thumb|right|400px|The Dartmouth College class of 1920, posing in the "Bema". [[Sherman Adams, Gus Sonnenberg, and Edwin Myers were members of this class.]]
This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School. Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated classes of students, and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni.
This list uses the following notation:
- D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts
- DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present)
- Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics)
- T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated
- M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. – recipient of indicated degree from an Arts and Sciences graduate program, or the historical equivalent
Academia and research
Academic administrators
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
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! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
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|Benjamin Abbot
| style="text-align:center;" | 1811
| President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1788–1838
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1846
| President of Union College 1869–1871
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1792
| President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1812
| President of Austin College 1862–1863
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
| Cecil Bancroft
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860
| Principal of Phillips Academy 1873–1901
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1836
| President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1936
| President of Allegheny College 1948–1955, president of Colorado College 1955–1963, president of Claremont Graduate University 1963–1970, president of the University at Albany 1970–1975
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1864
| Founder of Storer College and Bluefield State College
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1805
| President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1795
| Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, president of Jubilee College 1831–1852
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1839
| Founder and first president of Bates College 1855–1894
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1788
| President of Dartmouth College 1820–1821
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1929
| President of Dartmouth College 1945–1970
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Dean of the Yale School of Management 1995–2005
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1873
| President of Grinnell College (1887–1900); president of Pomona College (1902–1909); president of Fisk University (1909–1912)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1815
| Founding president of New-York Central College
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
| President of Dartmouth College 2013–2023
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1828
| President of Vassar College 1862–1864, founder and first president of Judson College 1838–1855
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1812
| Founder of Gallaudet College for the deaf
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2002–2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1828
| President of Middlebury College 1840–1866
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Vice president of the International Peace Institute 2001–present, director of the Center on International Organization at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1774
| President of Bowdoin College 1802–1807
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1954, T'1955
| President of Dartmouth College 1981–1987
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1833
| First professor of Wabash College 1833–1880, Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instructions
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1793
| President of Williams College 1815–1821, president of Amherst College 1821–1823
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D 1903
| First elected president of New Hampshire College 1893–1903
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| President of Kennesaw State University 2006–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1806
| Founder of Norwich University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Albert C. Perkins
| style="text-align:center;" | 1859
| President of Phillips Exeter Academy 1873–1889
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1847
| President of Acadia College 1869–1896
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1830
| President of Dartmouth College 1863–1877
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1783
| Originator of system of free primary schools in Boston; founder of first insurance company and savings bank in that town
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D. 1978
| President of Claflin University 1994 to 2019
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1861
| President of Dartmouth College 1893–1909
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1771
| President of Dartmouth College 1779–1815, son of Dartmouth College's founder Eleazar Wheelock
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Professors and researchers
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1791
| Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy and professor of languages at Dartmouth
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| Astronomer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1899
| First Japanese professor at a major university in the United States
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1961
| Linguist and scholar of the English language
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1932
| Professor of literature at Princeton University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1938
| Professor of law at Harvard Law School and Emory University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1925
| Historian of Colonial America
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| Architectural historian and professor at the University of Toronto
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1870
| Semitic scholar
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1962
| Canadian geneticist and researcher
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
| Microbiol ecology and health of Laurentian Great Lakes
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1818
| Biblical scholar
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| Professor and chair of Jurisprudence at Oxford University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1903
| Professor of Latin and English, prominent early member of the Baháʼí Faith
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1817
| Schoolteacher and prominent abolitionists
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1879
| Mathematician specializing in trigonometry
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Professor of history
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1932
| Poet and professor of English
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1966
| Professor of English and American literature at Rutgers University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1931
| Ethnologist and first director of the National Museum of American History
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Sterling Professor at the Yale Law School
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1961
| Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Physicist, senior research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| Applied mathematician, distinguished professor at the University of Utah
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Annette Gordon-Reed
| style="text-align: center;" |1981
| Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University; winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| History researcher and author, professor at the University of Florida
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1975
| Theoretical physicist specializing in superstring theory
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1951 <small>(transferred to Columbia University)</small>
| Professor of English at Dartmouth College
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1951
| Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1944
| Musicologist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| University of Oxford Philosopher and Clinical Epidemiologist specialising in Evidence-Based Medicine and Placebo research
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1976
| Professor of investment management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1907
| Biologist, first recipient of the Spingarn Medal in 1915
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Georgetown Law School professor, lawyer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1953
| Linguist at University of California, San Diego, researcher of sign languages
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1989
| Historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emory University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Economics professor at Stanford, winner of John Bates Clark Medal
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | DMS 1938–40 <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Physician, psychoanalyst, and writer; experimenter into the nature of consciousness
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1938
| Professor at MIT, founder of chaos theory, winner of Kyoto Prize in 1993
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D
| Astronomer, co-discoverer of three moons of Uranus
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Henry Ruthven Monteith
|A.B. 1869
|Distinguished history professor at the University of Connecticut
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D 1930
| Researcher in human vision, and professor at the Dartmouth Eye Institute
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1850
| Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.S. 2008
| Professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics at the University of Southern California
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Economist, lecturer at Harvard University, co-founder of Mother Jones
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| Egyptologist, made major discoveries in ancient astronomy and chronology
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1888
| Professor of American Literature at the Pennsylvania State University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Texas at Austin
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Frida E. Polli
| style="text-align: center;" |1994
|Neuroscientist and entrepreneur
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Professor of International Development at American University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969
| Associate professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1967
| David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Biogeochemistry researcher
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Psychiatric and mental illness researcher at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1773
| Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental languages at Dartmouth College; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the board of trustees
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1877
| Historian, professor of Modern History at Dartmouth College
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1940
| Historian, author, founding provost of Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1989
| Independent researcher of the Great Wall of China
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1993
| Assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Professor of literature and environmental studies at Union Institute & University
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D 1975
| Mathematician, co-discoverer of a solution for envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1807
| Expert on Spanish literature
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Ph.D. 1987
| Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Professor of law and supervising attorney at the Yale Law School
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1853
| Astronomer, made first observations of the flash spectrum of the sun during solar eclipses of 1869–70
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
MacArthur Fellows
The MacArthur Fellows Program, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research award commonly called the "Genius Grant."
