.A. 1974), president and editor-in-chief,
American Heritage magazine
Gilbert M. Grosvenor (B.A. 1954), formerly editor, then president, now chairman emeritus at
National Geographic
Lloyd Grove , editor at large for
The Daily Beast
Roland Hagenbüchle , scholar for American Studies and philosopher
William Harlan Hale (B.A. 1931), writer, journalist, editor
Peter Hayes (M.A. 1974, M.Phil. 1976, Ph.D. 1982), Holocaust historian
Quiara Alegría Hudes (B.A.), playwright,
In the Heights , 2008 Tony for Best Musical
Sumiko Iwao (Ph.D.), psychologist, editor-in-chief of
Japan Echo
[309]
Joan Kahn (attended Yale School of Art one year, early 1930s),
mystery
editor and anthologist; novelist and children's writer
Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), book critic for The New York Times
Matthew Kaminski (B.A. 1994), editor-in-chief of POLITICO
Mina Kimes , journalist for
ESPN
Michael Kimmelman (B.A. 1980), critic for The New York Times
Karl Kirchwey (B.A. 1979), poet
[310]
[311]
John Knowles (B.A. 1949), author of
A Separate Peace
Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), playwright and
gay activist
John Lahr (B.A. 1963), drama critic for the New Yorker
David Leavitt (B.A. 1983), author
Min Jin Lee (B.A. 1990), author of
Pachinko
David Leonhardt (B.A. 1994), Washington bureau chief for
The New York Times
Elizabeth Letts (B.A. 1983), author of The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation
Jeremy Leven , author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works include
Don Juan DeMarco
Jonathan Levi (B.A. 1977), author, producer, musician, co-founder of
Granta
Adam Liptak (B.A. 1984, J.D. 1988), Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
Jonathan Littell (B.A. 1989), writer; won the
Prix Goncourt
William Logan (B.A. 1972), poet, critic
Wednesday Martin (Ph.D. 1996), journalist, memoirist, anthropologist
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
Gordon McLendon (B.A. 1942), radio pioneer, Top 40 radio format, co-founder of the Association for Intelligence Officers
Walter Russell Mead (B.A. 1976), academic, writer on foreign affairs, and public intellectual
Claire Messud (B.A. 1987), author of
The Emperor's Children
Shannon K. O'Neil (B.A. 1993 and M.A. 1999),
Douglas Dillon fellow in the Latin America studies department at the
Council on Foreign Relations
Julie Otsuka (B.A. 1984), author
Ann Packer (B.A. 1981), author
George Packer (B.A. 1982), author
ZZ Packer (B.A. 1994), author
Jon Pareles (B.A), popular music critic at
The New York Times
Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author
David Pogue (B.A. 1985), technology columnist for The New York Times
Ogden Mills Reid (B.A. 1904, Law 1907), newspaper publisher, president of the
New York Herald Tribune
Whitelaw Reid (B.A. 1934), journalist; editor, president and chairman of the family-owned
New York Herald Tribune
Alexandra Robbins (B.A. 1998), author
Jonathan Sarna (Ph.D. 1979), historian and author
[312]
Sam Savage (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1979), author
Ari Shapiro (B.A. 2000), White House correspondent for
National Public Radio
Anna Shechtman (Ph.D. 2020), journalist and crossword compiler
Alex Sheshunoff (B.A. 1996), author
Amity Shlaes (B.A. 1982), journalist, New York Times bestselling author
[313]
Ben Smith (B.A. 1999), New York Times media columnist
Elihu Hubbard Smith (B.A. 1786), poet, playwright, physician, and man of letters
Andrew Solomon (B.A. 1985), writer
Stephen J. Stein (Ph.D. 1970), historian
Mark Strand (B.F.A 1959), former Poet Laureate of the United States
Diane Straus (B.A. 1973) (1951–2017), publisher of
The American Prospect and
Washington Monthly
[314]
R. Peter Straus (B.A. 1944) (1923–2012), owner of radio stations and newspapers
[315]
Anjan Sundaram (B.S., M.S. 2005), writer, journalist and TV presenter
Calvin Trillin , writer, poet, and journalist
Erica Simone Turnipseed (B.A. 1993), writer
Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, LL.D. 1823),
lexicographer , author of the first definitive dictionary of the American English language, helped found
Amherst College
Jacob Weisberg (B.A. 1986), political journalist and former editor-in-chief of
The Slate Group
Juliette Wells (M.A. 2000, MPhil 2000, Ph.D. 2003), author, editor, and
Jane Austen scholar
Dick Wimmer (M.A. 1959), novelist
Lauren Willig (B.A. 1999), novelist
Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984),
feminist writer
Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, author of
