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Alumni

For a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, see List of Yale Law School alumni.

Prize recipients

thumb|right|150px|[[Paul Krugman]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Sinclair Lewis]]

Nobel laureates

thumb|right|150px|[[Anne Applebaum]]

thumb|right|150px|[[David McCullough]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Thornton Wilder<br /> (Yale graduation photo)]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Bob Woodward]]

Pulitzer Prize winners

Abel laureates

Architecture and visual arts

thumb|right|150px|[[Maya Lin]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Robert Mangold]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Richard Rogers]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Robert A. M. Stern]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Constance Thalken]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Garry Trudeau]]

Arts and humanities

thumb|right|150px|[[Judith Butler]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Alan Dershowitz]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Lawrence Lessig]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Yung Wing]]

Athletics

thumb|right|150px|[[Craig Breslow]]

thumb|200x200px|[[Nathan Chen]]

thumb|150px|[[Chris Dudley]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Calvin Hill]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Sarah Hughes]]

thumb|right|150px |[[Ryan Lavarnway]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Kate Tenforde|Kate O'Neill]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Don Schollander]]

thumb|150px|[[Danny Wolf]]

Business

thumb|right|150px|[[Herbert M. Allison]]

thumb|right|150px|[[William Boeing]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Briton Hadden]]

thumb|150px|[[Robert R. McCormick|Robert McCormick]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Indra Nooyi]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Joseph Medill Patterson]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Tom Steyer]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Richard Thalheimer]]

College founders and presidents

thumb|right|150px|[[Henry Roe Cloud]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Henry Durant]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Aurelia Henry Reinhardt]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Andrew Dickson White]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Yamakawa Kenjirō]]

Film and television

150px|thumb|right|[[Jodie Foster]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Elia Kazan]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Vincent Price]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Oliver Stone]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Meryl Streep]]

Inventors and innovators

thumb|right|150px|[[Ben Carson]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Francis Collins]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Samuel Morse]]

Life sciences and medicine

thumb|150px|[[Mandy Cohen]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Jeffrey Laitman]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Othniel Charles Marsh]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Florence Seibert]]

Mathematics and computer science

thumb|right|150px|[[Hassler Whitney]]

Physical sciences and engineering

thumb|right|150px|[[Edward Bouchet]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Benjamin Silliman]]

Law and politics

thumb|right|150px|[[George H. W. Bush]]

thumb|right|150px|[[George W. Bush]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Bill Clinton]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Gerald Ford]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Kristrún Frostadóttir]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Peter Mutharika]]

Presidents and vice presidents, royalty, other heads of state, prime ministers and ministers

Supreme Court justices

thumb|right|150px|[[Abe Fortas]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Sonia Sotomayor]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Clarence Thomas]]

Information can be verified through the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges.

U.S. senators

thumb|right|150px|[[Prescott Bush]]

thumb|right|150px|[[John Chafee]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Amy Klobuchar]]

thumb|right|150px|[[William Proxmire]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Arlen Specter]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Stuart Symington]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Lowell Weicker]]

Information can be verified at the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress.

Other legislators

thumb|right|150px|[[Porter Goss]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Eleanor Holmes Norton]]

Governors, mayors, other city and state officials

thumb|right|150px|[[Jerry Brown]]

thumb|right|150px|[[W. Averell Harriman]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Gary Locke]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Gifford Pinchot]]

Alumni who have served as governors may also have served in other government capacities, such as president or senator. In such cases, the names are left un-linked, but are annotated with a "See also:" which links to the section on this page where a more detailed entry can be found.

Cabinet members, chairpersons/administrators and advisers

thumb|right|150px|[[Dean Acheson]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Hillary Clinton]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Robert Marjolin]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Henry Stimson]]

The following have worked within the cabinet for their respective governments.

Diplomats

thumb|right|150px|[[Hiram Bingham IV]]

thumb|right|150px|[[John Negroponte]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Samantha Power]]

Activists

thumb|right|150px|[[Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician)|Cassius Marcellus Clay]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Sargent Shriver]]

Political commentators

thumb|right|150px|[[William F. Buckley]]

Other

thumb|right|150px|[[Moses Cleaveland]]