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Law and History professor at Harvard University, 2010 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| Human rights lawyer, 2018 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1961
| Theoretical biologist, 1987 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| Professor of Earth science and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University, 2006 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A.L.S. 2005
| Visual artist; 2006 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Mathematician, 1999 MacArthur Fellow
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1941
| Co-winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Winner of 2001 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926
| Co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Architecture, engineering and building industry
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Designer of the World Trade Center Memorial
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| Noted "green" designer, dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1994–1999
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
| James Pulliam
| style="text-align:center;" |
| California Modernist architect and educator
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1934
| Designer of Manhattan Plaza, chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission 1989–1990
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
| Mario Torroella
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| Cuban-American modernist architect and artist; co-founder and principal of HMFH Architects; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| Market transformation expert and founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1889
| Architect of many buildings in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and the Psi Upsilon Fraternity House at Dartmouth; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Arts
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1967, T <small>(Executive Education Program)</small>
| Graphic designer and academic administrator
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1931
| Cartoonist
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Director and screenwriter
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| Painter
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra for its Memorial Day and Independence Day concerts
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Jazz pianist
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Painter
| style="text-align:center;" |
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|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Artist and producer; winner of multiple Grammy and Emmy Awards
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Photographer and daguerreotypist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1933
| Pianist, composer, and conductor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Founder of the Pilobolus dance company
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Business and finance
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| General manager of New York Mets baseball team
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979, T'1984
| President and CEO of GE Canada; vice president of General Electric
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Former CEO and chairman of Ferd; billionaire businessman, 5th wealthiest person in Norway
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1976 <small>(Advanced Management Program)</small>
| CEO and chairman of AT&T
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1989
| Czech investor and philanthropist; billionaire businessman
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Th'1982
| Co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Polaris Partners, Forbes Midas List
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Founder of Shutterfly
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1996
| Co-founder and CTO of Appian Corporation
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Commercial fisher
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1960
| CEO of Banta Corporation
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1974
| Founder and former CEO of SoBe
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| Founder of global investment banking firm Evercore; former partner at The Blackstone Group
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1845
| Industrialist, oil industry pioneer; "father of the American oil industry"
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| CEO and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; chairman of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art); billionaire and one of Forbes "400 richest people"
| style="text-align:center;" |
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" |1982
| Chairman and CEO of Anthem
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| President and CEO of Time Warner Cable
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
| First openly gay bank CEO, founder of TRB Development majority shareholder and CEO of Neptune Flood Insurance
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| Founder, former CEO and chairman of Overstock.com
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
| Founder and CEO of Appian Corporation, billionaire
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1891
| Founding director of NEC
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1965
| Co-founder and general partner of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; former chairman and CEO of Citicorp Venture Capital (renamed Court Square Capital Partners)
|
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1993
| Founder and CEO of Wily Technology and New Relic
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, billionaire
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| Co-CEO and a founding partner of private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, billionaire
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| Managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, Founding Board Member and initial investor of Nvidia
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List 5x
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |T'1975
| Former chairman and CEO of Eaton Corporation
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |1975, T'1977
| Former CEO, president and chairman of Pacific Gas and Electric Company
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1980
| Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| CEO of Nike; chairman of the board of PayPal; former CEO of ServiceNow; former CEO of eBay; former CEO and president of Bain & Company; former Dartmouth trustee
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Former president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| President of private equity firm Warburg Pincus; United States secretary of the treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Former CEO of IBM; CEO of Carlyle Group
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1943
| Head of the Gilman Paper Company, philanthropist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| CEO of Hasbro
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Chief operating officer of AOL LLC
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Investor, founder of investment firm DoubleLine Capital, which manages $140 billion in assets; billionaire
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| Toy inventor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| President and CEO of Freddie Mac
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| Chairman of the board; former president and CEO of Hallmark Cards
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1845
| Partner in Harris & Brothers Company railroad construction firm, president of Brattleboro Savings Bank
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979
| Former CEO of PIMCO, accused in 2019 college admissions bribery scandal
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| Secretary of state of Vermont, president and chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance Company
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| Vice chairman and global co-head of Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, Dartmouth trustee
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1841
| Co-founder and president of Bell Telephone Company (AT&T); founder and first president of the National Geographic Society; lawyer, financier, and philanthropist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| CEO of General Electric
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2010, T'2014
| Executive vice president and chief brand officer of Irving Oil, heir to billionaire Arthur Irving