The Right Stuff and
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Janet Wu (B.A. 1988), broadcast journalist and writer
Ben Yagoda (B.A. 1975), journalist, author of a history of the New Yorker
Jonas Zdanys (B.A. 1972), poet and translator
Anna Ziegler (B.A. 2001), playwright
Musicians and composers
Lisa Hopkins
Pras
Cole Porter
Rudy Vallée
Marin Alsop (1973–75, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
June Anderson (B.A. 1974), soprano
Eric Banks (B.A. 1990), composer
Jane Ira Bloom (B.A. 1976, Yale Music School 1977), soprano saxophonist
Robert Bloom , professor of Oboe, Yale School of Music (1957–76)
Carter Brey , principal cellist for the
New York Philharmonic
Robert Carl , composer and chair of the Composition Department at
the Hartt School
Rachel Cheung (M.Mus. 2013), Hong Kong pianist
Jonathan Coulton (B.A. 1992), musician, internet celebrity
Dominick DiOrio (M.M. 2008, D.M.A. 2012), conductor, composer, professor of choral conducting at the
Jacobs School of Music , director of
NOTUS
Eliot Fisk (1972–76), classical guitar virtuoso
Jack Glatzer (B.A. 1960), concert violinist
Michael Gore (B.A. 1973), Academy Award-winning composer
Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
Walter Hekster (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist and conductor
Mark Helias (M.Mus. 1976), bassist and composer
Lisa Hopkins (B.A. 2001), opera singer and Tony Award winner
Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, classical music
Vijay Iyer (B.S. 1991), 2013 MacArthur Fellow, jazz pianist and composer
Ranidu Lankage (B.A. 2005), Sinhalese R&B and hip-hop artist
Fan Lei (M.Mus. 1992), clarinetist, pedagogue, adjudicator, founder and artistic director of numerous international music festivals and competitions
Mitch Leigh (B.A 1951, M.Mus. 1952), composer, producer
Man of La Mancha , "To Dream the Impossible Dream"
Gilbert Levine (M.A. 1972), conductor
George E. Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist and composer
David Longstreth , songwriter, singer, guitarist for the
Dirty Projectors
[316]
Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997), co-creator of the Broadway musicals
Avenue Q and
The Book of Mormon and winner of three
Tony Awards
Alvin Lucier (B.A. 1954), experimental composer
John Mauceri (B.A. 1967), conductor and scholar
Susan Merdinger (B.A. 1983), concert pianist, music educator
Douglas Moore (B.A. 1915, B.M 1917), composer
Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989), of the band
The Nields
Kevin Olusola (B.A. 2011), beatboxer, cellist, singer, songwriter, Grammy-winning member of
Pentatonix
Johann Sebastian Paetsch (M.M. 1987), musician and cellist
Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
Pras (Michél), Grammy Award-winning rapper, member of
hip-hop trio
The Fugees
Ravi Rajan (M.Mus. 2000), musician, artist, college president
André Raphel , conductor of the
Wheeling Symphony Orchestra
Root Boy Slim , real name Foster MacKenzie III (B.A. 1967), lyricist and blues musician
Kurt Hugo Schneider (B.A. 2010),
YouTube sensation, music producer, and filmmaker
Caroline Shaw (M.Mus. 2007), composer, violinist, and singer
Chad Shelton (M.A. 1997), operatic tenor
Sam Tsui (B.A. 2011), YouTube sensation, singer
[317]
Rudy Vallée (B.A. 1927), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer
[318]
Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974), composer, lyricist, musicologist,
Tony Awards for
Nine and
Titanic
Terence Yung (Course Certificate 2022),
[319]
[320] concert pianist
Faculty
Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics .
Nobel laureates
James Tobin
Sidney Altman : Chemistry, 1989
Gérard Debreu : Economics, 1983
John Fenn : Chemistry, 2002; received his PhD from Yale in 1940; member of the Yale faculty 1962–94
Tjalling Koopmans : Economics, 1975
Wangari Maathai : Peace, 2004; visiting professor at the Forestry School in 2002
[321]
Erwin Neher : Physiology or Medicine, 1991;
biophysicist at the
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry who was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale
George Palade , professor at Yale Medical School 1973–90: Physiology or Medicine, 1974
James Rothman : Physiology or Medicine, 2013
Robert Shiller : Economics, 2013
Thomas A. Steitz : Chemistry, 2009
Edward Tatum :
Physiology or Medicine , 1958; at Yale 1945–48
James Tobin : Economics, 1981
Social sciences
Kenneth Rogoff
Rabab Abdulhadi (Ph.D. 2000), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director.
