Education

Joseph S. Ames — Johns Hopkins University, 1886, President of Johns Hopkins University

William Watts Folwell — Hobart College, 1857, President of the University of Minnesota

Louis Agassiz Fuertes  — Cornell University, 1897, naturalist and artist

Daniel Coit Gilman  — Yale University, 1852, President of Johns Hopkins University

Emory William Hunt  — University of Rochester, 1884, President of Denison University; President of Bucknell University

Harry Burns Hutchins — University of Michigan, 1871, President, University of Michigan (1897–1898, 1910–1920), Dean, University of Michigan School of Law (1895–1897, 1898–1910), appointed to the inaugural faculty to the Cornell University School of Law (1887–1896)

Robert Hutchins  — Yale University, 1921, President of the University of Chicago

Andrew Van Vranken Raymond — Union College, 1875, President of Union College

Benjamin Rush Rhees — Amherst College, 1883, President, University of Rochester, (1900–1935)

Henry Wade Rogers — University of Michigan, 1874, Dean, University of Michigan School of Law, President, Northwestern University, Dean, Yale Law School

Eugene V. Rostow — Yale University, 1933, Dean of Yale Law School, Adviser to the United States Department of State

Charles Taylor — McGill University, 1952, philosopher, Rhodes Scholar and recipient of the Templeton Prize and the Kyoto Prize

David Truman — Amherst College, 1921, President of Mount Holyoke College, Provost of Columbia University

Edwin Willits — University of Michigan, 1855, President, State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) (1885–1889)

Entertainment

Macdonald Carey — University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1935, actor

Caleb Deschanel — Johns Hopkins University, 1966, Academy Award-nominated cinematographer

Fredric March — University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1920, actor

Chris Miller — Dartmouth College, 1963, co-screenwriter, National Lampoon’s Animal House

Raymond Joseph Teller — Amherst College, 1970, actor and magician, of Penn & Teller

Franchot Tone — Cornell University, 1927, actor

Monty Woolley — Yale University, 1911, actor

Finance

Edwin Booz — Northwestern University, 1914, founder of Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company

David Culver — McGill University, 1946, Chairman and CEO emeritus of Alcan Aluminum Ltd.

John S. Dyson — Cornell University, 1965, former Deputy Mayor of New York City, Commissioner of Commerce, Cornell University Board of Trustees

Henry Clay Folger — Amherst College, 1879, President of Standard Oil and Founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Charles H. Percy — University of Chicago, 1941, U.S. Senator, Chairman of Bell and Howell Corporation

Allan Sproul — University of California, 1919, Director, Kaiser Aluminum

Grant Tinker — Dartmouth College, 1949, President of NBC

Walter C. Teagle — Cornell University, 1900, President of Standard Oil.

Gerald B. Zornow — University of Rochester, 1937, Chairman of Eastman Koda

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

Reuven Carlyle — University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987, Washington State Representative

Michael N. Castle — Hamilton College, 1961, Governor of Delaware; US Congressman

Salmon P. Chase — Dartmouth College, 1826, Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham 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

Larry J. Estrada — University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968, Mayor of Fort Collins, Colorado

Charles S. Fairchild — Harvard University, 1863, Secretary of the Treasury

James Rudolph 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, 1947, Member of Canadian Parliament; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce (Canada)

Edward M. House — Cornell University, 1881, politician, Presidential adviser and diplomat

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.

William S. Groesbeck — Miami University, U. S. Representative

William Luther — University of Minnesota, 1967, U.S. Congressman

Michael Meighen — McGill University, 1960, Canadian Senator

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 D. Roosevelt — Harvard University, 1904, President of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt — Harvard University, 1880, President of the United States

Fred Upton — University of Michigan, 1975, US House of Representatives, Michigan’s 4th congressional district (1986–1990), US House of Representatives, Michigan’s 6th congressional district (1990–present)

John S. Wold — Union College, 1938, U.S. Congressman, oil man, and philanthropist

Law and Judiciary

Henry Billings 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 Porter — University of Toronto, 1921, Chief Justice of Ontario