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1996
| Co-CEO and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, billionaire
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1997
| Former hedge fund manager; criminal
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Founding general partner of Technology Crossover Ventures
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| CEO of Nicole Miller
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1937
| Fashion executive and manufacturer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1960
| Chairman, president, and former CEO of Varian Medical Systems
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| Founding partner of Tristan Capital Partners and Curzon Global Partners, British businessman
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1833
| Historian and lecturer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| Former CEO and chairman of Stanley Black & Decker
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1995
| CEO of Pandora Radio, former CEO of Sling TV
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| Former CFO at Microsoft, co-president of Oracle, chairman and CEO of 360networks; current CEO at Liberty Media
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Founder and hedge fund portfolio manager of Lone Pine Capital, billionaire
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1936
| CEO of May Department Stores Company, philanthropist, and art collector
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1977
| CEO of Digital Angel
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1977
| Managing general partner of venture firm New Enterprise Associates, Forbes Midas List
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1982
| Founding artner of private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Elevation Partners, billionaire
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Th'2012
| Chief technology officer of OpenAI
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1964
| Former general counsel and chief legal officer at Microsoft, former CEO of the San Francisco Giants, former president of the American Bar Association
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Former vice chairman of America Online and AOL-Time Warner
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1931
| President of NCR Corporation
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| CEO of Goldman Sachs; United States secretary of the treasury 2006–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1863
| Flour industrialist and founder of the Pillsbury Company
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Managing director of Pritzker Group; billionaire and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| President of Y Combinator; former chief product officer and SVP at Yahoo!
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Founder and chairman of private equity firm GTCR and R8 Capital Partners; former governor of Illinois
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1995
| CEO and co-founder of AngelList
| style="text-align:center;" |
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| Founder and chairman of Chief Oil & Gas; billionaire and one of Forbes "400 richest people"
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1996 <small>(Executive Education Program)</small>
| President and CEO of the New York Times Company
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| CEO and founder of Cypress Semiconductor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1988
| Chairman and CEO of Intercorp, managing general partner of Nexus Group, and chairman of Interbank; billionaire
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | Tuck <small>(Executive Education Program)</small>
| Former chairman, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Founder, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, billionaire
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1915
| Economist, trust administrator, and business executive
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| Former CEO of Symantec; managing director at Bain Capital Ventures
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1943
| Economist and financial commentator
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1973
| Chairman of Reckitt Benckiser, former chairman and CEO of Mattel, former chairman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1942
| An original owner of the Space Needle and Seattle Seahawks
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Executive vice president of baseball operations at Major League Baseball
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1995
| Managing general partner of venture firm Threshold Ventures, Forbes Midas List
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1991
| Founder and CEO of CarGurus, co-founder and former chairman of Tripadvisor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems, founder of Clarity Wireless and NeTPower, chief architect of the Motorola 68000 CPU (used in the original Apple Computer Macintosh)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1986
| President and CEO of T. Rowe Price
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Robert B. Sturges
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
|New Jersey government official; former executive at Carnival Corp and limited partner of the Miami Heat basketball team
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1879
| President of Western Electric Company; vice president of AT&T
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1949
| CEO of NBC 1981–86
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
| Founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., billionaire
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1862
| Banker and philanthropist; son of Amos Tuck, donated money to found Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T'1973
| Chief risk officer of JPMorgan Chase 2003–2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Thatcher Wine
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
|Founder of Juniper Books, bibliophile, author and public speaker
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Entertainment
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1935
| Television producer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Steve Adams
|style="text-align:center;" | 1969
|Author, screenwriter
|style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1929
| Actor in Western films
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Host of CBLA-FM's morning drive-time show, Metro Morning, in Toronto, Ontario 1995–2010
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| Screenwriter, known for novel and film 25th Hour, Troy; co-creator of Game of Thrones
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1940
| Writer and screenwriter
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Juggler, co-creator of the Big Apple Circus
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1961
| Actor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1989
| Actress; best known for Friday Night Lights, Nashville
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1999
| Actress; best known for Prison Break
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1962
| Screenwriter of Slaughterhouse-Five
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Screenwriter and film director; best known for Nightcrawler
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Film director; best known for Fire in the Blood
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1952
| Actor, writer, director; shared Oscar nomination for screenplay for The Graduate
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Actress on The New Adventures of Old Christine
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2001
| Actress, writer and actress on The Office and The Mindy Project
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Actress, TV and film
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Actor on Work It and Mr. Robinson
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Actor, TV and film
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2003
| Staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Chris Meledandri
| style="text-align:center;" |1981
|Film producer, and founder and CEO of Illumination, producer of the Despicable Me franchise
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Writer for the National Lampoon, co-writer of the screenplay for Animal House (based loosely on his experiences at Dartmouth)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Actor, winner of three Emmy Awards, one Tony Award and one Golden Globe Award, known for playing Benjamin Stone on Law & Order
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1993, T'2000
| Hollywood screenwriter and director
