Athletics
Bernard W. Bierman -- University of Minnesota, 1915, Athlete, University of Minnesota Football Coach
Otto Everett Graham Jr. -- Northwestern University, 1944,Pro Football
Hall of Fame quarterback. In 1999, he was ranked number 7 on The
Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the
highest-ranking player who had played in the AAFC
Jackie Jensen -- University of California, 1949, Athlete, former Major League Baseball outfielder
Walter A. Haas, Jr. -- University of California, 1937, former owner of
Oakland Athletics, Honorary Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
Francis "Fay" T. Vincent -- Williams College, 1960, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball
Business and Finance
C.F.W. Bruce -- University of Toronto, 1926, President of the
Aluminum Company of Canada.Henry Clay Folger -- Amherst College, 1879,
President of Standard Oil and Founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
G. Keith Funston -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1932, President of the NYSE, 1951-1967.
William R. Grace -- Colgate University, 1900, Founder of W.R. Grace & Co.
Elbert Hand -- Hamilton College, 1961, CEO of Hartmarx
Scott Hand -- Hamilton College, 1964, Chairman & CEO of INCO
Arthur B. Homer -- Brown University, 1917, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
Kevin Kennedy -- Hamilton College, 1970, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs; President, Hamilton College Trustees
David Packard -- Stanford University, 193?, Founder of the Hewlett-Packard Computer Corporation
Charles H. Percy -- University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator, Chairman of Bell & Howell Corporation.
Phillip W. Pillsbury -- Yale University, 1924, President of The Pillsbury Corporation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- Brown University, 1897, Financier and Philanthropist.
Elwyn L. Smith -- Cornell University, 1917, Founder and President of the Smith Corona typewriter company
Allan Sproul -- University of California, 1919, Director, Kaiser Aluminum.
Grant Tinker -- Dartmouth College, 1949, President of NBC.
Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser -- Yale University, 1917, Chairman of the Weyerhaeuser Company.
Gerald B. Zornow -- University of Rochester, 1937, Chairman of Eastman Kodak
Colin Angle -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989, Founder and CEO of iRobot Corporation
Clergy
Bishop Henry D. Aves -- Kenyon College, 1878.Bishop Frederick Burgess -- Brown University, 1873.
Bishop Sheldon M. Griswold -- Union College, 1882.
Bishop John. Kendrick -- Kenyon College 1859.
Bishop Theodore B. Lyman -- Hamilton College, 1837.
Bishop H. Clifford Northcott -- (N 1919).
Bishop Lyman C. Ogilby -- Hamilton College, 1943.
Bishop Lauriston L. Scaife -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1931.
Bishop Herbert Shipman -- Colgate University, 1890.
Bishop Dudley S. Stark -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1917.
[edit]Education
Joseph S. Ames -- John Hopkins Chapter, 1886, President of Johns Hopkins University
Charles W. Eliot -- Harvard Chapter, 1853, President of Harvard University
William Watts Folwell -- Geneva Chapter, 1857, President of the University of Minnesota
Louis Agassiz Fuertes -- Cornell Chapter, 1987, Naturalist and Artist
G. Keith Funston -- Phi Kappa Chapter, 1932, President of Trinity College
Daniel Coit Gilman -- Yale Chapter, 1852, President of Johns Hopkins University
Kent Hubbell -- Cornell University, 1967, Cornell University Dean of Students
Emory W. Hunt -- Rochester Chapter, 1884, President of Denison University; President of Bucknell University
Robert M. Hutchins -- Yale Chapter, 1921, President of the University of Chicago
Robert G. McKelvey -- Middletown Chapter, 1959, Secretary, American Rhodes Scholars Association
Har Barry Mills -- Bowdoin Chapter, 1972, President of Bowdoin College
Andrew Van Vranken Raymond -- Union Chapter, 1875, President of Union College
Eugene V. Rostow -- Yale Chapter, 1933, Dean of the Yale School of Law, Adviser to the US Department of State
Thomas B. Rudd -- Hamilton Chapter, 1921, President of Hamilton College
[edit]Entertainment
MacDonald Carey -- University of Wisonsin, 1935, Actor
Roger Faxon -- Johns Hopkins University, 1970, C.O.O. of Columbia Pictures
Monica Louwerens - Middletown, 1995, actress and Miss Mississippi 1995
Fredric March -- University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1920, actor
Chris Miller -- Dartmouth College, 1963, co-screenwriter, Animal House
Stephen Britt Miller III, Duke University, 2009, Guinness World Record Holder
Hayden Schlossberg -- University of Chicago, 2000, co-screenwriter, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Ben Stein -- Columbia University, 1966, actor and author
Raymond Joseph Teller (of Penn and Teller) -- Amherst College, 1970, actor and magician
Franchot Tone -- Cornell University, 1927, Actor
Monte Woolley -- Yale University, 1911, Actor
Government and Military
Hon. John Black Aird -- University of Toronto, 1945, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Canadian Senator.