George Shiras, Jr. — Yale University, 1853, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Harlan Fiske Stone — Amherst College, 1894, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Literature and Journalism

Samuel Hopkins Adams — Hamilton College, 1891, author

Philip Barry — Yale University, 1918, author

Francis Bellamy — University of Rochester, 1876, author of the original Pledge of Allegiance

Stephen Vincent Benét — Yale University, 1919, poet

Richard Ghormley Eberhart — University of Minnesota, 1926, poet

David Eisenhower — Amherst College, 1970, Author of Eisenhower at War

John C. Farrar — Yale University, 1918, poet, publisher

William Randolph Hearst  — Harvard University, 1885, publisher

James Russell Lowell — Harvard University, 1838, poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

Henry Luce — Yale University, 1920, publisher; founder of Time–Life.

Chris Miller — Dartmouth College, 1961, Co-author of National Lampoon’s Animal House

Col. Robert R. McCormick — Yale University, 1903, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

P. J. O’Rourke — Miami University, author

Scott Turow — Amherst College, 1970, novelist

Thornton Wilder — Yale University, 1920, author and playwright

Debby Applegate — Amherst College, 1989, historian and author

Religion

Bishop Theodore B. Lyman — Hamilton College, 1837

Bishop Herbert Shipman — Colgate University, 1890

Science and Engineering

Frederick Madison 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

Michael Gazzaniga  — Dartmouth College, 1961, founder of the field of cognitive neuroscience

William H. Masters — Hamilton College, 1938, Researcher, human sexuality.

Lt. Colonel Steven R. Nagel — University of Illinois, 1969, NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Discovery

Kenneth Ouriel — University of Rochester, 1977, vascular surgeon and Chief of Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic.

Louis Ridenour — University of Chicago, 1932, developer of radar, adviser to President Eisenhower

Josiah Whitney — Yale University, 1839, California State Geologist and namesake of the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney.

Sports and Athletics

Bernie Bierman — University of Minnesota, 1915, Athlete, University of Minnesota Football Coach

Andy Enfield — Johns Hopkins University, 1991, Head basketball coach at University of Southern California

Jeremy Glick — University of Rochester, 1993, was one of several passengers believed to have counterattacked the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, on September 11, 2001. He was US National Collegiate Judo champion in 1993. He was president of the Rochester Chapter. He was a business executive with Vividence, a San Mateo e-consulting company

Otto Graham — 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

Terry Gurnett — University of Rochester, 1977, as head coach of women’s soccer, won 400 Division III games setting a record.[1]

Jackie Jensen — University of California, 1949, Athlete, former Major League Baseballoutfielder

Walter A. Haas, Jr. — University of California, 1937, former owner of Oakland Athletics, Honorary Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.

Miller Pontius — University of Michigan, 1914, All Big-9 (Western Conference) Tackle in 1912, All American in 1913, First baseman and Captain of the 1914 Baseball Team (2-year letterman), Assistant Football Coach, University of Tennessee and University of Michigan

Richard Rifenburg — University of Michigan, 1949, All American End, University of Michigan (1948), Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Yankees (chose baseball but suffered a knee injury), Signed and played one year with the Detroit Lions, Sideline Reporter for Buffalo Bills, Sports radio host and University of Buffalo play-by-play announcer for WBEN

Bill Smith — Hamilton College, 1980, General Manager, Minnesota Twins

Neil Snow — University of Michigan, 1902, Michigan’s 2nd All-American Football player, Earned 10 varsity letters (Football-4, Baseball-4, Track-2), Named the 1st ever Rose Bowl MVP in the 1902 defeat of Stanford, 49-0, Named to the Michigan All Time Football Team

Frank Steketee — University of Michigan, 1922, Half-back, punter, and kicker for the 1918, 1920, and 1921 University of Michigan Football Teams, First Freshman to be named All American in Michigan Football History, Also lettered in hockey, golf and swimming

Francis “Fay” T. Vincent— Williams College, 1960, former Commissioner, Major League Baseball