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1974
| Head writer of As the World Turns since May 2005; winner of Writers Guild of America Award in 2007
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1954
| Filmmaker, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Five Easy Pieces
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Screenwriter, director, and producer; best known for producing Grey's Anatomy
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Director of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| Attended 1946–48 before transferring to Rollins College; creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1932
| Actor, Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominee
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1936
| Screenwriter, winner of the Academy Award for On the Waterfront (best original screenplay)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1989
| Actor, best known for Melrose Place
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1964
| Novelist, screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for Enemies, a Love Story
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | DMS <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Author and television personality
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| Screenwriter for A Simple Plan (Academy Award nomination, 1998)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1953
| Producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Film director, producer, and writer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(exchange student)</small>
| Actress
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| Pop songwriter and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Actor on Days of Our Lives
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| Actress, winner of the NAACP Image Award, portrayed Charlie Wheeler on Friends, Lana Kane on Archer, co-host of The Talk
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1941
| Author and screenwriter
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1946
| Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and underwater film producer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| Pioneering television executive, creator of The Today Show and The Tonight Show, Emmy Award winner
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Writer, director, and producer of films
| style="text-align:center;" |
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Actor and professional football and lacrosse player
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
| Film programmer, historian and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1967
| Tony Award-winning Broadway director and actor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Government, law, and public policy
:Note: Individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.
United States federal and state court judges
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1794
| Associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1831–1833
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1964
| Chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court 2010–2014
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 1913–1949
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1909
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1929–1954, chief judge 1953–1954
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1826
| Chief justice of the United States 1864–1873, senator from Ohio 1849–1855, governor of Ohio 1856–1860, United States secretary of the treasury 1861–1864
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1879
| Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1897–1898
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 2001–2016
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2014–2022
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1906
| Associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1952–1953
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1899
| Associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1932–1944
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1838
| Judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court 1864–1867
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| Associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 2026–
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1833
| Judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1855–1861
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1857
| Associate justice of the territorial Montana Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1960
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 1992–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1806
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1831–1866, representative from New Hampshire 1821–1825, governor of New Hampshire 1830–1831
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1990
| Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama 2010–2022
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 2018–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire 2021–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2001
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 2019–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| Chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 1939–1949
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1820
| Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1859–1870
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 2019–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1918
| Judge of the United States Tax Court
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1874
| Chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1902–1924
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| Chief judge on the United States Court of International Trade 1995–2016
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1901
| Associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1934–1956, chief justice 1947–1956
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1883
| Judge on the Oregon Supreme Court 1921–1942, chief justice 1927–29, 1933–1935, 1939–1941
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1986
| Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court 2011–2021 and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2021–present)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals 1992–2004
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1776
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire 1804–1830, representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1879
| Judge on the Superior Court of Massachusetts<!-- appointed 1917, but no end date found-->, presiding judge over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1937
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1971–1994
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1824
| Judge on the Vermont Circuit Court, 1854–1857
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1954
| Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1994–2019
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1922
| Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1797
| Judge on the Ohio Court of Common Pleas 4th Judicial Circuit 1808–1822, representative from Ohio 1823–1827
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1809
| Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1845–1851, governor of New Hampshire 1823–1824, senator from New Hampshire 1825–1831, 1841–1845, United States secretary of the Navy 1831–1834, United States secretary of the treasury 1834–1841
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Executive branch and United States Cabinet members
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920
| White House chief of staff 1953–1958, representative from New Hampshire 1945–1947, governor of New Hampshire 1949–1953
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services 2018–2021
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(exchange student)</small>
| United States secretary of labor 2001–2009, United States secretary of transportation 2017–2021
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1915 (transferred to Princeton in sophomore year)
| United States secretary of the Navy 1944–1947, first United States secretary of defense 1947–1949
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1953, T'1954
| United States Postmaster General 1988–1992
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| United States secretary of the treasury 2009–2013, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2003–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| United States secretary of the treasury 2006–2009; CEO of Goldman Sachs
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1930