Richard R. Burt -- Cornell University, 1969, U.S. Ambassador to the
Federal Republic of Germany from 1985 to 1989. U.S. Chief Negotiator in
the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Former Soviet Union.
Michael N. Castle -- Hamilton College, 1961, Governor of DE; US Congressman
Joshua L. Chamberlain -- Bowdoin College, 1852. Hero of the Battle of
Gettysburg. Received Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse,
Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College.
Salmon P. Chase -- Dartmouth College, 1826, Secretary of the Treasury
under President Lincoln. Chief Justice of the United States.
Joseph H. Choate -- Harvard University, 1852, Ambassador to Great Britain
Bainbridge Colby -- Williams College, 1890, Secretary of State. Founder of Progressive Party.
Dwight F. Davis -- Harvard University, 1900, Secretary of War. Donor of the Davis Cup.
William R. Day -- University of Michigan, 1870, Secretary of State
Charles S. Fairchild -- Harvard University, 1863, Secretary of the Treasury
James R. Garfield -- Williams College, 1885, Secretary of the Interior
Frederick H. Gillett -- Amherst College, 1874, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Alastair W. Gillespie -- McGill University 198?, Member of Canadian
Parliament, Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (Canada).
Alger Hiss -- Johns Hopkins University, 1926, clerk to fellow
fraternity alumnus Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,
influential U.S. State Department official, convicted of perjury in
House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into communist
spying.
Edward M. House -- Cornell University, 1881, politician, Presidential adviser, and diplomat.
William Luther -- University of Minnesota, 1967, U.S. Congressman.
Charles H. Percy -- University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator
Thomas C. Reed -- Cornell University, 1956, 11th Secretary of the Air
Force. Author of At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Harvard University, 1904, President of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt -- Harvard University, 1880, President of the United States
John S. Wold -- Union College, 1938, U.S. Congressman, oil man, and philanthropist.
[edit]Law and Judiciary
Henry B. Brown -- Yale University, 1856, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Salmon P. Chase -- Dartmouth College, 1826, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
William R. Day -- University of Michigan, 1870, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Harvard University, 1861, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Dana H. Porter -- University of Toronto, 1921, Chief Justice of Ontario.
William B. Scott -- McGill University, 1912, Chief Justice, Superior Court of Quebec.
George Shiras, Jr. -- Yale University, 1853, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Harlan F. Stone -- Amherst College, 1894, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
[edit]Literature and Journalism
Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Hamilton College, 1891, author.
John Perry Barlow -- Middletown, 1969, poet, essayist, retired Wyoming
cattle rancher, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Philip Barry -- Yale University, 1918, author.
Francis Bellamy -- University of Rochester, 1876, author of the original Pledge of Allegiance
Stephen Vincent Benet -- Yale University, 1919, poet.
Richard G. Eberhart -- University of Minnesota, 1926, poet.
David Eisenhower -- Amherst College, 1970, Author of Eisenhower at War
Sean Ellis -- University of British Columbia, 1934, author and playwright
John Farrar -- Yale University, 1918, poet, publisher.
Pagan Kennedy -- Middletown, 1984, author, pioneer of '90s Zine Movement.
Henry R. Luce -- Yale University, 1920, publisher; founder of Time, Life.
Robert Ludlum -- Middletown, 1959, novelist
Chris Miller -- Dartmouth College, 1961, Co-author of Animal House
Col. Robert R. McCormick -- Yale University, 1903, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.
P. J. O'Rourke -- Miami University, author
Daniel Pearl -- Stanford University, 1985, journalist WSJ editor and victim of terrorism
Tristan Taormino -- Middletown, 1993, author and sex educator.
Scott Turow -- Amherst College, 1970, novelist
Thornton Wilder -- Yale University, 1920, author and playwright
[edit]Science and Engineering
Dr. Frederick M. Allen -- University of California, 1902, Pioneer in Diabetes.
Farrington Daniels -- University of Minnesota, 1910, Pioneer in Solar
Energy; Chairman, Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
David P. Faxon MD -- Hamilton College, 1967, President of the American Heart Association
Dr. Hans Lisser -- University of California, 1907, Pioneer in Gland Disorders.
William H. Masters -- Hamilton College, 1938, Researcher, Human Sexuality.
Lt. Colonel Steven R. Nagel -- University of Illinois, 1969, NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Discovery.
Louis Nicot Ridenour -- University of Chicago, 1932, Member, United States Atomic Energy Commission.
Daniel M. Tani -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984, NASA Astronaut, Space Shuttle Endeavour