  • Matthew Adler (B.A. 1984 and J.D. 1991), law professor
  • Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), lawyer and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Moses Cleaveland (B.A. 1777), founder of Cleveland, Ohio
  • Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765), co-author of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, member of the Ohio Company of Associates (the first non-Native American settlement in Ohio), Federalist congressman from Massachusetts (1801–1805)
  • John Hart Ely (J.D. 1963), legal scholar
  • James Gadsden (B.A. 1806), namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became parts of Arizona and New Mexico
  • Quintin Johnstone (J.S.D. 1951), legal scholar
  • Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey
  • James Wadsworth (1787), founder of Geneseo, New York, and leading pioneer and community leader of the Genesee Valley
  • Amy Wax (B.S. 1975), Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Military

thumb|right|150px|[[William Odom]]

thumb|right|150px|[[James Camp Tappan]]

History, literature, and journalism

thumb|right|150px|[[James Fenimore Cooper by Mathew Brady]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Ilana Dayan]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Linda Greenhouse]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Larry Kramer]]

thumb|150px|[[Claire Messud]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Noah Webster]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Naomi Wolf]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Tom Wolfe]]

Musicians and composers

thumb|right|150px|[[Lisa Hopkins Seegmiller|Lisa Hopkins]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Pras]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Cole Porter]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Rudy Vallée]]

Faculty

Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics.

Nobel laureates

thumb|right|150px|[[James Tobin]]

Social sciences

thumb|right|150px|[[Kenneth Rogoff]]

Technologists

thumb|right|150px|[[Wendi Deng Murdoch]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Eric Ries]]

Television

thumb|right|150px|[[Anderson Cooper]]

thumb|right|150px|[[David Duchovny]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Robert Picardo]]

Theatre

Others

Arts and humanities

thumb|right|150px|[[Paul Hindemith]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Bronisław Malinowski]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Aldo Parisot]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Ernesto Zedillo]]

Life sciences and medicine

thumb|right|150px|[[Dennis Charney]]

Mathematics

thumb|right|150px|[[László Lovász]]

Physical sciences and engineering

Social sciences

thumb|right|150px|[[Paul Wolfowitz]]

Heads of Collegiate School, Yale College, and Yale University

thumb|right|150px|[[Timothy Cutler]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Theodore Dwight Woolsey]]

thumb|right|150px|[[Richard Levin]]

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! !! Rectors of Yale College !! Birth–death !! Years as rector

|-

| 1 || Rev. Abraham Pierson || 1641–1707 || 1701–07 Collegiate School

|-

| 2 || Rev. Samuel Andrew || 1656–1738 || 1707–19 (pro tempore)

|-

| 3 || Rev. Timothy Cutler || 1684–1765 || 1719–26; 1718/9: renamed Yale College

|-

| 4 || Rev. Elisha Williams || 1694–1755 || 1726–39

|-

| 5 || Rev. Thomas Clap || 1703–1767 || 1740–45

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! !! Presidents of Yale College !! Birth–death !! Years as president

|-

| 5 || Rev. Thomas Clap || 1703–1767 || 1745–66

|-

| 6 || Rev. Naphtali Daggett || 1727–1780 || 1766–77 (pro tempore)

|-

| 7 || Rev. Ezra Stiles || 1727–1795 || 1778–95

|-

| 8 || Timothy Dwight IV || 1752–181 || 1795–1817

|-

| 9 || Jeremiah Day || 1773–1867 || 1817–46

|-

| 10 || Theodore Dwight Woolsey || 1801–1899 || 1846–71

|-

| 11 || Noah Porter III || 1811–1892 || 1871–86

|-

| 12 || Timothy Dwight V || 1828–1916 || 1886–99; 1887: renamed Yale University

|-

| 13 || Arthur Twining Hadley || 1856–1930 || 1899–1921

|-

| 14 || James Rowland Angell || 1869–1949 || 1921–37

|-

| 15 || Charles Seymour || 1885–1963 || 1937–51

|-

| 16 || Alfred Whitney Griswold || 1906–1963 || 1951–63

|-

| 17 || Kingman Brewster Jr. || 1919–1988 || 1963–77

|-

| 18 || Hanna Holborn Gray || 1930– || 1977–78 (acting)

|-

| 19 || A. Bartlett Giamatti || 1938–1989 || 1978–86

|-

| 20 || Benno C. Schmidt Jr. || 1942– || 1986–92

|-

| 21 || Howard R. Lamar || 1923–2023 || 1992–93 (acting)

|-

| 22 || Richard C. Levin || 1947– || 1993–2013

|-

| 23 || Peter Salovey || 1958– || 2013–2024

|-

| 24 || Maurie McInnis || 1966– || 2024–present

|}

See also

  • Yale Corporation – including a list of corporation members

References