| Vice president of the United States 1974–1977, governor of New York 1959–1973
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1801
| United States secretary of state 1841–1843, 1850–1852, representative from Massachusetts 1813–1817, representative from New Hampshire 1823–1827, senator from Massachusetts 1827–1841, 1845–1850
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Senators
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1844
| Senator from New Hampshire 1879–1879, governor of New Hampshire 1881–1883
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Senator from New York 2009–present; representative from New York 2007–2009; first female Dartmouth graduate in Congress
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1949
| Senator from Washington 1981–1987, 1989–2001
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1811
| Representative from Rhode Island 1845–1847, governor of Rhode Island 1831–1833
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1914
| Representative from New York 1944–1945, 1945–1949 (two different districts)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Representative from Delaware 2011–2017, governor of Delaware 2017–present, lieutenant governor of Delaware 2001–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1788
| Representative from Vermont 1815–1816
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1863
| Representative from New Hampshire 1879–1880
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1905
| Representative from New Hampshire 1925–1931
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1807
| Representative from Vermont 1827–1832
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1881
| Representative from Ohio 1901–1905
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1776
| Representative from New Hampshire 1793–1797
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Representative from Pennsylvania 1999–2007
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | DMS 1913
| Governor of New Hampshire 1941–1945
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1878
| Governor of New Hampshire 1921–1923
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Governor of Delaware 2017–present, lieutenant governor of Delaware 2001–2009, representative from Delaware 2011–2017
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1834
| Governor of New Hampshire 1885–1887
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1798
| Governor of Maine 1829–1830
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1789
| Governor of New Hampshire 1831–1834
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1928
| Governor of New Hampshire 1955–1959
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1914
| Governor of American Samoa 1931
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979
| Governor of North Dakota 2000–2010, U.S. senator from North Dakota 2011–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1966
| Governor of Maine 1995–2003, U.S. senator from Maine 2013–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| Governor of Oregon 1995–2003, 2011–2015
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | DMS 1824
| Governor of New Hampshire 1852–1854
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A. 1915
| Governor of Connecticut 1947–1948
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Governor of Maine 1987–1995
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1823
| Governor of New Hampshire 1855–1857
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1947
| Governor of New Hampshire 1969–1973
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | B.A. 1857<br />M.A. 1867
| Governor of Vermont 1884–1886
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1856
| Governor of New Hampshire 1877–1879
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Governor of Illinois 2015–2019
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A. (hon.) 1790
| Governor of Vermont 1789–1790
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Josh Stein
|style="text-align:center;" | 1988
|Governor of North Carolina 2025–present, North Carolina attorney general 2017–2025
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1943
| Governor of Oregon 1975–1979
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Governor of Pennsylvania 2015–2023
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1778
| United States consul to the City of Algiers 1795–1797, U.S. ambassador to France 1811–1812
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
| U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria 1981–1984 and Indonesia 1992–1995
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1961
| United States ambassador to Tunisia 1979–1981, the Republic of the Philippines 1984–1987, Korea 1997–2000
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
| U.S. ambassador to Panama 1982–1986, Honduras 1986–1989, Portugal 1990–1993
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1962
| U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan 1992–1995
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1790
| United States consul general to the City of Tunis 1797–1803
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1942
| U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica 1953–1954, El Salvador 1954–1955, Mexico 1957–1960, Spain 1969–1972, Argentina 1974–1977
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1975
| United States ambassador to Nepal 2004–2007, Bangladesh 2008–2011
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1951
| U.S. ambassador to Romania 1994–1997
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas 1973–1974, Turkey 1977–1980, Pakistan 1981–1983
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Premier of British Columbia 2001–2011
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1974
| Member of Provincial Parliament 1987–1999, 1999–present (two different districts), leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party 1996–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | T1968
| Special assistant to the prime minister of Canada 1969–1972, director of operations PMO 1972–1976, policy advisor to the prime minister of Canada 1976, assistant principal to the prime minister of Canada 1976–1979, member of the Senate (Ontario) 1984–2018
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Prime minister of Finland 1995–2003, member of the Parliament of Finland 1991–2007
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Mayor of Panama City 1999–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1962
| Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States from Thailand 1996–2008
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from Kensington-Malpeque, Canada 2007–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | c. 1830
| Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario
|
|}
Other U.S. political and legal figures
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Fundraiser, lawyer, human rights activist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1779
| New Hampshire state senator 1838–1840
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1894
| United States attorney for the District of Vermont 1923–1933
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Deputy secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services 2006–2007
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| United States attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico 2000–2002
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1964
| National Security Council counterterrorism adviser c. 1980–2003
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| Lawyer and foreign policy expert, advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1831
| Wisconsin state senator 1882–1884
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| New Jersey public advocate 2006–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1952
| Libertarian candidate for president of the United States in 1980
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| United States attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island 2004–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| CEO of the 2008 Democratic National Convention
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1848
| Secretary of state of Vermont
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1789
| Secretary of state of Vermont
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1846
| Wisconsin state senator 1876–1877
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| United States Solicitor General 2008–2009
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Washington state representative 2006–present
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1830
| Vermont state legislator, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
| Public interest attorney
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1833