Saleem Ali (M.E.S. 1996), Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Schuyler V. Cammann (B.A. 1935),
anthropologist professor at University of Pennsylvania
W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (
TQM ) guru
Joel S. Fetzer (Ph.D. 1996), political scientist, distinguished professor at
Pepperdine University
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of
monetarism "
Edgar S. Furniss (Ph.D. 1918), economist and Provost of Yale University
Edgar S. Furniss Jr. (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1947), political scientist
Mahbub ul Haq (PhD, Economics), Pakistani Minister of Finance, Professor at
University of Karachi , creator of
Human Development Index
Douglas Hodgkin (B.A.), political scientist at
Bates College , author
Robert C. Lieberman (B.A. 1986), political scientist and provost of the
Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Lo (B.A. 1980), Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the
MIT Sloan School of Management , Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering
George Marcus (B.A. 1968), anthropologist, professor at
University of California, Irvine
Saul K. Padover (M.A., 1930), historian and political scientist at
The New School of Social Research in New York City
Kenneth Rogoff , economist, professor at
Harvard University , former director of research at the
International Monetary Fund
Chris William Sanchirico (J.D., Ph.D. 1994), professor of law, business and public policy at
University of Pennsylvania Law School
David Swensen (Ph.D.), Yale Endowment Manager and professor at the
Yale School of Management
Karl Taube (M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 Anthropology),
pre-Columbian
Mesoamerica researcher and
Mayanist , professor of Anthropology at
UC Riverside
[322]
David A. Thomas (B.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1986), Dean of the
McDonough School of Business at
Georgetown University , former professor at
Harvard Business School
Helen B. Thompson (Ph.D. 1917 Physiological chemistry), home economist, professor emeritus at
University of California, Los Angeles
Technologists
Wendi Deng Murdoch
Eric Ries
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
[323]
Rob Glaser (B.A., M.A.), founder and CEO,
RealNetworks
[324]
Bing Gordon (B.A. 1972), co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of
Electronic Arts
[325]
Justin Kan (B.A. 2005), founder of Justin.tv and
Twitch
Mitch Kapor (B.A. 1971), founder,
Open Source Applications Foundation , investor (Kapor Enterprises), founder and former CEO,
Lotus Software
[326]
Tom Lehman , co-founder of
Genius website
Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985),
video game developer, created
Prince of Persia
Wendi Deng Murdoch (1997), director,
MySpace China; former VP,
News Corporation ; wife of
Rupert Murdoch
Tiffany Pham (B.A. 2008), founder and CEO of
Mogul
Eric Ries (B.S. 2001), Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author of The Lean Startup , pioneer of the
Lean Startup methodology
Kevin P. Ryan , internet entrepreneur, founder of
Gilt Groupe ,
MongoDB , and
Business Insider
Emmett Shear (B.S. 2005), CEO of
Twitch and interim CEO of OpenAI
[327]
Ben Silbermann (B.A. 2003), co-founder and CEO of
Pinterest
Joel Spolsky (B.S. 1991), co-founder of
Fog Creek Software ,
Stack Overflow and
Stack Exchange Network
[328]
Joseph Tsai (B.A. 1986, J.D., 1990), businessman, co-founder, Vice President and CFO of
Alibaba
Anne Wojcicki (B.S., 1996), co-founder and CEO of personal genomics company
23andMe
Tim and Nina Zagat , founders of
Zagat
Television
Anderson Cooper
David Duchovny
Robert Picardo
Lewis Black (M.F.A. 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,
Cheers ,
Will & Grace
Dick Cavett , TV personality, nominated eleven times for the
Emmy Award , and won three times
[329]
Enrico Colantoni (M.F.A.), 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
Suzanne Cryer (B.A., M.F.A.), actress,
Silicon Valley ,
Two Guys and a Girl
Brett Dalton (M.F.A. 2011), actor in
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Claire Danes (did not graduate), actress in
Homeland
David Duchovny (M.A. English literature 1989), actor in
The X-Files ,
Californication
Dick Ebersol , president of
NBC sports division, helped launch
Saturday Night Live
Kathryn Finney (MPH 2000), television correspondent,
Today Show
Malcolm Gets (M.F.A.), actor, best known for as "Richard Karinsky" on
Caroline in the City
Sara Gilbert (B.A. 1997), actress, best known for her portrayal as the daughter "Darlene Conner" on the sitcom
Roseanne
[330]
Felipe Gozon , Philippine television executive,
GMA Network
Michael Gross (DRA 1973), actor, best known as "Steven Keaton" (the father of
Michael J. Fox 's character) on
Family Ties
[331]
Harry Hamlin (B.A. 1974), actor best known as attorney "Michael Kuzak" in
NBC TV
drama
L.A. Law
John Hodgman (B.A. 1992), author and comedian who often appears on
The Daily Show and in the
Get a Mac ad campaigns, representing a humanized PC.