| Member of Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate, United States marshal for Vermont
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Minnesota politician, unsuccessful independent candidate for governor of Minnesota in 2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for senator from Ohio in 1994, founder of Hyatt Legal Services
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1990
| New Jersey state senator 2003–present, unsuccessful Republican candidate for senator from New Jersey in 2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1867
| Indiana attorney general 1894–1898, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic 1920–1921
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1937
| Surgeon General of the United States 1982–1989
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1949
| California state senator 1986–1998
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Political consultant and campaign manager in 1980 for the unsuccessful Jimmy Carter reelection bid
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1924
| Labor attorney during the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979
| United States attorney for the District of Alaska
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Law clerk for US Court of Appeals Judge Ralph Winter and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 1997–2001
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |1961
| Judge of the Vermont District Court; associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1958
| New York state senator 1975–1979, New York State comptroller 1993–2002, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of New York in 2002
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| Chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, 1938–1949
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1802
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1827–1829
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979
| Speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, writer of famous "Tear down this wall!" speech
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
| International Development and International Studies, former political appointee in the Bush Administration, William A. Schreyer endowed chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Unsuccessful Republican candidate for senator from Illinois in 2004
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| United States Attorney for the Northern District of California 2002–2007, one of nine U.S. attorneys at the center of the ongoing dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| International trade attorney
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1972
| Unsuccessful candidate for attorney general of Maryland in 2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1857
| Associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| U.S. special envoy for climate change 2009–2016
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
| New York superintendent of Bbnks 2003–2007, companion of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1863
| Treasurer of the United States 1905–1909
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| United States attorney for the Eastern District of California 2009–2016
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1974
| Illinois state representative 1995–2012
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Montana state senator 1985–1993, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for senator from Montana in 1996
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Journalism and media
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|Seth Abramson
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
|Newsweek columnist, BBC and CNN TV analyst, curatorial journalist and New York Times best-selling author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Jonathan Agronsky
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Voice of America journalist, author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1953
| First anchor of what became Good Morning America
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Jazz critic and reviewer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1987
| Co-host of the BET TV talk show My Two Cents
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1940
| Journalist and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1980
| Film critic for The Boston Globe
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Critic for The New York Times
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Writer on technology, economics, and culture
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1962
| Rock music critic, formerly of the Village Voice
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1934
| Publisher of The New York Times
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Political analyst, fellow at the Hoover Institution
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| Political analyst
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1999
| Author of One Bullet Away and officer in the United States Marine Corps
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Conservative activist and author, co-founder of The Dartmouth Review
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Sportscaster formerly of ESPN's SportsCenter; now host, commentator on Tennis Channel & NBC Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1941
| Journalist for CBS, moderator for Face the Nation
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| Publisher of Belize's newspaper Amandala
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| Political analyst, host of radio show The Laura Ingraham Show
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Political cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1982
| CEO of Times Mirror Magazines and CEO of Newspaper National Network LP
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1960
| Executive editor of Roll Call; political commentator and journalist, author of Saving Millie: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease, which was made into a movie for CBS
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1924
| Journalist, long-time contributor to The New Yorker
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Television executive and the acting director of Voice of America
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Photojournalist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
| Managing editor of The New Criterion
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1974
| Journalist for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-alignLcenter;" |
| Editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Mel Robbins
| style="text-align:center;" | 1990
|Journalist for CNN, television show host, and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Journalist for The New York Times, winner of the 1991 Polk Award
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1942
| Editor of Congressional Quarterly and founder of The National Journal
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2003
| Journalist for TIME, The New York Sun, and the New York Post
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Contributor to Vanity Fair
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Journalist for The New York Times
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1847
| Editor of The Keene Sentinel, c. 1860–1866
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Psychiatrist, professor, author, and media personality
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2002
| Journalist, security analyst and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
| Tom Zoellner
| style="text-align:center;" | 2012
| Author, journalist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Bloggers
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" | Blog
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Power Line
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Power Line
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Power Line
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1938
| Poet, winner of National Book Award
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1953
| Novelist, nominated for the National Book Award
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926 <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which inspired Star Wars and The Matrix
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| Author of fiction and nonfiction; books include Glass Jaw, A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal, Money Wanders and The Devil Himself
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1960
| Novelist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Novelist, poet, winner of the O. Henry Award in 1987, Guggenheim Fellow, National Book Critics Circle Award
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A.L.S. 2002 <small>(Fulbright student)</small>
| Poet, screenwriter, literary translator and professor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1922
| Lexicographer and editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1885
| Poet
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Author of business and public policy books
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1906
| Journalist and writer, author of The Trumpeter of Krakow and recipient of the 1929 Newbery Medal
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Poet, English professor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| US Marine officer, author of Redeployment and winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926
| Translator of the Iliad and other classics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1924
| Author of A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire, winner of the National Book Award
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1943
| General editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1944
| Acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, and other major works of Latin American literature
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1925
| Children's author and illustrator
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1995
| Japanese/English translator and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1992
| Writer, memoirist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Science fiction author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Literary agent
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Pulitzer Prize winners
The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926
| U.S. poet laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and the National Book Award in 1977
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1985
| Journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2014 for Toms River
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1896 <small>(never graduated)</small>
| U.S. poet laureate, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1977
| The Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2000
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| Playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1965 for The Subject Was Roses
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1995
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2008
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1984
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2005
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1955
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2011
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Historian regarding nuclear proliferation; shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography with Kai Bird in 2006
| style="text-align:center;" |
|- valign="top"
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1964
| Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Medicine
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1822
| Physician, author, and violin maker
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Peter J. Allen
| style="text-align: center;" |1993
|Chair of the Duke University Department of Surgery; chief of the Duke University Division of Surgical Oncology; vice president of Cancer Services for the Duke University Health System
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Became the first board-certified female Diné surgeon in 1994; author of The Scalpel and the Silver Bear; nominated for U.S. Surgeon General in 2013
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976 DMS
| Current attending physician at the United States Capitol
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1934
| Psychiatrist, formulator of the biopsychosocial model
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Dermatologist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1965 DMS
| Director of McLean Hospital's Borderline Center; professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; pioneer of research on the treatment of borderline personality disorder
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Neurosurgery: treatment of traumatic brain injuries with a focus on epedemiology and outcomes
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |DMS
| Physician scientist at the National Cancer Institute
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1824 DMS
| Physician, author of a noted pamphlet on birth control
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1993 B.S.
| Leader, researcher, innovator in the field of neurosurgery for the treatment of stroke
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1950
| Developer of both the medical home concept for primary care and the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1902
| Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Frederick Douglass Stubbs
|1926 B.A.
|Pioneering Black thoracic surgeon
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1934
| Professor of medicine emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A.
| Oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|}
Military
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1955
| Director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1941
| Four-star general in the United States Air Force
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Union Army brigadier general, lawyer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| U.S. Air Force major general
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1843
| Union Army brigadier general
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1854
| Union Army colonel during the American Civil War
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| U.S. Air Force general, World War II flying ace, commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1968
| Navy chaplain; command chaplain, United States European Command; special assistant for Values and Vision to the secretary and chief of staff of the United States Air Force
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926
| U.S. Marine Corps major general, director of Marine Corps Marine Corps Reserve
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1921
| United States Secretary of the Navy 1947–1949
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1863
| American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
|
|}
Religion
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1852
| Presbyterian minister
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1825
| Episcopal clergyman and author
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1884, D.D. 1911
| Episcopal theologian
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1967
| Author, peacemaker and monk
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Episcopal priest and seminary dean
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1834
| Congregational pastor, author, professor
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1787
| Deist author and public speaker
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| align=center | 1968
| Rabbi and retired U.S. Navy chaplain, national director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, and special assistant for values and vision to the secretary and chief of staff of the United States Air Force
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1866
| Methodist bishop
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1785
| Calvinist clergyman, possibly the author of a predecessor work of the Book of Mormon
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983
| Senior rabbi, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A. 1814
| Protestant minister, author, and historian
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | B.A. 1993
| Episcopal priest, bishop-elect of Massachusetts
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|}
Social reform
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1887
| Santee Sioux author, physician, and reformer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1918
| African-American civil rights activist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1830
| Founder of the Utopian Oneida Society
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Sports
Baseball
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1991
| Catcher, 1999 All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, manager of the Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, and Israel national baseball team
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Pitcher for the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1952
| Pitcher for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, and Baltimore Orioles
|
|-
|Peter B. Freund
| style="text-align: center;" |1998 B.A.