Matt Jackson (B.A. 2014), 4th longest winstreak on
Jeopardy!
Alex Jacob (B.A. 2006), winner of
Jeopardy! 2015 Tournament of Champions
Conor Knighton (B.A. 2003
[332] Film Studies
[333] ), 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)
Anne Meacham (B.A. 1947), Broadway and television actress (
Another World )
Ari Meyers (B.A. 1991), actress, played Emma McArdle on
Kate & Allie
Robert Myhrum (M.F.A.),
Emmy -nominated television director
Chris Noth (CDR 1985), actor
Law & Order: Criminal Intent ,
Sex and the City
Maulik Pancholy (M.F.A. 1998), actor,
30 Rock ,
Phineas and Ferb ,
Whitney
Walter F. Parkes (B.A. 1973), producer/writer, former head of
Dreamworks
Stone Phillips (B.A. 1977), television anchor for
NBC
Robert Picardo (B.A. 1975), the
holographic doctor on the television show
Star Trek: Voyager
[334]
David Hyde Pierce (B.A. 1981), actor, best known as "Dr. Niles Crane" on
Frasier ; winner of four
Emmy Awards
[335]
Alan Poul (B.A. 1976), television director and producer
Josh Saviano (B.A. 1998), played Paul Pfeiffer on
The Wonder Years
Matt Shakman (B.A. circa 1997), director,
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
[336]
Tony Shalhoub (M.F.A. 1980), actor,
Monk ,
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Gene Siskel (M.F.A. 1974), film critic,
At the Movies
Steve Skrovan (B.A. 1979), executive producer of
Everybody Loves Raymond and
An Unreasonable Man
Ben Stein (LL.D. 1970), economist, speechwriter to
Nixon , host of
Win Ben Stein's Money
Jeremy Strong (B.A. 2000), actor on "
Succession "
Ming Tsai (B.A. 1986), chef on East Meets West with Ming Tsai on
PBS
Courtney B. Vance (M.F.A. 1986), actor,
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), actor, played A.D.A. Jack McCoy on
Law & Order
Suzanne Whang (B.A. 1983), hostess of HGTV's
House Hunters and
House Hunters International
Allison Williams (B.A. 2010), actress,
Girls
Henry Winkler (M.F.A. 1970), actor, best known as "
Fonzie " on
Happy Days
Bellamy Young (B.A. 1991), Broadway and television actress
Theatre
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adding to it .
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Clare Barron (B.A. 2008),
Pulitzer Prize finalist for Dance Nation
Victoria Clark (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for Best Lead Actress for The Light in The Piazza
Ali Ewoldt (B.A. in Psychology), first Asian-American Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
Mimi Lien (B.A. 1997), Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for
Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812
[337]
[338]
Michael P. Price (M.F.A. 1963), theatre producer and longest-serving artistic director in American theatre, Executive Director of Tony Award-winning
Goodspeed Musicals
Andy Sandberg (B.A. 2005/06), Tony Award-winning producer of Hair , 2009
Ted Sperling (B.A. 1982), Tony Award for orchestration
Others
Arts and humanities
Paul Hindemith
Bronisław Malinowski
Aldo Parisot
Ernesto Zedillo
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
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
Wai Chee Dimock , William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
Inge Druckrey , teacher of graphic design
Steve Dunwell , photographer
Isidore Dyen , professor of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages
Anne Fadiman , author of
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , Francis Writer in Residence at Yale
Bassam Frangieh , scholar of Arabic language and literature
Dan Friedman , graphic designer
John Lewis Gaddis ,
Cold War historian
Peter Gay ,
Enlightenment historian
Louise Gluck , Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
Erwin Hauer , sculptor
Paul Hindemith , composer, musician, conductor, music theorist
Donald Kagan , historian of ancient Greece
Louis I. Kahn , architect
Paul Kennedy , historian
Harold Hongju Koh , dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration
Alvin Lustig , graphic designer
[339]
Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology; professor at
Cornell University ,
Yale University , and
Harvard University
Julián Marías , philosopher, author of History of Philosophy
Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009), linguist, developed the
Yale Romanization system for transliterating Korean
James Mitchell , actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on
All My Children
David Montgomery , Professor of History
Edmund S. Morgan , Professor of History
Elting E. Morison , historian, essayist, military biographer, was Professor of History and American Studies as well as the master of
Timothy Dwight College between 1966 and 1972
Aldo Parisot , musician and cellist
Jaroslav Pelikan , historian, author of The Christian Tradition
Peter C. Perdue , historian of
Modern China
Douglas W. Rae , political theorist