|Minority owner of the New York Yankees and majority owner of several minor league baseball teams as well as the CEO of Diamond Baseball Holdings
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1906
| Pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; football All-American; head coach of football, basketball, and track and field for several universities
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2013
| Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center" | 2002
| MLB executive
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920
| Shortstop for the Boston Red Sox
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1988
| Pitcher, 2002 MLB All-Star
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1931
| Third baseman for the New York Yankees
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1970
| Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2012
| Coach in the Boston Red Sox organization; first African American woman to coach professional baseball
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1926 <small>(transferred to University of Vermont)</small>
| Pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2002
| Guard for Great Britain, feature writer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1946
| Forward for the New York Knicks
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Coach at Providence College, first commissioner of the Big East Conference
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1969
| Deputy commissioner and COO of the NBA
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1959
| Forward and center for the Minneapolis Lakers, five-time NBA All-Star
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1990
| Center for the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Linebacker, member of College Football Hall of Fame
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1957
| Billionaire, owner of Cincinnati Bengals
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1898
| College football coach
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1971
| Player in Canadian Football League
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2004
| Tight end for Tennessee Titans
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1994
| Quarterback for Miami Dolphins
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1904
| College football coach
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1919
| Offensive tackle for Chicago Bears
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Quarterback for Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
| Defensive assistant coach of Chicago Bears
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Kicker, 3-time NFL Pro Bowler
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1939
| Halfback, member of College Football Hall of Fame, coach for Army
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2002
| Quarterback for Los Angeles Avengers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1932
| Quarterback, member of College Football Hall of Fame; president and vice chairman of American Express
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Halfback for Green Bay Packers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Defensive back for Green Bay Packers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Wide receiver and coach
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1920
| Halfback in NFL, professional wrestler
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1917
| Dartmouth player and coach, member of College Football Hall of Fame
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| All-American and NFL player
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
| Linebacker for Arizona Cardinals
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Linebacker for Cincinnati Bengals
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1904
| Back, All-American, head coach of University of Colorado
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Center and guard
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1951
| Administrator and organizer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2007
| Center for Pittsburgh Penguins
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2006
| Right wing for New York Rangers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2008
| Right wing for Calgary Flames
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2002
| Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1928
| Defenseman for New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, football coach at Boston University, New York Supreme Court justice
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2007
| Defenseman for Anaheim Ducks
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2010
| Player, bronze medalist in 2006 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2006
| Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| Right wing for Montreal Victoire, gold and silver medalist for Canada in 2022 and 2018 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| Right wing for Calgary Flames
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2006
| Forward, gold medalist for Canada in 2006 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1983 <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Center for Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, New York Rangers
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Track and field
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1963
| Sprinter, gold medalist in 1964 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1956
| Triple jumper, silver medalist in 1956 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2012
| 10,000 metres, competitor in 2016 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1917
| Hurdler, gold medalist in 1920 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1913
| Pole vaulter, silver medalist in 1912 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2011
| Cross-country skier, competitor in 2014 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1976
| Skier, competitor in 1976 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1936
| Mountaineer, founder of Dartmouth Mountaineering Club
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2005
| Lacrosse goalie for Long Island Lizards, first professional male team-sport athlete to be openly gay during career
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2009
| Soccer player, competitor for New Zealand in 2008 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" |
| Olympic cross-country skier
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | M.A.
| Rugby union player
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1979
| Soccer, played for Tampa Bay Rowdies, and former president of New Orleans Hornets
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1995
| Luger, four-time competitor for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2020
| Alpine skier, gold medalist at the 2026 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1998
| Rower, competitor for Canada in 2008 Summer Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2006
| Biathlete in 2006 Winter Olympics
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2019
| Champion gravel cyclist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|}
Miscellaneous
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1820
| Explorer of the Oregon Country with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1860
| Naturalist and co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|Carroll Edson
| style="text-align: center;" |1914
|Co-founder of the Order of the Arrow of Scouting America
| style="text-align: center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1981
| Investor and businessperson; founder of DoubleLine Capital LP, an investment firm; former head of the $9.3 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 2014
| YouTuber, actress, television host, and cyclist
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1776 <small>(never graduated)</small>
| Explorer and adventurer; namesake of the Ledyard Canoe Club
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1809
| Explorer, surveyor and military officer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1978
| Astronaut with NASA
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1973
| Professional poker player and gambler
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1958
| Computer programmer and gaming pioneer, creator of early video game Spacewar!
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
Fictional people
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="width:*;" | Name
! style="width:12%;" | Year/degree
! style="width:65%;" class="unsortable" | Notability
! style="width:*;" class="unsortable" | Reference
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(no year indicated)</small>
| Main character of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales; described in the novels and in particular the movie Last of the Mohicans as having attended Eleazar Wheelock's school
|
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>1956</small>
| Character on Mad Men, played by Vincent Kartheiser
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
| Jackie Chiles
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(no year indicated)</small>
| Character from Seinfeld, attorney to Cosmo Kramer
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(no year indicated)</small>
| Titular character of The Colbert Report (real Colbert did not attend Dartmouth; the fictional biography on colbertnation.com, however, lists Dartmouth as his alma mater)
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 1942
| Main character in the Godfather epic
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(no year indicated)</small>
| Titular character of Grey's Anatomy
| style="text-align:center;" |
|-
|
| style="text-align:center;" | <small>(no year indicated)</small>
| Character on M*A*S*H novels, film, and television, and Trapper John, M.D.
| style="text-align:center;" |
|}
See also
- :Category:Dartmouth College alumni
- List of Dartmouth College faculty
References
External links
- Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
- Dartmouth Office of Alumni Relations