Emir Rodríguez Monegal , professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of
Mundo Nuevo
Vincent Scully ,
Sterling Professor Professor of the History of Art in Architecture
Jonathan Spence , historian, author of
The Search For Modern China
David Underdown , historian of 17th-century England
Lee Watson , Broadway and opera lighting designer, author and
Purdue University professor
Dixon Wecter (Ph.D. 1936), Margaret Byrne Professor of United States History at the University of California, Berkeley
[340]
Jay Winter , Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist
C. Vann Woodward , professor of history
Mary C. Wright (1917–1970), historian of China, and first woman to be appointed a full professor in the arts and sciences faculty, in 1964
Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), economics teacher and head of the
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization , president of Mexico (1994–2000)
Life sciences and medicine
Dennis Charney
John Carlson , molecular biologist
Dennis S. Charney , expert in the neurobiology and treatment of
mood and
anxiety disorders
[341]
Kenneth L. Davis , president and CEO of
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
John Elefteriades , cardiac surgeon
Donald Engelman , biochemist and
cancer researcher
Orvan Hess , M.D. (1906–2002), practitioner and researcher at the
Yale School of Medicine , known for the
fetal heart monitor
Valerie Horsley , biologist
Arthur Horwich , discovered the action of
chaperonins , awarded the
Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
G. Evelyn Hutchinson , zoologist, considered to be the father of modern
limnology
John S. Meyer , physician
Sherwin B. Nuland , surgeon and author of How We Die
Juan Rosai , professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Yale University, 1985–91
Philip Rubin , cognitive scientist, CEO,
Haskins Laboratories
J. Morris Slemons , formed the Department of Obstetrics at the School of Medicine in 1914
Joan Steitz , biochemist, discoverer of
snRNPs
William Francis Gray Swann , physicist
Richard D. Weisel , cardiac surgeon and current editor-in-chief of
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Mathematics
László Lovász
Nathan Jacobson , leading algebraist, awarded the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement
Shizuo Kakutani , mathematician,
Kakutani fixed-point theorem
Serge Lang , mathematician and activist
László Lovász , Wolf Prize and Knuth Prize recipient for work in
combinatorics
Benoît Mandelbrot , mathematician known for
fractal geometry
Grigory Margulis , mathematician, Fields medallist and Wolf Prize winner
George Mostow , Wolf Prize winner for work on lie groups and geometry
Øystein Ore , mathematician
Efim Zelmanov , mathematician, Fields medallist
Physical sciences and engineering
Nick Barua ,
COO of Swift Xi Inc.
Arthur Louis Day ,
geophysicist and
volcanologist
[342]
David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of the
Linda programming language
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering
Vernon W. Hughes , Sterling professor of Physics, recipient of the
Rumford Prize and groundbreaking particle physicist
W. Mark Saltzman , founder of Yale's Department of Biomedical Engineering
Benjamin Silliman Jr. , professor of chemistry, son of
Benjamin Silliman , founder of Yale Chemistry Department
Oktay Sinanoğlu , theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, and the youngest Yale full professor
Social sciences
Paul Wolfowitz
E. Wight Bakke , economist and industrial relations scholar; director of the
Yale Labor and Management Center
Neil W. Chamberlain , economist and industrial relations scholar; assistant director of the Yale Labor and Management Center
Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877–1966), economist
Irving Fisher , economist
Jacques Armand Gauthier ,
comparative morphologist ,
paleontologist , and
systematist
John Geanakoplos , economist, current James Tobin professor of economics
Joseph LaPalombara , Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Management Emeritus
Neal E. Miller , James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology
William Nordhaus (1963), economist
Arthur Okun , economist
Lyman W. Porter (Ph.D. 1956), dean of
University of California, Irvine 's
Paul Merage School of Business , 1972–83
[343]
Herbert Scarf , economist
James C. Scott , political scientist and anthropologist
Arnold Wolfers , Sterling Professor of international relations and co-founder of the
Yale Institute of International Studies , 1933–57
Paul Wolfowitz , political science instructor 1970–72
Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University
Timothy Cutler
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Richard Levin
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